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Title: trying to mine on windows home server Post by: wrxxx on March 27, 2013, 04:15:37 AM i dont have money to set up another computer so im trying to get my server to run my 2 6770's that i have laying around. anyone have any ideas on how to get it set up and running? i tried dual booting but it doesnt seem to work at all. any info would be great
Title: Re: trying to mine on windows home server Post by: CoolIT on April 03, 2013, 05:19:12 PM As a newbi, I will try to help as much as I can, my knowledge is very limited compared to most people here.
Also, I think my approach is one of the easiest and laziest. First be sure that your server has a respectful power supply. I would recommend a 600W of a decent brand. Second, I take it you will mine for a pool. I use slush pool. Register an account with them. http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Have 2 workers, one for each videocard. example, if your name is badass you can name the workers badass.r6770a badass.r6770b set a decent password. On your server, I would use Guiminer Download latest version Run, point to slushpool Put in user and pass of worker from slush pool set extra flags, I use -v -f0 -w128 I think you can make tabs, I just open guiminer twice (4 times in my case) http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae132/daniel_coolit/miner_zps91a81671.jpg Watch it mine. I use TechPowerUp GPUZ to monitor my videocard temperatures I also use Trixx to overclock my cards. Don't burn your cards. I can assure you there are far better way of mining and I am pretty sure guiminer is far from the best or fastest. It works for me and it has not given me any headaches. The speed is respectable. It is brainless to make work and barely touches the Sempron CPU usage. For some reason with my old mining rig, I used a command prompt miner (forgot which) and my cpu with 2 cards was at 100% (Running an Athlon II X2) Good luck Title: Re: trying to mine on windows home server Post by: BitcoinTate on April 03, 2013, 05:22:11 PM I am running two 6770's. I installed the latest AMD SDK kit... then I overclocked both gpu's using MSI Afterburner. Mem clock all the way down, Core clock all the way up. I get the best performance out of bfgminer. Around 220 m/h per card.
Title: Re: trying to mine on windows home server Post by: glendall on April 03, 2013, 05:38:25 PM Mining noob here. But IT guy as well.
As far as I would imagine mining on Win server should be no issue at all. Should be no different at all than running from a regular Windows box. The only problem is if your server is doing actual serving, you are going to want to reduce the intensity of your miner operation. But if traffic isn't too high I would imagine it should go smooth. |
