Date: 1/17/2014 01:58
To: Marketing Donation Dv9gjxiomM5uQw4CdRdjesyUB5KaB5i4oJ
Debit: -47.77777777 GLD
Transaction fee: -0.01 GLD
Net amount: -47.78777777 GLD
Transaction ID: e7b22e48ec06179575f53a10fef3a550b1d4f0a5f06e7ae48343a6193825accf

Just looking for some ideas of what the average person like myself can do to help Goldcoin grow? After looking at some of the ridiculous coins out there that seem to be making it right now like Doge ( how the hell lol ) there has to be something more we can do as a community to spread the word and keep moving in the right direction. We have a great community, some great devs, and a very solid coin compared to most of the clones and joke coins out. Maybe we can get a list going of things we can all do. Not sure how helpful I can be as I'm working full time and starting my first semester of college on the 13th. ( I haven't been in school in 14 years so it should be interesting ) If there's anything at all I can do in my limited free time, you can bet I'll be doing it.

Thanks to all the people that have been actively creating websites for Goldcoin and anyone that has been trying to spread the word.
Lets get some ideas going here for what we can do to get ourselves back to .10-.15 cents like we were at one point, $1.00, $10.00, and beyond. Anything is possible, we just all have to put in the work to get things started going that direction. Once the price spikes back up and more people take notice, it will all be downhill from there.

Very good post. I'm sure it will be helpful to people looking to build a rig. I will say one thing about PSU's though. Most people look at the specs and see the wattage listed and that's it. The 12v rail amperage is a much more significant stat than any wattage rating.

Also, the PSU is probably one thing you don't want to skimp on, it doesn't matter if every other part in your computer is great. If your PSU is lacking, nothing else in there will matter. Stick with name brand PSU's, the off brand 800w ones for $30-$40 are cheaper for a reason.

Thanks for the coinbase suggestion. Bought some BTC today that I will be converting to GLD as soon as I receive it.

Still need money in an exchange to buy bitcoins, so Im stuck with the same issue that route also.

Glad you got it worked out. I was on the right track after all

I have no clue if this is useful info or not. Read this that I copy and pasted from another forum talking about plugging a dummy plug into the cards not directly hooked to a monitor. Maybe ry this guys steps and see if you get a change.

First make sure you have "export DISPLAY=:0"  (no quotes) at the top of your start up script or be sure to enter it every time before you mine.  This is a MUST if you have more than 1 card.  Try this first, if it doesn't do the trick do the following steps.

I agree I am running several rigs on Ubuntu with 2 or more cards and a dummy plug is not needed.  There are a couple of different options to get the additional cards to work.  The easiest if you have direct keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to the rig you go to the Admin Catalyst Control Panel, under Display Manager or Display Options( i cant remember which one and am not around it to check) it will list all of your cards.  The main card will show as active and "single monitor display" however the additional cards will show up but will not be active.  There will be a drop down menu to enable "multi-monitor display," select this option on the 2nd and each additional card.  Click "OK" it will tell you that you have to reboot.  After you restart the computer cgminer will happily mine on all cards without a dummy plus.  The second option is fairly easy too and great if you can only SSH like myself.

Pull up a shell and enter the following commands, it will back up your Xorg automatically so no worries their either.

sudo aticonfig –initial
sudo aticonfig –adapter=ALL –initial              (you may need to use amdconfig instead of aticonfig depending on your config)
sudo reboot
 
Regardless of which option you use be sure to add "export DISPLAY=:0" in your script or make it a habit to enter it before mining.



I hope this helped, if it didn't please paste the output of the following command here or pastebin.com the output and link it below.  I will be happy to help more if i can.

export DISPLAY=:0
fglrxinfo
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cgminer -n


Also please past your config file and start up script.  Remove username and password if you are worried about people seeing it

You seem like a pretty technically inclined guy so Im not sure this will help, and honestly doesnt sound like your problem anyway since your hashrates are so much lower than they should be, but on my card which is a 7870. To get the best hashrate possible I kind of had to find the sweet spot on my clocks. Which actually meant underclocking the core from 1050 to 970 and then overclocking the shader. At the stock 1050/1200 my card gets about 360. At 970/1250 I get about 396.

Again, this doesn't sound like the solution to your problem at all, which sounds strange to me being so far under what you would expect from a 280x. But I hope it's good info for you or someone else anyway that higher core clocks aren't always best..

EDIT:: Looking at temps alone it doesn't look like GPU1 is doing any work at all with those temps. That looks like idle temps. Maybe try swapping the cards in the slots and see if you get a reverse and GPU1 starts to show higher temps and GPU0 shows the idle like temps. That would suggest something wrong with the card. If there is no change and GPU1 still shows idle temps after the card swap I would think some sort of weird driver/configuration error may be the culprit. or something wrong with that second PCI Express slot.