Trying to turn an old pc into a mining rig. NVIDIA GeForce 210. Need help :(

[parisbitcoin]

to be clear ethminer and claymore will NOT work on a card with less than 3G VRAM. It has to do with the DAG size.
again not judging just trying to give you clear info, don't try to mine ETH with your hardware

[MagicSmoker]

Can cryptonight mine eth and etc?

Some crypto algorithms require less video memory to solve than others, but if an algo requires too little memory (e.g. - Bitcoin) then it is open to solving with custom-designed chips (ASICs) and GPUs are left in the dust at that point.

You can see how much video memory is required for some of the more popular Ethash* based coins here:

https://investoon.com/tools/dag_size

Note that running Windows at the same time as mining - especially to play videos (e.g. - YouTube) - will require some video memory as well. During my brief test of Ethereum mining, MSI Afterburner (an overclocking and GPU monitoring utility) reported I was using just under 3GB on my 4GB GTX 1050 Ti, of which ~2.2GB was for Ethereum (the so-called "DAG file"). This means a 3GB GTX 1060 will be unable to mine Ethereum any day now (if not already)

However, when mining Ubiq I was using right around 2GB, so a 3GB card would have plenty of life left in it. Also, there are other coins which don't use a massive DAG file but which are still somewhat to fully resistant to ASIC attack, such as those that use the Equihash algorithm like Zcash, Zencash, Bitcoin Gold, Hush, etc. I am mining Zcash right now and MSI Afterburner is reporting around 993MB of video memory in use (once again, with some of that consumed by Windows).

However, with just 16 CUDA cores and 512MB of memory, I don't a GeForce 210 will be able to mine *anything*, even if booting into Linux or some other O/S that doesn't use a GUI.



* - Ethash is the name of the algorithm for mining (ie - solving) Ethereum and it is used for several other coins such as Ubiq, Expanse, Musicoin, etc.

[huntingthesnark]

Are you guys all trying to say that ethminer and claymore won't work with my card? Or are you just saying it's not profitable?

Again, I don't care about the profit. I just want it to work so I can say I can successfully setup mining. It has nothing to do with profit.

I just need a clear answer on this. . .

Of course you can...my 6 year old daughter did it, its not complicated

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but in my original post I specified the painstaking steps I went through. I literally went through a whole afternoon and night installing/uninstalling/reading wiki.

I installed all those components, but ethminer and claymore were still not working.

Not being funny, cos I'm sure we've all been there at one point or another, but if you had spent £150-200 on a secondhand rx470 you would probably be up and running by now. Cost benefit analysis is something rarely mentioned on here, but kinda important unless you have infinite time to waste. Either splash out on the necessary minimum hardware to mine ETH, or try Cryptonight.

[Turkish88]

What is your CPU model? There are some coins that can be mined with CPU. For instance Credits, Yenten, Aeon, Intense coin and Monero. But even for CPU mining you would need not too old CPU. AVX instructions help when CPU mining.

But as other already told you buying some modern GPUs would work.

What you think if pc have gpu geforce 210, what cpu installed on it ?  I dont think what installed high end core i10 there ))
Its officework pc.
TS you can only collect expirience in starting mining software and creating bat files

[QuintLeo]

For reference - the GTX 750 ti is currently considered to be a BOTTOM LEVEL mining card.
It has 640 CUDA cores, and also clocks quite a bit higher than your GT 210.

 750 ti on Monero is good for around 250 hash/s - even IF your GT 210 worked at all, it might manage 6 or so, which is LESS than the IGPU on my A10 APUs manage.

 By current standards, that isn't even an entry-level card - INTEL on-CPU graphics is more powerful, much less AMD iGPUs.