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Title: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 22, 2017, 10:28:51 PM Guys I have a 3x PCIE x16 Asus P5N-T SLI motherboard that is around 10 years old.
It is PCI express 2.0 If I were to throw (3) GTX 1060's in it would it just be a waste of time? Due to the age of the motherboard? Would I have a reduced hash rate due to the PCI Express 2.0? Or do nVidia algos not care about the PCI Express version? Thanks. Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: charlie137 on December 22, 2017, 10:44:15 PM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html
id start with ubuntu Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 22, 2017, 11:08:52 PM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: charlie137 on December 23, 2017, 12:36:26 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: jmigdlc99 on December 23, 2017, 01:00:36 AM Sharing mine as well, i'm mining on an 8 year old HP motherboard. It actually only has 1 16x PCIE slot and another 1x PCIE slot. What I did was to add a PCIE extender which allowed me to have an additional 3 PCIE slots. Been using the mobo flawlessly for a few months now.
So from my experience its a NO. You should not see any reductions in hashrate as long as your motherboard can support your GPU. Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 23, 2017, 01:03:28 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Charlie I don't understand. I get pos and pow. Staking coins? Was that stacking? Even then I still wouldn't understand. Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 23, 2017, 01:11:03 AM Sharing mine as well, i'm mining on an 8 year old HP motherboard. It actually only has 1 16x PCIE slot and another 1x PCIE slot. What I did was to add a PCIE extender which allowed me to have an additional 3 PCIE slots. Been using the mobo flawlessly for a few months now. So from my experience its a NO. You should not see any reductions in hashrate as long as your motherboard can support your GPU. Cool! Then it's worth testing. Thanks! Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: charlie137 on December 23, 2017, 02:28:57 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Charlie I don't understand. I get pos and pow. Staking coins? Was that stacking? Even then I still wouldn't understand. with pow/pos hybrid coins you can mine to your wallet, and then also stake mined coins with same wallet. staking is the way to mine on some algos. more coins in the wallet = higher chance for higher pos block reward Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 23, 2017, 02:38:35 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Charlie I don't understand. I get pos and pow. Staking coins? Was that stacking? Even then I still wouldn't understand. with pow/pos hybrid coins you can mine to your wallet, and then also stake mined coins with same wallet. staking is the way to mine on some algos. more coins in the wallet = higher chance for higher pos block reward Ok so what I'm getting is mine pow and pos coins (or a hybrid coin) at the same time? Charlie can you give me a spoon-fed example? Which coins would be pow/pos hybrids? I don't see much on that in a google search. Right now I am mining zPool or MPH through AM with a GTX 750Ti. Just learning all of this and planning out a first rig. Can you point me to a resource about what you are saying? edit: I found this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1349402.0 Going down that rabbit hole now... Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: charlie137 on December 23, 2017, 02:49:47 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Charlie I don't understand. I get pos and pow. Staking coins? Was that stacking? Even then I still wouldn't understand. with pow/pos hybrid coins you can mine to your wallet, and then also stake mined coins with same wallet. staking is the way to mine on some algos. more coins in the wallet = higher chance for higher pos block reward Ok so what I'm getting is mine pow and pos coins (or a hybrid coin) at the same time? Charlie can you give me a spoon-fed example? Which coins would be pow/pos hybrids? I don't see much on that in a google search. Right now I am mining zPool or MPH through AM with a GTX 750Ti. Just learning all of this and planning out a first rig. Can you point me to a resource about what you are saying? edit: I found this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1349402.0 Going down that rabbit hole now... be sure to build mining software yourself, rig sellers like to worm in a few lines in source code to steal hash power from newbies. not all of them, but its a huge trend. ill send you few links regarding pos coins in pm to keep things on topic Title: Re: Mining on a Ten Year Old Motherboard Post by: Bubbajuju on December 23, 2017, 02:55:56 AM http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html id start with ubuntu Thanks! From what I got from the link it should be fine. I will try smOS first. Simple Miner... Blame VoskCoin (youtube) for getting me into all of this... :) $2.37 in my wallet and I'm hooked. no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner Charlie I don't understand. I get pos and pow. Staking coins? Was that stacking? Even then I still wouldn't understand. with pow/pos hybrid coins you can mine to your wallet, and then also stake mined coins with same wallet. staking is the way to mine on some algos. more coins in the wallet = higher chance for higher pos block reward Ok so what I'm getting is mine pow and pos coins (or a hybrid coin) at the same time? Charlie can you give me a spoon-fed example? Which coins would be pow/pos hybrids? I don't see much on that in a google search. Right now I am mining zPool or MPH through AM with a GTX 750Ti. Just learning all of this and planning out a first rig. Can you point me to a resource about what you are saying? edit: I found this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1349402.0 Going down that rabbit hole now... be sure to build mining software yourself, rig sellers like to worm in a few lines in source code to steal hash power from newbies. not all of them, but its a huge trend. ill send you few links regarding pos coins in pm to keep things on topic Thanks and thanks for the help with the original question. |