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2018-06-19 02:49:39
rvncn
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowblossom The trail of white luiquidy goo left upon a females face after relieving yourself. The appearance is that of a Blossom... made of Snow.
2018-06-19 02:49:43
rvncn
@Fireduck Was this intention?
2018-06-19 02:50:57
Fireduck
Nope
2018-06-19 02:51:06
Fireduck
it was a randomly generated development name and then stuck
2018-06-19 02:51:45
rvncn
both beautiful
2018-06-19 03:05:52
Fireduck
fluids regardless
2018-06-19 03:06:20
quantumblockz
Nice
2018-06-19 03:08:23
Fireduck
making a sheet of mining hardware and results
2018-06-19 03:08:44
Fireduck
Anyone with data to input message me
2018-06-19 03:08:52
Fireduck
if interested
2018-06-19 05:26:43
Jadefalke
AWS c4.4xlarge 13K
2018-06-19 05:44:58
Fireduck
memory mining?
2018-06-19 05:45:06
Fireduck
if so, it probably needs to warm up more
2018-06-19 06:27:11
Rotonen
@Jadefalke go for the M instances, not cpu limited
2018-06-19 06:41:40
hashman88
how to get a wallet?
2018-06-19 06:56:19
Lev
Samsung SM961 (Connection PCIe 3.0 x4) - 35kh/s
2018-06-19 07:04:53
Lev
@hashman88 download release, run node, and run client. it will auto-generate a wallet in a folder called wallet inside snow release folder
2018-06-19 07:05:53
Lev
You should enable commenting on this spreadsheet
2018-06-19 08:05:46
polarbear
hello @Lev
2018-06-19 08:09:46
polarbear
what does that mean?
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2018-06-19 08:19:22
polarbear
help, anyone...
2018-06-19 08:20:20
Lev
open node.conf
2018-06-19 08:21:11
Lev
replace the database stuff db_type with these two lines
2018-06-19 08:21:16
Lev
```db_type=lobstack db_path=node_db/mainnet```
2018-06-19 08:21:43
Lev
you've got a mangled version of that... unmangle it and should work. @polarbear
2018-06-19 08:22:18
polarbear
@Lev Thanks in advance, I'll try...
2018-06-19 08:29:39
polarbear
now sinc the blockchain, I guess...
2018-06-19 08:29:46
polarbear
how big its size ?
2018-06-19 09:29:28
Jadefalke
what do I put as pool in the pool config?
2018-06-19 11:07:14
cXplexus
@Jadefalke if you go to the GitHub there is a pool list. You will see all the avail pools.
2018-06-19 11:07:25
cXplexus
Believe there are only two running at the moment.
2018-06-19 11:08:17
cXplexus
Snowday and snowplough Add them to your config
2018-06-19 11:13:13
polarbear
@cXplexus if we mine through the pool, do we still have to download snowfield?
2018-06-19 11:17:08
cXplexus
Yes, you just don’t need to run the node or client that’s jus for checking balance and or sending SB
2018-06-19 11:17:35
cXplexus
@polarbear I would also download field 7 just to have it for when the time comes
2018-06-19 11:17:44
cXplexus
Ten generate snowfield off
2018-06-19 11:19:09
polarbear
oh, I see...
2018-06-19 11:19:33
polarbear
@cXplexus how much SNOW do you have?
2018-06-19 11:59:53
cXplexus
@polarbear idk haven’t looked in awhile
2018-06-19 14:01:36
complexring
how often is a snowstorm?
2018-06-19 14:02:26
Rotonen
once ram mining is essentially gone, doubly seldom per field
2018-06-19 14:02:47
complexring
what has it essentially been like in the past?
2018-06-19 14:04:51
Rotonen
the answer is not linear so if you have to ask on the premise i’m empty on how to answer - anyone else have a good way to explain? that’ll likely be FAQ
2018-06-19 14:07:02
complexring
of course it's not linear. it's exponential based on your answer of double. The question then is, what was the time to finish 2. Or even 5. One can extrapolate from there to get a rough idea on each one.
2018-06-19 14:10:33
Rotonen
currently it’s not on that curve and the curve bending depends on the willingness of miners to obtain or rent high ram capacity
2018-06-19 14:11:05
Tyler Boone
we had explosive growth after announcing on bitcointalk and got to 6 in a matter of like 2 days
2018-06-19 14:11:19
Rotonen
so currently fairly hard to estimate, but will stabilize to expected eventually
2018-06-19 14:11:38
complexring
Ok -- thanks.
2018-06-19 14:11:53
Tyler Boone
but since then our hashrate leveled out a lot
2018-06-19 14:12:52
Rotonen
i suppose a lot of people came to mine early blocks just to be on the safe side and left when that pushed the difficulty
2018-06-19 14:13:41
Tyler Boone
I think it was people renting VMs
2018-06-19 14:14:30
Tyler Boone
also, back when the snowfield fit in most people's RAM, their hashrates were much higher
2018-06-19 14:14:43
Rotonen
still mostly seems to be as 1M .. 2M
2018-06-19 14:14:53
complexring
so it seems the best option is to hold in ram or in NVME
2018-06-19 14:14:59
Rotonen
big iron is in the 5M .. 10M ballpark
2018-06-19 14:16:06
Rotonen
yeah, and the capability / willingness of people to do ram goes down as new fields kick in
2018-06-19 14:17:48
Rotonen
quality SSDs are cheap enough and one cannot really feasibly botnet (too random hardware) or drive-by-browser-js mine this either
2018-06-19 14:28:41
Fireduck
Lol , why is this JavaScript downloading 64gb
2018-06-19 14:28:55
Fireduck
That would be kinda funny
2018-06-19 14:48:30
Clueless
The Snowblossom Wiki has been updated! https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/wiki
2018-06-19 14:53:47
Rotonen
@Fireduck don’t worry, someone will try
2018-06-19 15:44:24
fydel
how long approximately until next snow storm?
2018-06-19 15:56:43
cXplexus
When hash doubles
2018-06-19 17:33:52
Fireduck
hard drives are so slow, I want to replace my backup server with ssd
2018-06-19 17:33:57
Fireduck
it is almost not insanely expensive
2018-06-19 17:43:54
fydel
what was the nethash when we changed from 5 to 6?
2018-06-19 17:54:07
Clueless
1.2 GH ?
2018-06-19 17:54:59
fydel
is there a diff chart somewhere?
2018-06-19 17:55:21
Clueless
@fydel https://github.com/snowblossomcoin/snowblossom/blob/master/lib/src/NetworkParamsProd.java#L30-L41 ``` map.put(0, new SnowFieldInfo("cricket", 1L * gb, "2c363d33550f5c4da16279d1fa89f7a9",25)); map.put(1, new SnowFieldInfo("shrew", 2L * gb, "4626ba6c78e0d777d35ae2044f8882fa",27)); map.put(2, new SnowFieldInfo("stoat", 4L * gb, "2948b321266dfdec11fbdc45f46cf959",29)); map.put(3, new SnowFieldInfo("ocelot", 8L * gb, "33a2fb16f08347c2dc4cbcecb4f97aeb",31)); map.put(4, new SnowFieldInfo("pudu", 16L * gb, "0cdcb8629bef77fbe1f9b740ec3897c9",33)); map.put(5, new SnowFieldInfo("badger", 32L * gb, "e9abff32aa7f74795be2aa539a079489",35)); map.put(6, new SnowFieldInfo("capybara", 64L * gb, "e68678fadb1750feedfa11522270497f",37)); map.put(7, new SnowFieldInfo("llama", 128L * gb, "147d379701f621ebe53f5a511bd6c380",39)); map.put(8, new SnowFieldInfo("bugbear", 256L * gb, "533ae42a04a609c4b45464b1aa9e6924",41)); map.put(9, new SnowFieldInfo("hippo", 512L * gb, "ecdb28f1912e2266a71e71de601117d2",43)); map.put(10,new SnowFieldInfo("shai-hulud", 1024L * gb, "cc883468a08f48b592a342a2cdf5bcba",45)); map.put(11,new SnowFieldInfo("avanc", 2048L * gb, "a2a4076f6cde947935db06e5fc5bbd14",47)); ```
2018-06-19 17:55:37
fydel
thanks
2018-06-19 17:55:46
Clueless
the far right number, 25,27,29...
2018-06-19 17:55:53
Clueless
is the difficulty that it's activated I believe
2018-06-19 17:56:10
fydel
okay
2018-06-19 18:02:09
cXplexus
@Clueless we may want to simplify that.
2018-06-19 18:04:57
Fireduck
next field as ~916MH/s
2018-06-19 18:05:31
cXplexus
I’d GCE but that’s like $1 an hour lol
2018-06-19 18:05:53
cXplexus
How were you getting 34 cents @Fireduck
2018-06-19 18:05:54
complexring
what's the current hash rate?
2018-06-19 18:06:55
Tyler Boone
@cXplexus, Preemptible price (USD)
2018-06-19 18:07:45
cXplexus
Thought that’s what I was selecting
2018-06-19 18:08:03
Tyler Boone
what instance and region are you looking at?
2018-06-19 18:12:31
cXplexus
Iowa is the cheapest
2018-06-19 18:12:42
cXplexus
And the 32 I’m not in front of a computer
2018-06-19 18:13:00
Fireduck
n1-standard-32 32 120GB $1.5200 $0.3200
2018-06-19 18:13:06
Fireduck
The second price is the preemptible
2018-06-19 18:13:21
Fireduck
add a few cents for the SSD to load the snowfield from to start up reasonably quickly
2018-06-19 18:13:44
Fireduck
there are some similar things with AWS spot instances
2018-06-19 18:14:02
Fireduck
but the spot instance prices are more fluid so it can be a little bit of a mess
2018-06-19 18:14:15
Fireduck
probably room to have a lower cost there though if you are welling to screw with it
2018-06-19 19:56:49
Fireduck
Pushing out 1.1.1 release now
2018-06-19 20:25:04
cXplexus
That have windows?
2018-06-19 20:30:58
Fireduck
yes, but hold up. I screwed up building the release
2018-06-19 20:31:15
Fireduck
built from wrong branch and tags are not removable so 1.1.1 is forever nonsense :wink:
2018-06-19 20:55:55
Fireduck
1.1.2 going up
2018-06-19 20:55:59
Fireduck
it is on the http://snowblossom.org website
2018-06-19 20:56:10
Fireduck
will upload to github as soon as it gets synced
2018-06-19 20:58:27
cXplexus
Got it
2018-06-19 21:12:55
Clueless
hmm this may be bad
2018-06-19 21:13:05
Fireduck
are we doomed?
2018-06-19 21:13:47
Fireduck
loading food and water into the stairwell now
2018-06-19 21:13:50
Fireduck
that will be my new home
2018-06-19 21:14:15
Clueless
not sure if my pool has 730MH out of the estimated 760MH on the network
2018-06-19 21:14:58
Clueless
@Fireduck Also, it might've been me sending data to a node. I telneted at one point and pasted something by mistake while screwing around
2018-06-19 21:17:07
Clueless
oh ay Brain, what are we goingta do tonight?! Same thing we do every night Pinky, we try to take over the world!
2018-06-19 21:17:09
Clueless
mwahahahahaha
2018-06-19 21:17:14
Fireduck
I should implement the pool failover
2018-06-19 21:17:30
Clueless
I do restart the pool on occassion.
2018-06-19 21:17:55
Fireduck
or your pool machine could be thrown into a pool of jello
2018-06-19 21:19:14
Clueless
I would just make a second pool. backup.snowday or snowday2
2018-06-19 21:19:24
Fireduck
ha
2018-06-19 21:19:40
Fireduck
you should not have the one hostname point to multiple boxes
2018-06-19 21:19:47
Fireduck
that will cause lots of shares to be rejected
2018-06-19 21:20:55
Clueless
@Fireduck is a subdomain good enough? I'm not sure how you intend it yet.
2018-06-19 21:21:19
Clueless
would they work together/conjunction, or just failover to if one goes down?
2018-06-19 21:22:06
Fireduck
failover, so they would operate completely independently with separate share pools
2018-06-19 21:23:03
Clueless
then I will likely setup a separate subdomain, different host. `backup.snowday`
2018-06-19 21:24:25
Fireduck
the question is, will anyone want round robin or just failover?
2018-06-19 21:26:22
Clueless
hmm. round robin sounds cooler. Once we have pool RPC I'd have my interface show stats from both. :)
2018-06-19 21:27:01
Clueless
also, because of your fantastic efficiency improvements, I can downgrade the vm server quite a bit, but I've avoided due to potential downtime
2018-06-19 21:55:26
Rotonen
updating snowplough from 1.0.7 to 1.1.2 - a brief service interruption is expected
2018-06-19 21:56:40
stoner19
anyone understand this error? ``` Exception in thread "main" org.rocksdb.RocksDBException: While lock file: node_db/mainnet/LOCK: Resource temporarily unavailable ```
2018-06-19 21:56:51
Fireduck
yes
2018-06-19 21:57:00
stoner19
node stopped, but apparently not properly?
2018-06-19 21:57:04
Fireduck
it means you already have something running that is holding taht lock
2018-06-19 21:57:16
Fireduck
yeah, if you recently killed it and it isn't really dead yet
2018-06-19 21:58:59
stoner19
ah ok. Just takes a few minutes to actually stop completely.
2018-06-19 21:59:22
stoner19
when I start it back up it just sits at `INFO snowblossom.lib.db.rocksdb.JRocksDB <init> Loadng RocksDB with path node_db/mainnet` and doesn't load any blocks
2018-06-19 22:01:17
Fireduck
might be rocksdb doing a cleanup
2018-06-19 22:01:23
Fireduck
give it a minute or two
2018-06-19 22:01:50
stoner19
sounds good.
2018-06-19 22:01:51
stoner19
thanks
2018-06-19 22:07:29
quantumblockz
These errors are what I received after upgrading to 1.1.2 and running the node.
2018-06-19 22:07:44
quantumblockz
@Fireduck Do you know how I can correct this?
2018-06-19 22:07:51
Tyler Boone
did you used to be using lobstack?
2018-06-19 22:07:55
Fireduck
yeah, set db_type=lobstack
2018-06-19 22:08:31
quantumblockz
That is already set.
2018-06-19 22:08:44
quantumblockz
I kept the old config files the same
2018-06-19 22:09:33
Tyler Boone
double check youa re still using the same config file
2018-06-19 22:09:47
Tyler Boone
the new .bat file I think might be pointing to something you aren't expecting
2018-06-19 22:10:10
Fireduck
node-oh-damn.conf
2018-06-19 22:11:28
quantumblockz
I fixed it.
2018-06-19 22:13:06
Rotonen
and now with columnar alignment and actually sorted by hashrate: https://snowplough.kekku.li/
2018-06-19 22:17:04
THX 1138 4EB
@Rotonen i have an i7 6700 and an EVO 750 and an EVO 850 and mining with them both at the same time, each gets max 16 KH/s with my CPU at 100% - does that mean my configuration is bad because it's bottlenecked by the CPU?
2018-06-19 22:18:18
Rotonen
sounds more like you have sata drives and not the best sata controller
2018-06-19 22:18:27
THX 1138 4EB
yeah they're SATA drives
2018-06-19 22:18:36
Rotonen
or way too many threads, or something to do with the moons of saturn
2018-06-19 22:18:46
Fireduck
I haven't been able to get more than about 18 hk/s out of SATA in any configuration
2018-06-19 22:19:16
Rotonen
server grade SAS i've pushed to 30k, so that's not too bad, it'd seem
2018-06-19 22:19:47
Rotonen
snowblossom is mostly about the seek latency, SATA is not made for seek latency as it's for spinny disks
2018-06-19 22:20:18
THX 1138 4EB
i see. I guess I will have to look at M.2 drives then
2018-06-19 22:20:32
THX 1138 4EB
that's what you were talking about earlier, right?
2018-06-19 22:20:40
Fireduck
if you wait a few days there will be more information in our hardware spread sheet :wink:
2018-06-19 22:20:45
THX 1138 4EB
I also have one PCI-E 4x slot
2018-06-19 22:20:46
Rotonen
also mind you, not all m.2 is pci-e, but this can also be on the motherboard side, and on the drive side
2018-06-19 22:21:17
Rotonen
and as a bonus on top the block diagram of the motherboard matters as well, which kinds of pci-e lanes, backed by what, directly hooked to what
2018-06-19 22:21:18
THX 1138 4EB
oh, i don't think it is. mobo manual says if I use the m.2 slot, it shuts down SATA port 1
2018-06-19 22:21:46
Rotonen
then you'd gain nothing apart from very minor power savings, if even that (well, less space used)
2018-06-19 22:22:09
Fireduck
I wish I had a motherboard with like 8 m.2 slots
2018-06-19 22:22:11
Rotonen
block diagram is a good keyword for figuring hardware setups out
2018-06-19 22:22:12
Fireduck
the most I can find is 3
2018-06-19 22:22:28
Tyler Boone
the problem is not m.2 slots, it's pci-e buses
2018-06-19 22:22:30
Rotonen
@Fireduck 4 per pci-e riser
2018-06-19 22:22:41
THX 1138 4EB
i guess i'll have to look at getting a whole new PC just for snow blossom
2018-06-19 22:22:47
Fireduck
Are there any good pci-e risers for m.2? I've seen some, but don't trust them
2018-06-19 22:23:12
Fireduck
@THX 1138 4EB correct, mortgage house as well. This is lambo-o-clock.
2018-06-19 22:23:19
Rotonen
@Tyler Boone then there's also the mess of direct pci-e vs. on-motherboard pci-e switches vs. southbridge pci-e vs. direct-cpu-pci-e (the last one is the viable one, but how does one communicate that easiest?)
2018-06-19 22:23:20
THX 1138 4EB
:stuck_out_tongue:
2018-06-19 22:23:30
cXplexus
Lol
2018-06-19 22:24:14
cXplexus
If i had a satoshi for every lambo comment I read
2018-06-19 22:24:31
Fireduck
Then you could buy a coffee if anyone accepted bitcoin?
2018-06-19 22:24:46
Rotonen
in general if you find ZFS admins touting something as good for ZIL it'll be good for snowblossom (although will come with supercapacitors for powerdown write fail mitigation, which is not necessary for snowblossom)
2018-06-19 22:24:48
THX 1138 4EB
you'd have about 0.0004 bitcoin
2018-06-19 22:25:49
THX 1138 4EB
i'm hoping to find something that fits into a regular PC case
2018-06-19 22:26:13
Rotonen
i thoroughly recommend passively cooled mini-itx
2018-06-19 22:26:16
Rotonen
low footprint, no noise
2018-06-19 22:26:27
Rotonen
also 35W CPUs are mighty fine for snowblossom
2018-06-19 22:26:40
THX 1138 4EB
although it would also be cool to have something that's cooled by those liquids that you can submerge stuff in.. like phase change cooling liquids with bubbles are awesome
2018-06-19 22:27:05
Fireduck
@Rotonen have a recommendation for a tiny board with onboard cpu for snowblossom mining?
2018-06-19 22:27:19
THX 1138 4EB
i will still want to use my PC to play games, I think
2018-06-19 22:28:32
THX 1138 4EB
maybe it would be most cost-effective to have something dedicated. idk
2018-06-19 22:28:57
Tyler Boone
I'm just mining on my gaming PC
2018-06-19 22:29:10
Rotonen
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/H370-HD3-rev-10#kf <- on a quick look that'd be the current cheapest good one for snowblossom, but not very small, though Intel H370 Ultra Durable motherboard with USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A & USB3.1 Gen1 Type-C, Intel GbE LAN with cFosSpeed, Dual M.2, 7 colors RGB LED strips support, Intel CNVi WIFI upgradable slot, Smart Fan 5, CEC 2019, DualBIOS™, Anti-Sulfur Resistor Supports 8th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4 New Hybrid Digital PWM Design Intel® CNVi 802.11ac Wave2 2T2R WIFI upgradable High Quality Audio Capacitors and Audio Noise Guard with LED Trace Path Lighting Dual Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 X4/X2 & SATA interface RGB FUSION supports RGB LED strips in 7 colors Intel® Native USB 3.1 Gen2 USB Type-A Intel® USB 3.1 Gen1 USB Type-C™ Intel® GbE LAN with cFosSpeed Internet Accelerator Software CEC 2019 Ready, Save the Power as Easy as One Click Smart Fan 5 features Multiple Temperature Sensors and Hybrid Fan Headers with FAN STOP Anti-Sulfur Resistors Design Ultra Durable™ 25KV ESD and 15KV Surge LAN Protection Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready Lightning-Fast Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 AIC Support
2018-06-19 22:29:13
Fireduck
I'm mining on every random thing I can find in my house
2018-06-19 22:30:06
Rotonen
then if 2 x ssd is fine, this seems pretty damn sweet: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-B250I-GAMING/ ROG Strix B250I Gaming mini-ITX gaming motherboard features double-decker heatsink, Aura Sync RGB LED, Intel Gigabit LAN, dual M.2 and SupremeFX S1220A audio codec for superior sound quality.
2018-06-19 22:31:25
THX 1138 4EB
no love for AMD?
2018-06-19 22:31:42
Rotonen
the availability of their new 35W processors is very low
2018-06-19 22:31:54
Rotonen
otherwise they'd be in the race as well, they do more pci-e
2018-06-19 22:32:03
Rotonen
but i want my gear without moving parts
2018-06-19 22:32:36
Rotonen
relatedly my PSU of choice: http://www2.seasonic.com/product/platinum-520/ With 80 PLUS Platinum® rating and the use of high-grade components, fanless power supplies such as the Platinum 520 Fanless are also extremely efficient.
2018-06-19 22:33:05
Rotonen
and any big enough heatpiped heatsink will do on a 35W CPU, convection pulls the air up
2018-06-19 22:33:17
Rotonen
and if the case has an open top and bottom, that'll help
2018-06-19 22:33:23
Rotonen
or just bolt the boards on a wall
2018-06-19 22:33:35
Rotonen
can actually look pretty neat with fancy wiring too
2018-06-19 22:34:24
THX 1138 4EB
you prefer fanless because noise or energy efficiency or mean time before failure?
2018-06-19 22:34:31
Tyler Boone
8 RAM slots + 3 m.3 slots seems like an ideal base
2018-06-19 22:34:41
Rotonen
@Tyler Boone triple the price, though
2018-06-19 22:35:17
Tyler Boone
ahh
2018-06-19 22:35:20
Rotonen
@Tyler Boone if you go for ram mining now, just get a dual socket workstation or server board, but if going for ssd, small and dense seems more sensible
2018-06-19 22:35:53
Rotonen
@Tyler Boone you get half an SSD (or a cheap, but good enough SSD) for the price difference of the mobo alone there
2018-06-19 22:36:07
THX 1138 4EB
would you need to get a set of eight match RAM DIMMS?
2018-06-19 22:36:23
Rotonen
or just risk it, price is king
2018-06-19 22:36:25
THX 1138 4EB
i've successfully mixed two sets of two that werent even the same brand before
2018-06-19 22:36:43
Rotonen
but how's that 8 slot design even split across the CPU memory channels?
2018-06-19 22:37:26
Rotonen
oh that's one of the enthusiast desktop thingies, skylake-sp, that comes with potential for weirdness like multiple in-processor numa nodes
2018-06-19 22:37:51
Rotonen
and skylake is still a ring bus design, not the new mesh interconnect hotness, so that's a thing to keep in mind for seek latency
2018-06-19 22:38:48
THX 1138 4EB
sounds like choosing hardware is a minefield
2018-06-19 22:39:04
Rotonen
yeah, if recommending something to people, going for basic good enough consumer hardware is better than going for platforms where it's sorta expected one has a decade or more experience
2018-06-19 22:39:28
Rotonen
@THX 1138 4EB well, just get the simplest and cheapest thing with the most minimal set of what you need and you'll avoid all that nonsense
2018-06-19 22:40:04
Rotonen
as in low power coffee lake i3 (or even pentium or celeron, they're really cheap, and plenty good enough), a matching motherboard with 2x pci-e m.2 and done
2018-06-19 22:40:16
Rotonen
and that can be done mini-itx, with wifi, without moving parts, fully passive
2018-06-19 22:40:26
Rotonen
so the only wire will be the power cord
2018-06-19 22:41:29
Rotonen
refer to intel documentation for details on what i mean for the numa silliness they've invented for that: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-processor-scalable-family-technical-overview The new generation, the Intel® Xeon® processor Scalable family (formerly code-named Skylake-SP), is based on 14nm process technology, with many new and enhanced architecture changes including, Skylake Mesh Architecture and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512).
2018-06-19 22:42:20
Rotonen
the consumer X series (i9 or whtever?) processors are essentially a prerun of that
2018-06-19 22:42:21
THX 1138 4EB
thanks :slightly_smiling_face: i know what some of these words mean!
2018-06-19 22:45:09
THX 1138 4EB
@ppp don't bother getting more SATA drives; they might not be very good, depending on how your motherboard handles them. Read the discussion above :slightly_smiling_face:
2018-06-19 22:46:04
Rotonen
@THX 1138 4EB they're still only good up to about 1/3 of pci-e drives, but hey, you could put 12 of them in a single system, though
2018-06-19 22:46:22
Rotonen
@THX 1138 4EB then you'd max out your sata controller, so better get a proper sas backplane and a proper sas controller
2018-06-19 22:47:14
THX 1138 4EB
yeah but if your CPU is at 100% with two SATA drives you're gonna be a sad panda. i will look up what these other things are that you just said :slightly_smiling_face:
2018-06-19 22:47:17
Rotonen
(and hey presto, a lambo would be cheaper to just buy)
2018-06-19 22:48:11
THX 1138 4EB
i dont even want a lambo. i just want to live in a shipping container in a shipping container city in a cyberpunk dystopia
2018-06-19 22:57:31
THX 1138 4EB
maybe i could use a card like this https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-hyper-m2-card-pcie-30-x16-4x-m2-pcie-2242-60-80-110-slots-intel-vroc-support-for-asus-x299-moth?gclid=CjwKCAjw06LZBRBNEiwA2vgMVWCwZJCQmfEoun4weE-gIHP7-X10vo2pVq7danSEdWsh7cUWQUIDIBoC2jsQAvD_BwE to plug m.2 drives into my PCIE x4 slot? Buy from Scan - ASUS HYPER M.2 Card, PCIe 3.0 x16, 4x M.2 PCIe 2242/60/80/110 Slots, Intel VROC Support, for ASUS X299 Motherboards
2018-06-19 22:59:11
Rotonen
with the HEDT processor and motherboard it'd be about the same price to just get into ram mining
2018-06-19 23:00:59
THX 1138 4EB
best deal I could find was 64gb 3600 mhz DDR4 used for £500 on ebay
2018-06-19 23:01:39
THX 1138 4EB
butt that's just for one set and i'd have to wait for more such offers
2018-06-19 23:02:23
Rotonen
go for 256GB if you go for high ram, otherwise no real point
2018-06-19 23:03:07
THX 1138 4EB
such minefield, much expense. wow!
2018-06-19 23:04:56
Rotonen
for ssd mining, 16GB should do just fine, but 32GB is cheap enough
2018-06-19 23:06:16
THX 1138 4EB
in order to use my current mobo i'd have to get an SSD that uses the PCIE 4x slot because my SATA and m.2 ports don't use PCIE
2018-06-19 23:08:42
Rotonen
sounds like spreadsheet time
2018-06-19 23:24:25
Clueless
@Fireduck the one I linked should be decent
2018-06-19 23:24:55
THX 1138 4EB
@Clueless you talking about a pcie riser?
2018-06-19 23:25:00
Clueless
yeah
2018-06-19 23:25:51
THX 1138 4EB
would you mind posting the link again please?
2018-06-19 23:27:14
THX 1138 4EB
thnks :slightly_smiling_face:
2018-06-19 23:28:38
Clueless
@THX 1138 4EB if @Rotonen suggests otherwise, listen to them
2018-06-19 23:30:10
THX 1138 4EB
yeah rotonen said it would be cheaper to... i can't remember!
2018-06-19 23:31:49
THX 1138 4EB
ok, the same price to do RAM mining
2018-06-19 23:32:48
THX 1138 4EB
still, i wouldnt need to get a new motherboard or CPU if I just plugged one of those ricers into my existing desktop
2018-06-19 23:33:21
Clueless
be aware of your desktop's PCIE lane cap
2018-06-19 23:34:50
cXplexus
Omg QUAD M2 slot
2018-06-19 23:34:52
cXplexus
That’s insane
2018-06-19 23:34:57
cXplexus
I have a x16
2018-06-19 23:35:01
cXplexus
I might get that
2018-06-19 23:35:12
cXplexus
Raid a bunch of 970
2018-06-19 23:35:35
THX 1138 4EB
would that be a software RAID?
2018-06-19 23:35:58
cXplexus
Idk probably it’s just a PCIE x16 slot
2018-06-19 23:36:03
cXplexus
For 4 M2
2018-06-19 23:36:13
cXplexus
Mind blown that would stick out so far haha
2018-06-19 23:37:02
THX 1138 4EB
they;re not cheap, either!
2018-06-19 23:42:54
THX 1138 4EB
if you got a server off ebay, it wouldn't be a piece of shit with DDR2 would it?