Building a small mining-farm report

[ArteL]

Hi all, i hope my topic (and its reply!s) will be usefull ,)

Ok, what we have at start point:

+ 32 PCs without GPUs (integrated Intel graphics)
+ 6 PCs with low GPUs (GF GT 520)
+ 3 PCs with middle GPUs (GF 660 GTX Ti)
+ Unlimited free electricity 
+ Technical ingeneer diploma, some (low) programming skills...

yes, youre right, I am a small call-center manager in russia and I wish to use my CC for small farming quest ,)

my first experience in farming wasnt great:

tried to mine Mincoin

were used
- sgminer 3.7.0 for all PCs with GPUs
- rpcminer 2011.02.27 for PCs w/o GPUs

results (24 hours mining)
- GPUs machines avg hashrate 2.1 mhs
- CPUs avg hashrate 0.2 mhs

41 PCs total mined about 0.001 BTC

I know i am the newbe and ha-ha-ha-man and lol-frick and etc. you wouldnt tell me any new info in such case.

I am interested in one simple question: what i do wrong ? 

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[ArteL]

i mean: could you answer my simple newbe question: is software i have used wrong? or some options i've missed?  

[nicksly]

GF GT 520
GF 660 GTX Ti
that's nvidia gpu right ?
you need to mine with Cudaminer with nvidia gpu
it's better

[paul44]

I am having similarly bad results with what I am using. At least its free too though

[ArteL]

nicksly , thank you, i will try!

And what about 32 CPU machines? any suggestions?

[ArteL]

Hi all, i hope my topic (and its reply!s) will be usefull ,)

Ok, what we have at start point:

+ 32 PCs without GPUs (integrated Intel graphics)
+ 6 PCs with low GPUs (GF GT 520)
+ 3 PCs with middle GPUs (GF 660 GTX Ti)
+ Unlimited free electricity 
+ Technical ingeneer diploma, some (low) programming skills...

yes, youre right, I am a small call-center manager in russia and I wish to use my CC for small farming quest ,)

my first experience in farming wasnt great:

tried to mine Mincoin

were used
- sgminer 3.7.0 for all PCs with GPUs
- rpcminer 2011.02.27 for PCs w/o GPUs

results (24 hours mining)
- GPUs machines avg hashrate 2.1 mhs
- CPUs avg hashrate 0.2 mhs

41 PCs total mined about 0.001 BTC

I know i am the newbe and ha-ha-ha-man and lol-frick and etc. you wouldnt tell me any new info in such case.

I am interested in one simple question: what i do wrong ? 

oh how i wish one guru-miner read my question and reply something

[shorena]

0 dont mine BTC with GPC / CPU, mine LTC or something else (alt coin board this way -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0 )
1 if its "your" CC how come you dont have to pay for the energy?
1.1. if its not yours, does your boss know?
1.1.1. if your boss knows, does he know how much energy you are using?
1.1.2. if your boss does not know, are you willing to risk your job for some cheap alt coins?
2 do they run while people work there or just at night?

[ArteL]

0 dont mine BTC with GPC / CPU, mine LTC or something else (alt coin board this way -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0 )
1 if its "your" CC how come you dont have to pay for the energy?
1.1. if its not yours, does your boss know?
1.1.1. if your boss knows, does he know how much energy you are using?
1.1.2. if your boss does not know, are you willing to risk your job for some cheap alt coins?
2 do they run while people work there or just at night?

dear shorena,

1. "my" cc means i am responsible for the budget, of course i am not a shareholder
2. "free electricity" means Free electricity, all costs included in rent
3. one rpc client doesnt affect on cc agent efficiency - it was tested at first ^)
4. we have 24/7 shedule, "nights" are workingtime too

thank you!

[nicksly]

ok so maybe :
- not mining bitcoin with all the pc
- mining Ltc with all the nvidia gpu using
cudaminer, or any altercoin using Scrypt, you choose
- mining Quarkcoin with the 32 cpu from all the pcs with
no gpu
Quarkcoin is cpu mining, so maybe it will work ?

[ArteL]

ok so maybe :
- not mining bitcoin with all the pc
- mining Ltc with all the nvidia gpu using
cudaminer, or any altercoin using Scrypt, you choose
- mining Quarkcoin with the 32 cpu from all the pcs with
no gpu
Quarkcoin is cpu mining, so maybe it will work ?

thank you.


my analysys results protects me from mining "old" cryptocurrencys like BTC or LTC. i would mine only new high-risk currencies, its just my own position, non comments will confirmed

as about cpu-mining, what soft should be used to have some results?

[ArteL]

tried to mine Mincoin

were used
- sgminer 3.7.0 for all PCs with GPUs
- rpcminer 2011.02.27 for PCs w/o GPUs

dear all, please pay attention i havent tried to mine BTC at this challenge, only new crypccs with hight risks

[ArteL]

!

41 PCs total mined about 0.001 BTC

I was just recalculate the mined amount to BTC for your convenience, mining was in another cryptocurrency

[ArteL]

are any suggestions? mmmm?)

[ajax3592]

nVidia doesn't go well with mining. I have one so I know  AMD-ATI nails it when it comes to GPU mining.

[Gabi]

Stay out from bitcoin mining, to mine bitcoin you need to get ASICs otherwise you are losing time. CPU and GPU mining is dead for bitcoin.

But you can still mine other coins, like litecoin or primecoin. Litecoin can be mined with the GPU but as other people said, AMD gpus are better at that, much better. CPU mining litecoin is a bit pointless, given the vastly superior performances of GPU. Primecoin can be mined only with CPU. Same for quarkcoin and some other coins.
So, as other suggested, put your CPUs on CPU only coins. As for your GPU, you can use them for litecoin (or any other coins using the scrypt algorithm) but since you have nvidia gpus, don't expect good profits