Mining Newbie With 99 Questions

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
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.

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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

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

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

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

Thanks.

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.

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

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

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 ??

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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

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.

Showing 'all pools dead' and GPU is dropping.

We are getting there Greg !

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