New to the mining stuff ! Any advices ?

[toTOW]

Hi everyone !

I'm usually running Folding@Home or BOINC projects on my machines ... so I'm new to mining, but not to distributed computing !

I've been reading this forum for a while, and I finally decided to register here to improve my contribution.

I'm mostly a DOGE miner, and I'm also mining a few BIL

I'm using a R9 290X, but it is giving me a lot of troubles when I try to optimize it ... basically, as soon as I change setting to something found over the Internet, it just refuses to start

Anyway, any thought is welcome, and I hope I'll enjoy this cryptocurrency advendture.

[luckygenough56]

Gridcoin is combining mining with BOINC, maybe you'll be interested in it.

if it can help, my .bat for cgminer has the following line for my R9 290 :

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.ltcrabbit.com:3333 -u username.workername -p password -w 256 -g 2 --auto-fan --thread-concurrency 24000 --intensity 19

[toTOW]

Thanks luckygenough56, my command line look like this too. But as soon as I rise thread concurrency, mining won't start anymore with error -4 ... actually, the only thing that works is --shaders 2816.

I've also noticed that high intensity (19 or 20) yelds more keyrate, but give me way less "accepted" than lower ones (I'm currently using 14).

[nlsx]

It will take you a bit to find the best cgminer settings for your card.

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

Is a very useful page!

[complang]

If you want any form of profit, Litecoin is probably your best bet right now.

[luckygenough56]

intensity at 20 is a no go for most people, too many rejected jobs, but usually 18-19 is the best compromise.

As for thread concurrency, it's a bit tricky, it won't change dramatically your hashrate but it can helps a bit. 32000 ish is a no go for me, always crashing so 24000 is the highest i can go it seems.