Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 79. (Read 61906 times)

@vh I don't run Windows, my data point is Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)

@os2sam just another data point. With the new build (8e62f0b)
On my Ubuntu 18.04 low power celeron 1.83GHz x 4 box:
my R606 at voltage level 4 and 575 MHz
I am seeing 780 GH/s right now connected to ViaBTC.

The previous build would not get all three GSI units up to 575.  I would see something like 568/568/568 ...

Very happy with the new build on linux anyway.  Can't speak about Windows performance.

Also, on the Ubuntu box I do have to run with --gekko-lowboost , leaving off that option will cause all GSI units to eventually go offline.

Thanks for the feedback of (9e51f0b) vs (a62385f).

Current tally:

Better for:
    cliftonk : WIN10 Ubuntu18
    DieselWeaseI : Ubuntu18 (Odroid N2)

Worse for:
    WilcoWi : WIN 10
    os2sam : WIN7 & RPi3
    lrowland21093 : PiZero

Just a reminder too that it's not done tuning until T: & P: are the same value (or within a few MHz). I may have slowed down the upper end too much to keep it from hitting plateau too hard.

It's powered with a Seasonic 650W 80 Plus Titanium P/S. I tried ck's solo early on and it got the same results as Kano and both show 12+ so ASIC Boost is enabled. My PC is setup for gaming so it has a Quad Core I-7 w/16GB RAM so it should be powerful enough. The only other USB devices now are the mouse and keyboard. It seems the Pi and the PC have roughly the same performance.

wonder why?

what do you power gear with?
did you ever point it to solo.ckpool.org?

I have
overkill psu
overkill cpu win 10 build
and point to solo.ckpool which is asic boost.

have you ever tried solo.ckpool to see if you get higher numbers ?

I also wonder if win 7 build hurts you.

i was not able to get good numbers until i went to a win 10 build on a quality pc.

This new version doesn't do well for my R606.  I've tested on my Win7 Desktop and my RPi 3.


I've never achieved 750Ghs at Power Level 4 nor approached 1Ths.
Edit: Ubuntu on my laptop does seem to do much better.

will do first drawing on weds day.

I will film it on youtube and use random number.org to pick the winner.

I will attempt to start at a set time  1:00 pm east coast time.  so it will be fair.

FYI vh: Tried this version, but switched back to version a62385f. Every stick has about 100-150 Mhz lesser speed with version 9e51f0b @ my setup (5x newpac - Win10 - GS hub - HP 1000W PS - aircooled).

1) DieselWeaseI
2) Irowland21093
3) Kingofhammers
4) mstrozier
5) gcanelson
6) searing
7) cliftonk
8 )

note don't need any info unless you win drawing.

these are the 1 chip compacs.

up to 7 people.

Sent you a PM with my proof of purchase. Others?

don't know what testing you did.  So I don't know.

here I am on solo.ckpool

http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje


and the gui  for cgminer reads

1.221t    which is pretty close to the numbers above.

note

I have 3 newpacs set to freq 275    they do about     200gh
I have 1 r606 set to freq 767.5       this does about 1025gh

that adds to 1230gh or 1.23th which matches my 1 day read out.

so I am pretty accurate using solo.ckpool.

@vh  Thanks!  Your latest code has all three units running at 550 MHz whereas with the previous I could only see: 544/544/543 with voltage setting 4 on the R606
And, the ramp-up to 550 is much faster!

AB will turn on if the pool and miner supports it.   The plus sign indicates that AB is on ... BM1387:12+ ...
You can turn it off with --gekko-noboost.
If you are using windows, and are stuck sub 200MHz, you should try --gekko-lowboost or the noboost option.
It has shown to helped out in most cases.   Switching to Linux does even better.

Or try out the latest build. (9e51f0b)

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That entry came from here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50710742

@philipma1957 Please add me to the list for the compac drawing! Thanks!

Good advice from gc. I'll run every stick in it's own batch file. Mostly cause i'm OCD and like to cater to each sticks "personality". Not too demanding on good decent computer, of course if you have a lot it makes it more cumbersome to manage.

The "Miner Earnings Comparison Table:" http://mining.tipsternet.com/miner.html shows the R606 @ S0: 489 GH/s  Watts: 39.12   J/GH: 0.080

Question:  Assuming the voltage setting 0, what frequency setting was used for the R606?

Thanks gcanelson, this helped a bit.

so anyone want to be placed on the list.

I think I will draw on tues or weds.

5  in so far for 1 free compac.  sidehack's older rarer usb stick

The catch is you had to buy a r606  from A legit seller. if you are picked.  You will need to show me proof you did buy it and of course  give me an address to ship it to.

New build: (d76cd8a) (9e51f0b)

Linux instructions:
    save (rename folder), clone, build.  (see first post)

Windows binary: cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-9e51f0b.7z
    sha1sum: eb928ef8c878e7aef778520a8566279ce46e2847  cgminer.exe

Improve noboost performance.
  + sends work faster
  
Improved peak detection, slightly faster ramp up.
  + use different 1m hashrate formula.
  + allow startup ramp to go up to 550MHz then check hash percentage beyond that.
  + keeps peak and attempted frequency values closer together at higher frequencies, gentler plateau entry.
  
Other tuning / bug fixes
  + fix buffer overrun in frequency info log statement.
  + slow down baudrate on WIN environment, to mitigate AB-4 work frame split.

@9e51f0b
  + give out-of-sync chips a chance to converge at current frequency.

Ok with a few others showing the Raspberry Pi having decent results with the R606 and I originally was having a hard time with it, I decided to give it ago again for testing.  At the time I originally tested the Pi, it was before VH's May 13th update to cgminer.  So a lot of my original issues has been resolved with the latest updates in cgminer.

I have also done a clean install of Linux on my FX-6300 box.  I originally had all kinds of cpu miners, gpu based miners, tested cudo miner and other related apps on that Ubuntu box and believe something was possibly interfering with my system even though none of them were active when running cgminer.  My cpu remained at 25% to 35% which just didn't feel right.

So I've installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint - Mate 64bit edition as I wanted to try something different, and it's based on Ubuntu.  After almost a nightmare of a time getting VNC to work on this box, finally got it up and running where I can remote into it and quite pleased with the results.

First, the Raspberry Pi.  Started with a fresh reload of Noobs.   At 400Mhz on the Gekko Science Newpacs, they worked great.  Same hash rates on both boxes.  The r606 however kept downclocking on the Raspberry Pi.  On volt setting 6 it would not hold at 725Mhz.  It continued to drop till ~ 650 on my 2nd R606 and the original 1st one I bought it settled at 624Mhz.  I have a screen shot where they were at ~650 for both of them.  I thought they had settled however after a few more hours my 1st one dropped to 624.  Here is the screen shot at ~650 https://ibb.co/m8mkWTD.  Still overall, quite pleased and not bad.  Especially since saving on power this route since the Raspberry Pi uses 5 watts of electricity compared to the 80 - 130 watts from the desktop (varied due to processes).

Now since switching to Linux Mint, no issues getting the software loaded for the miners.  Again the newpacs remained at 400Mhz and pulling the same hash rates as they did on the Pi.  The r606 however, both units are staying at 725Mhz on volt 6.  Screen shot:  https://ibb.co/pdzX5tM.  Also have bfgminer running on a separate session for the Moonlanders.

Also so far, they have been running stable grouped all together in one script instead of breaking them down into two for the miners.

All in all for the Raspberry Pi it seems you'll loose a small % of performance however on the back end you are saving on power usage.

I received a replacement R606 from @sidehack yesterday.  It immediately started hashing away on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system along with the NewPac that has been running for several weeks.  No changes to the build or settings.   Many thanks to all who offered advice here, and especially @sidehack and @rockmoney who worked hard to get a replacement to me.  Any suggestions on the difficulty setting or other parameters are welcome!   It is a sweet-running mining machine!

Here is the output of the R606 with the voltage level set to 4, and the frequency running at 550 MHz running for about 22 hours: