Topic: [ANN][TAG] TAGMining.Com is now the official pool of Tagcoin! - page 22. (Read 45656 times)

Here is a screen-shot of my batch-file...



A pair of ASUS R9280X-DC2-3GD5 running an identical 735Kh/s... 1.470Mh/s average over the past 24 hours.

So is there any consensus yet on which is the best/most efficient 270x card?  Got my electricity bill today so I now know how much change I have to spend on cards.. 

PS: 24kilo. you have a PM.

Don't forget most ASrock (and other brand) motherboards with 1x PCIE slots can be used to support a GPU, you just need a 1x riser for it. My Asrock 970-ex4's will run 5 gpus. Might save you some money if you have to find a lesser slot motherboard.

Fuse / 24Kilo, check out the Tag thread, my newest post. It regards my old BAMT post, which I made an update to. Remember how you guys tried my modified tahiti binary and it didn't do anything? I think I found out why; in my steps, I forgot to have you delete the original one. So the new one was never being used.

Nice. Thanks. Although with the shipping, unless I order a bunch (or more than 4 GPUs), it comes out about the same. At the store here, I can ask them to order the cards too, but I'll have to wait. I am guessing they also get it from the official distributor here, who gets it from the official factory.

I will have to consider between time / cost / availability. The new ASROCK BTC motherboards look interesting. Now, if only he had powered risers to go with it, we can buy a whole rig from him.

Dabs, have you seen this thread yet:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=393218.0;topicseen

He's in Taiwan, so he might be able to do a cheaper shipping option for you and save you some coin/cash.

-Fuse

I found some Asus AMD R9 270x 2gb ddr5 for about 13,000 PHP. / 44 = 295.45 USD. The 7950s I saw in late December are all gone.

I am mining again in TAGMining.Com thanks to ny2cafuse    Got some new cards online but still waiting for one psu.
So no new cards untill maybe next week. Anybody got 290(x) online ??

Congrats man! I've said before, each card is a little different, and motherboard/bios combinations will sometimes yield varying results. With these new R9 setups, they have a lot, and I mean a lot, of personality between each card. With my MSI 7950's, my whole farm of them all mine at the same speed +/- 1kh. With my MSI R9 280X's, they vary by about 20-30kh on the same motherboard with the same settings. To my surprise the TOXIC yields the best results of the R9's I've tested. And in your case you get far better out of the box speed with a card than some others.

This is a good example of real-life results varying greatly with people with different hardware. With my testing, I've decided to move exclusively to 270X cards though. If my TOXIC order from Amazon continues to get pushed off, I'll just cancel it. If it comes through I'll likely sell the card at a profit. Either way, I'll use the money to buy more 270's.

As to coinyecoin, yeah I'm a little gruffed myself. I was setup with 3 pools prior to launch, ready to toss 11mh at it. It took me over an hour before I could connect to those 3 or ANY others. You can bet some of the large whales out east had some inside connections and were mining before others, and likely the pool ops were locking folks out. Some folks walked away with a few billion of the coin before I got my 1 million.

By morning I switched to another coin. I've got my million, so now once an exchange pops up I'll toss it. It doesn't look like an exchange is going to pop up though..

Maybe it's time for a graveyard exchange to come online for lots of the dead coins, especially ones which had promise. I dunno how it would be funded, but it would get lots of traffic I bet ...

It was shady to say the least.  The wallet was password protected, so there was a mad scramble at the time of release to get it opened and set up to mine.  The main site, main thread and twitter all didn't release the password.  Some guy posted it in the forums about 10 minutes after the first couple pools were mining at difficulty 1.  Obvious insider info.  So then once the majority of the pools got going, there were quite a few that were obviously skimming coins.  So by the time I was able to get miners pointed at a good pool, the difficulty was already 16.  I mined through the night without issue and banked about 530k coins.  I turned my miners back over to TAG less than 24 hours later.

But the shadiness of some of the pool ops was really sickening.  I called one of them out on it.  He was trying to tell people there were various issues for a couple hours, but still advertised the pool in the thread trying to get people to mine.  He had a period of about 40 minutes where there were no blocks being found, and the site was hashing at about 700MH.  So more than likely, he swapped the wallet out, turned off the cronjobs, and pocketed the coins for 40 minutes.  He claimed he didn't know what happened... yeah, ok.

I'll tell you... being a pool OP really opens your eyes to how things run and how other OPs do things.  It makes it really easy to know when an OP is scamming someone, because you know the symptoms of "problems" and what should and would happen when they are resolved.

So yeah... I've got ~530k Coinye.  You buying? lol

-Fuse

Wow you got 730KH/s out of the ASUS card without tweaking any settings? That's impressive!

I spent forever trying to get mine to push 700 and I've tweaked a bunch.  It only ran at like 550-600 right out of the box. Do you know what settings it's currently running at to get that high?

Miner #6 came online tonight... pair of ASUS 280X's... wow... I thought the Gigabyte Rev 2 cards were nice... the ASUS cards are a whole different level... run about 10C cooler... and run 730Kh/s out of the box with no tweaking at all... so I am now a solid 9Mh/s with getting close to 11Mh/s with all the PC's online.

Next rig will be a trio of 270X's... but not for another week or so... got to make some money.

Off-topic - Fuse... how did Coinye go... I tried to get into two pools... could not connect... could not be bothered and went back to mining TAG.

Oh, sorry bout that haha.. I'll go edit my review

Usually if it's not specified in my reviews, I go with defaults (ie, I don't specify it). For lookup gap, I don't specify it, so cgminer defaults to 2 (which supposedly is most efficient for scrypt). For intensity, I'm balls to the wall baby, 20 all the way. Here's my actual config from the rig running 492kh, with no HW errors, a bajillion accepts and 0.01% rejects:

"intensity" : "20",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"thread-concurrency" : "24000",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-engine" : "1145",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-overheat":"87",
"temp-target":"50",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"


As to the meter: http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389241972&sr=8-1&keywords=kilowatt+meter

First solid result for the Gigabyte R9 270X:

460kh @ 65 degrees with 1600rpm on the fan... honestly can't hear the card over the rest of the system.


Going to play a little with the values to see if I can get it closer to 490kh.

-Fuse

EDIT-


Gets me 475kh with about the same temps, and maybe 1800RPM on the fan.  But about 1 in 20 shares is a stale... so not sure what the overall efficiency would be.  Back to the tweaking...

I don't have any 270X's yet... but here is where I would start...

cgminer --scrypt --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 -g 2 -I 13 -w 256 --gpu-fan 75-85 --auto-fan --temp-target 79 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500 --auto-gpu --gpu-engine 350-1030 --gpu-powertune 20 --expiry 1 --scan-time 1 --queue 0 --no-submit-stale

lookup-gap? powertune?  Intensity?  I've tried with -g 2 -i 13, and it's craptastic.  Tried with -g 1 -i 17-19 and same thing.

I'll keep plugging away.

-Fuse

Vesper,

What do you use to check the watt usage? A KillaWatt or a software app?

Engine / Memory / KH / Temp / Watt (all @ 24000 TC, stock cooler)

1030 / 1500 / 445 / 60C / 163w
1080 / 1500 / 467 / 61C / 168w
1115 / 1500 / 480 / 61C / 172w
1130 / 1500 / 485 / 61C / 174w
1145 / 1500 / 492 / 61C / 175w

Can one of you guys post a batch command or settings for the 270X?  Trying a bunch of different things and I'm just too brain-dead from work to think right now.

I'll owe you a beer  .

-Fuse

I think it's a very stand-up and honorable thing to help out 'toe the way you have, definitely treating him like a mate.

With that said, I wouldn't worry about our pool having a majority hashrate. Remember, there are chinese whales out there with mind-boggling hash. If they want to take the netrate over, they can do it in the flip of a switch. Some of them with nearly a gigahash of power.

John,

A few weeks ago, Fuse and I were discussing the fact that our pool, TAGMining was holding over 51% of the hash-rate, so I offered to move over to TAG.cryptopool.IT to build another pool. Within a few days, I found out that LeftToeCut, the TAG.cryptopool.IT pool admin, had been in an automobile accident and hopsitalised. I then told LeftToeCut that I would keep his pool alive until he recovered and was back online. We have been in contact and he is due to be home on this Friday, 10th of January, and back to running the pool. His miners have crashed out over a week ago. I told LeftToeCut that I would keep his pool alive and I have and will.

It has been a hard slog with some blocks taking over 24 hours to break, in the end, it has probably cost me around 200TAG to do this... but I keep my word.

I am very much looking forward to coming back to TAGMining soon and just being along for the ride. I should have left one GPU on TAGMining so that I would be in the running for the jackpot, but I have thrown everything I have into keeping TAG.cryptopool.IT alive.

I thought we were out of the woods yesterday, I had someone join me with 35Mh/s and we starting breaking blocks, and then they left after about 12 hours... so I am back to being the pool whale again.

I have to swing by my local MSY later today and pick-up a set of ASUS 280X's and build another rig this afternoon. I am trying to get up to speed on BAMT, but it is doing my head in... I would love to have one of Vesper's USB sticks!!! But then I would not learn anything, would I?

I am just hoping that TAG drops back to a reason level of difficulty for the next few weeks and I can make up for lost time after get back to TAGMining.