to new mac pro owners has anyone done LTC mining

[scottialex]

It turns out that the mining pool is still receiving the same hashrate as when I was using cgminer for Mac OS X, except that Asteroid is showing twice the hashrate on my computer. Yes, Asteroid uses cgminer as well and I think cgminer has issues driving this dual GPU.

Something is wrong. I'm still testing...

Alejandro

 

[slughead]

Hi,

I just got the Mac Pro with D700 and I get just about 520Kh/s at intensity 13, that's 260Kh/s per GPU. Any higher intensity increases power consumption but doesn't increase hashrate. The temperature goes up to about 86 degrees.

It's a very disappointing hashrate and I'm hoping to get it to run a bit faster. I will email the owner of MacMiner and CGminer for Mac OS X to see if they have any suggestion.

There you have it

Alejandro

86 degrees?! How long will that take to fry the thing :X

 

[scottialex]

The AMD R9 290X is designed to run at 95C and I have them running at a constant 92C, non-stop 24/7. I don't see a problem with 86C and its internal system will shut off automatically if it reaches a temp higher than it should be anyways.

Alejandro

 

[/dev/toaster]

I tried some dogecoin mining, and I was getting 345 KHash/s. I have the D700 and really this is not worth it. I will keep mining on my R9 270x.

 

[bry2k]

I'm no expert at this. In fact, this is really the first time I've really attempted mining. I had tried it before on my MBPro before just to get familiar with the whole process but didn't bother beyond that...

Tonight I'm running my brand new MP2013 8core 32GB w/Dual 700's. After fiddling a bit with the "Intensity" setting, here's what I'm getting:

Both GPU's @ Intensity Auto: hash rate = varies from 55-211kH/s, GPU Die Temps 78 C, Fan rpm = 800-900
Both GPU's @ Intensity 12: hash rate = 1.27MH/s, GPU Die Temps 79-84 C, Fan rpm=1540
Both GPU's @ Intensity 13: hash rate = 1.72MH/s, GPU Die Temps 84-86 C, Fan rpm=1550
Both GPU's @ Intensity 14: hash rate = 1.75MH/s, GPU Die Temps 86-88 C, Fan rpm=1615

Seems like intensity 12 is cruising speed, 13 is about max, 14 just pushes temps higher without much increase in hash rate.

Are those numbers any good?

When the Mac Pro fans hit 1900, it makes a pleasing whooshing sound. It's not harsh or loud, kind of sounds like the ocean from distance.

 

[Derpage]

I'm no expert at this. In fact, this is really the first time I've really attempted mining. I had tried it before on my MBPro before just to get familiar with the whole process but didn't bother beyond that...

Tonight I'm running my brand new MP2013 8core 32GB w/Dual 700's. After fiddling a bit with the "Intensity" setting, here's what I'm getting:

Both GPU's @ Intensity Auto: hash rate = varies from 55-211kH/s, GPU Die Temps 78 C, Fan rpm = 800-900
Both GPU's @ Intensity 12: hash rate = 1.27MH/s, GPU Die Temps 79-84 C, Fan rpm=1540
Both GPU's @ Intensity 13: hash rate = 1.72MH/s, GPU Die Temps 84-86 C, Fan rpm=1550
Both GPU's @ Intensity 14: hash rate = 1.75MH/s, GPU Die Temps 86-88 C, Fan rpm=1615

Seems like intensity 12 is cruising speed, 13 is about max, 14 just pushes temps higher without much increase in hash rate.

Are those numbers any good?

When the Mac Pro fans hit 1900, it makes a pleasing whooshing sound. It's not harsh or loud, kind of sounds like the ocean from distance.

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

 

[scottialex]

Bry2k, what app are you using for mining? Asteroid app has a bogus hashrate and you need to divide your hashrate by half. It's still a nice hashrate, 1.7Mh/s divided by 2 it's 850Kh/s.

It's very important for me to know what app you're running since my D700 is giving me a true 520Kh/s. Asteroid app was giving me 1.1Mh/s.

I look forward to your reply!!

Alejandro

 

[Stingray454]

If you press the "i"-button in Asteroid you get the raw cgminer output, from there it's pretty easy to see what the actual hashrate is.

 

[bry2k]

Yes, using Asteroid.

When I start mining via the command line option in Asteroid, I get better performance.

Thread concurrency set to 8192

If actual hash rate is 1/2 of what the Asteroid UI reports, then I'm getting 840-860KH/s.

 

[Furtivelyng]

Hi mates,

I need to buy the new Mac Pro in order to work with it. I was wondering the possibility of mining with it, and be able to win some coins while I'm not using the Mac. I know that actually the hash rate with the Mac is low, but, which would be the better configuration to buy the NMP for mining? Also in the future, once we can natively install windows, do you think that we can get more hash rate than the 820 Kh/s?

Thanks