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      Pollywaffle last edited by

      Hey everyone, I thought I’d introduce myself as I’m new here.
      I’ve been mining on and off for a couple of months with my main gaming PC. I was getting some high temps and so I figured I’d piece together a bit of a Frankenstein PC with a spare 7950 I had. As a result, I ended up with what I call The Bismarck.

      Nothing amazing…
      Intel Celeron G1610
      Asrock Z77 Pro-4M
      2gig Kingston Ram
      40gig 2.5" Hdd (arguably the slowest HDD in existence)
      Silverstone Strider-Plus 750W
      Sapphire 7950

      I started this as a bit of a hobby and I don’t really plan on adding more hardware than there is now.

      Currently hashing at 550kh/s using GUI Miner-Scrypt. I haven’t figured out the proper settings though. I’d like to be getting 600kh/s.

      [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/russel_coight/media/IMG_3338_zps0b546fd2.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/russel_coight/IMG_3338_zps0b546fd2.jpg[/img][/URL]
      [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/russel_coight/media/IMG_3342_zps2d96c703.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/russel_coight/IMG_3342_zps2d96c703.jpg[/img][/URL]

      Every now and then I’ll get connection errors with GUI Miner when I change between low usage and high usage. It works when it’s at ‘low usage’, but when I change it to ‘high usage’, I get “connection problem” error.

      Cheers!

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        RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

        [quote name=“d2” post=“24187” timestamp=“1375460182”]
        Welcome to the community and thanks for sharing your build!

        I would recommend just downloading cgminer and running that by itself so you can get an idea of what is causing your problems.
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        This is solid advice to follow, I would also look around under the mining section for 7950 settings. I couldnt get above 600 for the first few days. I looked around and tried a few settings and BAM 640 KH/s

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          Pollywaffle last edited by

          Cheers fellas :)

          I’d tried cgminer in the past but couldn’t get it to work for the life of me. I’ll give it another go as I’d really like to be hitting over 600kh/s.
          Also, I’ll be raising the mobo (somehow) to get better airflow underneath. The cardboard base is temporary :P

          Also, I’m currently in the fcpool.com feathercoin pool, is this one ok? Are there any better ones out there?

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            Bobweiser last edited by

            Pollywaffle PM me for contact details, i will help you! We have multiple open air rigs. Can help you with your cgminer configs under windows or linux.

            Cheers

            bob

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              Pollywaffle last edited by

              Well, after some much need help from Bobweiser, I was able to get cgminer properly working on this rig! I’m very happy to have it sorted and Bob was insanely helpful. He really went out of his way to send me clear instructions on getting the script correct, as well as a few other little tricks.

              Currently I’m hashing at about 575kh/s. But, I’m sure with more work, I can get it over 600kh/s.

              At the moment, I’m using:
              cgminer --scrypt -o pool.fcpool.com:3334 -u Pollywaffle.1 -p x --thread-concurrency 8192 -I 13 -g 2 -w 256

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                Pollywaffle last edited by

                Quick question for anyone reading this. (I’m a nub, so I didn’t make a new thread to ask a simple question).

                I’m earning a few coins per day, nothing too amazing. However, two days ago I checked my account balance on the website and saw that in one of the blocks I earned 48 FTC in one go. Generally, it’s 0.1 or 0.2 FTC per block. How come on this one occasion I got such a large payout?

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                  sheepson Regular Member last edited by

                  Are you sure it’s not just a payout to your wallet :)?

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                    Pollywaffle last edited by

                    From what I can see, no. :o

                    [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/russel_coight/media/ScreenShot2013-08-07at93431AM_zpsc2f85407.png.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/russel_coight/ScreenShot2013-08-07at93431AM_zpsc2f85407.png[/img][/URL]

                    Shortly after I received the 48 FTC for the block, my auto payout kicked in and transferred me what I’d made that day (totalling 56.9 FTC).

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                      Bobweiser last edited by

                      Hey mate,

                      Maybe shares you earned via guiminer when you couldnt see any output?

                      Either way take your coins and run to the hills :0

                      bob

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                        Pollywaffle last edited by

                        Gui Miner wasn’t on long enough to earn that much. At the time of getting that 48 FTC, it’d only been on for no more than 24 hours.
                        I was happy when it was all confirmed and in my wallet :P

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                          Bobweiser last edited by

                          Tbh mate 48ftc is probabley about right for four/five days of mining with your new rig config

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                            Bobweiser last edited by

                            Now what will you spend it on? :D

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                              Pollywaffle last edited by

                              [quote name=“Bobweiser” post=“24717” timestamp=“1375835423”]
                              Tbh mate 48ftc is probabley about right for four/five days of mining with your new rig config
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                              Truuuuue. But I’d been mining for less than 24 hours!

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                                Bobweiser last edited by

                                Mate, more than that 600~khs maybe 23 ftc per day at diff 133~, over 36 hours i think your golden! If you have bunce in your wallet confirmed?; sit back, max and relax it!

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                                  Bobweiser last edited by

                                  Im sure you have seen this, hourly reading: http://www.feathercoin.com/calc/ :)

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                                    Pollywaffle last edited by

                                    [quote name=“Bobweiser” post=“24724” timestamp=“1375837598”]
                                    Im sure you have seen this, hourly reading: http://www.feathercoin.com/calc/ :)
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                                    Yup! I use that a bit, Bob. As well as Coinwarz.com

                                    Another quick question for anyone reading (sorry!).
                                    At the moment my rig is just sitting on a piece of cardboard, which is not ideal. I’m thinking of placing some of those rubber pieces that go underneath furniture. However, I’m not sure if my system is grounded. How would I go about doing this? Using one of the PC building wrist straps somehow?

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                                      Bobweiser last edited by

                                      Hey mate, just use some rubber feet with a sticky back. Hobby Craft, Robert Dyas etc. I just use a few to support the MOBO and allow a bit of airflow.

                                      You should be fine if your are using a modern, high quality 3 pin UK plug PSU (Self Grounding) You won’t need to earth the system as the MOBO is grounded via your PSU and the PSU of course has an earth pin(UK). The the 12/5V power cable to the MOBO has a ground pin.

                                      Many modern PSU have all sorts of safe guards build in above and beyond; thermal fuse cutout, over/under-load, short circuit etc etc

                                      If anyone else wants to comment on this one please be my guest?

                                      I’m running 5 open airs rigs with Fractal design PSU’s and no issues so far, i have also been building PC/Server rigs for over 20 years so I’m sure you will be OK!

                                      Disclaimer: All advise taken at your own risk of course! :)

                                      Cheers

                                      Bob

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                                        Pollywaffle last edited by

                                        Champion, as usual, Bob! What you said coincided with what I’d researched. Except for the fact that after I turn the rig off, the screen turns off and it shuts down, but the fans and LEDs on the mobo and the GPU stays on. Odd! So I just turn it off at the wall. I thought this might be a grounding issue.

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                                          Bobweiser last edited by

                                          Dont turn it off! Even shutdown most PCs pull some watts, the MOBO is still alive for USB and wake on LAN etc…

                                          We use Sun Microsystems work stations M40s (Dual socket opterons) as our main PCs with Nvidia GTX280 (counter_strike source) even off they pull 20ws so dont worry about! :)

                                          Get some rubber feet and relax :0

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                                            Pollywaffle last edited by

                                            Interesting.

                                            Cheers Bob!

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