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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 17, 2014, 02:59:38 am »
Quote from: Ykw on February 17, 2014, 01:45:31 am
I have previously reported some windows updates changed some of the performance of the 0.1.4 version... but I got mistaken by the fact that I am using the second GPU for my monitor... and the AMD driver has a "flaw" (in my opinion...) that when the first card to be detected over the PCIe has no Display adapter connected to the RAMDAC... it does not "turn on the full potential of the GPU"...

I mean if you walk away from a computer and the monitor turns off, why keep things running and wasting energy, it is a brilliant energy saving feature 99% of people benefit from, except miners... you need a dummy plug that will trick it into thinking there is an actual monitor plugged in... I'm assuming your 270 card probably came with a DVI to VGA adapter of some sort, most seem to, you can use the website below and some simple resistors from an electronics store.

http://rumorscity.com/2013/12/06/how-to-create-dummy-plugs-for-your-graphics-cards/

some people who use certain powered risers, won't need this as the pcboard they connector to their cards will have this built in as a feature...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 15, 2014, 06:15:47 pm »
Quote from: Alec246 on February 15, 2014, 05:49:11 pm
1094 with success. I think it can go a step lower still, but I'm testing this way, and it's made some good different in C and Watts. But 60C isn't hot man, here I'm running it at 70C!

Yes 60C is not "hot" I guess, but 50C is better ;)

once you add in energy savings too that is the bonus, once you pay for hardware, only cost is energy... reduce cost increase return... thank you for your information, now I just have to figure out the safe way to change BIOS as it seems these cards are locked and using a windows program does not work...


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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 15, 2014, 04:44:46 pm »
Quote from: Alec246 on February 15, 2014, 02:44:05 pm
My Gigabyte is already factory OCed to 1100/1500. And I'm undervolting it.

Could you tell me how would I set my .bat for one GPU mining? Well, actually I have a 780Ti but I'm not using it for mining, only the R9 280x.

Thank you very much!!

Also, using AMD SDK 2.9 and Catalyst 13.11 on Win8 64

Edit: With -t 0,0 I'm getting only 800 CPM :/

What are you undervolting the card to with success? I seem to have the same gigabyte card (1100/1500 factory set overclock) at 3500cpm on two threads but goodness that sure do give a lot of heat... still stays at 60 degrees with the three fans spinning hard... but if I undervolting works well for you I'd like to try the same setting...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 15, 2014, 12:35:27 am »
Quote from: NaN on February 15, 2014, 12:23:14 am
beeeeer.org and ypool.net have different share difficulties, so everything is ok. At the moment the beeeeer client shows a share target of 0x00fff..., which translates to <shares per minute> ~ <cpm> / 256 and for ypool we currently have <shares/h> ~< cpm> / 512 * 60 ignoring statistical uncertainties. Please note that the share difficulty can be changed any time by the pool operator.

Well that makes the math much easier... so essentially the shares/minute/hour seems to average out to equal CPM based upon the difficulty of 256/512... so we really should only be judging by the CPM as a comparison when we're trading numbers with folks?

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 14, 2014, 11:59:21 pm »
Quote from: mbender71 on February 14, 2014, 01:49:02 pm
So now the rig is as follows:

5 x MSI R9 290 running Ubuntu 13.04 & clpts v0.2.2.
Currently mining on Ypool at the moment and getting :

collisions/min : 18908
shares/hr : 2192

The total rig is pulling 1300w.


Hey I was just thinking about this... 2191 is your shares per HOUR right? which comes out to roughly 36 a MINUTE? this seems awfully low to me if I am reading it right... I was tinkering around with 6 x R9 270 cards and was getting 8600 cpm and 33 shares per minute... and thats after it was running overnight for a good 12 hours so it wasn't a quick burst...

I'm wondering if there some difference in whats displayed in windows 64bit 0.1.4 at beeeeer and the version you are running on ubuntu over at ypool? I mean am I accurate, or are you accurate? if we're both accurate, something can't be right lol.

[STATS] 2014-Feb-14 17:54:47 | 8593.08 c/m | 33.35 sh/m | VL: 603 (97.89%), RJ: 13 (2.11%), ST: 0 (0.00%)

am I translating the sh/m correctly into sh/h ? 33.35 x 60 minutes = 2001 shares/hr for me?

which would mean at half the cpm I am almost equal to your shares?

Sometimes I wish english was my first language, I always feel like I am wrong.

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(answer found: turns out ypool and beeeeer have different difficulty settings, so shares won't always match)

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 13, 2014, 11:38:11 pm »
Quote from: mbender71 on February 13, 2014, 11:20:59 pm
From my post a day or so ago :

I think I finally have my 4 x MSI R9 290 rig setup under Ubuntu running clpts v0.2.2
with all the tweaks for now. Currently mining on Ypool at the moment and getting :

collisions/min : 15130
shares/hr : 1730

The total rig is pulling 1100w with a 20" box fan running on low to keep air circulating.


Quote from: wsnnwa on February 13, 2014, 10:23:39 pm
What is your cpm with 4 R9 290?

it pains me that I can't get the 64bit version of ubuntu installed on my intel board... I want to try ubuntu and clpts but it looks like the only linux version is 64bit so the 32bit ubuntu I have now will do me no good! jealousy!

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 13, 2014, 04:32:07 pm »
Quote from: sfinder on February 13, 2014, 05:22:33 am
running 6 gpu on one motherboard is very easy to burn your ATX connector on mother board since each pcie slot will draw 75w from motherboard. if you want to put more than 4 cards on same motherboard ,you need to use powered riser for pcie

I am using powered risers... they are the USB style with the nice molex on the little board that comes with it... you can also get a PSU like the AXi series from corsair and monitor what each power cord does for each GPU or other connection... its neat... you'll soon see you draw a lot less from PCIe slots than you think on average, most of the power goes through that little cord plugged into the GPU... some GPU's from sapphire now come with two 8pin plugs so almost all power goes through the PSU direct...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 13, 2014, 04:49:31 am »
So tinkering around with clpts... I was wondering... can you run six gpu's on windows, since everyone says its almost impossible without heavy modifications to windows and/or the drivers...

since I see a lot of fuss over people being able to run five with difficulty, and so many have to use some weird trick or tip to get six to work... so I ran to a friends, borrowed two video cards, and now I have an answer!

yes you can run six gpu's on windows 8.1 64bit...

I didn't need to do anything fancy for windows... hooked up to the risers and turned it on... came up right away...

Now I should mention, it was more challenging to get the BIOS to recognize all six cards, than windows... I had to disable several things in the BIOS, change all the pcie 16x slots to pcie 1x... and of course disable the onboard graphics (which I actually had been using since it was nice to mine full bore on the cards and use the onboard for daily work with no flickering).

my friend just called and asked when I'll have the cards back, I wish this was like borrowing a garden hose and he'd forget... he doesn't want to go all night without full mining, the sickness we all share!

I think the reason this was so easy, they were all the same GPU chipset, the pitcairn, a mix of 270 and 270X cards... I now wish I had a 7th one to test and see if I could get all seven to work together at once... I think this is the reason I love coin mining, its just one big hobby to tinker around with things and see what you can do.

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 11, 2014, 04:26:43 pm »
Does anyone have a link to a good ubuntu install with directions for a bootable usb flash drive, so I may try booting my system under ubuntu to try the other version out... so far I have failed and found malware or installs that did not seem to jive with the directions they put out there... I mean there has to be a simple image out there that'll fit on a 16GB flash drive just waiting to be written...

(I should say a current ubuntu install, I've found many old ones but I'm trying to find ones that will work out of the bat for a complete linux novice with R9 drivers)

Heh, thank you to the person who PM'd me quickly with the link below... you can download the pen drive program, as well as the 13.10 iso quickly... I guess they were right, I really did over think it by searching out specific things instead of just going to ubuntu directly.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 11, 2014, 04:23:10 pm »
Quote from: mbender71 on February 11, 2014, 11:43:28 am
Still playing with running 2 threads under Win8.1x64 w/R9 290's.
While I have noticed that -a 1 provides the best results on my gpu's,
so far running -t 0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3 hasn't shown much more c/m's BUT
it has shown a huge increase in CPU usage. Using a single thread per
GPU my CPU would sit around 2% utilization, however when running
two threads per GPU my CPU is now at 63% utilization. I suspect that
clpts is having internal conflicts when running 2 threads under Win8.1x64.
Just reporting findings to help the community out. MANY thanks NaN for
the awesome software (again)!

I had the same CPU leap under windows 8.1 64bit as well... I just thought it was my crummy 270X cards, but now that you mention its a problem for the 290X there might be something to this... normally I am under 1% cpu usage for clpts, but when I launch a second copy on the same cards, I leap to 40% cpu usage split between the two instances...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 11, 2014, 04:37:39 am »
Quote from: NaN on February 11, 2014, 04:33:09 am
Quote from: Darkbane on February 11, 2014, 04:25:03 am
little off topic... just wanted to say I sold my first PTS today... I feel kinda giddy... tee-hee...

was quite a bit of a waiting process though, transactions sure weren't fast at the exchange, I got to 50 confirmations before they even recognized it almost 3 hours later, and thats with a transactions fee... usually it takes me under 10min when I send PTS to an individual and they confirm it... is this the typical exchange experience? (cryptsy - I've been reading horror stories)
bter.com worked well until a few days ago when they disabled PTS deposit without any notice. No idea whether I can access my coins in the near future... Now I'm using cryptsy and your donation arrived but I checked this the first time a few hours after your donation. One of my friends is using cryptsy since two month without issues. Anyhow you should be careful with any exchange and the fuckup at mt. gox is a good example. Don't risk too much.

yeah I'm terrified to send a large amount and do a big cash out... thats why I did a 1 coin test... but I always fear when I do the real move thats when it won't work after all I have read... if only there was a return policy with transferring coins... I'm not sure what is the bigger risk... buying mining equipment, or transferring to an exchange...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 11, 2014, 04:25:03 am »
little off topic... just wanted to say I sold my first PTS today... I feel kinda giddy... tee-hee...

was quite a bit of a waiting process though, transactions sure weren't fast at the exchange, I got to 50 confirmations before they even recognized it almost 3 hours later, and thats with a transactions fee... usually it takes me under 10min when I send PTS to an individual and they confirm it... is this the typical exchange experience? (cryptsy - I've been reading horror stories)

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 10, 2014, 09:06:26 am »
Quote from: crazycoin on February 10, 2014, 05:48:02 am
Quote from: crazycoin on February 09, 2014, 06:32:14 pm
Quote from: NaN on February 08, 2014, 07:43:35 pm
Quote from: crazycoin on February 08, 2014, 07:31:54 pm
I am getting 6830 col/m on 5x Sapphire 7950 with stock settings. That is ~1370 col/m. I have Celeron with 4Gb Ram.

Does anybody knows, how to tweak performance to get closer to 1800 col/m as some users are reporting.

I am using Ubuntu 13.1 with the latest drivers and miner v0.1.3.
Please use v0.1.2 until the next version is released. This should be fastest on your GPU. I'm working on an update with huge performance gains.

v. 0.1.2 with some tweaks I managed to squeeze out 7250 col /m
v. 0.1.4 I am  getting 9300col/m whoa

Slightly decreasing memory clock and increasing engine clock, using  algorithm 1, I managed to increase speed to 10500. Whooha!

well thats interesting, decreasing memory mhz actually was a benefit? what were your stock settings and what did you adjust to? wondering if there is a magical percentage point between the two like when mining some other coins... usually I end up cranking the memory to max and adjusting engine after that...

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 10, 2014, 02:28:03 am »
To those using the new versions (where we just got a 25% or better boost for most it seems)... the miner was already leaps ahead of others, and this rockets it even further... I think it would be a nice gesture to donate an entire day or large portion to him for his efforts...

I suggest we have a mine for NaN day...

please message him for the best address to donate to if you do, as I just did 1.516 to him, he should update the readme and miner screen, just a friendly reminder here for him to update those heh ;)

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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 10, 2014, 02:19:14 am »
Quote from: NaN on February 10, 2014, 02:08:25 am
Quote from: funtik on February 10, 2014, 01:57:54 am
if I have 6x video card do I type  -t 0 or -t 6 in the command line?
You have to type -t 0,1,2,3,4,5. Perhaps I shall introduce something like -t 0-5 in the next release...

the readme file seems pretty straight forward, maybe see how well people of other languages interpret the examples clearly or not, I know sometimes things translate weird to me but are basic to those who speak it... but showing the whole command line seems to give enough to guess at to make things work. I always appreciate less options (when it comes to two ways to do the same one thing), means less things I must try to get it right.


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