Mining Newbie With 99 Questions

[narmour]

Hello All,

I'm narmour and I'm wondering if someone with the knowledge to assist will give me a few mins of their time. Will be greatly appreciated.

Quick story: Looking to mine to generate some coins but am completely new to it - I understand the basic principle of mining and I'm more of a hardware enthusiast by nature so typically fall between cliques who do know what they are doing and I now want to make the jump. I have spent a couple days and many evenings trying to figure this out and I haven't hit a successful share yet. I have got some decent hardware that is filtering through my house that I can utilize for mining as appose to a poor re-sell value - decent X79 /X99 based rigs with an E-ATX motherboard etc that I want to use to invest in some GPU's at a later date once I get off the ground. Problem: getting off the ground.

I'm running a watercooled AMD R9 290X at 936 /1250 (lowered GPU clock to keep temps below 75'C) i7 5820k with sufficient cooling.

I am using CGMINER 3.7.2

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{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "prohashing.com:3333",
		"user" : "narmour",
		"pass" : "a=scrypt"
	}
],

"thread-concurrency" : "33792",
"gpu-engine" : "936",
"gpu-fan" : "40-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",

"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "1",

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Are the settings I am using to run. I have taken the above from various sources during my research phase.

Now I connect to the pool and can see in the dashboard that O am connected but I'm not receiving any shares or any recorded data on this page. I have run the miner for approx 20hrs and nothing. Is this right?

Below is a screenshot of the set-up currently after approx 15 mins which is exactly how it was operating on the 20hr test run. The GPU doesn't seem to be overly taxed either? there's definitely headroom there.




I feel as though I am far from dry land. This is very new to me but I'm really keen to learn and get started. I'm liking the feel of the community here and need a home to establish my mining.

Help get me going so I can drop some £££ on Vega GPU's when they hit!

Many Thanks,

narm

[GregoryGHarding]

what kernal is being used in your config?
also you can hit [G] -> and set your intensity for a higher hashrate, too high and you will get HW errors.

EDIT: also if your going to screenshot, please screenshot individual windows, full screen screenshots are unreadable

[narmour]

https://s9.postimg.org/3mnbnde33/screen2.png

How can i find that out? What kernel should I be using.

Thanks.

[GregoryGHarding]

by the looks of your naming convention on cgminer, youre using a version thats been optimized for blake algorithym, thats not to say it wont work with scrypt. check your cgminer folder for a kernals folder and see if psw is there. if it is, thats the kernal you need to use in your config.

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"kernel" : "psw",

[narmour]

I've tried setting the above but with no luck. It just defaults.

What's the best GPU miner to use for psw algorithm?

[narmour]

I am mining using BFG which is using scrypt and I have found 1 share.

There is psw in the kernel folder for BFG; how do I assign my miner to use that?

GPU seems undertaxed again. 1.78/MHs ??

[GregoryGHarding]

you can do so in the config file, also your gpu intensity is "?"

you can see "I: ?"

press M then choose device and then I and assign a proper intensity, too low and your hashrate will fall to high and you will get hardware errors

[narmour]

I have set the intensity to 20 but still getting ?. Also what kinda MHs should I be seeing ? 6 hours and 217 share count, 100% mining efficiency but only have 0.59 syscoin (what ive set up as payout) 574kh/s average recorded.

Thanks.

[narmour]

Showing 'all pools dead' and GPU is dropping.

We are getting there Greg !

[GregoryGHarding]

im not overly familiar with BFGMiner ive never used it. i use SGMiner so if you want to stick with that, and try this link.

https://ufile.io/vl9gr

open sgminer.config and change your username and choose password argument, them close and save, and run sgminer.exe and see what we get