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Sorry if I'm asking silly question but I'd like to further clarification on the Feb 28th snapshot :

1) At what time exactly will the snapshot be taken on Feb 28th (please specify GMT or EST)?
2) Why is it recommended that PTS movement, in regards to your wallet, be halted until March 2nd?
3) Are the extra 2 days (Feb 28th - Mar 2nd) going to be used for final block confirmations from all
    those transfers that will occur *right* before the Feb 28th snapshot?

Just a smaller miner here that wants to maximize his holdings when the  BitShares XT transfer happens!

Thanks in advance for the clarification and finite details  :D

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 26, 2014, 04:32:46 pm »
I finally got it all working and overclocked. I'm getting 4150cpm with these settings on stock volts. This set of script will overclock your 290/or 290x.

The first line is the core clock, memory clock, powerlevel, and powertune I believe. The max was 2 on the last number. I tried that but a 1 worked better for me so I stuck with that. If I'm doing something that will blow up my card, someone let me know. Temps are under 50c on core all the time and the VRM sinks are barely warm to the touch. When I was on Windows my VRM's were under 50c on VRM1 and under 40 on VRM2, so I should be good.

Here's my OC config if someone wants to try it on theirs:

aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-setclocks=1110,1415,150,1



aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-commitclocks
aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-gettemperature
aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-getclocks

this is for Linux of course.

when i copy paste this: aticonfig --adapter=1 --od-setclocks=1110,1415,150,1   and i am getting:
ERROR - Set clocks failed for Adapter 1 - AMD Radeon R9 290 Series
        Please check that input values were valid

this command is only working for primary adapter I think, because I'm getting the same error for second card. Can anyone give a trick for it?

Hate to break the news to you folks but the aticonfig/amdconfig does NOT work for more than one
adapter. Sure there is the --adapter=x or --adapter=all but it only ever works for the default card.
Must be a bug in the software and perhaps next ATI Catalyst will fix it.

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 25, 2014, 08:53:34 pm »

i am currently getting around 3.9k cpm with 1100/1500 and 4k cpm with 1100/1700cpm with stock voltages fans %45 , cards never passes 73c  @linux. 2 cards +whole rig uses 570-580w from the wall.Is that good?


I'm seriously impressed that you can get GPU memory clocks that high, specially with stock voltages. I'm also seriously impressed that you can run the GPU clock at 1100 and keep the card so cool at such a low fan speed, and all of that at 250W per card. Is this really a R9 290?

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 25, 2014, 07:56:49 pm »

can anybody tell me:Whats the best safe memory gpu and core speed for r290?


There is no clear-cut answer to that as it all depends on your GPU(s). Literarlly,
even between same make/brand/model the ASICs can very. Also, make sure you
have the powersupply(s) to handle the increase as jumping up clocks a little makes
BIG differences in power draw... which is why it's smart to under-volt but then again
if you're under linux (like myself) then the capability doesn't quite exist..

Having said that, my MSI R9 290 Gaming GPUs are over clocked to 1050Mhz/1350Mhz
with PowerTune @ 20% and I keep the fans on constant 85%. The rig run stable though
gets a little toasty with temp ranges from 74C to 81C. It would have been worse had I not
taken off the factory thermal grease and replaced with mucho better grease. Any clocks past
that I found to be unstable given my make/brand/model of GPU.

LAST IMPORTANT NOTE : I run clpts at those clocks. If you try those clocks with cgminer for
other scrypt mining, you better have 350W+ for each card. NaN's clpts is very efficient and
doesn't run as hot as cgminer's less efficient algo. Good luck!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 20, 2014, 08:49:41 pm »
four, install amd app sdk 2.9
for what it's worth, it looks like sdk shipped with 13.12 is more recent than 2.9 (see dll versions). does it work better with older dlls?

There is no reason to install the SDK with 13.12. The OpenCL libraries are included. Only install if you want to compile, and even then
be VERY careful as I did try to install the SDK and compile but the SDK version didn't match well with the 13.12 drivers.

:-)

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BitShares PTS / Re: [ANN] ypool.net - Fast PTS pool
« on: February 20, 2014, 10:49:34 am »
Ypool.net is down..... Beeeeer pool hasn't found a block in 6 hours.... and BTC average price has taken a huge hit in the past 3 hours... this doesn't smell good...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 18, 2014, 09:19:47 pm »
It works, just use the following.

export DISPLAY=:0
aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"

export DISPLAY=:0.1
aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"

"export DISPLAY=:0.X" --> Change X to whatever GPU you want to change the fan speed on.

Woah! I was always using the --adapter=x parameter with aticonfig and couldn't ever get it to
display/set values of anything but the default display. Knowing this will really help! Many thanks
for the education!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 18, 2014, 08:45:51 pm »
how to set the fan speed to 100%? with multiple GPU Fan speed? @ubuntu 12.04

Hint : cgminer..... aticonfig does NOT work under linux with more than one GPU

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 09:50:10 pm »
THEORETICAL QUESTION

Which would be more efficient, or would it even matter at all :

1) Ypool : run clpts-v0.2.2 with all of your GPUs at once in one window (two threads each GPU)
    (i.e. one instance of clpts-v0.2.2)

or

2) Ypool : run clpts-v0.2.2 for EACH GPU in a separate window (two threads each GPU)
    (i.e. "n" instances of clpts-v0.2.2)

In the first scenario you have ONE worker on Ypool and on the second you have "n" number of workers.
I guess the question is really geared towards NaN who knows the in's out's of how the AMD drivers thread
and also about how Ypool (or any pool for that matter) distributes blocks to solve. Thanks in advance!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 04:14:21 pm »
I'm having a bear of a time getting my drivers installed for AMD. I have a 290. Been researching on the web for two days now. I know I'm a complete Ubuntu noob, so I"m sure that is the only problem. I like this operating system a lot. Just can't get the drivers and patches to work correctly. And thus can't get the miner to work either. Can someone help me?

One last thing... if you read my posts in this thread you can learn a lot about what versions/combinations
work properly as I went through some headaches myself and I'm a seasoned linux guy. As always, do searches
and READ before asking such general questions.... the answers might be right in front of you and you won't have
to wait for us :-) :-)

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 04:07:16 pm »
I'm having a bear of a time getting my drivers installed for AMD. I have a 290. Been researching on the web for two days now. I know I'm a complete Ubuntu noob, so I"m sure that is the only problem. I like this operating system a lot. Just can't get the drivers and patches to work correctly. And thus can't get the miner to work either. Can someone help me?

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but like I said before in my reply to you, this is NOT an easy operating system to just
pick up (from from Windows). You'll have to do lots of research to do this right and my advice that you look on YouTube for
a video to setup a Linux Miner + LiteCoin was the best... really!! Not a lot of hand holding on this forum I'm afraid. If you want
linux that bad you're gonna have to work for it like the rest of us.... or just stick to windows :-) Good luck!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 02:36:28 pm »
I need some help setting up my miner. I have my 290 on the Ubuntu machine. Can someone help me set it up? I don't know the commands to get it running in as I am very new to Ubuntu. Still learning the process and terminal. Can someone help me?

Change directory to the folder containing the miner files.

chmod u+x ./clpts

For Be^5r -> ./clpts <address> -t 0,0

For YPool -> ./clpts -u <username>.<worker> -p <workerpassword>

I apologize if this was all the information you needed. Starting up the miner is the easy part. I was assuming that you
just installed Ubuntu and you haven't installed the AMD catalyst drivers and assured that xorg.conf was setup correctly
(which is kind of the pain in the neck part). If you have 'aticonfig --list-adapters' working and reporting all your GPU's
then you're pretty much good to go!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 02:17:43 pm »
I need some help setting up my miner. I have my 290 on the Ubuntu machine. Can someone help me set it up? I don't know the commands to get it running in as I am very new to Ubuntu. Still learning the process and terminal. Can someone help me?

Not an easy task if you're not familiar with linux, but not impossible. I would suggest YouTube videos on someone setting up Ubuntu mining rigs with AMD cards.. if I recall there is one guy that does a pretty good job though he's geared towards LiteCoin... just do the steps UP to the install of cgminer. Going the Linux route is not the non-techie type. Stick to windows if you want quick & fast install. Good luck!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 03:20:23 am »
I found this guide on editing your bios to undervolt AMD GPU's on linux. Someone should give it a try and share your results, of course know that this is at your own risk. I am extremely busy with my work and school schedule so I most likely won't get to it this week.

http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/10/undervolting-in-linux-via-modified-bios/

This is a great article and find but unfortunately it doesn't apply to those with R9 290(x). Perhaps someone will come up with a solution
for those of us with linux + r9 290(x) in the near future. I do know someone that used this mod and it worked great!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 15, 2014, 02:35:36 pm »
Beeeeer Vs YPool

A little off topic but not so much when NaN's incredible miner only works on these two pools.
I used to mine @ Be^5r a week ago but it seems like they are either offline higher than usual
and now the time between solved blocks is increasing (perhaps due to less miners and technical
difficulties like DDoS). YPool has been pretty darn steady the past three days until yesterday when
clpts says it disconnected, will wait 45 seconds, and then just exit out to the command line.

NaN : How do you handle disconnects from the server? Do you only try one time after 45 seconds
         and then just exit out? Last night it happened twice to me and fortunately insomnia had me
         restart clpts by hand. Perhaps I should script it to keep trying. I seem to recall someone else
         asking about fail-over as well and I suspect this is due to the issues these two pools are having
         lately.

Everyone : Which pool do you prefer using, YPool or Be^5r? YPool works so well but I dislike pools
                 that are too large in fear of block control.
Did you use last version ?? i'm run on win8 it normal not onetime reconnect and out

Yes... I'm using v.0.2.2 and it's been working wonderful until last night. Right now I'm giving be^5r
a shot but goodness, they are sometimes like 3 hours between block solves! Still waiting. Who knows,
perhaps my ISP was just having problems last night and it was me.. but still I was surprised that clpts
would just exit out (cleanly).

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