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Hy there,

i find it rather interesting, what hardware can and actually is used to mine the XMR.
Post whatever you like, if you own a farm or if you stress your Desktop to get a buck out of it.

It would be helpful to get a dedicated list of used hardware, miningspeed, used Software, used wattage and what you are going to do with your mined XMR´s (only if you want us to know)

I am looking forward to a nice thread with lot´s of contributors! Maybe we can build a POLL later  ;D

Currently i run following HARDWARE and SOFTWARE

MAINBOARD -> Asrock 960GM-VGS3 FX 760G RGVSM
VENT -> Alpenföhn "Brocken Eco"
CPU -> AMD FX-8320E 3200 AM3+ BOX -> supports AES-NI
RAM 2 Rigs -> D3 8GB 1600-11 NT GSK
PSU -> 300WATT
OS -> Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server 64bit
POWER -> This setup is using 120watts permanently, with short peaks to 180watts for about 5sec every 30sec

I am currently solomining with bitmonerod on 4 cores with about 160H/s
The remaining 4 cores are mining with a modded WOLF cpuminer-multi from sammy007 at minexmr.com (http://minexmr.com) with an average of 160H/s.
The system is running stable and due to the big vent at the CPU you here almost nothing, i can recommend the use of it!

I am planning to use a GPU, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Mini, to mount it into the ATX tower and use with tsivs GPU miner and check out what i can get out of the 145watts  :o 8)

So I should get Max peaks including GPU mining of about 325watts with a 350watt PSU  ;D

Kind regards,
elrippo

Gpu mining xmr is not very profitable.
The best gpu miner is Claymore for AMD : about 800h/s for a R9 290X (Hynix memory).
There is a private nvidia miner for maxwell nvidia cards (sp_ ccminer but not the public one) : but a GTX 980 has less hashrate with this miner than Claymore and a R9 280X...
 

By the way, your psu is somewhat a bit weak for combining gpu mining and cpu mining 24H/24. It would be better to have a little bit more room.
With your psu, you can use at ease a 750 ti, a GTX 960 with mining both on cpu and gpu, but I would not mine with you config with a GTX 970 and cpu (it is OK for gaming or casual mining but a bit risky for mining 24/24 for a long period)

Hy,
thanks for the input, i am aware about my PSU. So before i turn on my GTX i will get another PSU for 24/7 ;D

elrippo have you tried only mining a total of four cores on that CPU (2 solo + 2 pool if that's what you prefer) instead of using all eight?

You might get better performance and/or lower power usage, since it has only 8 MB of cache. Even if the hash rate drops a bit you might check power usage and find it more efficient (if you care about that).

Regarding the poll, the best price performance is probably used server gear (Xeon's) if you can get it at a good price and without paying for a lot of extra stuff (drives, RAM, etc.) that you don't need, although in theory you can sell that stuff off (more work).

Yeah i know smooth, but the problem i have, is the fact that sometimes crashes with when i run it at all 8 cores due to the cache beeing splitted inly for four cores.
So, i have cpuminer running as backup, when bitmonerod fails (happens twice a month)  :(
I checked the watts, and that´s fine for me at the moment, and besides your positive argument, i just want to stress my octacore and the software running  ::) ;D

RAM is currently at 11GB, so it runs good and nice  :D

EDIT: The funny thing is, when i run cpuminer on all eight cores it delivers somewhat 320H/s, with four cores constantly around 160H/S, so this seems to handle the cache different than ./bitmonerod  :)

That's odd. I've never seen that error and I've had nodes running for months.

You could launch it within


If it crashes it will just restart!

EDIT: regarding the cache and such, I don't really understand it, and I haven't done much with AMD CPUs. YMMV, test and optimize is always your friend when mining.

I could do a while true with an email if it restarts, but i want to see what it does with n cores at work.
With this setup it runs pretty stable, if i charge more cores for bitmonerod it starts to crash, so i believe that´s related to the cache of the CPU.

I am just a hobby miner and a long term holder, i don´t think i open a big farm  :D
I just openend this thread, that people could get a look at different hardware and maybe software for our monero  ;) ;D

I have 3 750 ti's in a rig. 2 of the 750 ti's are from PNY and they get 280 h/s. The other is from MSI and only gets 250. I used to think it was because the PNY's were on the mainboard and the MSI was on a riser-USB thinger, but thats not the case. I switched it all around and its dependent on the cards.

The rig uses a ASUS Maximum Formula Motherboard with 4 gigs ram. The processor is a Xeon X3323 with the sticker hack to work in the 775 board. The CPU is clocked down to 1.5 Ghz.

I use tsivs ccminer for the nvidia maxwell cards.

the rig also runs bitmonerod. Every so often I'll turn on solo mining.

The rig also has a bitcoin ASIC (~100 watts for 120 gh/s) thats on a solo pool.

Alltogether, the rig pulls 400 watts from the wall.

Do you have any idea of the power usage? I'm guessing pretty high even though CryptoNight GPU mining is usually pretty low power for GPUs. The older ones didn't have very good power management though.

I have a lot of those gathering dust....

mining with 3 rigs curently.

4x 7970 - 2200h/s (undervolted)
3x 280x - 1600h/s (stock)
2x 280x - 1100h/s (stock)

total power draw is about 980w

holding all my mined xmr for now.

Thanks elrippo for pointing me here.

My rig has been running since September last year. Has been very stable.  The rig is pulling about 3KH/s on average at about 1050 watts from the wall.  Just ordered an i5 Intel CPU so I can mine a little with CPU on this rig.  

- 6x R9 280x
- Windows 8
- 2x Thermaltake 1200watt PSU's
- 8GB RAM
- SSD
- ASRock H81 BTC Mother Board
- Claymore 9.1 for GPU
- Celeron CPU

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215542.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215626.jpg


I also have a gaming machine I run as a miner when I'm not on it. I have an AMD FX8150 8 core CPU and that does about 300H/s with just 6 of 8 threads running. Run Claymore for CPU.
I also have 2 older SLI'ed Nvidia GTX560's that run CCMiner for GPU and they pull about 220-280H/s combined. So I pull an extra 500-550 H/s when this gaming machine is running.

Your rig is so neat, good job !
It makes me want to build rigs again.

You are welcome, and thank you for your post in here!!!
So you tend not to solomine with your rig?
Keep on hashing  ;D

350 H/s with 5 cores AMD FX at 4 Ghz. Can't get more by firing up the other 3 cores.
Claymore CryptoNote CPU Miner v3.4 Beta - POOL with -nofee 1  switch.
The good thing is, I can play Left 4 Dead 2 while mining (the Steam engine uses only 2 cores).
The bad thing is, if I stop the miner to do some heavy work with the processor (video transcoding usually) it needs to reboot the computer, or it goes to "slow mode".
Is there a way to flush the L3 cache in Windows 7, so this will not happen?

I forgot... I have an HD7850 graphics card too, but since it does only 230 H/s I tend to forgot  :P

No solo mining.  I've never been good with command line stuff.  Hardware is my specialty. I need the command line for dummies book LOL.

I'm gonna try this rig out some time soon.  If this rig were to run Linux then the price would be far lower as you wouldn't need as much RAM and the SSD could be smaller or cut out all together as you could run Linux on a USB stick.  Still would have the option to add on a GPU for additional mining.  I think this would make a great node, wallet, simple miner for someone wanting to support the network.  If you had 100 of these units using the new simple miner that is supposed to be in the 8.8.7 release then this could really help out the distribution and help decentralize the network.

I found my dream mining Motherboard today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html (http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html)

11x PCI Slots 24 Core CPU via 2 Intel Xeons up to 1 TB RAM

Can you imagine 11 GPU's hashing and 20 CPU cores hashing with 4 cores running the system. Oh I need a cash infusion badly. One can dream :-)

Is that url broken? I can't see what you're referring to. thanks.

An ugly supermicro X10DRX :D
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7122/supermicro-x10drx-intel-c612-server-motherboard-review/index.html

Try This

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfm (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfm)

11 PNY 750 ti's = 3 kh , 330 watts

11 PNY 750 ti's = $1100 - $1430

-- droool ---

2.7 xmr / day

at 10 cents / kwh, 330 watts is $0.792

at currend USD val, thats 60 cents / day in "profit"

I've owned a few Supermicro boards and never had any issues with them

This board is huge but its a miner dream board.

Cheapest I've seen the board is $479 on Amazon

Just for one 12 core processor it will cost $2,600 for a high end chip.  

This build if taken to its potential would be an easy $10K or more.   If I built a beast miner off of this board I'd liquid cool all of it (CPU, GPU and Math Co-Processor) so I could really push the imagined hardware to its limits.  Anybody have $15K they want to give me in the form of a grant? LOL

You can't ever pay for the hardware that way (on top of $1250-ish for the GPUs, add $480 for the motherboard, plus CPU, memory, and PSU). Even with low end CPUs and minimal RAM that is going to be $3K or more, so 5000 days to break even. But if you have some other use for a server like that, mining is a good way to get some extra value out of it. That's what I do with my servers. Mining as an add-on activity to reduce operating and ownership cost. Desktops, servers, etc. That's where to go with it.

Yeah.

Until monero moons!!! ( gufaw ). But yes - I generally try find a middle ground between wanting decentralized mining and wanting to build a monster rig to mine tons of monero for myself.

I know this is way off topic but has anybody here ever built a Searl generator or have info on how to build one?   If you want to know more then I put a link here.  But you can google it for expanded learning.  

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/07/free-energy-searl-effect-generator/ (http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/07/free-energy-searl-effect-generator/)

BETTER LINK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8KVzDeYaI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8KVzDeYaI)

Before coming at me with the law of thermal dynamics and why it will never work, please think outside of 3D physics and closed loop circuits because this tech does work on 4th dimension thinking and laws of the universe.  

This free energy source has been suppressed for years by the ruling cabal on this planet because they control all the oil, coal and nuclear rods for electric generation.  I've talked with my uncle about this and he is an electrical engineer and he already knew it was possible.  He spent many years in the environmental industry here in the US and told me that in the past when some physicist would come to the plate with this tech they would be shut down and threatened by the powers that be.

I tried to get him interested in building a small scale generator with me but he does not have any interest.  Well he is in the middle of a nasty divorce so that is occupying his time.

The planet as a whole is in dire need of this tech and it could only make things better for humanity, plus I'd like to run my miners off of it and never pay for electric again.  Maybe I'd get shot for trying but to put it bluntly, fuck the cabal and their rapping and economic enslavement of the people of this earth.  Time for a change.  

Ok thanks for any info you guys might have.  You can PM me.  

Yeah dude, I got into this a while back - in general, I think high RPM magnetism will open up a lot of doors.

What're you thinking - we start a monero fund drive to build one of these, then we set up a mining operation?

That's my thinking.  Mining operation with free electric.  How sweet that would be.

Not to mention you could start a whole business building these for people to install at their homes, business, or even putting these in cars or tractors.  The possibilities are endless.

Mainly mining though.

It would be a huge benefit to mankind if proof of work could be accomplished by generating usable power, rather than by consuming it.  Inverse hash-cash is a much better mining incentive, and overcomes the centralizing influences of scale created by hash-cash.  I seriously doubt this can be done, given the laws of thermodynamics as we know them, but hey, one can never invent if one blinker's one's fancy.

Botnet  ;D

Just kidding...

Waiting for next dumping video.

I used to use AMD HD 7970 to mine the Monero. But it is not as profitable as mining Ethereum. I am mining Ethereum.

Maybe specialised miners for heating purpose, we can turn that on in winter and shut down during summer. Some are in the north, some are in the south.

your power consumption is only 1kw, per 9 cards on cryptonight?
did you undervolt, or what is your settings?

which algorythm is needed for monero mining?
scrypt?

The algorithm is  cryptonight.  You can mine with either CPU or GPU.

Just curious, how profitable is it to mine monero with r9 290, how many coins can it mine per week ?

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Check this spreadsheet to estimate your hashrate :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MI-ic0Os25hgGUImW54sUIjZY_pUNQNa_W8Se5pRGBs/edit#gid=1726706747

Then go on a mining pool and use the Estimate Mining Profit tool :
http://monero.crypto-pool.fr/

Example :
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1473149017.jpg

Be aware that it is only an estimate, global hashrate may fluctuate a lot.
Also, every GPU have a different hashrate depending on the specific model (memory type and cooling) and mining conditions (cooling, connection stability).

With 700 hash/s the estimate give 1.05 XMR per week but I don't think that you will reach 1 XMR with a r9 290.

xmr was very good with 290's in the mid of 2014, not now.

Can i use exhange wallet mining monero? what is monero payment id?

Just moved into a new flat and electricity's free for a few weeks so I'm running ccminer on a Gigabyte GTX 770 OC which yields a measly 0.25khs. Also using the spare CPU cycles on a dedicated box in a datacentre with minerd which adds another 0.15khs. In total, this could actually cover the cost of the dedibox at the end of the month, not that bad when you think about it. 

You cannot mine directly to an exchange with Monero except on very few pools but you'll have to pay 0.1 XMR per withdrawal.
Monero payment ID is what you need to deposit on an exchange. Without payment ID, any deposit is lost.


Lucky you.


It quite good right now. It's one of the only alternative to ETH.

New here !

Hmm, was looking around, and you guys say, you get a measli 2kh/s from those video cards.
Yet, as I'm seeing to join, I checked for one of the light machines, to join, and they rate a 'stupid' GT520 @ 14/20Kh/s ?
As where I live, it's hard to get decent processors, it's or Celeron, or I3, or Sempron, so, I actually have two machines running Linux 64Bit, with GT520 cards. rated at 14/20Kh/s, they should do not that bad ?

Can you guys point me around a bit, where you can exchange, if it's needed to join a pool , and so on.

thanks

Those numbers seem way off for those cards.

Exchange is polonoex. Pool list can be found on monerohash.com

Hello Gingerale,

two questions

1) what works better ? Radeons, or Nvidea's  ? R390 seems really cheaper then Titan (x).

2) How works Titan (6GB) vs. Titan x (12GB)? surely, the Titan has less cores then the Titan X .

I'm looking for a std board with min. 4 Pci-e slots. Found one with a Xeon 12 core.

laters ?

And sorry,
One more question.
How's the hashrate from monero, if you look to other coins, like etherium, etc.

I found this list, that publishes hashrate, but for a lot different scripts
http://www.mininghwcomparison.com/list/    only a few for scryptonight, what should be  monero ?

1. Radeon's get higher hashrate. Nvidias are more efficient (less electricity).

2. No idea re: titan. The miner software was written on Maxwell architecture. I think titan is the previous generation.



I don't know what you mean by this question. Monero uses a different algorithm than ethereum etc. Hashrates not comparable.

Hi again,

is there a page that publishes results for different cards, and monero ( cryptonight ?)
alternatively, is there a way to calculate hashrate you get from another coin ( eth, litecoin, etc ), what you'll get for monero ?

I want to be informed well, before buying 'new' stuff, which will be difficult enough, as I have to import all.

What is needed to run a node, concerning mem/proccessor(s)/diskspace/ net bandwith ?

what is needed, just to hash, let's, let's say per card installed.

And what do I need to have installed, to get a Linux machine working, and not really into soft from pages that launch you at their pool at once.

First steps will be some experimenting, and like said, I can get a nice board to start, with nice processor, and an offer for 3 Titans ( not the X)
As I see, the Nvidia gtx690 has some 3000+ cuda cores, that should be a nice option as well ?

thanks for further advice guys

H97 Anniversary
6x RX 480 ASUS OC Dual

Power draw is about 850.

Each card is producing 580-590H/s on Claymore

All cards are stock, for now

Happy to listen to any suggestions for increasing the hash rate! :D

Find a custom bios for those AMD 480s.

My XFX REFERENCE cards produce ~725 h/s each on -h 1024.

Also note the custom bios that can be found will reduce your power draw vs stock cards. So its a win-win

Cheers BTCBusinessConsult

I am keeping my eyes peeled! Sadly haven't stumbled on one yet, so in the mean time playing with Wattman settings

I'll tell you what to do, if you want to be informed.
Don't go to the pub this weekend, just take a seat and read, read, read related threads here on bitcointalk :D

 Titan X is Maxwell, original Titan I think was next older generation (Kepler?), Titan X Pascal is ... Pascal!

 No Titan model is a good hash/$ choice though if you already have the card no reason to not try to use it.
 They're way too much about "bragging rights" and you pay a major premium for that.

Hi there,
my sapphire rx 470 OC 4gb (ref) mines stable at 759h/s with modded bios (1500 timings and more) cc 1150 / 950mV - mc 2090 / 981mV
did not play with -h for now.

where do u find these modded bios?

You can find some in some threads in this forum (sorry don't have kept link).
But the one I use now, I made it by myself.

All you need is polaris bios editor and ATI Flash.

But carefull my first flash resulted in a bricked card. Fortunately had an old quattro in second PCIe to use to unbrick.

Impressive, whats the power performance compared to 480 and ndivia?

GPU-Z shows ~85W and I have 185W at the wall for the entire system (iddles at 80). As a comparison, mining ETH it uses 205-210W.

I think that beats nvidia. nice. :)

little correction, this power consumption is for cc 945mV/ cm 975mV. After some modification the reload of the setting with trixx modified it a bit and I did not notice.

It was stable over night, still running, but i'm about to try over settings.

Tried a different approach: lower mem clock but with strap from 1375 mem clock. Reached 800h/s cc 1200 / mc 2025.
Not stable yet.

Hi guys. i have found this gpu server. is it worth to mine with it? ::) ::)
how we can how much H/s each CUDA core generate?
http://www.redstation.com/gpu-server (http://www.redstation.com/gpu-server)

http://uupload.ir/files/6uj9_capture.png

Those are specialized GPU, not the GPU used in mining-farm.
You need to test all of them but I doubt that they are cost effective.
You have the same on Amazon server, it's not new.

that's with the 470 OC, right?

Impressive. My RX 480 (1x sapphire reference, 2x sapphire dual-x OC) all deliver 630H/s stock.

The dual-x I got to ~690H/s with cc 1400@1200mv, mc 2100@1000mv

Do you somehow match up the claymore miner -cclock and -mclock settings or what do you mean with "strap from 1375 mem clock"?

I have the sapphire reference. I modded the bios with polaris bios editor-> core clock, mem clock and mem timings (the straps). Most of people use the 1500 mhz strap and copy it to higher mem clock straps. I found that for my card 1375 memory strap is best. it's stable at mclock 2010 => 780h/s.
with nitro cards you should be able to go higher , the mem is better( although the latest nitro 4GB comes with elpida memory instead of samsung and is not supported yet by polaris editor).
for undervolting you have to use TRixx or wattman or other. I run at core voltage 825 mV and mem controler 981mV. you should go way ver 800H/s. I'm looking forward to see your results.

more info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1574652.0

Edit: just noticed you have Rx 480 then better see there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0

thanks man! Now I'm getting somewhere :)

tuned everything back to stock settings, fetched the bios from the dual-x 480 and copied over the 1500mhz mem straps to the higher clocks as you suggested. one reboot later, the flashed card does 807h/s@2000mhz memclock as opposed to 630h/s stock @2000mhz memclock...

I will toy around a bit more with this

OK, so those previous settings gave 800h/s but also produced invalid shares.

after some testing, I'm now at stable 775h/s which will have to do for now, as time testing is time not mining ;)

CPU 1175@900mv
VRM 2060@990mv

Memstrap from 1500 copied over all the way to 2000

This now uses less energy than the default settings. The cards stay so cool the fans are now cutting out to 0rpm

GPU temp ~55°C

I'm stuck at 778H/s too. my mem is not stable over 2010... that's why I use 1375 strap.

LOL, system came out of hibernation and my secondary card was dead so I was like "Great" I have an excuse to upgrade to a decent miner (I sold all my dedicated gpu's 6 months ago) but on reboot it came back. LOL first time I was ever happy a card died and it really didn't! :D

You might use higher memory strap to get more stable mining of the Monero. If it is too high, it is not so stable.

It's very stable at that mark, run it for a week flawlessly with expected revenue.

I am currently running 36 16-core opterons and a few GPU's I had laying around. Churns out about 18KH/s edit: sometimes hits 20-22KH

how much XMR are you earning every block? and how many hours can the GPU to process one block?
I can probably try buying all these hard ware if i see i can earn sufficient amount thru it. I've read about that Claymore thread from time to time.

A good old Schilling  ;D :D ;)

Hello I am new to all of this. but I am confused. Even if you dont pay for electricity and already have a computer that can mine at 800 H/S thats only like $13 USD per week. Is that correct? $13 US Dollars per week? whats the point if you have to dedicate a whole computer to do nothing but mine for 24 hours per day just to get $13 per week? Am I missing something?

Pro-miners put six cards per motherboard and have thousands of them.

so six cards per board is expensive and thats only what? maybe $80 per week? sorry I dont think any one has thousands of PCs mining in their house.

No of course they don't mine in their house, they have factories.

see : http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-ethereum/

Cmon guy, Im talking about normal people here who mine, not Chinese mining factories run by companies or people with investors. Im talking Monero mining, Im trying to understand how is it possible to make any real money mining Monero coins? If a single person cant mine at least $300 per week minimum, I dont see what is the point spending money, time and resources mining.

unless you have a big house and free electricity, you cannot.

buy for 300-1000 usd coins on exchange.. its much better

DO NOT buy this hardware for XMR mining.

MAINBOARD -> Asrock Rack EP2C612WS
VENT -> Two Cooler Master 212 EVO's
CPU -> Two Xeon E5-2667 V3 ES
RAM -> 64 Gig's DDR 4 -3200 GSkill Trident Z
PSU -> 750W EVGA
OS -> Ubuntu 16.04LTS  64bit, and Windows 10 64 Bit
GPU's -> Two XFX RX 480 4gig
POWER -> Don't know yet.

The two E5-2667 V3 ES cpu's have 35mb of L3 cache each so I can run 32 threads all the time.  8)

These engineering sample cpu's are acually 14 cores that have only 8 cores activated, they are KILLER for cpu mining with the unusually large cache.

About 575 H/s on each cpu and about the same on each RX480.

https://i.imgur.com/xdcuLvu.png

You have only 575H for each CPU or each CORE on a CPU ?

At this time, what is the best free miner software for nVidia GPUs/Ubuntu to mine XMR ?

It's seems that no news release of CryptoNight CCMiner were made since 2 years....

:-)

Each cpu, so for both I get about 1150 H/s.

You would think it  would be a bit more but these Xeons are ES ones that have a all core boost of 3 GHz. My last build was a dual E5-2670 that have 20mb of L3 cache each and would run best with ~9 threads and about 400 H/s each.

Both the 2667's and 2670's are both 8 core with 16 threads each running at all core boost of 3 GHz but with the 35 mb of cache the 2667's are about %60 faster mining monero and put out noticeably less heat and I can run all 32 threads 24/7 even while doing other things, web surfing, watching youtube ect.

I did not build this pc to crypto mine, it's my main pc that I try alot of things on to learn and last weekend I started running Wolfs GPU miner to see what it would do.

Better than the 8H/s  on a Athlon x2 64 bit I tried. LOL

Yea there are quite a few cpu's that will out perform it on one thread but its has 16 threads per cpu and it adds up plus on a dual 2011-3 socket motherboard I have tons of upgrade options for cpu's lots more cores and speed once the prices come down.

Not too bad for a desktop that cranks out ~2300 H/s with only two GPU's that I can still use as a desktop while its mining.


I built this pc a few weeks ago, only bought the motherboard and ram new, the cpu's were bought off ebay used and everything else was reused from my dual E5-2670 build.