Topic: Review of Panda Miner coming up. - page 13. (Read 30678 times)

I bricked all 8 cards when an amd upgrade popped up.  I lost all my drivers  for all eight cards.

I booted with the restart option and everything was restored.

I am not a software guy but the os on the panda is sophisticated in recovery mode.  a good thing.

I still want the linux and I think I would keep my panda miner master sitting off in a little box just incase the linux master had an issue.

right now the zec miner works best really stable and I was able to upgrade from 9.1 included to 9.3 claymore.

the eth crashes every 3 to 5 hours.

I can not fully view the cards  or the card temps but I do know the watts jump from 1050 to 1150.

So I have to think the gear from the factory while good gear is only okay software. 

It would be nice if panda miner simply paid for the linux and put it in all miners.

At the moment  my miner is happy doing zec.  and my miner was provided up front to me. I did not pay but agreed to pay for the miner when I fully tested it.  So it passes on zec and fails on eth .. I will test xmr and other shit the next few days.

I really urge panda miner to allow the linux developer to put the miner out there for buyer and to allow say ½ of the 2180 I owe  panda miner to go to the linux developer .  This is a win for everyone.

panda miner gets a good software.
little guys get a good flexible miner
the linux + driver + rom builder gets some coin in his pocket.

Once again I could use a good translator to help here.

Please look at the pictures

 two  24 gpu racks with six four card mobos using 6 atx machine 6 ethernet cables

total of 48 gpu's 12 mobos 12 cpus  12 sticks of ram 12 ethernet cables

replaced by

six panda miners with 3 psus ( ibm 2880 )    3 cpus 3 sticks of ram 6 ethernet cables

after restarting sgminer-gm.... the GPU shows up again (not DEAD).

I can only conclude that there is something not right with status reporting of GPUs - the GPU roms were already modded according to Eliovp.

Likely that ... maybe... temps was high and fans reported wrong readings resulting inconclusive results and sgminer-gm could not get stats from that particular GPU thus resulting dead status..... anyways I will surely keep an eye on the this GPU.

Also, I examined the contents of the mSata and found a copy on Polaris BIOS editor too... hmmm.... why leave it there if not used for something.

Ouch,  Looks like maybe the first case where someone has to find out if the warranty is good or not.  Dead GPU already... That sucks!  What is the process with PM to get support?

sgminer-gm on Windows doesn't display temps and I don't think temps and fan controls are working with Panda's GPU rom mod and choice of Crimson drivers at least for XMR mining. For Claymore ETH and ZEC mining - refer to Phil's review. Also... 1 dead CPU after 10 hours ;-(



Running Claymore XMR v9.7.... shortly after taking this pix.....5mins later stuck and opencl hang....



CONCLUSION:

With this many GPUs and trying to get it to work in Windows using W10 Enterprise with a modded rom by Panda.... looks like several shortfalls namely temperature bugs and to some extent stability ... at least for XMR mining with Claymore. Other miners like Wolf or sgminer maybe different results. Eth and ZEC mining seems stable with Claymore -- see Phil's review.

In summary, Pandaminers ideally needs to be on Linux. Follow the other threads by Philip and Eliovp on this matter.

I thought I did in this thread.

it does no show all info like a regular gpuz

Oh yes, when i was saying appliances i was of course counting also ASIC miners and such (but also, switchs, firewalls, and so on), you are 100% right, they're very good indeed  

 You forgot miners.

 Most if not all Antminers use Delta fan(s) (S5 S7 and S9 in all varients, not 100% sure on the older stuff).
 Innosilicon seems to love them too - one of the "solid" factors on the A2.
 Seen pics of them on other miners.

Spoondoolies seemed to prefer YS Tech - good fans in some cases, but the sleeve-bearing bottom-end stuff is junk.

can one of you guys take a screenshot of gpu-z of the GPU (the gpu info panel)...or if your running linux on it type lspci -vvv and pastebin the output.

Or see https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17404175 

for those who PMed, let me clarify.

The NVIDIA card I tested is on my only non-AMD test rig; MSI-980Ti, giving me about 350 sols using EWBF CUDA miner.

Let me clarify that I did not test on 1080s or 1070s -- see link below who those who have tested them.

Nvidia 1080 and 1070 apparently are very suitable for ZEC mining algorithm and can achieve very high sols compared to AMD, suggesting ETH and XMR algorithm are very suited for AMD cards.

See https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17399333

1. ran latest Claymore Cryptonite GPU miner v9.7 (Total hash 5850 H/s).... crashed after 10 minutes. Watchdog triggered, reporting 2 x GPU had openCL errors... restarted miner... and gets stuck. I can still close the DOS window and move on.

2. ran sgminer-gm v5.5.4 (Avg total hash 6360 H/s) .... running solid over an hour now... BUT... there is no temperature readings (unlike Eliovp's sgminer-gm on Linux). Incidentally, I didnt see temparature details in Claymore XMR v9.7 too! Is there a temp bug in current Crimson drivers?

3. have not ran Claymore ZEC and ETH miners yet - Phil have done these test already.

Will report more later....

Exciting! Two reviews will be super

I told you it is really small.

I am asking for that linux build. I need a better os

the windows 10 os is brutal.  I still have a mix of Chinese French? English.

but maybe 85% english.

As for the gear.

I can source :

fans
ram
gpus I think
mobile gpu = really hard but maybe

only the motherboard would be impossible to source.

DHL just delivered the Pandaminer this morning.

My first comment.....

Huh.... its smaller than I thought it would be.

8 x 480s in this small footprint!

its like the length of 2 shoe boxes.

Today is going to be a busy day.

Phil... I may need help if I brick this OS.

I would love to get a bare board with a better CPU. Like an i5 5200u

Interesting. So 8 GPUs, 9 10W fans, and the mobo/CPU/SSD/RAM are powered from 7 6PIN PCI-E ports. Wonder how the power is distributed internally...

That info is missing here

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2869/geforce-gtx-1070-mobile

I read somewhere that NVidia mobile GPU is wider

I have recently tested a CUDA ZEC miner ... EWBF clocking more than 500 sols/s on a GTX1070

I wonder if the Pandaminer PCI slot is also same format for a Mobile 1070 or 1080?