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If you look and don't see button it can be just a little hidden under hole. Standard paperclip can get it.
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I love the setup. Can you tell a little more about your cooling? I'm interested in knowing what looks like a wooden exhaust at top? |
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Mining on a laptop is just fine if the laptop is connected to some external ASIC's of some sort. For example, I have my laptop currently hashing with a nanofury on an external USB hub. Way too much heat for my poor little laptop to handle when I plugged USB stick directly into USB port. If your talking about some old BFL gear you will be fine hashing on those from your laptop. The mining software in and of itself doesn't burn your laptop out. It's the actual process of using your CPU for hashing (as opposed to running a program that outsources that hashing) to someone else.
Yeah, you may want to buy some USB hubs in case you have USB Mining Sticks (they also draw a metric ton of power) or just an USB-extension-cord for the notebook computer to stay cool. If you don't want your computer to run 24/7 (which also draws a lot of energy) You may want to get a raspberry pi! Do some ROI most usb sticks are either old or on new ones pretty overpriced compared to the more all in one miners. I would love if they made one that was worth it again, but it's mainly for someone to play with one miner and not a mining operation now on sticks. I do miss my BE's blinking in dark though thinking about this thread  |
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Thank you, guys for informative and kind replies!
Yes, it was pretty big investment, but I`ve got a good feeling about it!
Hope you get the return you are expecting. If you dont know what you need for setting it up, please tell me that u calculated how much power you need for that. You dont want to burn your instalations down by overloading them.. Thank you for support!. The point of my question was how do I merge all the power of S3s into my own pool and start mining solo. Or join somebody`s pool with my "sub-pool". I can solve the problem with wall power and PSUs . I`m certificated computer technican and system administrator ;-) Hope you are also a electrician with that amount. Make sure you have the power for all of this, and breakers to support your many miners. Thanks! I think I can manage electrician`s problem. I would like to focus on network questions, for example, how about this 26-port switch? http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/sg300-28mp-28-port-gigabit-max-poe-managed-switch/model.html A managed switch is overkill (waste of money). You also don't need gigabit since even 10/100 will do, but most switches are Gigabit nowadays. I would get a 32 port one or if you don't mind segmentation 2 16s or 2 24s might actually be cheaper and allow you to spread the miners out into 2 stacks. I thought about purchasing managed switch only in context creating my own pool soon or a later. Now I realized that it`s gonna be later than soon and I`ve got a question - which pool is better for my 26 S3 ? I can share a secret - I`m from Lithuania. DRG is right you can use a dumb hub for most things, i have a router and use hub's to split connection in mining rooms. On pool it's personal preference. Look at types of pools is one of your biggest choices. Some luck factor a lot more into your BTC mined. |
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A bit of a description below:
2.7 GHz Dual Core AMD Athalon 5200+ Processor (comparable to Intel Core 2 Duo) - 4 GB DDR2 Ram - 140GB Hard Drive - DVD-RW Drive (Pioneer brand) - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card with dual VGA cable (dual display capable) - Asus Case with 2 front USB 2.0 ports - ASROCK GLAN motherboard Note: running Linux Mint, a modern, elegant, open source, and intuitive operating system
So, is this computer ok for mining coins?
If you're mining altcoins, especially newer altcoins you could stand a chance at playing the market. If you're wanting to mine Bitcoins, you will need some serious ASIC equipment. An AntMiner S3 is the current, though, you can get started with an AntMiner S1 for relatively cheap nowadays that the S3 has been released and that would get you started. With that also, the S1 is capable of WiFi, but if you have some capital to spend pick up a few S3's and instantly get into the TH/s. Do research if go altcoins. Some are great some are a waste of your precious mining power. Granted you hit one right you could get huge profits, but a lot of alt coins really are pump and dump. But there luckily some alt coin's that are more stable. But yes if you get right altcoin you could make a lot, just watch out for crappy coins. |
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Sad to say but from reading that looks like you are out of luck unless you find out who it is and do a civil action.
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Cloud mining is not profitable. If it seems like it is, the company will disappear with everybody's money after 6 months and there's nothing you can do. After all why would somebody go through all the work of setting up miners, a website, and company so they call sell you profit?
Miners don't cost 100-200k in USD. You can buy small ones for as low as $50. The large companies do have a benefit when buying millions though.
They will come with lot's of reasons cloud mining is needed. Fact is most miners now you plug in like a computer to network and set up information in it. It's not near as hard as they want you to think. If you want to mine long term get a miner, if electricity is to high in your area look into hosting. Do ROI math. Electricity and space are two big things to consider when deciding hosted or running at home. WELL IN MY COUNTRY THERE ARE HUGE POWER CUTS AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE MUCH SPACE IN MY HOUSE .ANY MINERS U SUGGEST .MY BUDGET IS LIKE 50 TO 70$$ AND OF COURSE PROFITABLE!!! I would save up a little more and look in group buy. $70 dollar sadly will not get you much mining gear. You can get some of the older stuff in that budget for fun, but do ROI before buying. I'm unsure by power cut if you mean shortage or cut in price. If shortage and high look into hosting. If cut as in cheap price mine at home, just be aware of possible heat/noise. But if you have space for it and cheap electricity then you have a good start to being profitable. |
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how do i ern btc if i dont have a miner?
Look for faucets, but don't expect much. If you do faucets look at numbers after a day or two. You will see how VERY little it is. Mine it, Buy it, Earn it doing services. These are the 3 main options. |
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I tried to mine bitcoin but it's almost impossible with a personal computer, even if it's a gaming station like mine.
Sadly GPU mining is VERY hard to be profitable. For most it will take a ASIC mining device. And do roi electricity price has a lot to do with it. Some are better off hosting some at home. |
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Cloud mining is not profitable. If it seems like it is, the company will disappear with everybody's money after 6 months and there's nothing you can do. After all why would somebody go through all the work of setting up miners, a website, and company so they call sell you profit?
Miners don't cost 100-200k in USD. You can buy small ones for as low as $50. The large companies do have a benefit when buying millions though.
They will come with lot's of reasons cloud mining is needed. Fact is most miners now you plug in like a computer to network and set up information in it. It's not near as hard as they want you to think. If you want to mine long term get a miner, if electricity is to high in your area look into hosting. Do ROI math. Electricity and space are two big things to consider when deciding hosted or running at home. |
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A lot of the current hardware does not take a PC even. You might look but there are quite a few options that have their own network connection and you just really need to set it up on computer.
As far as set up normally it just takes a computer that is able to pull up a website. In this case a IP address. So not much computing power needed at all.
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Do some ROI. Mining is different for everyone on profit. For me I had to quit GPU mining sadly.
I went to all asic mining. And it can be profitable, but takes certain conditions. If you have lots of room and cheap electricity it will really help to ROI. There is hosting aswell for those who live in some of the outrageous power costs. Bug again always do your own ROI.
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If you are looking into mining i suggest looking into the miners in group buy. Do ROI analysis for your individual conditions.
Sadly the day where you can CPU mine is really over. Sure there are some CPU coin's out there I'm sure but in most cases won't pay electricity. And GPU mining is more ROI for your conditions. For most I think GPU is not viable. If it still is for you then your very lucky.
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I would venture to say that any quality PSU made in the last 3 years is made to handle all common voltages. You could also buy a Tripplite PDU. I use one with a dryer outlet and it runs 3 FrankenJup modules and an S2.
Some do have switches though. I would still check. But you are right on most quality one's are made to handle both. But if it has a switch to change between 220 and 110 .... and you don't switch it poof goes the psu. |
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A question for those who have dragons hosted with pcfli
How long from from payment did it take before you where given access to set pools etc to your dragon ?
Very quick normally. I think it did say less than 48 hours after payment before spot's got full. But the great news is new data center opening any time |
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Interesting when a business has to remind you they are still open. From their website "Yes, we are still in business"
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Make sure you do this or you will see smoke most likely from PSU. |
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Thanks for sharing picture. I had not seen inside of the bitfurry one before.
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Depending on electricity might look into hosted miners. Do ROI equations as always.
And only get from trusted vendors, I suggest staying away from BFL. If your looking at Monarch there is a lot of people waiting for them whenever they do start producing.
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elpenguin credential sent out!
We are currently sold out form has been shut off to stop a queue forming. Thanks once again to my customers!
I appolgize if anyone is wanting to rent and can't because of being sold out. Depending on if customer's extend rentals we should have some in a day or two.
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