The settings I use on other scrypt coins give me massive HWs too. What I ended up with was 8192 thread concurrency, I 13, and 2 gpu threads. That is working pretty darn well with no HW.
its all about finding that sweetspot
Topic: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer - page 448. (Read 1232701 times)
February 09, 2014, 04:59:29 PM
its all about finding that sweetspot
February 09, 2014, 04:50:07 PM
Im mining almost 2 weeks 24/7 no problem with 290 cards. One week I was pushing -I 20 even. Could be a current surge due to a bad psu / bad house wiring.
Well that's just it. The OP suggest halving your settings. So with -I 17 to I 20 you would be okay, would not be going with -I 11 and halving your thread concurrency.
February 09, 2014, 04:48:52 PM
The settings I use on other scrypt coins give me massive HWs too. What I ended up with was 8192 thread concurrency, I 13, and 2 gpu threads. That is working pretty darn well with no HW.
February 09, 2014, 04:48:08 PM
Im mining almost 2 weeks 24/7 no problem with 290 cards. One week I was pushing -I 20 even. Could be a current surge due to a bad psu / bad house wiring.
Yeah, I agree with this. I'm mining since the start with 6 GPUs, now with 12. No issues.
February 09, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Yeah, I got massive Hardware Errors with the settings on page 1. In the end, my usual settings seemed to work fine for half the usual hashes. The only change was a very slight increase in thread concurrency. If I had set my rig to the OP's suggestion and left the house for the day I would have probable fucked up my cards for sure.
February 09, 2014, 04:46:26 PM
Im mining almost 2 weeks 24/7 no problem with 290 cards. One week I was pushing -I 20 even. Could be a current surge due to a bad psu / bad house wiring.
February 09, 2014, 04:43:34 PM
I'm pretty sure mining for Vertcoin just ruined my TRI-X 290X.
What happened? Im just about to buy those.
Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
Sounds like it might have heated to the point of warping components or messing up the thermal grease.
NOT a good sign - someone's gotta fix the miner.
February 09, 2014, 04:39:14 PM
Compiled version of the VertCoin cpuminer for Mac OS X users here:
http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/blog/index.php?post/2014/02/09/How-to-mine-VertCoin-VTC-on-Mac-OS-X
http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/blog/index.php?post/2014/02/09/How-to-mine-VertCoin-VTC-on-Mac-OS-X
February 09, 2014, 04:37:43 PM
Specifically, these settings: vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --thread-concurrency 8193
Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.
Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.
Do you normally mine other coins with 1000/1500 clock speeds? I'd suggest lowering them back down to factory defaults and seeing if that clears your game up.
Edit: I'm not sure which card you own but the standard tri-x cards ship with 1000/1250 and the Sapphire OC ships with 1040/1300. Make sure your memory is back down to 1250 if the cgminer crash has left it at 1500.
Yes sir, I mine at 1088/1500 for other coins. When I tried testing a game, I brought it down to the factory 1040/1300.
Anyhow, I'll poke around a bit, I don't see anyone else having this problem so it's probably related to something else I'm sure...Just ironic that the issue happened as soon as I started mining VTC.
No harm though, I can always RMA! 
February 09, 2014, 04:34:56 PM
I'm pretty sure mining for Vertcoin just ruined my TRI-X 290X.
What happened? Im just about to buy those.
Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
6 gpus's mining for a week. Hopefully none gave me issues.
February 09, 2014, 04:34:43 PM
We are getting a LOT off attention on twitter guys, Please join myself and moonbat on spreading the word. There's a lot of people starting to notice this coin and what it offers.
Yep. @Vertcoin (our founders' Twitter handle) has gone from a handful of followers to 30,000 + over the last week. Awesome! @maxvolts and myself @Moonbat4 are tweeting and retweeting regularly. We're using the #Vertcoin and #BetterThanBitcoin hashtags. For those of you who aren't using twitter et, hashtags groups conversations together into topics and increase the visibility of the subject of tweets.
Sorry for teaching twitter grannies out there how to suck eggs!
February 09, 2014, 04:31:05 PM
Specifically, these settings: vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --thread-concurrency 8193
Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.
Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.
Do you normally mine other coins with 1000/1500 clock speeds? I'd suggest lowering them back down to factory defaults and seeing if that clears your game up.
Edit: I'm not sure which card you own but the standard tri-x cards ship with 1000/1250 and the Sapphire OC ships with 1040/1300. Make sure your memory is back down to 1250 if the cgminer crash has left it at 1500.
February 09, 2014, 04:29:49 PM
Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
It sounds like you used settings that overclocked your video card too high. Use Saphinre Trixx or some similar program to make sure your clock rates are normal. cgminer doesn't reset the block back down when it exits (except maybe in latest version), and that won't happen if cgminer crashed. If you are too over clocked then you'll keep having problems in video games, mining other things, etc until you move your speeds back down.
I didn't see any cgminer settings on page one so I don't know if they included overclocking or not.
Sorry about that, my mistake- I meant the first page on another thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vertcoin-settingsconfigs-how-to-mine-vertcoin-450310
Specifically, these settings: vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --thread-concurrency 8193
Not sure what happened, those settings are pretty conservative for the tri-x cards.
February 09, 2014, 04:29:19 PM
Heading up to 0.006 @ coinedup
February 09, 2014, 04:26:50 PM
We are getting a LOT off attention on twitter guys, Please join myself and moonbat on spreading the word. There's a lot of people starting to notice this coin and what it offers.
February 09, 2014, 04:26:44 PM
Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
It sounds like you used settings that overclocked your video card too high. Use Saphinre Trixx or some similar program to make sure your clock rates are normal. cgminer doesn't reset the block back down when it exits (except maybe in latest version), and that won't happen if cgminer crashed. If you are too over clocked then you'll keep having problems in video games, mining other things, etc until you move your speeds back down.
I didn't see any cgminer settings on page one so I don't know if they included overclocking or not.
Edit: If you mean the settings in the first post of
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-big-vtc-vertcoin-settings-thread-416572
then yeah, the clock speeds he sets there are perhaps be too high for your video card. Make sure you aren't still at those speeds.
February 09, 2014, 04:24:13 PM
Hi
Just wondering if there's a rough estimate of VTC/Mh out there? Else, could anyone enlighten me as to the best profitability formula to use for VTC, I can't seem to find any anywhere
Just wondering if there's a rough estimate of VTC/Mh out there? Else, could anyone enlighten me as to the best profitability formula to use for VTC, I can't seem to find any anywhere
February 09, 2014, 04:23:12 PM
I'm pretty sure mining for Vertcoin just ruined my TRI-X 290X.
What happened? Im just about to buy those.
Decided to try and mine Vertcoin, within 3 minutes of using the settings on page 1 my rig crashed. Now it locks up and crashes indefinitely when trying to mine any altcoin. I had zero problems using cgminer to mine other coins for three weeks straight.
Also, just tried to play a game (BF3) to test it, and the whole rig crashes immediately.
February 09, 2014, 04:19:30 PM
I'm pretty sure mining for Vertcoin just ruined my TRI-X 290X.
What happened? Im just about to buy those.
February 09, 2014, 04:19:08 PM
Pump pump pump from https://twitter.com/CryptoPumpArmy. Can't believe the energy from Vertcoin tonight!
gtfo with your stupid pumpshit
It's not "my" stupid pumpshit.
Jump to: