Is there a general thread for Gekkoscience miners? Not just for the R909?
I will mention this here since there is an R909 in the mix, but It may be better suited for a different thread. Let me know. I tried mining the nicehash pool this morning via cgminer, and though it works, the difficulty seems to be a little much. it is very slow and the R909 seems to hang at around 89% but still hashes at around 2.5TH/s. The Compac-Fs see to be the ones that struggle the most as a few of them will reset the frequency down to 200mhz and ramp back up. I am running 1 R9-9, 4 Compac-Fs and 2 New Pacs with an over all hash rate of 3.1TH to as high as 4.2TH/s. The pool settles on a difficulty of 40k and and overall it does get excepted shares, just really slow to handle them. That being said, I was curious if anyone else had tried to mine nicehash with usb miners. Is it worth it or is there an increased risk of damage to the miners? Anyone have suggested difficulty for nicehash pool?
Here is what I used: NiceHash External Mining:
sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://sha256.auto.nicehash.com:9200 -u WALLET-ADDRESS.Workername -p x --gekko-newpac-freq 350 --gekko-compacf-freq 400 --gekko-r909-freq 550
I was thinking of trying it again with the --suggest-diff 20000 flag and then with --suggest-diff 10000 flag to see how those work. I have been mining ckpool with --suggest-diff 10000 flag to see how that went. it seems stable just getting about half the shares than if I let it auto set the difficulty. When I do let it auto set on ckpool it usually sets it somewhere between 2400 and 3400.
Here is what I used to mine ckpool:
sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u WALLET-ADDRESS.Workername -p x --gekko-newpac-freq 375 --gekko-compacf-freq 450 --gekko-r909-freq 575 --suggest-diff 10000
Earlier today ckpool reported these stats for my worker. These are the frequency same settings I normally run only difference is the suggested difficulty.
{
"hashrate1m": "6.14T",
"hashrate5m": "4.81T",
"hashrate1hr": "3.68T",
"hashrate1d": "3.17T",
"hashrate7d": "1.14T",
"lastshare": 1672677213,
"workers": 1,
"shares": 196345749,
"bestshare": 283475270.1970135,
"bestever": 283475270,
"worker": [
{
cgminer version 4.12.1 - Started: [2023-01-02 11:04:46.777]
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(5s):3.477T (1m):3.632T (5m):3.624T (15m):3.608T (avg):3.589Th/s
A:9450000 R:10000 HW:4260 WU:50140.9/m
Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 10K with stratum as user bc1qwgc4p4gf6qlpv0m.NPandT
Block: 3df2368c... Diff:35.4T Started: [14:08:11.563] Best share: 21M
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[U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
0: GSF 10070012: BM1397:06+ 575.00MHz T:575 P:575 (4:2) | 98.7% WU: 97% | 1.991T / 2.256Th/s WU:31524.2/m
1: GSH 10041663: BM1387:02+ 375.00MHz T:375 P:375 (100:50) | 99.8% WU: 98% | 82.56G / 83.99Gh/s WU: 1173.4/m
2: GSH 10038894: BM1387:02+ 375.00MHz T:375 P:375 (100:50) | 98.0% WU: 98% | 88.03G / 83.83Gh/s WU: 1171.2/m
3: GSF 10052154: BM1397:01+ 450.00MHz T:450 P:450 (29:14) | 100% WU:100% | 301.0G / 270.4Gh/s WU: 3777.5/m
4: GSF 10053864: BM1397:01+ 450.00MHz T:450 P:450 (28:14) | 100% WU:100% | 290.8G / 297.1Gh/s WU: 4150.3/m
5: GSF 10050104: BM1397:01+ 450.00MHz T:450 P:450 (28:14) | 100% WU:100% | 271.5G / 299.6Gh/s WU: 4185.5/m
6: GSF 10054544: BM1397:01+ 450.00MHz T:450 P:450 (29:14) | 100% WU:100% | 415.4G / 297.7Gh/s WU: 4158.8/m
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[2023-01-02 14:06:44.553] Accepted 048725ba Diff 14.5K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:06:56.428] Accepted 025d6339 Diff 27.7K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:07:10.289] Accepted 04fd253a Diff 13.1K/10000 GSF 4
[2023-01-02 14:07:24.395] Accepted 0859ff5b Diff 2.01M/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:07:25.985] Accepted 0476518e Diff 14.7K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:07:30.342] Accepted 0558b45a Diff 12.3K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:07:48.383] Accepted 02d12650 Diff 23.3K/10000 GSF 4
[2023-01-02 14:08:09.490] Accepted 0168869e Diff 46.5K/10000 GSF 3
[2023-01-02 14:08:11.563] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 770072
[2023-01-02 14:08:25.631] Accepted 030ba34c Diff 21.5K/10000 GSF 3
[2023-01-02 14:08:52.728] Accepted 01897353 Diff 42.6K/10000 GSF 2
[2023-01-02 14:09:07.898] Accepted 0392977d Diff 18.3K/10000 GSH 1
[2023-01-02 14:09:11.982] Accepted 045f91be Diff 15K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:09:13.723] Accepted 026ca67b Diff 27K/10000 GSF 0
[2023-01-02 14:09:18.526] Accepted 40db734b Diff 259K/10000 GSF 1
