Topic: [ANN][TAG] TAGMining.Com is now the official pool of Tagcoin! - page 31. (Read 45656 times)

As always Vesper, you're the man!

I got my PSU today, and thank god... everything is running now.  I'm just thinking about the future.  I got another UD3 board today, FX-8320(to swap into my main comp), and 16G of ram(to replace the 4Gigs in my main comp... long overdue).  So I was thinking about PSUs for the next purchase and wanted to see what you guys thought, so that helps a lot.

I'm trying to run a Sapphire 280x toxic and a 280x dual-x on the in the same system right now, and I'm wishing I didn't have to.  I couldn't figure out the artifacting with the dual-x so I took it out of my main rig, and replaced it with the other toxic I had.  So I'm trying to get the config right on the pair, and it's driving me crazy.  I hate tweaking this stuff.  I wish it would just tweak itself lol.  Just make me money, damnit lol.

I'll be back when I get this squared away.

-Fuse

Since I run 3 GPU per MB I only use 1 PSU. For that setup, it wasn't cost efficient in my eyes to have redundancy for the power supplies. I have a spare on hand though (2 more rigs on the way, so I need to order more spares, thanks for the reminder lol). It also wouldn't have fit as well on my cheap plastic modular shelving.

If I was running more than that, then if the cost worked out I would do it.

I decided to run 3 GPU rigs for a few reasons. It was most cost efficient, it was more easy to adapt to my modular plan, and it was more "circuit friendly" meaning I could deploy them on any household circuit if need be (like, putting them in multiple houses/locations which I'm doing). For cost efficiency, I examined the cost of the 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 slot motherboard models from ASRock, along with the cost of the cards, PSU's and the hashpower.

For KH/$ the 3 and 6 card setups were the most cost efficient. I then decided it would be easier to cool 3 card systems in summertime than 6 card systems, and they would be more simplex using only 1 PSU, so maintenance would be much easier. Plus, in the event a rig died, I wasn't losing 6 GPU's at once, just 3.

So that's how I decided to go with abunch of 3 GPU systems.

I run Seasonic Platinum/Gold 860's (for the 7950 rigs), Corsair AX/HX 1050's (for the R9 280x rigs), and an XFX 1000. Seasonic and Corsair are like twins, except Seasonic is the higher-end version. The Platinum/AX units are flawless, no issues, and the systems on them seem to have the most stable hashpower (fluctuations are less than 0.5kh).

The gold/HX units are also flawless so far. One of the gold units has an odd random click but I believe it's reacting to dirty electricity on that one circuit. Aside from that, no issues. The hashpower is stable for the most part, only fluctuates a couple KH at most.

The XFX has done well also, though fluctuations seem a bit more, 5-10KH. I'll get another one or 2 of these as 'spares', but my serious duty rigs use Seasonic and Corsair as the main PSU's, with one Corsair spare.

All of these have been running since August with the only powerdowns being for transporting between locations, and swapping GPU's and stuff. SO very little powerdowns, and constant uptime.

Hope that is useful information.

Hey, all,  I got a question for you.  I'm thinking Vesper probably has some input on this.

Do you run multiple PSUs per MB or do you just get 1 high end PSU to cover all that MB's GPUs?  I'm wondering if there is a benefit to either method.  I could see buying 2 PSUs being nice in that if one dies, the whole rig doesn't go down, and it's cheaper to replace.  But running one high end PSU just makes things simple on a rig that only has 3-4 cards.  Any thoughts, guys?

Fuse. DOGE's day in the sun has come and is almost gone.  I mined 2.5 million of them just for shits and giggles whilst your pool was down at around a diff of 5.  The diff is over 400 now and it is struggling to hang onto 100 satoshis. I've still got a million left that I will move on when the price gets back north of 100, plus there is already a gazillion DOGE pools.  

Earthcoin has possibilities as a future viable alt (I threw about ~650KH/z at it when it first came out for a day or so and banked 55,000 coins).  BUT.. There appears to a bug in the pool software that means pool mining is very hit and miss.  I was following their ANN thread and it appears some pools seem to work ~ 4 times more efficiently than others.  There was a patch released but it's working for some pools and not for others.  Not sure I'd want to go there as a pool op.

The devs of earthcoin "appear" genuine, going to quite a bit of trouble with websites, bounties,etc but they are still sitting on roughly 2 million premined coins, so it could still be an elaborate pump 'n dump.

Fuse,

If you are going to start another pool, I would recommend EarthCoin. I am very interested in this coin as a long-term project for the farm. I solo-mined this coin for 4 days from block 370, so I have a bit of EAC, but I would be interested in more. The difficulty is now high enough that I cannot solo mine effectively.

I am trying to balance the books so that I can afford another miner tomorrow, found a few 280X's... My goal is 10Mh/s by the end of January.

I think I may have just made it a verb, so I'll trademark and copyright that.. and let me follow Apple's example, and patent the idea in a vague fashion. lol

Well bedtime for me was hours ago so I'm going to turn in lol.

Is it really a verb already?

I was just throwing that out there... I don't need to run a different coin pool, but would open something if there was a desire from you guys.

There's a ton of dogepools out there right now, I say keep your basket of golden eggs for now. Unless it'll help lower your overhead. I just know I'd likely not connect, as it's hard enough to get a block right now with anything less than 50MH, and I only doge sporadically.

24Kilo, no worries man... keep the other pool chugging along.   When the power comes back to TAG, we'll be back up there again.  I'm not worried about it, mate.


That's exactly what I had in my head when I said that lol.

I tried calling them like 15 times in the last two days.  The shipping center it came through doesn't have a local number I could find, so I went through the 800 number, every time a "I'm sorry, but we can't process you call at this time."  Click, and hangup.  Bastages.  I called Newegg and got the shipping fees refunded, as I paid for next day.  They called fedex and got the same runaround lol.  It's a wonder fedex stays in business.

I've been thinking about starting up a private Doge pool.  It's all the rage among the kids these days.  Would you guys be interested?  I could just copy/paste the account tables to the Doge DB and lock the registration.  Let me know if you guys feel the need for it... otherwise I'll just keep to TAG and ride out the lows.

^-- The new whale lol

Sucks about the PSU man, I've had that happen before.. failure to deliver. Usually when I see it happen, I call and have the distro center hold the package for me to pickup in person. I trust me to pickup rather than them to deliver lol.

I'm going to shift some of my power to one of my other hangouts for a bit to build it up and take some of that pump/dump coin known as Dogecoin. Get it and sell it while it's worth something, that's what I say. It'll pay the electric bill, am I right?

Vesper is the now the pool whale!!!

Fuse... do you want my hash rate back here at TAGMining? Let me know... still over at TAG.cryptopool.IT trying to build up that pool. Surprised to see the pool at less than 40Mh/s... last time I checked, the pool was running around 200Mh/s.

You caught me lol.

Damn fedex missed their expected delivery date twice now on my replacement PSU.  Out for delivery 2 times, and neither time did they even attempt delivery at my house.  So I call the phone number and it just hangs up on you... stupid fedex.  They should be delivering my PSU which will power another rig for the pool, after I make up the purchase price.  I sold my 7950s for $600, just waiting on the TX to come through.  The money will go to a first "big girl bed" for my daughter, and mining equipment.  Gotta keep growing... gotta keep growing... lol

Yeah, with the exception of the Chinese pool, it seems all the pools are running low right now.  The Chinese pool makes me nervous though.  They're at around 450MH.  That's some crazy power when everyone else is 45 or less.  I'm guessing they've got one hell of an exchange rate over there.

-Fuse

Looks like some of the bigger folks left the pool.

More coins for us And it spreads out the block finders too.

Or maybe this is fuse's way of tempting me to put more hashpower here.. haha

I haven't, I've only GPU mined, with some CPU mining just to keep some accounts active.

There's some companies out there working on Scrypt ASIC systems, one of them is Alpha Technology. I'm keeping my eye out, and am going to pre-reg some of their gear.

Supposedly 25MH pulling around 600watts for their top model, which is nice.

I think that would be KH/s. So that particular number is 1,156 MH/s or 1.1 GH/s. Wow. hehe.

Dabs,

Thanks for your time and effort to figure this out... is the final number in h/s, Kh/s, Mh/s, Gh/s?

Thanks!

Okay, I'm going to try to register an account, even without my miner. I can probably experiment with my CPU.

The multiplier is more accurate if you use this one:  17,895.69708333 It's good up to 1 billion difficulty. Again, this is trial and error from the coinwarz mining calculator, based on 10800 TAG per day for the entire network.

So with the current diff of
64.60628466 * 17,895.69708333 = 1,156,174.49995475

I can just imagine a year from now, the diff and hash rates will double or triple, and when the ASICs start coming in ... we might actually see a 1 GH/s USB based mini miner that renders all of our farms obsolete. (well, maybe not that fast.)

Vesper,

Do you or anyone you know have any experience with using an AMD APU to hash?

Thanks!

Merry Christmas errabody!

I'll have a few more hash to throw at the pool, hopefully by friday, but definitely sometime in the next dew days. Maybe I can earn me some more coinzzz. lol.

Man, I go to sleep and everything goes pllffff.  I haven't checked the other pools, but I'm guessing everyone is running on low hashrate right now.

Just got done opening presents with the wife and daughter.  My daughter is 3 1/2 and fully understands the whole Christmas thing now, so that was really cool to hear her wake up and shout "Merry Christmas... let's go see if Santa came" lol.  Too cool.

Hope you all are having a great day today, whether you celebrate or not.

-Fuse