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420
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September 17, 2012, 04:34:07 PM
#32
there's cuda toolkit, newer nvidia driver and this SDK available

I wonder if any improve mining performance

http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-downloads
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September 17, 2012, 02:38:46 PM
#31
Strange.
You might wanna take this to the BitMinter thread...
420
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September 17, 2012, 02:29:00 PM
#30
trying to connect to my BM account returns CURL value 25

could not retrive work from the RPC server

tried http and https://mint.bitminter.com:8332
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September 17, 2012, 02:15:06 PM
#29
yup i remember at least 150mhash with ufasoft miner
Haven't tried that out yet. But I guess I've pretty much maxed out the GTX's power by now. Thought about selling it for a Radeon, but that wouldn't pay off, either.

Quote
do you edit video ?
I actually did quite a lot back in "the days" with Adobe Premiere 10(? - around 2000), but today it's down to occasional hobby projects. Sony Vegas is quite fun to mess around with, tho. Wink
420
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September 17, 2012, 01:59:20 PM
#28
I have a GeForce GTX 570.

Best results in GUIminer were with RPC-CUDA at about 126 Mhash/s. With overclocking I get as high as 157 Mhash/s. (Pools report higher rates.)

I'm currently testing Bitminter's pool and also their client. It reports rates at ca. 167 Mhash/s, but looking at the pool's stats, on average it's about as fast as GUIminer/CUDA.

~drekk~

yup i remember at least 150mhash with ufasoft miner

do you edit video ?

getting up to 132Mhash with my overclocked 680 on bitminter (running 3 monitors, probably get more if I had only 1 monitor)

it's calling it OpenCL GPU though and using 8% of my cpu.

Another detriment, I can't set aggression level to use my PC while mining which is the point with this GPU
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September 17, 2012, 01:47:04 PM
#27
I have a GeForce GTX 570.

Best results in GUIminer were with RPC-CUDA at about 126 Mhash/s. With overclocking I get as high as 157 Mhash/s. (Pools report higher rates.)

I'm currently testing Bitminter's pool and also their client. It reports rates at ca. 167 Mhash/s, but looking at the pool's stats, on average it's about as fast as GUIminer/CUDA.

~drekk~
420
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September 17, 2012, 01:34:51 PM
#26
using bitparking for some reason, i had it 4hrs and it doesnt' look like it was added to my account on the pool
What's your username on the pool and I'll look it up. Are you sure you used the correct username, with the correct case?

Same as on here
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September 16, 2012, 04:01:45 AM
#25
using bitparking for some reason, i had it 4hrs and it doesnt' look like it was added to my account on the pool
What's your username on the pool and I'll look it up. Are you sure you used the correct username, with the correct case?
420
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September 15, 2012, 07:30:16 PM
#24
using bitparking for some reason, i had it 4hrs and it doesnt' look like it was added to my account on the pool

btcguild showing up right away. unfortunately their return is significantly less per share
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September 15, 2012, 05:49:33 PM
#23
xjzcuda.exe -url=http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user=username -password=password -aggression=#

You do not even need to do -gpu for it to find and use the gpu.

I think the params i posted above were incorrect; Sorry, my bad.

Updated params in previous post in case anyone finds this thread.



120Mhash! same as ufasoft with aggression 5

94-98% gpu usage after i removed the 'aggression' parameter

now 126.6->127 Mhash/s

aggression=10 is yielding 132->134 Mhash/s Smiley

aggression=11 130->134 and computer is almost unusable, slow display changes

INFO I have an overclocked 4GB GTX 680

I didn't create the miner. I just got it working with newer cards~ You can find the thread for the mining software here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/rpc-miners-cpu4waycudaopencl-2444

420
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September 15, 2012, 01:07:04 PM
#22
xjzcuda.exe -url=http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user=username -password=password -aggression=#

You do not even need to do -gpu for it to find and use the gpu.

I think the params i posted above were incorrect; Sorry, my bad.

Updated params in previous post in case anyone finds this thread.



120Mhash! same as ufasoft with aggression 5

94-98% gpu usage after i removed the 'aggression' parameter

now 126.6->127 Mhash/s

aggression=10 is yielding 132->134 Mhash/s Smiley

aggression=11 130->134 and computer is almost unusable, slow display changes

INFO I have an overclocked 4GB GTX 680
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September 15, 2012, 11:31:51 AM
#21
Try -user=something instead of -user something
Same thing for the other parameters.
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September 15, 2012, 03:48:22 AM
#20
 Going a bit further this time but I am receiving a Visual Studio related error, something like vectors out of range.

Could be my dusty Wndows installation though...
Waiting for 420.
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September 15, 2012, 03:20:08 AM
#19
xjzcuda.exe -url=http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user=username -password=password -aggression=#

You do not even need to do -gpu for it to find and use the gpu.

I think the params i posted above were incorrect; Sorry, my bad.

Updated params in previous post in case anyone finds this thread.

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September 15, 2012, 01:41:00 AM
#18
Getting the same error CURL return value = 3.

Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\dave>rpcminer-cuda.exe -gpu -url http://pool.coinlab.c
om:8332 -user protected_mofo -password mofo
Client will start 1 miner threads
Work will be refreshed every 4000 ms
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 3
1 CUDA GPU devices found
Setting CUDA device to first device found
Loading module bitcoinminercuda_20.cubin
CUDA initialized
Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,16)
Finding best configuration step end (16,16) 672ms  prev best=9223372036854775807
ms
Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,32)
Finding best configuration step end (16,32) 344ms  prev best=672ms
Done allocating CUDA resources for (16,64)
...
Finding best configuration step end (128,256) 47ms  prev best=47ms
Done allocating CUDA resources for (64,128)
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
...
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 3
No blocks are being hashed right now.  This can happen if the application is
still starting up, you supplied incorrect parameters, or there is a
communications error connecting to the RPC server.
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
...
CURL return value = 3

420
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September 15, 2012, 12:05:57 AM
#17
senseless, I got the original directions and your new download to run however getting a connection error, tried two different pools

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 7 "


CORRECTION:

I think i had standalone server syntax mixed up with other

using:
rpcminer-cuda.exe -url http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user userhere -password passhere

I now get:

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 3


for example trying to connect to BTC Guild

Check the port, url and user/pass. It works fine when connecting to bitclockers.

can you test other pools and let me know which works, i have a lot of accounts but not that one

I copied directly from a working script my user/pass
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September 15, 2012, 12:00:15 AM
#16
senseless, I got the original directions and your new download to run however getting a connection error, tried two different pools

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 7 "


CORRECTION:

I think i had standalone server syntax mixed up with other

using:
rpcminer-cuda.exe -url http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user userhere -password passhere

I now get:

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 3


for example trying to connect to BTC Guild

Check the port, url and user/pass. It works fine when connecting to bitclockers.

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September 14, 2012, 11:40:49 PM
#15

Check your CPU usage. It doesn't support cuda; it supports opencl which nvidia also supports.


I see, thanks and corrected.
420
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September 14, 2012, 11:35:11 PM
#14
senseless, I got the original directions and your new download to run however getting a connection error, tried two different pools

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 7 "


CORRECTION:

I think i had standalone server syntax mixed up with other

using:
rpcminer-cuda.exe -url http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user userhere -password passhere

I now get:

"Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 3


for example trying to connect to BTC Guild
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September 14, 2012, 11:17:32 PM
#13
Everything is terrible with GTX 680 and newest NVIDIA drivers

Ufasoft is only miner that doesn't crash display driver or crash itself
around 120MHash overclocked, uses about 100watts additional power from idle

one of the miner's showed 127Mhash, forget which one maybe Phoenix, but all these crash after closing:

GUIMINER with phoenix
GUIMINER with OpenCL
GUIMINER with CUDA (rpcminer)

Phoenix 1.7.5 program freezes after a few seconds
Phoenix 2 - 123Mhash, freezes on close
Diablo Miner - 121Mhash with 98% GPU usage. throws a bunch of Invalid solution errors and says hardware error
CGMiner program just crashes before hashing (don't think supports CUDA)

Cgminer suports CUDA:

Code:
[root@localhost cgminer-2.6.1]# ./cgminer -n
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 5.0.1
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35]  0       GeForce GTX 470
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] 1 GPU devices max detected

And is the best miner for it (IMO):

Code:
cgminer version 2.6.1 - Started: [2012-09-15 06:19:06]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):103.1 (avg):103.1 Mh/s | Q:5  A:3  R:0  HW:0  E:60%  U:2.2/m
 TQ: 3  ST: 3  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 206  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://pool.coinlab.com:8332 with LP as user protected_mofo
 Block: 0000042cae5e4ef6ad08463f1ed49ea7...  Started: [06:19:06]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:                | 103.1/103.1Mh/s | A:3 R:0 HW:0 U:2.24/m I: 4
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Started cgminer 2.6.1
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Probing for an alive pool
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Long-polling activated for http://pool.coinlab.com:8332/listenChannel
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Pool 0 http://pool.coinlab.com:8332 alive
 [2012-09-15 06:19:36] Accepted 60cc9cf3.9151d8f4 GPU 0
 [2012-09-15 06:19:52] Accepted 0d651d91.13f970de GPU 0
 [2012-09-15 06:20:22] Accepted 982b0d2f.a7862ba9 GPU 0

With overclocking I can go as higher as 150Mh/s.

That being said, there is no point in mining with an Nvidia card, except maybe if you have free electricity or plan to mine at CoinLab.



Check your CPU usage. It doesn't support cuda; it supports opencl which nvidia also supports.



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September 14, 2012, 10:34:27 PM
#12
Everything is terrible with GTX 680 and newest NVIDIA drivers

Ufasoft is only miner that doesn't crash display driver or crash itself
around 120MHash overclocked, uses about 100watts additional power from idle

one of the miner's showed 127Mhash, forget which one maybe Phoenix, but all these crash after closing:

GUIMINER with phoenix
GUIMINER with OpenCL
GUIMINER with CUDA (rpcminer)

Phoenix 1.7.5 program freezes after a few seconds
Phoenix 2 - 123Mhash, freezes on close
Diablo Miner - 121Mhash with 98% GPU usage. throws a bunch of Invalid solution errors and says hardware error
CGMiner program just crashes before hashing (don't think supports CUDA)

Code:
[root@localhost cgminer-2.6.1]# ./cgminer -n
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 5.0.1
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35]  0       GeForce GTX 470
 [2012-09-15 06:17:35] 1 GPU devices max detected

Code:
cgminer version 2.6.1 - Started: [2012-09-15 06:19:06]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):103.1 (avg):103.1 Mh/s | Q:5  A:3  R:0  HW:0  E:60%  U:2.2/m
 TQ: 3  ST: 3  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 206  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://pool.coinlab.com:8332 with LP as user protected_mofo
 Block: 0000042cae5e4ef6ad08463f1ed49ea7...  Started: [06:19:06]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:                | 103.1/103.1Mh/s | A:3 R:0 HW:0 U:2.24/m I: 4
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Started cgminer 2.6.1
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Probing for an alive pool
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Long-polling activated for http://pool.coinlab.com:8332/listenChannel
 [2012-09-15 06:19:06] Pool 0 http://pool.coinlab.com:8332 alive
 [2012-09-15 06:19:36] Accepted 60cc9cf3.9151d8f4 GPU 0
 [2012-09-15 06:19:52] Accepted 0d651d91.13f970de GPU 0
 [2012-09-15 06:20:22] Accepted 982b0d2f.a7862ba9 GPU 0

With overclocking I can go as higher as 150Mh/s.

That being said, there is no point in mining with an Nvidia card, except maybe if you have free electricity or plan to mine at CoinLab.

420
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September 14, 2012, 09:33:16 PM
#11
Now do i need a special RPC account or connects to any pool?

Nope, just a normal account.

You should just need to set -url -user -pass to get it to run. You may or may not want to change other -gpu and -aggression related options.

rpcminer-cuda.exe -url http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user userhere -password passhere

btw, was able to find a 680 to test on this AM. so i know it's all working on 6xx devices now.



I will test shortly what do you mean AM? at the moment?

AM = morning, as opposed to PM

what i first thought then thought it wasn't that simple.
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September 14, 2012, 09:28:45 PM
#10
Now do i need a special RPC account or connects to any pool?

Nope, just a normal account.

You should just need to set -url -user -pass to get it to run. You may or may not want to change other -gpu and -aggression related options.

rpcminer-cuda.exe -url http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user userhere -password passhere

btw, was able to find a 680 to test on this AM. so i know it's all working on 6xx devices now.



I will test shortly what do you mean AM? at the moment?

AM = morning, as opposed to PM

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September 14, 2012, 09:12:23 PM
#9
Now do i need a special RPC account or connects to any pool?

Nope, just a normal account.

You should just need to set -url= -user= -pass= to get it to run. You may or may not want to change other -gpu and -aggression related options.

rpcminer-cuda.exe -url=http://pool.bitclockers.com:8332 -user=userhere -password=passhere

btw, was able to find a 680 to test on this AM. so i know it's all working on 6xx devices now.

420
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September 14, 2012, 09:01:34 PM
#8
Now do i need a special RPC account or connects to any pool?
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September 14, 2012, 08:55:46 PM
#7
I just updated rpcminer-cuda today for 3.0 support. I only have a 460; so I haven't been able to try it to confirm it works... But I see no reason it shouldn't.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1191108

Only OpenCL miners crash nvidia drivers on hard exit. The cuda miners do not.



how much for you to tell me how to run it under windows?

Download and run the exe.

I didn't include all of the files. Just what is updated.

You will need to download rpcminer-win32 first for all the dlls and crap.

1) download this: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hduqoqdf3onqrod/bitcoin-rpcminer-20110227-win32bin.zip
2) unzip #1
3) Download my update: http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=oreaN2eXE
4) unzip #3
5) move files from #3 overtop of files from #1.

I guess maybe I should have just put the dlls and crap in my zip....

...

ALso, make sure to let me know if it works or not. I wasn't able to test it with a 6xx card... I'm curious to know..



okay did that

I open rpcminer-cuda and get error: "The program can't start because librul.dll is missing from your computer"

Rename curllib.dll to libcurl.dll

Also, it may still request curllib.dll... I'm not sure what about my project makes it look for both... but whatever.. I'll figure it out later and make another update.

You will also need msvcr100d.dll and msvcp100.dll .. I found a copy of those 2 floating around here
http://stuff.mit.edu:8001/afs/sipb/user/kolya/afs/root.afs/athena.mit.edu/software/geneious_v5.3.6/Geneious/resources/

First time ever compiling anything in windows; so cut me some slack there.



Here i made a download with everything you need. just run it with default command params for rpcminer-cuda.exe

http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=mwrLcmBsL


420
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September 14, 2012, 03:14:08 PM
#6
How about selling that GTX680 and buying a 5870 with the money ?

I'm a video editor should answer your question indirectly
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September 14, 2012, 03:10:03 PM
#5
I just updated rpcminer-cuda today for 3.0 support. I only have a 460; so I haven't been able to try it to confirm it works... But I see no reason it shouldn't.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1191108

Only OpenCL miners crash nvidia drivers on hard exit. The cuda miners do not.



how much for you to tell me how to run it under windows?

Download and run the exe.

I didn't include all of the files. Just what is updated.

You will need to download rpcminer-win32 first for all the dlls and crap.

1) download this: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hduqoqdf3onqrod/bitcoin-rpcminer-20110227-win32bin.zip
2) unzip #1
3) Download my update: http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=oreaN2eXE
4) unzip #3
5) move files from #3 overtop of files from #1.

I guess maybe I should have just put the dlls and crap in my zip....

...

ALso, make sure to let me know if it works or not. I wasn't able to test it with a 6xx card... I'm curious to know..



okay did that

I open rpcminer-cuda and get error: "The program can't start because librul.dll is missing from your computer"
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September 14, 2012, 01:35:56 PM
#4
I just updated rpcminer-cuda today for 3.0 support. I only have a 460; so I haven't been able to try it to confirm it works... But I see no reason it shouldn't.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1191108

Only OpenCL miners crash nvidia drivers on hard exit. The cuda miners do not.



how much for you to tell me how to run it under windows?

Download and run the exe.

I didn't include all of the files. Just what is updated.

You will need to download rpcminer-win32 first for all the dlls and crap.

1) download this: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hduqoqdf3onqrod/bitcoin-rpcminer-20110227-win32bin.zip
2) unzip #1
3) Download my update: http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=oreaN2eXE
4) unzip #3
5) move files from #3 overtop of files from #1.

I guess maybe I should have just put the dlls and crap in my zip....

...

ALso, make sure to let me know if it works or not. I wasn't able to test it with a 6xx card... I'm curious to know..



420
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September 14, 2012, 01:23:41 PM
#3
I just updated rpcminer-cuda today for 3.0 support. I only have a 460; so I haven't been able to try it to confirm it works... But I see no reason it shouldn't.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1191108

Only OpenCL miners crash nvidia drivers on hard exit. The cuda miners do not.



how much for you to tell me how to run it under windows?
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September 14, 2012, 01:20:42 PM
#2
I just updated rpcminer-cuda today for 3.0 support. I only have a 460; so I haven't been able to try it to confirm it works... But I see no reason it shouldn't.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1191108

Only OpenCL miners crash nvidia drivers on hard exit. The cuda miners do not.

420
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August 09, 2012, 05:30:54 AM
#1
Everything is terrible with GTX 680 and newest NVIDIA drivers

Ufasoft is only miner that doesn't crash display driver or crash itself
around 120MHash overclocked, uses about 100watts additional power from idle

one of the miner's showed 127Mhash, forget which one maybe Phoenix, but all these crash after closing:

GUIMINER with phoenix
GUIMINER with OpenCL
GUIMINER with CUDA (rpcminer)

Phoenix 1.7.5 program freezes after a few seconds
Phoenix 2 - 123Mhash, freezes on close
Diablo Miner - 121Mhash with 98% GPU usage. throws a bunch of Invalid solution errors and says hardware error
CGMiner program just crashes before hashing (don't think supports CUDA)

what works:

Ufasoft Miner, around 120Mhash
RPCMiner (mod), up to 134 Mhash
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