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SinglePurposeUser

New Mining Rig Using Bamt-Miner + A New Mining Shibe. Much Fun, Such Mine!

Fellow Shibes,

After many hours of troubleshooting and google searching, I finally have my modest addition to the mining pools! This is my first attempt at mining anything seriously, and I hope Doge Coin continues to go up!

Rig

I used three PowerColor Radeon 7850s, which after a tiny bit of tweaking are doing a decent 350kh/s each on a ASRock 970 Extgreme4 mobo. AMD Sempron processor with two sticks of 1066 DDR3 ram (temp sticks waiting on the actual G.S. DDR3 sticks I ordered).

I am still messing around with some settings to get the temperatures to lower, plus I will be adding a cross wind fan to blow on all of my GPUs. Lastly, I have three riser cards coming so I can space out all the GPUs, further helping with heat dispersing.

Here is a screen shot of the BAMT-MINER.

Does anyone know why it says 3 GPUs have problems? I've been running them last night without a problem, but it still says they have problems. Could it have anything to do with my cgminer.conf? Also, they are three identical cards, yet 1 has 2/3rds of the "Load" that the other two do; should I be concerned about this?

Anyway, so long as I am making Doge...To The Moon!

Edit: I figured out what the errors on the GPU's were. I had the Bamt.config file set to send "over temp" alerts when my cards were over 0C. I switched it to 80C, so I shouldn't get any errors unless there is a serious issue with no airflow.

Posted Jan 30, 2014, 1:04 AM UTC · edited

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Inivtes•

Google pci-e risers.

You need to spread those puppies out for airflow.

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SinglePurposeUserOP•

I agree, which is why i have three risers coming in the mail. I'll be building a custom holder for the cards so they can site high and far away from each other.

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UnluckyPenguinAMD miner•

Your pool went offline. What are the triangles next to the pool?

Also what's your config file? My xfx 7850 is pulling 395kh/s

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SinglePurposeUserOP•

Could you elaborate what "Your pool went offline" means? I am using Rapidhash, and it seems to be up all the time. The triangles next to the pool don't pop up with any info when I hover over. Wish they did so I would know what the heck it is trying to call out. Do you think it is an issue with the pool and I should change to a better one?

Here is my config file. I've only messed with a tiny bit of the settings, enough to get 350, but I will try to mess with the intensity a bit more.

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UnluckyPenguinAMD miner•

Might be an issue with your network connection. Bamt doesn't say?

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SinglePurposeUserOP•

Nope, doesn't mention anything besides saying that 3 of my GPUs have a problem. But it looks like if I clicked the number on the left of the warning symbol, it does say what the issue says. Says it is over max temp. I believe this may just be a setting in the bamt.config that sets what "max temp" is? So it doesn't necessarily mean that my GPU is overheating, but I have a pre-set parameter that freaks out when my temp goes over a value. Time to go dig that up...

Edit: Cleared it up! Just went into the bamt.config file and for some reason all of my temp alerts were set at 0C. So unless I was chilling them with liquid nitrogen, I would have continued to get the error :-P.

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burtnakedASIC miner•

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemining/comments/1wiiww/pcie_1x_to_16x_riser_cables_with_molex_connectors/

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