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Topic: First hand experience with Darkcoin mining and x11 algo - page 2. (Read 24360 times)

legendary
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hehe  you are right Wink around 3 times more efficient i can see 6.23mh per 280X
checkout the deep web

Could you share it? i tried to find anything like that, but i probably used not as deep web as you did

He's just trolling.
newbie
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hehe  you are right Wink around 3 times more efficient i can see 6.23mh per 280X
checkout the deep web

Could you share it? i tried to find anything like that, but i probably used not as deep web as you did
newbie
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Great, thanks for the recommendation.
sr. member
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But these coins are not profitable. That's the main issue why I went back to mining regular scrypt.

I don't know how you came up to that conclusion. Right, now you're getting 0.0077bmg for Hirocoin, which is higher than middlecoin (0.006) and you're paying 2x less electricity. You were right to some extent, X11 is not more profitable than scrypt, it's MUCH more profitable Smiley

Yes, x11 is a very attractive algorithm... Smiley
hero member
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CEO Diamond Foundation
Is it current gen. ASIC resistant?
member
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Anyway i don't even understand why people mine this stuff as it's not profitable at all...it would cost me money to mine it & sell it

Haha you are so funny  Grin If this cost money for you then you are in the wrong way !!! If you often selling what you mine you are totally wrong... This game is not for such people and if continue to do that you will be dropped from the train by yourself !!!
Actually you are the funny one lol

There is no point to mine for a higher cost than the market price, you rather directly buy the coin.
If you cannot tell this is nonsense you should not be into cryptos, you may loose big.

It may be the case because of what Hazard said, some people with a better gpu miner can dump coins they mine way cheaper than you.
full member
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DigiByte Founder
All this means is that the X11 miner is poorly coded and not taking full advantage of the GPU.

The public miner, anyway. No doubt there's a private miner out there that's 100-200% more efficient.

anyone is more than welcome to improve on the gpu miner
They have. And they're keeping it to themselves.
I agree with Hazard. Someone out there is laughing at this thread right now. The GPU is simply not being fully utilized.
sr. member
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All this means is that the X11 miner is poorly coded and not taking full advantage of the GPU.

The public miner, anyway. No doubt there's a private miner out there that's 100-200% more efficient.

hehe  you are right Wink around 3 times more efficient i can see 6.23mh per 280X
checkout the deep web
hero member
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‘Try to be nice’
All this means is that the X11 miner is poorly coded and not taking full advantage of the GPU.

The public miner, anyway. No doubt there's a private miner out there that's 100-200% more efficient.

anyone is more than welcome to improve on the gpu miner
They have. And they're keeping it to themselves.

no doubt - but i still think 100 or 200% is acceptable for cPoW which is what X11 come under SIF being the original which Quark followed on from. 
sr. member
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Chopped alot of crap out of my config and made huge difference.  I had sgminer write the config for me and made just a few adjustments to it, weird.  I dont have the time to mess around with which line did it exactly but I hacked my config down to this:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum1.suchpool.pw:3335",
      "user" : "EDITED",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum2.suchpool.pw:3335",
      "user" : "EDITED",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,
"intensity" : "13,13,18",
"worksize" : "256,256,256",
"gpu-threads" : "2,2,1",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192,8192,15232",
"kernel" : "darkcoin,darkcoin,darkcoin",
"gpu-engine" : "500-1050,500-1050,500-1100",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85,0-85,0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "1400,1400,1500",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

About the same hash, one 7970 at 50C the other at 52C. Scrypt was at 77C. Huge difference. About 8% cooler then mining scrypt.  Good suggestion Luke997. 


Playing with setting more I notice the following:
Auto-fan on and having the gpu-fan from 0-85 together causes the problem.  Without actually looking at my fans, I think its trying to turn my fans off.   I notice that randomly for a split second it reports fan speed of 9999RPM but then goes back to showing super low RPMs, in the 1000s.  Setting auto fan on and changing gpu-fan to "40-100" causes temps in the mid 60s and no more 9999RPM showing up.  Seems drivers or whatever controls fans normally works better then having sgminer control it.  No auto-fan puts fan at 3500RPM, which is a little loud, ill tune a quite fan speed to temp ratio I like later.  Changing the target temp might fix the problem as well so I think Luke997 was right on.
full member
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What are you using for mining? I used sph-sgminer https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-sph-sgminer-multi-coin-multi-algorithm-gpu-miner-added-marucoin-475795. Is this the one most of you use? Are there better ones out there?
hero member
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But these coins are not profitable. That's the main issue why I went back to mining regular scrypt.

no coin is profitable at the moment, unless you are instamining new coin and  in that case the algo used mean nothing...

I agree with you  Wink
legendary
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But these coins are not profitable. That's the main issue why I went back to mining regular scrypt.

no coin is profitable at the moment, unless you are instamining new coin and  in that case the algo used mean nothing...
legendary
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Merit: 1000
All this means is that the X11 miner is poorly coded and not taking full advantage of the GPU.

The public miner, anyway. No doubt there's a private miner out there that's 100-200% more efficient.

anyone is more than welcome to improve on the gpu miner
They have. And they're keeping it to themselves.
legendary
Activity: 1036
Merit: 1000
But these coins are not profitable. That's the main issue why I went back to mining regular scrypt.

It is very profitable. Especially where electricity is expensive such as Australia where it's 0.26 per kilowatt hour.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
sorry to say this guys but x11 is just groestl + quark it does 3 times better on gpu than on cpu (as groestl standolone does too) but considering cost and power it's pretty good ... just not the breakthrough it is hyped to be.
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sr. member
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sgminer 4.1.0-96-g983e

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum1.suchpool.pw:3335",
      "user" : "EDITED",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum2.suchpool.pw:3335",
      "user" : "EDITED",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,
"intensity" : "13,13,18",
"worksize" : "256,256,256",
"kernel" : "darkcoin,darkcoin,darkcoin",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192,8192,15232",
"shaders" : "0,0,0",
"gpu-threads" : "2,2,1",
"gpu-engine" : "900-1050,900-1050,900-1100",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85,0-85,0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "1400,1400,1500",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85,85",
"temp-target" : "75,75,75",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I have to leave for several hours but thanks for helping.  Could be the minor OC makes that big of a difference, dont get me wrong it is cooler, just not nearly as much as others are reporting.  When I return ill post some data with the same OC settings, maybe im comparing apples to oranges.
full member
Activity: 294
Merit: 100
Im running full open rig, risers and as much distance as they allow, about 3 inches between cards. No gpu throtteling, 700Khash per 7970 scrypt, 2.05Mhash running darkcoin.

Something is wrong, haven't heard of anyone yet with so insignificant difference between X-11 and scrypt.
What version of sph-sgminer you have and what exact settings you run?
sr. member
Activity: 338
Merit: 250
Im running full open rig, risers and as much distance as they allow, about 3 inches between cards. No gpu throtteling, 700Khash per 7970 scrypt, 2.05Mhash running darkcoin.
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