cloudrck Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Haven't looked into GoCoin at all yet, awesome that they work with both btc and ltc. What kind of hash rate are you suppose to get with the 290? Yeah, Litecoin seems pretty legit. I should be getting 830Kh/s and up with the R9 290 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Yeah, Litecoin seems pretty legit. I should be getting 830Kh/s and up with the R9 290 That's not bad at all. I always look at the time to recover the hardware cost.. a few months, ok.. but I've seen a lot of the Bitcoin mining hardware priced at 6 months or more. By then, it's pretty much obsolete. Too many people buying without thinking things through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 That's not bad at all. I always look at the time to recover the hardware cost.. a few months, ok.. but I've seen a lot of the Bitcoin mining hardware priced at 6 months or more. By then, it's pretty much obsolete. Too many people buying without thinking things through. I'm still working on how the market works, thinking about using http://www.middlecoin.com/ for max profitability. I should be getting the card soon (prices went up again, go figure) and I got a new 1000W PSU) The only other issue I have to worry about is electricity use, at the moment this is what my usage amounts to for my entire household. I will see how this fairs when my new equipment gets here. Ken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 I decided to just build a rig, one of my GPU's came in. With another one on backorder. AMD Sempron 145 Asrock 970Extreme4 2GB RAM Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 1000W Roswill PSU I got Xubuntu running with the latest stable 13.12 AMD drivers on a USB stick. I switched to sgminer as cgminer doesn't support scrypt any more and I'd rather have my software updated. I get 870Kh/s with export DISPLAY=:0 export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 -I 20 -g 1 -w 512 --thread-concurrency 24000 I also had to set my engine clock speed to 1000, and my memory clock speed to 1499. That gave me a 100Kh/s increase from stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Wow, that sounds like you've got that dialed in pretty well. 870Kh/s is fantastic. I haven't heard of sgminer before, how do you like it? The older version of cgminer I've been running (3.7.2) seems to be pretty stable, rarely crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Wow, that sounds like you've got that dialed in pretty well. 870Kh/s is fantastic. I haven't heard of sgminer before, how do you like it? The older version of cgminer I've been running (3.7.2) seems to be pretty stable, rarely crashes. I had issues with cgminer 3.7.2 crashing when I modified the clock speed. Sgminer is a fork of cgminer, exclusively for scrypt GPU mining. sgminer is more stable for my setup. Now I need to go to the hardware store so I can build an open case for this thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 I'm thinking about switching to https://www.multipool.us so I can mine various coins (Dogecoin is on the rise, especially after the the mainstream press coverage it received after helping send a bobsled team to the Olympics.) I've been looking at the different exchanges, and watching the market caps. Curious Paul, how much is electricity where you guys are at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 Your rig is looking good! I need to ask my wife re: electricity costs. I know we pay somewhere between $50-$80/mo on average at home, but I'm not sure how that breaks down to KW/h. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 With some tweaking, look at me now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 You're cranking along pretty nice for 1 GPU. Our rates are $0.13 tier 1, $0.18 tier 2, $0.27 tier 3, and $0.30 tier 4 per kwh, through Southern California Edison. We're in Tier 3, which blows my mind since we hardly use anything. Expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted February 21, 2014 Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Great dialogue. This is going to be a good reference point in the future I think if and when I get time. Thanks for sharing! $0.30 tier... pretty much the tier you're in when you get home and start the washer and dry, turn on the AC, microwave some pizza, turn on the TV, and login to Blesta Forums. SoCal loves their Edison! For everyone else there's DWP if you're the lucky few. Cloudrck you're under 5 cents per kWh? Where at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted February 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2014 Great dialogue. This is going to be a good reference point in the future I think if and when I get time. Thanks for sharing! $0.30 tier... pretty much the tier you're in when you get home and start the washer and dry, turn on the AC, microwave some pizza, turn on the TV, and login to Blesta Forums. SoCal loves their Edison! For everyone else there's DWP if you're the lucky few. Cloudrck you're under 5 cents per kWh? Where at? Chicago, everything else is insanely expensive, but at least I get cheap electricity. I use a profit switching pool and I make enough money for breakfast and lunch everyday at the moment. But I'm going to hold on to some coins I think will be valuable in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudrck Posted March 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 My 3GPU setup is complete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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