Which software to use to mining crypto currencies?

[Masda74]

Sorry if this has been asked a million times.
I have searched for terms like software and can't seem to find the answer.
I am new to mining and I want to make full use of both the X6900XT and the RTX3090 that are water cooled.
That being said, I have been running nanominer on the gaming rig that I have.

I have no idea if this is the right software to be using, but none of the cards that I have run at the MH/s shown on websites.
the 3090 runs at less than 100MH/s. The 6900 runs at 50MH/s.
I am not sure if I am using the wrong software, or if there is something else that I am missing here.

Also I have heard of HiveOS and plan on setting it up at some stage.
Would that work? Can I use HiveOS to mine any crypto currency for the nanonpool.org Pool?

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[Stanlo]

If you care so much about softwares that shows you the exact amount you will be making every since minutes to hours then just download Nicehash, everything is written on its dashboard, this software will get the best or most profitable coin to mine for you and you don't have to configure a thing than dropping your withdrawal wallet address

[rdluffy]

I know it's hard to understand about mining at the beginning, but you have two strong and expensive cards, so it's better if you research a little bit more, there's plenty of tutorials on youtube

But I'll give you some hints

As user above said, Nicehash is a good option to start and learn more, the app will do some benchmarks and will mine the most profitable coin and will choose the best miner for your

I prefer to use Phoenix Miner, it's the most stable for me and the one with the best hashrate, you can download here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.0

About the pool, I use Ethermine, but there's good options like Flexpool or even nanopool

Don't forget to tweak your cards, you can use MSI Afterburner for RTX 3090 and Radeon Tools for your AMD, you'll increase the hashrate and reduce power usage
Each card have different overclock, and again I suggest you to go to youtube, search for RTX 3090 Hashrate, or RTX 3090 Mining, and copy the overclock and test in your GPU, do the same for 6900xt

About Hive OS, it's a good system, I'm using at the moment with my rig of 4 cards, HiveOS is stable and easy to deal, you can mine any coin you want, they have all good miners listed, and you can use with any pool you want
 

[Masda74]

rdluffy, thank you for taking the time an answering my questions. I do appreciate it.
Stanlo, it sounds like you pissed off at the world. I am new to this and I am just curious to find out if I am doing something wrong.
I do not sit and wait and watch how much the cards are making all the time. I have the nanopool page to check that out, if I want.
I do not intend on using Nicehash, thank you for the suggestion.

I had seen a few videos where I have seen the Hash rate at about 115-120MH/s. I just wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong.
I have used MSI afterburner to watch the Temps on the 3090. it is running at 41-44 degrees Celsius, depending on how hot the room is.
In MSI, I have changed the power down to 70%. The core is at -100 and the memory is at stock speeds.
I have not increased the speed of the 3090, as the backplate is pretty hot. I really don't know how people can overclock the memory to 1100-1200 and not have the back plate burn their fingers off.

I will be looking at setting up HiveOS once I get home. Working away on a roster does not allow you much time at home.
I have taken the time to download the nanominer and setup the different coin config files. I started off mining Ethereum classic and then recently swapped to Ethereum.
It takes longer to get your payments, which leads me to think that I might be doing something wrong.

Now that I understand that HiveOS is a miner as well, I will be doing some more reading.
Thanks again rdluffy.

[Hotdog Vendor]

Im not sure of 3090 setting but as an example my 3070's i run -456 core, +1407 memory, 46% power limit, (one of them even runs 45% power without losing any hash).
All of them get stable 63mh/s or within 0.1 range.
You should not need much core speed, just wastes power. Check some guides on suggested then test slightly higher and lower, check hashrate while changing takes a bit to settle after change.
Memory speed is very important, you want as high as u can go while been stable(no incorrect shares) and not getting too hot.
Memory speed will make up most of the hash increase.
Lowering power limit is very important too, 2 of my 3070 run 4c cooler just from lower power, also who doesn't want to save money on power.
I pushed my cards to the limits on power usage since I pay most in world us$0.28c per kw

You will definitely need to read a few guides to see what suggested setting are to give a starting point to test from.
One thing to note if you use Phoenixminer on the 3090 (i havent used many others probably same thou) is when you are generating the DAG file you need to remove overclock and memory timings, power limit can stay lower.
At least that is what I have to do on the 3070's, my 6900xt doesnt need to do that.

Also use Phoenixminer and Ethermine as the guy above.
Hopefully that points you in the right direction.

[btc-room101]

rdluffy, thank you for taking the time an answering my questions. I do appreciate it.
Stanlo, it sounds like you pissed off at the world. I am new to this and I am just curious to find out if I am doing something wrong.
I do not sit and wait and watch how much the cards are making all the time. I have the nanopool page to check that out, if I want.
I do not intend on using Nicehash, thank you for the suggestion.

I had seen a few videos where I have seen the Hash rate at about 115-120MH/s. I just wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong.
I have used MSI afterburner to watch the Temps on the 3090. it is running at 41-44 degrees Celsius, depending on how hot the room is.
In MSI, I have changed the power down to 70%. The core is at -100 and the memory is at stock speeds.
I have not increased the speed of the 3090, as the backplate is pretty hot. I really don't know how people can overclock the memory to 1100-1200 and not have the back plate burn their fingers off.

I will be looking at setting up HiveOS once I get home. Working away on a roster does not allow you much time at home.
I have taken the time to download the nanominer and setup the different coin config files. I started off mining Ethereum classic and then recently swapped to Ethereum.
It takes longer to get your payments, which leads me to think that I might be doing something wrong.

Now that I understand that HiveOS is a miner as well, I will be doing some more reading.
Thanks again rdluffy.

WOW my 30xx cards run at 40C when they're not mining, and then soon as start mining they run up to 70C, so I drop the 'wattage' to keep at below 72c

Where do you live Siberia? Air-Con room? my ambient temp is 32C just turning on the power-supply to boards they jump from 33c to 40c at idle

Don't believe too much the spec's, you'll hear 50-200mhs, some cards will over-clock some will not, mostly about the memory in the card, and how high you can clock it, lots of real cheap bad quality 30xx cards out there

NICEHASH sucks, all mining revenue goes to their wallet, and they keep increasing the ceiling on payoffs, and when you finally do get a payment you find it can only be spent at their 'company store' or cashed out at their 'bank', in the old days their claim was 'all payout in BTC', yes they value payout in BTC, but they never payout as such

What software you run, the one that sends all payment to your address where you hold the private-key

Software?? Most IMHO are running TREX these days on linux


Just mining is always a 30C differential, for you to tell us your cards are mining at 40C, then your ambient would be 10C, it just doesn't make sense. Unless of course your not mining, and your cards are just at idle

All my cards are like this, when one card starts creeping up above 74C, its always because its dirty, must take the entire card apart clean everything, new high-quality thermal-grease, and then temp is back below average, about every six months all year round this must be done. Dust bunny's form over critical parts block airflow ( usually voltage regulators ), they got hot with no air, if not addressed the board burns up, you must scan for burnt components, and then learn to do micro-scopic solder-reflow, after you have sourced the chips online in CHina. Just keep your cards cool, and clean. You'll be good.

IMHO people who talk about over-clocking are nuts, keeping the card cool&clean far more important, you run a card hot&dirty, and the card dies, then you have a $5k rock ( these days these cards can't be replaced ), take care of your cards.

If you over-clock, only after you got TEMP under control, monitor that the over-clocking doesn't increase the temp, I find -pl power-level is most important parameter, for temp control, sure over-clocking can get you 1-5% increase in hash, but if you kill your card how much money have you lost? Downtime for the rig; If you own 100's of rigs, sure then overclocking is REAL MONEY, but if you just have one rig and 4 gpus, don't kill them. Your fussing around isn't going to do much over-all, especially if you don't watch the temp all the time like a hawk.

I run some rigs in the house, some in the barn, obviously barn rigs get hot in the day and cool at night, so you critical is getting day temp under control;

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Lastly, which software you use is completely dependent upon what your mining, I guess these days its all ETH? Don't know, its the most profitable. Usually the mining-pool you choose, will tell you the best software to run for their pool, and they usually provide you the download links.

[Hotdog Vendor]

70c is too hot in my opinion, just making the memory run hotter then it has to.
One of my cards runs 43-44c (on autofan speed) the other 2 run 49-50c (with manual fan speeds 62% and 65%)
Ideally you want to keep it under 60c. Undervolt cards to get better temps.
Im in Australia so it gets pretty hot here at times, bit cooler atm. Even on hot day might get to 56c. If they get close to 60c I tend to chuck on aircon for 20mins.

Also if you install GPU-Z you might be able to see what brand memory you have.

[Ceyflix-Rez]

Nicehash or minerstat looks like a good fit for you OP but if you want to maximize your earnings it's better to use miners with no interface like phoenix miner or NBminer and direct your power to a good pool, presently Viabtc pool is the most profitable, you can't change pool on nicehash

[alucard20724]

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WOW my 30xx cards run at 40C when they're not mining, and then soon as start mining they run up to 70C, so I drop the 'wattage' to keep at below 72c

Where do you live Siberia? Air-Con room? my ambient temp is 32C just turning on the power-supply to boards they jump from 33c to 40c at idle

Don't believe too much the spec's, you'll hear 50-200mhs, some cards will over-clock some will not, mostly about the memory in the card, and how high you can clock it, lots of real cheap bad quality 30xx cards out there

NICEHASH sucks, all mining revenue goes to their wallet, and they keep increasing the ceiling on payoffs, and when you finally do get a payment you find it can only be spent at their 'company store' or cashed out at their 'bank', in the old days their claim was 'all payout in BTC', yes they value payout in BTC, but they never payout as such

What software you run, the one that sends all payment to your address where you hold the private-key

Software?? Most IMHO are running TREX these days on linux


Just mining is always a 30C differential, for you to tell us your cards are mining at 40C, then your ambient would be 10C, it just doesn't make sense. Unless of course your not mining, and your cards are just at idle

All my cards are like this, when one card starts creeping up above 74C, its always because its dirty, must take the entire card apart clean everything, new high-quality thermal-grease, and then temp is back below average, about every six months all year round this must be done. Dust bunny's form over critical parts block airflow ( usually voltage regulators ), they got hot with no air, if not addressed the board burns up, you must scan for burnt components, and then learn to do micro-scopic solder-reflow, after you have sourced the chips online in CHina. Just keep your cards cool, and clean. You'll be good.

it's in first post... both watercooled

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I am new to mining and I want to make full use of both the X6900XT and the RTX3090 that are water cooled.
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[sxemini]

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WOW my 30xx cards run at 40C when they're not mining, and then soon as start mining they run up to 70C, so I drop the 'wattage' to keep at below 72c

Where do you live Siberia? Air-Con room? my ambient temp is 32C just turning on the power-supply to boards they jump from 33c to 40c at idle

Don't believe too much the spec's, you'll hear 50-200mhs, some cards will over-clock some will not, mostly about the memory in the card, and how high you can clock it, lots of real cheap bad quality 30xx cards out there

NICEHASH sucks, all mining revenue goes to their wallet, and they keep increasing the ceiling on payoffs, and when you finally do get a payment you find it can only be spent at their 'company store' or cashed out at their 'bank', in the old days their claim was 'all payout in BTC', yes they value payout in BTC, but they never payout as such

What software you run, the one that sends all payment to your address where you hold the private-key

Software?? Most IMHO are running TREX these days on linux


Just mining is always a 30C differential, for you to tell us your cards are mining at 40C, then your ambient would be 10C, it just doesn't make sense. Unless of course your not mining, and your cards are just at idle

All my cards are like this, when one card starts creeping up above 74C, its always because its dirty, must take the entire card apart clean everything, new high-quality thermal-grease, and then temp is back below average, about every six months all year round this must be done. Dust bunny's form over critical parts block airflow ( usually voltage regulators ), they got hot with no air, if not addressed the board burns up, you must scan for burnt components, and then learn to do micro-scopic solder-reflow, after you have sourced the chips online in CHina. Just keep your cards cool, and clean. You'll be good.

it's in first post... both watercooled

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I am new to mining and I want to make full use of both the X6900XT and the RTX3090 that are water cooled.
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I prefer T-Rex for nvidia and Teamredminer for amd cards. For me this miners give me the best poolside hashrate and nothing else is important.

[Commie]

This section has tons of information for those who reads. Since you're asking these questions I believe you didn't read much of it. Start with basics - what's a miner (mining software), what's a mining OS (Hive, Rave etc), what to use best with your coin of choice and what OC settings are optimal/best for the coin you're mining. Then learn a bit about GPU architecture, difference between core temp./hotspot temp./ memory junction temp., how to view it and what can be done to bring these temperatures down. Then come back and ask more questions.

[embedder]

Hive allows you to get more hr but you have to tweak the cards anyway. It's better to find a specialist who will configure it remotely. There are many similar proposals now. I cannot help because I have no experience with green cards.
Hive allows you to use any pool.
Hive rapes the flash drive, it dies very quickly. Use HDD.
Nicehash takes ~30% back for simplicity. In addition, different algorithms load the GPU in different ways. Under unfortunate circumstances you can overheat your cards. I prefer to control what I mine now.

[TheMimic1]

Sorry if this has been asked a million times.
I have searched for terms like software and can't seem to find the answer.
I am new to mining and I want to make full use of both the X6900XT and the RTX3090 that are water cooled.
That being said, I have been running nanominer on the gaming rig that I have.

I have no idea if this is the right software to be using, but none of the cards that I have run at the MH/s shown on websites.
the 3090 runs at less than 100MH/s. The 6900 runs at 50MH/s.
I am not sure if I am using the wrong software, or if there is something else that I am missing here.

Also I have heard of HiveOS and plan on setting it up at some stage.
Would that work? Can I use HiveOS to mine any crypto currency for the nanonpool.org Pool?

Something is off with your RX6900 AMD card, I have a rx6700 that can give 45MH and I expect 6900 to so more than 50MH since it's more powerful than RX6700, look around for some settings online probably Reddit