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Drhiggins posted this 10 years ago

Drhiggins | 10 years ago

Wondering what hardware other Monero miners are using?

-What hash rate are you getting?

-How much are you pulling at the power socket?

-What software are you running?

-Any other important info you might feel is relative?

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Chicken76 posted 8 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Does anyone know how AMD Tonga based GPUs (380X/380/285) do versus Tahiti (280X/280/7970/7950) at cryptonote mining? Does the reduced memory bandwidth affect Tonga negatively? If so, is it offset by lower power consumption?

Vitaliy posted 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -111 | Link [ - ]

Hello, I am newbie.Please tell me what equipment to buy and where to buy it for mining Monero?

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Gingeropolous edited 9 years ago Weight: -108 | Link [ - ]

depends. Do you want the most efficient, power wise? Or the most powerful? nvidia is really efficient, but AMD is most dense. I.e., a 750 ti gets you 250 h/s for ~100$ for only 30 watts, whereas a 290X gets you ~700 h/s but uses ~200 watts or something.

Maks posted 9 years ago Weight: -127 | Link [ - ]

Helle guys, i'm extremely newbie on mining , i'm a faucet runner . I wish to know if my celerom dual core can mine monero also where can i can cauculate my harsh and profit, any help will be usefull

nioc posted 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -127 | Link [ - ]

Yes you can mine with it but I don't believe it will be worth it for you unless you have almost free electricity. You can post the exact model if you like. I have a dual core pentium which doesn't have AES-NI capabilities which is one reason it sucks and the other is it doesn't have much L3 cache which is another important factor, 2MB per core is best.

My HR is about 35 H/s using both cores which = 100% CPU usage and it would take me well over a month to mine 1 XMR at the present difficulty and reward. I imagine it would be about the same or worse for you.

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drfred posted 9 years ago Weight: -122 | Link [ - ]

morning! after seein the hashrate drop the last days, I though I give mining a try. my amd six-core cpu is doing around 120 H/s with wolf0's cpuminer. I havent figured out how to mine with my gpu yet(anyone have a nice link for a mining noob?), but since it's only a radeon hd 7700 I'm not sure if that does make sense after all.

Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -891 | Link [ + ]

ASRock H81 Pro BTC

Windows 8

2x Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w

250GB HHD

1 x Crucial 4GB 240-Pin DDR3

4x AMD Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X REV 2.0 (with Stilt Bios) (ribbon risers non powered)

3x AeroCool Shark 140mm

Primochill Hasher

I'm pulling 850watts from the wall at 98% mining throttle. Using Claymore Crytonote for GPU. With 4 cards I'm getting 1.65 KH/sec on CryptonotePool UK. Gonna add two more 280x very soon. This is my first mining rig and I have lots to learn but wanted to share with others so that we can compare and help each other out.

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Chicken76 edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -890 | Link [ + ]

Isn't your hashrate a bit low? What version of Claymore miner do you use?

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Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -890 | Link [ + ]

6.1 beta. Only running 4 GPU at the moment on this rig. Perhaps my hardware is not getting me all it can but I did see an improvement in my cards after Stilt Bios upgrade. Any suggestions are welcome. Still a bit new at this.

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Chicken76 edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -889 | Link [ + ]

There are newer versions of Claymore's miner that have significantly higher hashrates.

What CPU do you have in that rig? Do you also mine on it?

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Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -889 | Link [ + ]

Not running on CPU. I guess I should. I have Intel Celeron G1840 Haswell Dual-Core 2.8GHz Not the most powerful CPU around but was cheap for my build.

Installed Zone117x cryptonote-easy-miner for CPU got it running with GPU

Any recommendations on which Claymore miner to run on GPU and also any good CPU miner appreciated.

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Chicken76 edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -888 | Link [ + ]

Well the latest version is 9.1 and you should see a significant increase in speed. Take it from here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0

No point in mining on that CPU. It's enough for keeping the GPUs fed with work though.

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Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: -887 | Link [ + ]

Hell Yeah! Claymore 9.1 beta installed pulling 1.9 KH/sec on 4 GPU's also pulling 75watts LESS from the wall. I'm happy about results. Will be tweaking the batch file over the next few days to see if I can pull out a few extra hash. Thanks for your help Chicken76

From time to time I get access to old surplussed machines. If I come across any i5 or i7 Intel chips I'll upgrade my motherboard and run the CPU miner. Right now its not worth it on that Celeron.

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Chicken76 edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -882 | Link [ + ]

Glad your rig is hashing faster with less power. I still think it should produce more than that though.

If you end up mining on the CPU, be sure to leave at least one thread for the GPU miner, or your hashrate will suffer. Experiment yourself and see how many threads you can occupy before GPU throughput decreases.

Not sure what you mean by "old surplussed machines". How can Haswell i5s or i7s be referred as that? They're not old and I don't see how they could be a surplus to anyone (except maybe Intel).

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Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Weight: -881 | Link [ + ]

Haha you've never worked for the government then. You'd be amazed at what the state of North Carolina surplus's each year.

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Drhiggins edited 9 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -887 | Link [ + ]

Interestingly enough I notice Ctrl c doesn't stop the 9.1 miner. Do you know the command for stopping miner? I always thought Ctrl c stopped the batch files from running.

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Chicken76 edited 9 years ago Weight: -882 | Link [ + ]

Doesn't seem to work for me either. Don't think it's implemented in the miner. Just closing the cmd window works and doesn't seem to leave any orphaned processes.