GPU Mining GPU Mining Crash Course - START HERE! |
- GPU Mining Crash Course - START HERE!
- In hope of an altcoin season
- New 6x1660ti rig on cuckaroo29 - queries
- Noob question about Bitcoin GPU mining
- Safe to update Windows from 1703 to 1809?
- One of my GPU does't work, Device manager reported problems (Code 43).
- GMiner 1.47 - illegal memory access
- I need some help please!
- Any thoughts on honeyminer?
- Way to Drastically Reduce GPU Load for Overnight Mining
| GPU Mining Crash Course - START HERE! Posted: 25 Jun 2019 11:28 AM PDT Welcome All to the GPUMining Crash Course! With the increase in prices in cryptocurrency, a lot of people are getting back into mining and a lot of people are brand new to the concept overall. So, I quickly wrote this crash course to help you understand what to expect and how to successfully mine your first cryptocurrency. This crash course isn't gonna have all of the fluff you'd see in a normal publication. This is just everything you need to know to get up and running on your first cryptocurrency mining rig. What is cryptocurrency mining?One of the main things about cryptocurrencies is that they are "decentralized". Sounds great, but WTF does that even mean? Well, the easiest way to explain it is... You know how if you want to send your friend/family money digitally, you can do so through your bank. Your bank likely takes a transaction fee and in a few days they will transfer the money. Since cryptocurrencies are decentralized, they don't have a bank or organization to fulfill the transfer of money. Instead, they outsource the computing power of their cryptocurrency network to miners (soon to be you). These miners are verifying transactions, securing the blockchain, and powering the cryptocurrency's specific network among other things. As an incentive, the miners collect transaction fees on the transactions that they verify and collect block rewards while new currency is still being introduced into the ecosystem. What kind of rig should I build?You can mine cryptocurrencies using your CPU, GPU, FPGA, or ASIC, but this is a GPU Mining subreddit, so I will cater this to GPUs. For building a great all-around GPU rig, there are two models of GPUs that I'd recommend: Both of these GPUs have solid hashrates across most mining algorithms and for a decent price! You should be able to find both of these kinds of GPUs used for around $200-$250 each, which is a great price if you know what happened during the last mining craze! ($200 GPUs were out of stock everywhere and people were reselling them for $600+ each) There are also plenty of great AMD GPUs for mining, but I've worked mostly with Nvidia so that's why both of my recommendations are Nvidia and not AMD. Other parts to your rig that you'll need are listed below. Most of these can be pieces of crap and are just needed to make the rig actually run, but the one spot you DON'T want to cheap out on is the power supply unit. A decent power supply unit will keep your home from burning down while also keeping your rigs up and running smoothly. Here are my recommendations:
She's built, now what?Now you need to do a few things. I am a Windows miner, so I will be speaking to Windows here:
Assuming you've done all of this, you're ready to download a mining application. Mining SoftwareThere are tons to choose from! Claymore, Phoenix, EWBF, LolMiner, etc... It can be overwhelming pretty quickly since they all have different algorithm support, speeds, efficiencies, and a whole lot more. On top of that, in order to get them running you need to set up batch files to call the proper exe, point you to the correct pool, and a whole bunch of other stuff that can be confusing to a new user. Not to mention, you will probably need a separate miner, config file, batch file, etc. for each different algorithm that you're interested in mining on. Instead, I recommend that you download a miner management software that will take care of most of this tedious work for you. There are a few in the sidebar, but the /r/GPUMining favorite is AIOMiner. It was developed by our very own community member, /u/xixspiderxix with the intention of making mining as easy as possible to do and without any fees. It supports over 100 different algorithms, so you'll be able to mine nearly ANY cryptocurrency you'd like. Just download it from their website and it will take you through a quick tutorial to help you get set up! You can also connect your rig to their website for remote monitoring and control. You've probably seen a few of their posts around this subreddit. Other Windows mining softwares include:
Note: Many mining softwares have fees built into them. Most are around 1%, but can go as high as 5% or greater! You want a mining software with little or no fees at all so that you get to keep as much cryptocurrency as possible. These fees aren't something you actively pay, the software will automatically take it by mining on the developers behalf for a given amount of time and then switching back to mining on your own behalf. So, please be diligent in the software that you evaluate and make sure it is reputable. I keep hearing about NiceHash. What is that?The asshole of the mining industry. Jk, but not really. NiceHash is a software program that allows you to sell your rig's hashing power to someone on their marketplace. They market themselves as profitable mining, but you're not really mining. You're selling your power in exchange for Bitcoin. They did a great job telling people that with them, you're always mining the most profitable coin, but that's just not true. Since it is a mining marketplace, they make you mine whatever their most expensive contract is. If their contracts are below market prices, then you're not operating as efficiently and profitably as you could be. NiceHash also has a sketchy history, which continues to this day. In 2017, they were hacked and lost $65M worth of Bitcoin. No one got paid out for MONTHS and many of their executives conveniently resigned. Their platform is also used to destroy cryptocurrencies. Since people are able to purchase mining power on their platform, people have used their platform to purchase enough mining power to control individual cryptocurrencies and duplicate coins, which increased the malicious user's wealth while completely destroying the integrity of the coin's blockchain. HoriZEN (formerly ZenCash), Ethereum Classic, and many other great cryptocurrencies have been the victim of NiceHash's platform. For this and many other reasons, we highly recommend that you stay AWAY from Nicehash. We understand that it is extremely easy to use and you get paid in bitcoin, but they are destroying the industry with their greed and lack of motivation to change their platform for the protection of cryptocurrencies. Concluding ThoughtsThis is pretty much everything you need to know to get started. We covered the hardware, setting up the software, which software to use, and AIOMiner's tutorial will get you up to speed on how to actually mine the cryptocurrency that you want better than I can explain it, so I'll leave that part to them. If you have any questions on this crash course, please leave a comment below where myself and other community members will be able to help you out. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| New 6x1660ti rig on cuckaroo29 - queries Posted: 26 Jun 2019 08:08 AM PDT Hi gpuminers, Finally got around to building a 1660ti rig, using EVGA black editions. Installed hive OS. Have it pointed on cuckaroo29 using bminer, where i'm getting between 3.9 and 3.9h/s, with +150 core +1750 mem and 81 watts of power per card. Some queries: 1) I noticed when i start mining it's detecting 5826 or 5887MB of VRAM available, so is using the 5GB solver. Doesn't feel right for a 6GB card, but presumably there's some 'overhead' of these cards that can't be allocated to mining? 2) Seeing very differing views of results and overclock settings. Is anyone getting anything much better? Not sure why whattomine is showing much higher hashrates, whereas most of the benchmarks i've seen in this sub show lower hashrates 3) Any suggestion on a better miner? bminer seems to be the standard Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Noob question about Bitcoin GPU mining Posted: 26 Jun 2019 08:07 AM PDT I tried to make a configuration with 10 RX 580 with a total hashpower of 290 MH/s. According to cryptocompare.com however I would only make $ 0.04 a year without considering electricity bill. This would make GPU mining totally not profitable. Am I missing something? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Safe to update Windows from 1703 to 1809? Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:07 AM PDT Hi. I'm still running win 10 v.1703. Last time I tried to update I ended up with faulty windows that couldnt boot due to my 13x amd 570 gpu. Is this problem solved with 1809 so I could update? [link] [comments]  | ||
| One of my GPU does't work, Device manager reported problems (Code 43). Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:05 AM PDT Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) What does it mean and how to fix it? [link] [comments]  | ||
| GMiner 1.47 - illegal memory access Posted: 25 Jun 2019 11:52 PM PDT Hi everyone, I'm mining equihash150_5 (beam) on GMiner 1.47 with 2x1080ti and every 2 to 6 hours it crashes and restart itself with the error "illegal memory access". My settings are 75% power, +225/+500 with a pagefile of 24GB, i've tried changing the memory overclock to 400 then 300 then 200, but with no results. I've mined in the past classic equihash with +225/+500 on the same cards with no problem and I don't know what to try next. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 25 Jun 2019 10:26 PM PDT Hi, guys! Im pretty new here and pretty new to mining so please forgive my long winded post. a friend and myself have recently built a mining rig. He really did most of the work and I payed for it. Currently mining Ethereum using claymore dualminer. its a 12 gpu ( all sapphire nitro radeon 580 rx ). We used Asrock h110 pro mother board, 2 ballistix ram sticks 8g each, and three power supplys (2,200 watt, 1,600 watt and a 1,300 watt) , Intel processor. and we used windows 10 to operate. We got it up running and mining averaging around 350mh/s. Today it quit mining and got stuck on my asrock liefi screen. This has occasionally happened in the past. I powered down and tried to power it back on (this has worked in the past to fix the problem) except this time I heard a small pop and a faint burning smell. I have been looking and can't see anything wrong but when I tried to power on again it went to the window loading screen and froze and then powered itself off. Now I can't get it to turn on. The Cpu spins, all cards light up showing they have power, and all my power supplies turn on. So did I most likely fry my motherboard? What did I do wrong? if anyone can help me trouble shoot and get back up and running I would be most appreciative. I apologize in advance as I am still very much a novice with all of this. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Way to Drastically Reduce GPU Load for Overnight Mining Posted: 25 Jun 2019 12:03 PM PDT Recently I bought a mining rig while at university however due to the noise + heat + lack of dedicated storage space my parents are not thrilled that I have brought it back home for summer. They are perfectly okay with me running it in my room however the noise and heat generated at night make hashing overnight impossible. Is there any plausible/safe way to underclock my GPU's (Vega 56's and RX560's) so that they will not cook themselves overnight while keeping the fans either off or at a level where noise is no longer an issue? Or would it be better to just bite the bullet and either turn it off overnight or just sell the thing [link] [comments]  |
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