Cryptocurrency Mining

morkhans said:
Dual mining will draw more power. Most people suggest the extra power draw (and subsequent strain on your components) isn't worth it. Just mine one thing.
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Ok, definitely I power draw issue. Funny thing is that I have two PSU's joined, and each has the same cable setup/config except for the one which has the MB and SSD connected. Oddly enough, that is not the one that is giving me the issue.

I can see a power draw difference of about 7% when I switch from DUAL to SINGLE mining, so clearly that 7% is pushing that PSU just over the edge.

Back to single ETH mining for me :)
 
Might be worth a try:

There is a new development version of the ethminer 0.11.0rc1 (source) available that brings CUDA performance improvements especially optimized for GTX 1060 GPUs. People are reporting a couple of megahashes increase in the performance of GTX 1060 GPUs over what they are getting with the same settings from Claymore’s ETH miner, some slight, but less performance improvement is observed in GTX 1070. Unfortunately it seems that the performance optimizations submitted by David Li don’t do much good for GDDR5X GPUs like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti.

Feel free to test it on your Nvidia mining GPUS and report what and if there is some improvement in the hashrate over your previous settings. If you do make sure you try different value for the --cuda-parallel-hash command line flag (default value is 4), but you can experiment with 1, 2 and 8 and see what works best for you. Again the highest benefits are apparently observed on GTX 1060 GPUs as the performance optimization is apparently targeted at them, though some other GPUs might still benefit a slight boost as well. You can download and try the Windows binary compiled from the latest source below.
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https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases/tag/v0.11.0rc1
 
Archer said:
Is it going to work for now at least? I mean I'm not waiting around for 2-3 weeks for replacements
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Similar problem to the SATA to Molex connector, that floppy connector and cable isn't really made for that kind of power draw. You can plug one in, run your mining for a while and feel how hot the cable is, shouldn't be too hot to touch.
 
morkhans said:
Similar problem to the SATA to Molex connector, that floppy connector and cable isn't really made for that kind of power draw. You can plug one in, run your mining for a while and feel how hot the cable is, shouldn't be too hot to touch.
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I know the math won't work out, the darn thing can only deliver 36w, but if it'll hold for a while I'm fine with that. Asking them now what they plan to do to rectify
 
Archer said:
I know the math won't work out, the darn thing can only deliver 36w, but if it'll hold for a while I'm fine with that. Asking them now what they plan to do to rectify
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Also is that USB 3?

You don't want a k@k slow riser
 
Archer said:
I know the math won't work out, the darn thing can only deliver 36w, but if it'll hold for a while I'm fine with that. Asking them now what they plan to do to rectify
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You mean hold for a while without burning your place down? Possibly.
 
morkhans said:
Similar problem to the SATA to Molex connector, that floppy connector and cable isn't really made for that kind of power draw. You can plug one in, run your mining for a while and feel how hot the cable is, shouldn't be too hot to touch.
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It's fine. I'm using it. Just not as effective/convenient as the other one.
 
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