Project Update

[JugNut]

Yea i'm with you guys there are just some projects that use way to many system resources that interfere with the miners operation. I've been crunching POGS with little if any problem but then when POGS ran out of work I switched to SR-Base then almost straight away I started having  problems with my miners starting to slow right down or just stopping altogether, with the gekko's worst affected.

Also the LLR based tasks which are similar to ones used at Prime Grid seem to play havoc with my main cruncher. I was running 14 threads of POGS but when I tried the same with SR-Base tasks it took only a few hours to crash the system.  When I restarted I noticed the CPU running at close to 80 degs. Since i'd never crunched SR-Base before I started looking into a bit & it seems their tasks use the CPU's AVX function so I started only running 8 threads as its a 8 core/16 thread CPU but even that was to much for the system and it crashed again.  I been running the same overclock almost ever since I owned it but now have had to run it at stock just to keep things going. This is the most dramatic effect I've had from any CPU tasks at any project, err ever.  Even my other PC's are hurting too and are at there limit heat wise,  i'm not sure if it's just these tasks or all SR-Base tasks but they really draw a lot a juice & heat the CPU well above normal.  If this keeps up i'll just move to another project.  They do give very decent credit through if you can cope with the heat, but still not worth cooking your CPU is it?

[chooka03]

Ah thank you for the clarification.
Something else that interferes with a ASIC miner...... a VPN.
My tasks are all invalid if I have my VPN on. Really screws with them.

[Dataman]

The moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligned with Mars ... and I got my best day ever with  312,594,442  BOINC credits. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

[Dingo]

Congrats, I remember all those songs well from the 60's and 70's as I am an old fart 

[kashi]

Great total; hammer time, Lewis.

Haha, I've still got my colourful programme and yellow Be-in, Be-in, Yip! Yip! Yip! handout from Hair. Saw it at Kings Cross in 1969. Great band they had, Tully, I really liked them. Wow, that's almost 50 years ago!

[Dataman]

I saw "Hair" the same year in San Diego. It caused a big uproar when it was announced to be coming to the new Civic Theater. The churches got together for protest rallies replete with signs reading "Don't Bring Porn to San Diego". (Note: There's been porn in San Diego since the Navy first dropped an anchor there.  biggrin ) The City Council met to debate whether or not to issue a license. The resultant publicity made absolutely everyone want to go. I remember that my girl friend (who was eventually my ex-wife) and I waited weeks to get tickets. I watched the Broadway version on video a few years ago. A couple of minutes of full nudity just before the final curtain dropped. How tame it seems by today's standards.

[Dingo]

Yes I saw Hair in Sydney in 1969, saw the Beatles in Sydney in 1964 and the Rolling Stones in 1965.   I was a Mod but most of my friends were Rockers.   Good times were had by all, well most of the time.

[chooka03]

Having said that...Kashi - The one that had the light stuck on (purple) has resurrected itself last night after being buggered for what?.........1-2 months.
I don't think it will last though.

And there it goes....stuck on purple again.  :hbang:

[JugNut]

By geez your not having much luck there Chooka. :(

[chooka03]

Nah pretty unhappy to be honest Jugnuts.
3/5 are not working anymore. I've no idea why mine have stopped. The only thing I did was increase the voltage until they were stable which is around 0.71V.... way under their maximum.



What more can I say. I feel ripped off.

[kashi]

Did you have a fan on them? Because my "recommended" (ha!) hub could only cope with 4, I plugged the 5th one into my monitor with no fan. That's the one that died.

Although they are supposed to be safe to run at default speed/volts without a fan, the default speed they are talking about is 150 MHz for the cgminer program. Whereas Bitcoin Utopia identifies Gekkos as Antminer U3s and runs them at a much higher speed (250 MHz?), which is why we often need to increase the voltage over what they are set/tested at, to get them to run Bitcoin Utopia stably or at all. Of course Antminer U3s have a built in fan constantly blowing down on the hot chips. Even then they are reported to be unreliable too.

So running Bitcoin Utopia, the Gekkos get hot enough to burn you without a fan on them. It is my suspicion that this excessive heat was the major contributing factor to my Gekko's sad and ignoble demise. Alas, my hot chip has been swooped on and devoured by the seagull of death.

[Mike Mitchell]

The moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligned with Mars ... and I got my best day ever with  312,594,442  BOINC credits. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

That was one of the first records I bought. :-)

[chooka03]

Did you have a fan on them? Because my "recommended" (ha!) hub could only cope with 4, I plugged the 5th one into my monitor with no fan. That's the one that died.

So running Bitcoin Utopia, the Gekkos get hot enough to burn you without a fan on them. It is my suspicion that this excessive heat was the major contributing factor to my Gekko's sad and ignoble demise. Alas, my hot chip has been swooped on and devoured by the seagull of death.

LOL.
No mate I do not use a fan on them.
Meh...once their dead....good riddance I say.

[Dataman]

Reuters
"The U.S. government said on Monday it plans to auction over 2,700 bitcoin that were forfeited during several cases, including the prosecution of the creator of the online black market known as Silk Road. The U.S. Marshals Service said that the online auction would be held on Aug. 22, and that potential bidders must register by Aug. 18. The bitcoin are worth nearly $16.1 million, according to the Bitstamp exchange."

[chooka03]

Can I just say..... I bought my miners through Holy Bitcoin. I've noticed that Scott from Holy Bitcoin is not approving my review on this product so be aware when you see 4 star reviews on his website.
I think that's really dodgy to pick & choose which customers honest feedback is posted on his website.

I've stated that Holy Bitcoin was great to deal with but with 3/5 miners dead, I'm not impressed.

Just wanted to put that out there. :sneaky: