[XMR] What Hardware and Software do you use to mine the MONERO XMR

[elrippo]

Hy there,

i find it rather interesting, what hardware can and actually is used to mine the XMR.
Post whatever you like, if you own a farm or if you stress your Desktop to get a buck out of it.

It would be helpful to get a dedicated list of used hardware, miningspeed, used Software, used wattage and what you are going to do with your mined XMR´s (only if you want us to know)

I am looking forward to a nice thread with lot´s of contributors! Maybe we can build a POLL later  

Currently i run following HARDWARE and SOFTWARE

MAINBOARD -> Asrock 960GM-VGS3 FX 760G RGVSM
VENT -> Alpenföhn "Brocken Eco"
CPU -> AMD FX-8320E 3200 AM3+ BOX -> supports AES-NI
RAM 2 Rigs -> D3 8GB 1600-11 NT GSK
PSU -> 300WATT
OS -> Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server 64bit
POWER -> This setup is using 120watts permanently, with short peaks to 180watts for about 5sec every 30sec

I am currently solomining with bitmonerod on 4 cores with about 160H/s
The remaining 4 cores are mining with a modded WOLF cpuminer-multi from sammy007 at minexmr.com with an average of 160H/s.
The system is running stable and due to the big vent at the CPU you here almost nothing, i can recommend the use of it!

I am planning to use a GPU, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Mini, to mount it into the ATX tower and use with tsivs GPU miner and check out what i can get out of the 145watts  

So I should get Max peaks including GPU mining of about 325watts with a 350watt PSU  

Kind regards,
elrippo

[ol92]

Hy there,

i find it rather interesting, what hardware can and actually is used to mine the XMR.
Post whatever you like, if you own a farm or if you stress your Desktop to get a buck out of it.

It would be helpful to get a dedicated list of used hardware, miningspeed, used Software, used wattage and what you are going to do with your mined XMR´s (only if you want us to know)

I am looking forward to a nice thread with lot´s of contributors! Maybe we can build a POLL later  

Currently i run following HARDWARE and SOFTWARE

MAINBOARD -> Asrock 960GM-VGS3 FX 760G RGVSM
VENT -> Alpenföhn "Brocken Eco"
CPU -> AMD FX-8320E 3200 AM3+ BOX -> supports AES-NI
RAM 2 Rigs -> D3 8GB 1600-11 NT GSK
PSU -> 300WATT
OS -> Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server 64bit

I am currently solomining with bitmonerod on 4 cores with about 160H/s
The remaining 4 cores are mining with a modded WOLF cpuminer-multi from sammy007 at minexmr.com with an average of 160H/s.
The system is running stable and due to the big vent at the CPU you here almost nothing, i can recommend the use of it!

I am planning to use a GPU, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Mini, to mount it into the ATX tower and use with tsivs GPU miner and check out what i can get out of the 145watts  

Kind regards,
elrippo

Gpu mining xmr is not very profitable.
The best gpu miner is Claymore for AMD : about 800h/s for a R9 290X (Hynix memory).
There is a private nvidia miner for maxwell nvidia cards (sp_ ccminer but not the public one) : but a GTX 980 has less hashrate with this miner than Claymore and a R9 280X...
 

[ol92]

Hy there,

i find it rather interesting, what hardware can and actually is used to mine the XMR.
Post whatever you like, if you own a farm or if you stress your Desktop to get a buck out of it.

It would be helpful to get a dedicated list of used hardware, miningspeed, used Software, used wattage and what you are going to do with your mined XMR´s (only if you want us to know)

I am looking forward to a nice thread with lot´s of contributors! Maybe we can build a POLL later  

Currently i run following HARDWARE and SOFTWARE

MAINBOARD -> Asrock 960GM-VGS3 FX 760G RGVSM
VENT -> Alpenföhn "Brocken Eco"
CPU -> AMD FX-8320E 3200 AM3+ BOX -> supports AES-NI
RAM 2 Rigs -> D3 8GB 1600-11 NT GSK
PSU -> 300WATT
OS -> Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server 64bit

I am currently solomining with bitmonerod on 4 cores with about 160H/s
The remaining 4 cores are mining with a modded WOLF cpuminer-multi from sammy007 at minexmr.com with an average of 160H/s.
The system is running stable and due to the big vent at the CPU you here almost nothing, i can recommend the use of it!

I am planning to use a GPU, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 Mini, to mount it into the ATX tower and use with tsivs GPU miner and check out what i can get out of the 145watts  

Kind regards,
elrippo

Gpu mining xmr is not very profitable.
The best gpu miner is Claymore for AMD : about 800h/s for a R9 290X (Hynix memory).
There is a private nvidia miner for maxwell nvidia cards (sp_ ccminer but not the public one) : but a GTX 980 has less hashrate with this miner than Claymore and a R9 280X...
 

By the way, your psu is somewhat a bit weak for combining gpu mining and cpu mining 24H/24. It would be better to have a little bit more room.
With your psu, you can use at ease a 750 ti, a GTX 960 with mining both on cpu and gpu, but I would not mine with you config with a GTX 970 and cpu (it is OK for gaming or casual mining but a bit risky for mining 24/24 for a long period)

[elrippo]

Hy,
thanks for the input, i am aware about my PSU. So before i turn on my GTX i will get another PSU for 24/7

[smooth]

elrippo have you tried only mining a total of four cores on that CPU (2 solo + 2 pool if that's what you prefer) instead of using all eight?

You might get better performance and/or lower power usage, since it has only 8 MB of cache. Even if the hash rate drops a bit you might check power usage and find it more efficient (if you care about that).

Regarding the poll, the best price performance is probably used server gear (Xeon's) if you can get it at a good price and without paying for a lot of extra stuff (drives, RAM, etc.) that you don't need, although in theory you can sell that stuff off (more work).

[elrippo]

Yeah i know smooth, but the problem i have, is the fact that

Code:

./bitmonerod

sometimes crashes with

Code:

too many pears open

when i run it at all 8 cores due to the cache beeing splitted inly for four cores.
So, i have cpuminer running as backup, when bitmonerod fails (happens twice a month)  
I checked the watts, and that´s fine for me at the moment, and besides your positive argument, i just want to stress my octacore and the software running  

RAM is currently at 11GB, so it runs good and nice  

EDIT: The funny thing is, when i run cpuminer on all eight cores it delivers somewhat 320H/s, with four cores constantly around 160H/S, so this seems to handle the cache different than ./bitmonerod 

[smooth]

Code:

./bitmonerod

sometimes crashes with

Code:

too many pears open

That's odd. I've never seen that error and I've had nodes running for months.

You could launch it within

Code:

while true; do ./bitmonerod --start-mining $ADDR --mining-threads $THREADS; sleep 1; done

If it crashes it will just restart!

EDIT: regarding the cache and such, I don't really understand it, and I haven't done much with AMD CPUs. YMMV, test and optimize is always your friend when mining.

[elrippo]

Code:

./bitmonerod

sometimes crashes with

Code:

too many pears open

That's odd. I've never seen that error and I've had nodes running for months.

You could launch it within

Code:

while true; do ./bitmonerod --start-mining $ADDR --mining-threads $THREADS; sleep 1; done

If it crashes it will just restart!

EDIT: regarding the cache and such, I don't really understand it, and I haven't done much with AMD CPUs. YMMV, test and optimize is always your friend when mining.

I could do a while true with an email if it restarts, but i want to see what it does with n cores at work.
With this setup it runs pretty stable, if i charge more cores for bitmonerod it starts to crash, so i believe that´s related to the cache of the CPU.

I am just a hobby miner and a long term holder, i don´t think i open a big farm 
I just openend this thread, that people could get a look at different hardware and maybe software for our monero 

[GingerAle]

I have 3 750 ti's in a rig. 2 of the 750 ti's are from PNY and they get 280 h/s. The other is from MSI and only gets 250. I used to think it was because the PNY's were on the mainboard and the MSI was on a riser-USB thinger, but thats not the case. I switched it all around and its dependent on the cards.

The rig uses a ASUS Maximum Formula Motherboard with 4 gigs ram. The processor is a Xeon X3323 with the sticker hack to work in the 775 board. The CPU is clocked down to 1.5 Ghz.

I use tsivs ccminer for the nvidia maxwell cards.

the rig also runs bitmonerod. Every so often I'll turn on solo mining.

The rig also has a bitcoin ASIC (~100 watts for 120 gh/s) thats on a solo pool.

Alltogether, the rig pulls 400 watts from the wall.

[smooth]

I also managed to get my Radeon HD5850 to crank out 195 H/s (stock 725/1000 @ 900/1150) with an all-copper Xeon heatsink with a 140mm high volume fan, using the Claymore GPU miner under Win7 x64.

Do you have any idea of the power usage? I'm guessing pretty high even though CryptoNight GPU mining is usually pretty low power for GPUs. The older ones didn't have very good power management though.

I have a lot of those gathering dust....

[V@n@dis]

mining with 3 rigs curently.

4x 7970 - 2200h/s (undervolted)
3x 280x - 1600h/s (stock)
2x 280x - 1100h/s (stock)

total power draw is about 980w

holding all my mined xmr for now.

[Drhiggins]

Thanks elrippo for pointing me here.

My rig has been running since September last year. Has been very stable.  The rig is pulling about 3KH/s on average at about 1050 watts from the wall.  Just ordered an i5 Intel CPU so I can mine a little with CPU on this rig.  

- 6x R9 280x
- Windows 8
- 2x Thermaltake 1200watt PSU's
- 8GB RAM
- SSD
- ASRock H81 BTC Mother Board
- Claymore 9.1 for GPU
- Celeron CPU

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215542.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215626.jpg


I also have a gaming machine I run as a miner when I'm not on it. I have an AMD FX8150 8 core CPU and that does about 300H/s with just 6 of 8 threads running. Run Claymore for CPU.
I also have 2 older SLI'ed Nvidia GTX560's that run CCMiner for GPU and they pull about 220-280H/s combined. So I pull an extra 500-550 H/s when this gaming machine is running.

[superresistant]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215542.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215626.jpg

Your rig is so neat, good job !
It makes me want to build rigs again.

[elrippo]

Thanks elrippo for pointing me here.

My rig has been running since September last year. Has been very stable.  The rig is pulling about 3KH/s on average at about 1050 watts from the wall.  Just ordered an i5 Intel CPU so I can mine a little with CPU on this rig.  

- 6x R9 280x
- Windows 8
- 2x Thermaltake 1200watt PSU's
- 8GB RAM
- SSD
- ASRock H81 BTC Mother Board
- Claymore 9.1 for GPU
- Celeron CPU

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215542.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215626.jpg


I also have a gaming machine I run as a miner when I'm not on it. I have an AMD FX8150 8 core CPU and that does about 300H/s with just 6 of 8 threads running. Run Claymore for CPU.
I also have 2 older SLI'ed Nvidia GTX560's that run CCMiner for GPU and they pull about 220-280H/s combined. So I pull an extra 500-550 H/s when this gaming machine is running.

You are welcome, and thank you for your post in here!!!
So you tend not to solomine with your rig?
Keep on hashing 

[nikos64]

350 H/s with 5 cores AMD FX at 4 Ghz. Can't get more by firing up the other 3 cores.
Claymore CryptoNote CPU Miner v3.4 Beta - POOL with -nofee 1  switch.
The good thing is, I can play Left 4 Dead 2 while mining (the Steam engine uses only 2 cores).
The bad thing is, if I stop the miner to do some heavy work with the processor (video transcoding usually) it needs to reboot the computer, or it goes to "slow mode".
Is there a way to flush the L3 cache in Windows 7, so this will not happen?

I forgot... I have an HD7850 graphics card too, but since it does only 230 H/s I tend to forgot 

[Drhiggins]

Thanks elrippo for pointing me here.

My rig has been running since September last year. Has been very stable.  The rig is pulling about 3KH/s on average at about 1050 watts from the wall.  Just ordered an i5 Intel CPU so I can mine a little with CPU on this rig.  

- 6x R9 280x
- Windows 8
- 2x Thermaltake 1200watt PSU's
- 8GB RAM
- SSD
- ASRock H81 BTC Mother Board
- Claymore 9.1 for GPU
- Celeron CPU

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215542.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64542376/20150107_215626.jpg


I also have a gaming machine I run as a miner when I'm not on it. I have an AMD FX8150 8 core CPU and that does about 300H/s with just 6 of 8 threads running. Run Claymore for CPU.
I also have 2 older SLI'ed Nvidia GTX560's that run CCMiner for GPU and they pull about 220-280H/s combined. So I pull an extra 500-550 H/s when this gaming machine is running.

You are welcome, and thank you for your post in here!!!
So you tend not to solomine with your rig?
Keep on hashing 

No solo mining.  I've never been good with command line stuff.  Hardware is my specialty. I need the command line for dummies book LOL.

I'm gonna try this rig out some time soon.  If this rig were to run Linux then the price would be far lower as you wouldn't need as much RAM and the SSD could be smaller or cut out all together as you could run Linux on a USB stick.  Still would have the option to add on a GPU for additional mining.  I think this would make a great node, wallet, simple miner for someone wanting to support the network.  If you had 100 of these units using the new simple miner that is supposed to be in the 8.8.7 release then this could really help out the distribution and help decentralize the network.

[Drhiggins]

I found my dream mining Motherboard today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html

11x PCI Slots 24 Core CPU via 2 Intel Xeons up to 1 TB RAM

Can you imagine 11 GPU's hashing and 20 CPU cores hashing with 4 cores running the system. Oh I need a cash infusion badly. One can dream :-)

[owlcatz]

I found my dream mining Motherboard today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html

11x PCI Slots 24 Core CPU via 2 Intel Xeons up to 1 TB RAM

Can you imagine 11 GPU's hashing and 20 CPU cores hashing with 4 cores running the system. Oh I need a cash infusion badly. One can dream :-)

Is that url broken? I can't see what you're referring to. thanks.

[nikos64]

I found my dream mining Motherboard today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html

11x PCI Slots 24 Core CPU via 2 Intel Xeons up to 1 TB RAM

Can you imagine 11 GPU's hashing and 20 CPU cores hashing with 4 cores running the system. Oh I need a cash infusion badly. One can dream :-)

Is that url broken? I can't see what you're referring to. thanks.

An ugly supermicro X10DRX
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7122/supermicro-x10drx-intel-c612-server-motherboard-review/index.html

[Drhiggins]

I found my dream mining Motherboard today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/712...iew/index.html

11x PCI Slots 24 Core CPU via 2 Intel Xeons up to 1 TB RAM

Can you imagine 11 GPU's hashing and 20 CPU cores hashing with 4 cores running the system. Oh I need a cash infusion badly. One can dream :-)

Is that url broken? I can't see what you're referring to. thanks.

Try This

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfm