Doesn't seem terrible at first sight. At least some thought was put into it.

Too bad it's x11 ASIC algo though and that there's 10% premine.

I'm curious as well.

What input voltage your wattmeter and your Corsair Link is reading?

I'm still using version 0.8.7.1-beta-qr because I had plenty of issues with the newer versions and this one works perfectly.

I never had your issue specificly though.

What wallet is that?

A few old wallets (especially with 1 million+ blocks) can be very unresponsive so if there's some action they spike the CPU and it will take time before it becomes responsive again.

You could try increasing the wallet's priority with task manager.

Or you could try increasing the limit on rpc connections in the wallet's config file (e.g. add rpcthreads=100 in a new line). The default I think is 8 so it might not be the culprit but who knows.

Your GPUs pulled way too much juice from the motherboard.

This is why we use powered USB risers, those feed the cards directly from the PSU and not from the motherboard.

That doesn't say much though. You could probably get newer (but still super old) cards cheaper.

But even if they were free, since they're made with a 55nm fabrication process you would need access to stupidly cheap electricity to be able to make very little profit. At which point it would worth it much more if you'd invest in more powerful cards or even ASICs. And there's only so much cards you can stick in a system so you'd end up basically wasting money on the rest of the components.

They basically require a lot of electricity to do very little work.


But hey, since they're cheap you can try and play around with one.

I have no idea but its specs make it pretty irrelevant for mining.

For starters, it's made with a 55nm fabrication process so it's pretty far from being energy efficient, has 240 CUDA cores and uses a maximum of 188 watts. Sounds like ancient tech in mining at this point.

In comparison Pascal cards are made with a 16nm process, and for example a GTX 1070 has 1920 CUDA cores and the reference cards only use 150 watts (though consumption is higher for some factory overclocked versions).


Its CUDA compute capability version is only 1.3 which means it's not supported by any relevant ccminer fork (if any) and it's safe to say that there's no miner in existence that is even remotely optimized for that card.

It looks like a standard dualslot card though.

That error shouldn't happen. My guess is that you're overclock or intensity is way too high.

Other than what scryptr said, you're using the "-o" argument trying to define the algo instead of using "-a".

PoW algo and details?

Oh yeah, the good old golden times for crypto miners when a couple of coins launched each day.

Spamming F5, downloading the wallet while also pointing all your rigs to the address of the wallet that's not even downloaded yet, starting it, closing the typical first launch bug error, restarting and watching as you flashmine the first X amount of blocks is a great experience. And it was sometimes stupidly profitable.

Bensam can't seem to understand that you didn't need to invest anything - other than time. Most of the time you only had to mine for minutes, maybe hours. That's hardly an investment in exchange for dozens of blocks. Most of the time you would have had to mine for days to earn the same amount of coins once pools launched and the difficulty ramped up - and you could earn that in a matter of minutes if you were one of the first.

I have all the wallets that I have ever downloaded and used which is now over 250 - and I mined some coins to most of them.

Where's a thread or a source for the development of the nvidia miner?

https://badmofo.github.io/ethereum-mining-calculator/

Pretty much what every calculator says.

I'm not mining Eth, but I do solomine everything I can and personally, I draw the line at 12 hours.

That is if it takes longer than 12 hours for me to find a block on average then I switch to a pool.

Even with a 12 hour average block finding frequency the variance can be killer. You could go for weeks without finding anything if you're really unlucky. Of course, the opposite can also happen.

Basically the longer your expected block finding frequency is, the more time it it will take (days/weeks/months) for things to even out.

It's up to you what level of variance can you handle.



But, with Etherem one thing to note is the very low block times (in comparison) which means you need a very good connection (very low latency with good routing/physical location) otherwise the blocks you're solved could end up orphans because someone else with a better connection beat you to it. I have a great connection but that alone would tip the scale for me not to bother with solomining. But if you do decide to solomine, good luck!

Yes, since it's open source it is trustless. My bad.

MineCoin

That doesn't say much since 97.37% of the volume comes from Polo. And because of bots.

That's a laughably bad centralization of funds by the way.

If Polo would go bust it would fuck XMR big time.

What are you mining that you need an opencl miner for nvidia? OpenCL is generally for AMD and CUDA is for Nvidia.

Use ccminer.

10% premine of 5 years mining... yeah, no.