[XMR] Monero Mining

[ontario]

hi im new to mining , have been mining using minergate pool for about 1 months , been getting 1kh/s with my rx 480 and amd x4 880k using their gui miner , wta why everyone seems to dislike minergate? im starting to get worry about this pool , is there any problem with this pool? if so could you recommend me a good xmr pool? thanks in advance

[owlcatz]

hi im new to mining , have been mining using minergate pool for about 1 months , been getting 1kh/s with my rx 480 and amd x4 880k using their gui miner , wta why everyone seems to dislike minergate? im starting to get worry about this pool , is there any problem with this pool? if so could you recommend me a good xmr pool? thanks in advance

Moneropool.com and https://monerohash.com/ are my 2 faves atm.  Minergate makes you install their software right? I just use claymores miner for now. Nothing awesome like your card tho lol. Want to try Wolf0's latest miner soon tm.

thanks

[GabryRox]

Hello, I have been here a few weeks trying to learn about mining (mainly interested in XMR & ETH) and am about to build a rig with 3 (to start) RX 470's.  Until now, I have been using MinerGate to get familiar with mining process. Although I really appreciate its user-friendliness being a complete noob to this, I cannot get it to recognize/mine with the GPU in my current personal PC. Granted, it's an old Nvidia GeForce GTX 550-Ti and maybe it's simply not capable of mining anything, who knows. But, MinerGate support was not helpful at all. After 3-4 emails with their tech support, they finally told me that it would take a long time to try to figure out what the problem is and recommend that I use an alternate GPU miner, of which they link several (including Claymore's) directly on their website.

So, I downloaded and attempted to launch Claymore CrypyoNote GPU Miner v9.5.  I was able to edit the BAT file i downloaded from MinerGate to add my email address and save succesfully, but when I try to launch the EXE, (via Open command, double-click or Run as Admin), I get a brief DOS box? to pop-up but then it closes before I can even read what it says and nothing else happens.

Now, after this, I read through the readme and realize that this version only supports AMD GPUs, which will theoretically be fine for me new build, but obviously will not work for my current old Nvidia GPU.

So... can anyone recommend a good, easy to use XMR GPU miner currently available for old Nvidia cards?  I am not at all familiar with command lines, compilers, etc, so hopefully there is something out there with not too steep of learning curve. I am currently on Windows 7 64-bit and my new system will either be W10 or Linux (but with AMD 470s).

Thanks!  

[owlcatz]

These are old, but maybe will get you started. Sorry, never minded with nvidia before.

http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/xmr-nvidia-miner/

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/07/mining-cryptonote-coins-with-nvidia.html

Edit if you  are building a system for mining only, I would never use windows, use Linux. Learn to compile. It's hard, frustrating and difficult, but it's worth it in the end!

Good luck and welcome!

[xmr-pool.com]

Announcing new FREE Monero pool

xmr-pool.com

0.0% commission until pool first birthday (2017/09/21)
Light, stable and reliable.
8 cores dedicated server: ultra fast!
2,5 Gbps unmetered bandwidth: low latency.
Firewall passtrought mining port: 443.
24/24 monitored pool.
Anonymous mining (no registration needed).

Point your miner to  mine.xmr-pool.com on port 443

Thank you for mining with us !

[bigspender]

quick question: how can we get our cool monero mining pool listed on this thread?

thanks,
Big - http://xmr.coolpool.io/

ps: for more info, check out our thread here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608848.0

[binaryFate]

quick question: how can we get our cool monero mining pool listed on this thread?

thanks,
Big - http://xmr.coolpool.io/

ps: for more info, check out our thread here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608848.0

I would suggest writing to OP...
He's a nice guy but pretty busy, so give him a few days to answer maybe. 

[bigspender]

haha, I see what you did there

thanks for the reply - I'll get in touch through a PM.

[saddambitcoin]

Installed CUDA 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 and my sporadic CPU validation nonce errors went away with GTX 950.

I had some trouble at first, but use gcc 5.4 when you are installing the NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 8, then switch back to gcc 4.8 when compiling ccminer.

[GingerAle]

Installed CUDA 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 and my sporadic CPU validation nonce errors went away with GTX 950.

I had some trouble at first, but use gcc 5.4 when you are installing the NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 8, then switch back to gcc 4.8 when compiling ccminer.

Can you provide how-tos on installing cuda 8 and the nvidia drivers? The link in my sig is all ubuntu 14 and cuda 5 or 6 or something....

did this make the 950 perform any better?

[saddambitcoin]

Installed CUDA 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 and my sporadic CPU validation nonce errors went away with GTX 950.

I had some trouble at first, but use gcc 5.4 when you are installing the NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 8, then switch back to gcc 4.8 when compiling ccminer.

Can you provide how-tos on installing cuda 8 and the nvidia drivers? The link in my sig is all ubuntu 14 and cuda 5 or 6 or something....

did this make the 950 perform any better?

Yeah, I'll post a step by step guide over the weekend.

It didn't give me any noticeable hashrate improvements but I figure the errors going away improve my submitted shares (maybe?).

[xmr-pool.com]

CPU miners.

How often do you see "accepted: 421/421 (100.00%), 34.38 H/s at diff xxx (yay!!!)" in your miner's log when mining with big pool ? Almost NEVER. You are mining for nothing, I will tell you why.

All majors pools set a very high minimal diff on their mining port (25000 on moneropool.com, crypto-pool.fr). This diff is YOUR local difficulty to mine. With a targeted 60s block time and a couple of CPU you have almost NO chance to find and submit a single share in 60 sec at a 25000 diff.

You are just mining for nothing (look a your miner's log).

Why the hell are they doing that ? They prefer to work with GPU or rig owners in order to decrease traffic and load to the pool (aka their own out of pocket money).

At xmr-pool.com we have a low start difficulty of 500 even auto adjusted lower if you come with a poor CPU.

We have a hudge 2.5Gps unmetered bandwidth and a 8 cores dedicated server. So we do not target a specific difficulty, we prefer targeting a time window. WE ACCEPT A SHARE FROM YOU EACH 5 SECONDS wathever is your hashrate. xmr-pool.com adjusts your local diff according to your hashing power in order to meet the 5 sec target.

On top of that xmr-pool.com is 100% FREE. No pool fee for the next 12 months!

Point your miner to mine.xmr-pool.com on port 443 now and watch your shares being accepted

[xmrpool.eu]

Hi,

I'm running small (I hope it will grow) monero pool - xmrpool.eu.
Currently we are having 0% commission which means more coins for miners (while block is found reward is splitted between miners based on the amount of hashes sent).
Port 3333 is for CPU miners (low diff) and 7777 for GPU rigs (high diff). Port 5555 for better CPUs and single GPUs.
Feel free to join us.

[greenuser]

CPU miners.

How often do you see "accepted: 421/421 (100.00%), 34.38 H/s at diff xxx (yay!!!)" in your miner's log when mining with big pool ? Almost NEVER. You are mining for nothing, I will tell you why.

All majors pools set a very high minimal diff on their mining port (25000 on moneropool.com, crypto-pool.fr). This diff is YOUR local difficulty to mine. With a targeted 60s block time and a couple of CPU you have almost NO chance to find and submit a single share in 60 sec at a 25000 diff.

You are just mining for nothing (look a your miner's log).

Why the hell are they doing that ? They prefer to work with GPU or rig owners in order to decrease traffic and load to the pool (aka their own out of pocket money).

At xmr-pool.com we have a low start difficulty of 500 even auto adjusted lower if you come with a poor CPU.

We have a hudge 2.5Gps unmetered bandwidth and a 8 cores dedicated server. So we do not target a specific difficulty, we prefer targeting a time window. WE ACCEPT A SHARE FROM YOU EACH 5 SECONDS wathever is your hashrate. xmr-pool.com adjusts your local diff according to your hashing power in order to meet the 5 sec target.

On top of that xmr-pool.com is 100% FREE. No pool fee for the next 12 months!

Point your miner to mine.xmr-pool.com on port 443 now and watch your shares being accepted

Nice Pool.  It solved the disconnect problem i get with larger pools.  You just need a block now.  I can't see why the bigger pools cant have at least one port for low diff CPU miners. 
I'm mining the ETC Chain with my GPUs but i like my rig to run a CPU coin as well. I was mining Groestlcoin and ETC and Burst all on one machine and was thinking of switching my CPU to Monero.  But this low diff is a problem.

[xdrzrex]

Hi,

I'm running small (I hope it will grow) monero pool - xmrpool.eu.
Currently we are having 0% commission which means more coins for miners (while block is found reward is splitted between miners based on the amount of hashes sent).
Port 3333 is for CPU miners (low diff) and 7777 for GPU rigs (high diff). Port 5555 for better CPUs and single GPUs.
Feel free to join us.

Thanks for the free pool, I'll try my rig asap !

[xmrpool.eu]

Hi,

I'm running small (I hope it will grow) monero pool - xmrpool.eu.
Currently we are having 0% commission which means more coins for miners (while block is found reward is splitted between miners based on the amount of hashes sent).
Port 3333 is for CPU miners (low diff) and 7777 for GPU rigs (high diff). Port 5555 for better CPUs and single GPUs.
Feel free to join us.

Thanks for the free pool, I'll try my rig asap !

Excellent! I want to announce that after first block is mined I will draw one miner and transfer extra 1 XMR.
I will keep you updated on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1610517.0
Good luck :-).

[36524s]

What sort of hashrate would a dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 Eight Core 2.60GHz 20MB L3 Cache LGA2011 Processor CPU SR0KX give?

[Server2850Guy]

Hi guys,

any news from hasrates on GTX 1080 ti , and latest Titans ?

How goes  R9 290 vs 390 ? and what about RX480 ?

I have to say, I'm more thinking to go Nvidia / Linux / XMR, so which miner would be optimised ?

 

[superresistant]

Hi guys,
any news from hasrates on GTX 1080 ti , and latest Titans ?
How goes  R9 290 vs 390 ? and what about RX480 ?
I have to say, I'm more thinking to go Nvidia / Linux / XMR, so which miner would be optimised ?

It all depend on your electricity cost.
If it's low, go for a RX480 rig. If it's high, go for NVIDIA.
I'm not sure which is the best model for NVIDIA right now.
Some time ago, 750Ti was the best because of low consumption (and silence).

[EvilC0P]

Hi guys,
any news from hasrates on GTX 1080 ti , and latest Titans ?
How goes  R9 290 vs 390 ? and what about RX480 ?
I have to say, I'm more thinking to go Nvidia / Linux / XMR, so which miner would be optimised ?

It all depend on your electricity cost.
If it's low, go for a RX480 rig. If it's high, go for NVIDIA.
I'm not sure which is the best model for NVIDIA right now.
Some time ago, 750Ti was the best because of low consumption (and silence).

Hmmm
i have a 760 ; requires a 6pin and 8pin power TDP 170 W
my RX 480 only requires a 8 pin power TDP 150 W

the RX 480 mines 2.5 times more than my 760 ( using stock settings )

are 750ti still available to buy? TDP 60W