Title: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 02, 2013, 07:40:10 PM Hey guys,
I want to get my computer set on LiteCoin mining. I'm abit curious what it can do. http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/2791525.png (http://valid.canardpc.com/2791525) However it seems that I do not know hot to set up the scrypt miner properly. Since I cannot join the litecoinpool.org pool I went for the other two pools but couldn't get any of them running. Also Scryptminer uses only 8 threads. Kinda not enough if you have 48 cores... Could anybody help me set this up properly? Is the Miner in the LiteCoin wallet weaker? Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 02, 2013, 07:49:45 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working.
Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: darksoft on May 02, 2013, 07:51:31 PM What card do you have? There's a great thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117221.0
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 02, 2013, 08:09:23 PM I think I got this running now. I made 6 copies of the Scryptminer - folder...
http://abload.de/img/litecointmupr.png I wonder if this is normal though. Doesn't look like much. 48 cores @ 2.5 GHz and I get 210 kHash/s? Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 02, 2013, 08:11:51 PM What card do you have? There's a great thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117221.0 I'm using this guiminer, it's working fine so far.Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: soulmann on May 02, 2013, 09:31:09 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. What is your core and memory? I have 6770 and I have 225 kh/s 985-1200. Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: kelreth on May 02, 2013, 09:50:44 PM holy poo cow. that is a lot of cores.
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: stevenb on May 02, 2013, 09:52:25 PM Why dont you use GPU to mine?
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 02, 2013, 09:57:06 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. What is your core and memory? I have 6770 and I have 225 kh/s 985-1200. Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 02, 2013, 11:20:34 PM Why dont you use GPU to mine? It's a folding farm, and I was only testing if the CPU based platform can compete... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 03, 2013, 03:25:13 AM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. What is your core and memory? I have 6770 and I have 225 kh/s 985-1200. Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: rowens72 on May 03, 2013, 03:31:42 AM Quote It's a folding farm, and I was only testing if the CPU based platform can compete... GPU mining should net you more unless you can get 35 hash from all 48 cores... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 03, 2013, 06:50:11 AM what do you mean?
I have 35 kHash/s per 8 cores. That's the best my computer can do it seems... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: MiniMinerXT on May 03, 2013, 01:27:39 PM With this you don't even need to think about mining. Sry bro.
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: PMB on May 03, 2013, 02:13:26 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. Hi I also have a 5770 and do about 200 or so Hashes.. So 300K is very very very good! Did you overclocked it? What settings are you using? regards, P Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: crew64m1 on May 03, 2013, 03:21:22 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. Hi I also have a 5770 and do about 200 or so Hashes.. So 300K is very very very good! Did you overclocked it? What settings are you using? regards, P 300K seems to be unbelievable for 5770, google for 'litecoin mining hardware comparison' Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: kevinmyers80 on May 03, 2013, 03:27:58 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day.
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: pythons on May 03, 2013, 05:48:39 PM Why dont you use GPU to mine? It's a folding farm, and I was only testing if the CPU based platform can compete... whats a folding farm? Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 03, 2013, 06:50:09 PM Just to get going quickly, I downloaded guiminer-scrypt and joined wemineltc.com. My 5770 is running at around 300 kH/s, generating around .5 ltc per day. It was very easy to get it working. Edited to clarify that I used guiminer-scrypt, since it's different from guiminer. Hi I also have a 5770 and do about 200 or so Hashes.. So 300K is very very very good! Did you overclocked it? What settings are you using? regards, P Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 04, 2013, 07:42:53 AM Why dont you use GPU to mine? It's a folding farm, and I was only testing if the CPU based platform can compete... whats a folding farm? A computer dedicated to folding@home (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home"). For this particular purpose it's ideal... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 04, 2013, 07:52:47 AM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. 33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin? This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it. I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 04, 2013, 04:08:41 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. I just started mining and I'm using wemineltc. It took approximately 66 hours or 2.75 days to generate 1 LTC. That works out to 0.36 LTC per day, from 200 kH/s. That amount is consistent with the "calculator" on the pool website. If your card is generating 3x the hash rate, you should be generating 1 LTC per day.Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bimmerdriver on May 04, 2013, 04:10:55 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. 33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin? This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it. I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU... Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: barrywu2013 on May 04, 2013, 04:44:21 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. 33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin? This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it. I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU... I agree with bimmerdriver, as if you use your CPU to mine, you need a better cooling system for it since it heats up faster than a gpu mining at 70% the cpu and motherboard will die easily if you continue to mine since the CPU is a "brain" while a GPU is a "worker" let the worker do the stuff, let the brain do commands 8) ;D Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 04, 2013, 04:56:22 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. 33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin? This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it. I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU... You misunderstand. CPU based platforms I hear only benefit more from the litecoin inscriptions compared to Bitcoins. That the GPU is better is completely obvious. But I really wanna know what happens... So I'll give it a go tomorrow ;) Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: yuyu123 on May 04, 2013, 05:14:09 PM My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day. 33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin? This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it. I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU... You misunderstand. CPU based platforms I hear only benefit more from the litecoin inscriptions compared to Bitcoins. That the GPU is better is completely obvious. But I really wanna know what happens... So I'll give it a go tomorrow ;) good luck Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 04, 2013, 06:22:48 PM Not too bad:
http://abload.de/img/bildschirmfotovom2013vhuyu.png 250kHash/s for a CPU based mining computer has to be quite impressive.... :) Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 05, 2013, 08:05:30 AM Damn. The CPU remains at 1.8 GHz. :(
It should be at 2.5. I suppose if I get the CPU running like it should I'd be at 350 Khash/s Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 05, 2013, 10:50:48 AM A little fun update :) Windows overclocked and still only 240 kHash/s :)
http://abload.de/img/fun1atue1.jpg At least I cracked a few nice benchmark scores with that frequency if nothing else Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: Collectrix on May 05, 2013, 12:16:58 PM Just an fyi, mining anything with a CPU is several orders of magnitude less efficient/effective than any GPU. You can literally run a BTC/LTC mining rig with an older single core processor and not diminish the results. GPU = god.
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 06, 2013, 11:39:32 AM It seems so, indeed.
The litecoin thing isn't the solution I was looking for. I was kinda thinking that the 48 cores @ 2.5 GHz could do something. They crush anything CPU based.. I mean check this out: http://youtu.be/tZzLPOWoVbU Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: archimedesmp on May 06, 2013, 11:48:50 AM Nice machine man :)
But I am afraid even for what you use it usually, programming a GPU might be faster (but, depending on your memory requirements, you might want to take a look at a nVidia Titan or an equivalent AMD card). One other note: You might want to compare that performance to linux. When I use x264 for encoding on my Xeon the performance gain is close to 10% ;) Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: bobtlk on May 06, 2013, 01:44:27 PM Interesting thread!
Title: Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob Post by: mihapiha on May 06, 2013, 05:51:12 PM Nice machine man :) But I am afraid even for what you use it usually, programming a GPU might be faster (but, depending on your memory requirements, you might want to take a look at a nVidia Titan or an equivalent AMD card). One other note: You might want to compare that performance to linux. When I use x264 for encoding on my Xeon the performance gain is close to 10% ;) Actually I was trying to sell that rig for the good part of May, and I didn't manage to get a buyer at a price I consider normal for a computer of this magnitude. To be fair, it really is a niche product, and obviously it's hard to get a buyer either way. But since I kinda stopped selling it. I don't see any reason to sell it off cheap, especially considering it's performance level in CPU based applications. It just crushes anything else in Folding@Home basically. And thats what it was originally meant to do. I just figured I'd give something else a shot, and check out if I like the "new" numbers. But in this case I really don't. I will try to find something to do with it, and if I cannot it will maintain folding for a while. Originally my idea was to make it run Windows and to make it run with a real 3D-capable graphic card in there. the HD4870 I have in there (an old card which is a bit damaged too), was merely to make it possible to test it. But I can't even start any 3D application because there are no drivers for Windows Server. And I haven't had luck finding in google a way to make AMD HD cards run in Windows Server. If I could make it run, I'd want to know how the CPUs would handle 3DMark, and with that I'd know if it be worth buying a GTX 660 ti or HD7950 so I could play games on that computer if I feel like it. Right now I don't have a PC besides this one. Only a MacBook pro I use 24/7.... |