[XMR] Monero Mining

[VDechand]

Hello, i have a problem with GPU mining. I have a Nvidia GPU, mining with the ccminer from tsiv. and i put the script mine program in the same file witht the ccminer. i starting the miner and he closed direct after i´m starting this.

ok, so tsivs miner is not working for you.

I would install tsivs miner in a new directory.

also, what operating system are you using?

I use windows 7

did u download from

https://github.com/tsiv/ccminer-cryptonight/releases

id just keep trying them one by one until it works. I've never tried it on windows.

i've heard though that there's an issue if you're actually using the GPU for your display - windows gets real choppy.

thanks, i think, it works..

[GingerAle]

Yes! looks like you are! Thanks for mining!

Also, are you mining to a personal wallet or to an exchange?

I hope you are mining to a personal wallet.

If you are mining directly to an exchange, please consider getting a personal wallet address at www.mymonero.com and mining to that one. Or better yet, running a windows GUI client.

Mining to exchanges isn't the best practice.

[VDechand]

Yes! looks like you are! Thanks for mining!

Also, are you mining to a personal wallet or to an exchange?

I hope you are mining to a personal wallet.

If you are mining directly to an exchange, please consider getting a personal wallet address at www.mymonero.com and mining to that one. Or better yet, running a windows GUI client.

Mining to exchanges isn't the best practice.

Okay good question. I mining with this script and i have a windows wallet. this here:

[GingerAle]

Awesome!

Good luck with the mining!

[VDechand]

Awesome!

Good luck with the mining!

i would buy next month this GPU:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00O11Z0H2/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p147_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1ZMVSFN3217A4M9YVHBA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455353687&pf_rd_i=301128

[Drhiggins]

Its been a while since I've posted on here.  Hello everyone.  So this lady I know is interested in me building her another miner and I'm thinking a 6 card Nvidia miner.  I've built two AMD GPU builds and want to build an Nvidia build this time around.  I have a little experience with 2x GTX 560's in a gaming machine I have running ccminer forked by tsiv but was wondering if anyone has run any of the GeForce GTX 900 series cards.  What kind of hash rate can I expect per card and also what kind of wattage draw per card are we talking about. 

Any insights on the Nvidia side of the camp would be of great help.

[GingerAle]

Its been a while since I've posted on here.  Hello everyone.  So this lady I know is interested in me building her another miner and I'm thinking a 6 card Nvidia miner.  I've built two AMD GPU builds and want to build an Nvidia build this time around.  I have a little experience with 2x GTX 560's in a gaming machine I have running ccminer forked by tsiv but was wondering if anyone has run any of the GeForce GTX 900 series cards.  What kind of hash rate can I expect per card and also what kind of wattage draw per card are we talking about. 

Any insights on the Nvidia side of the camp would be of great help.

I have a rig with 3 nvidia 750 ti's - the estimates for 750 ti's are about 30 watts per, and I forget the actual numbers from the wall, but it makes sense.

I chatted with someone who had a higher card, and I think as long as the architecture is the same (maxwell), you can essentially scale with the # of cores.

So if 750 ti has 640 cores or something and gets 280 hash/sec at 30 watts, then the 980 with 2048 cores , the factor is 3.1875 . So the 980 will have 892 hash / sec and ~95 watts.

so jealous. Do want.

[5w00p]

So if 750 ti has 640 cores or something and gets 280 hash/sec at 30 watts, then the 980 with 2048 cores , the factor is 3.1875 . So the 980 will have 892 hash / sec and ~95 watts.

This guy would definitely love to try mining with a 980, so that I could tell you first-hand about the power consumption, but I do have to say that I think your estimate of ~95 watts is probably a bit optimistic.

I don't believe that the actual power consumption scales as linearly as your estimated calculations do.

I found this detailed power consumption article and although the test is done with gaming as the load, rather than mining, it shows quite a bit more than ~95 watts for a 980 under load.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-12.html

[GingerAle]

So if 750 ti has 640 cores or something and gets 280 hash/sec at 30 watts, then the 980 with 2048 cores , the factor is 3.1875 . So the 980 will have 892 hash / sec and ~95 watts.

This guy would definitely love to try mining with a 980, so that I could tell you first-hand about the power consumption, but I do have to say that I think your estimate of ~95 watts is probably a bit optimistic.

I don't believe that the actual power consumption scales as linearly as your estimated calculations do.

I found this detailed power consumption article and although the test is done with gaming as the load, rather than mining, it shows quite a bit more than ~95 watts for a 980 under load.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-12.html

indeed, but tsivs doesn't run it full load. TDP of a 750 ti is 60 watts, but only pulls 30 running ccminer.

I also, would like to see a beast in the wild.

[5w00p]

So if 750 ti has 640 cores or something and gets 280 hash/sec at 30 watts, then the 980 with 2048 cores , the factor is 3.1875 . So the 980 will have 892 hash / sec and ~95 watts.

This guy would definitely love to try mining with a 980, so that I could tell you first-hand about the power consumption, but I do have to say that I think your estimate of ~95 watts is probably a bit optimistic.

I don't believe that the actual power consumption scales as linearly as your estimated calculations do.

I found this detailed power consumption article and although the test is done with gaming as the load, rather than mining, it shows quite a bit more than ~95 watts for a 980 under load.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-12.html

indeed, but tsivs doesn't run it full load. TDP of a 750 ti is 60 watts, but only pulls 30 running ccminer.

I also, would like to see a beast in the wild.

Fair enough.

My bet is ~125W or so.

And while we are dreaming, I wonder about the TITAN X...

[Drhiggins]

Well gentleman depending on her budget it might be a build with 6x 980's  What fun would that be to build :-)  Even a 6x 960 build would be awesome.  I appreciate the feedback and once I do get the build going I'll report back the wattage draw per card and the wattage overall.

If this turns into an all out build I'm thinking I'll add a nice CPU to the system so it can run as well.  I'll be using a LGA 1150 supported motherboard.  Any suggestions on the CPU would be great (the more cores the better here kinda thinking).  I'm guessing I can run 50 -75% of the CPU cores and leave a little room on the CPU for other functions.

In the past I've messed around with this but only have a cheap Celeron running.  A 2 core CPU with 4 threads (I think if my memory serves me right) I had one core and two threads running and had no issues.  I guess investing in a decent CPU cooler is wise here too. (I'm thinking a pre-fab liquid loop with radiator) 

All input appreciated on this.   I'm happy a female is seeing the value in Monero.  Was excited she called me yesterday all up on Monero from reading.  (I've sent her tons of links).



 

[GingerAle]

Well gentleman depending on her budget it might be a build with 6x 980's  What fun would that be to build :-)  Even a 6x 960 build would be awesome.  I appreciate the feedback and once I do get the build going I'll report back the wattage draw per card and the wattage overall.

If this turns into an all out build I'm thinking I'll add a nice CPU to the system so it can run as well.  I'll be using a LGA 1150 supported motherboard.  Any suggestions on the CPU would be great (the more cores the better here kinda thinking).  I'm guessing I can run 50 -75% of the CPU cores and leave a little room on the CPU for other functions.

In the past I've messed around with this but only have a cheap Celeron running.  A 2 core CPU with 4 threads (I think if my memory serves me right) I had one core and two threads running and had no issues.  I guess investing in a decent CPU cooler is wise here too. (I'm thinking a pre-fab liquid loop with radiator) 

All input appreciated on this.   I'm happy a female is seeing the value in Monero.  Was excited she called me yesterday all up on Monero from reading.  (I've sent her tons of links).



 

JEEE SUS. 6 X 980 = thats almost $3k in cards alone.

I'm curious - how'd you convince her to buy a rig as opposed to just buy coin? $3k worth of coin is not a bad amount to hodl, and assuming that thing kicks out arund 6 kh/s, that'll only be 7.31 xmr per day. Which is 410 days ROI for just cards alone, not including electricity.

And I'm all for increased hashrate, so just curious.

and you're totally gonna kill my share of the monerohash.com payout unless you're pointing to your private pool you were planning on making.  (and good on yah! more nodes!)

[smooth]

Which is 410 days ROI for just cards alone, not including electricity.

400 days ROI on the cards is really not that bad if they have a decent warranty and you don't burn them up with overlocking (I guess not an issue mining XMR though). They'll have a significant resale value in a year or so. You do have to factor electricity in as well though.

[smooth]

Any suggestions on the CPU would be great (the more cores the better here kinda thinking)  

For mining XMR cache size matters more than cores. The most efficient number of threads is the cache size divided by 2 MB. Since this will likely leave cores idle on many CPUs you won't have to worry about extreme cooling issues or not having enough CPU to drive the GPUs.

[GingerAle]

re: CPU, I'd try messing around with the AMD's due to their GPU within CPU design - i have no idea how efficient they are etc, but in theory, those things have lotsa cores. As smooth said though, the main thing is the cache size - no idea what the AMD GPU/CPU chips have in terms of that.

[smooth]

re: CPU, I'd try messing around with the AMD's due to their GPU within CPU design - i have no idea how efficient they are etc, but in theory, those things have lotsa cores. As smooth said though, the main thing is the cache size - no idea what the AMD GPU/CPU chips have in terms of that.

Last year some of the AMD CPUs were indeed outperforming Intel, but I have no idea what is going on in that market now.

[Drhiggins]

LOL I've told her to buy the coins, especially a month ago or so when they were down to like .24 ¢ US.  I think she will start to buy the coins now that I had a man to man ... I mean man to woman talk with her.   Not going to try to even burn the cards out by overclocking.  Most of my experience with that is higher power draw for little gain.  I guess in this case it doesn't matter about power draw, but still don't want to burn the cards out, would like them to run around 65-70C at the highest if possible.  If and when this beast gets built its going to have to have at least 2x Thermaltake 1200 watt gold certified PSU's 

Her biggest asset is that she has an office leased and part of that lease is free electricity!  So pure profit once ROI is met.

I wanted to use the ASRock H81 Pro BTC motherboard as I have experience with this board.  It has been solid and reliable for me and i know how to get it set up quick.  It only comes in an Intel supported CPU version though.

I have used my AMD FX8160 CPU on my gaming machine and at 75% load I get about 300 -350 H/s with that CPU. Its an older AMD 8 core CPU.  I'm sure that could be tweaked but its my main surfing and gaming machine and I don't want to burn it up.  I keep it liquid cooled so to make it last.  I've had that CPU for three years now and it's been solid especially after the first major AMD catalyst updates for that chip.

Thanks for the feedback any and all is good IMO.  I like having different thought from everyone.  Helps me see all angles. 

[5w00p]

It will be cool to see this beast come to life. You must update with pics once it is done. A dedicated thread is probably justified.

Free electricity is nice. The air conditioning is going to get a workout as well, trying to keep the room cool with this monster churning out some substantial BTU's.
 

[binaryFate]

I updated the pool list in the OP to match that of the main thread. It is now sorted by mixin count, then by donations to the development fund.

Even though I usually update this thread's OP regularly (I may lag by a few days), if you want more certainty about up-to-date information, check it directly here.  And if you want absolute certainty, check the info by yourself!

[DStefanov]

Please recommend me which of the two pools is more productive and reliable? Teeter between http://monero.crypto-pool.fr and http://dwarfpool.com
Thanks for your cooperation!