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November 10, 2014, 03:07:09 AM |
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I see. So is the Monero algo not very intensive on the graphics cards? When I used to run one on full load with scrypt algos they'd be chewing up a good 200-400W each card.
The nvidia 750 tis are very power resourceful. They don't even have a direct connection to the PSU, they draw all their power through the PCI-E slot, so they max out at about 50-60 W I think, but will typically draw more like 30 W with no overclocking. It might be break even to mine on AMD cards using claymore's miner, if you have low electricity rates, like < $0.10/kWh.
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November 10, 2014, 03:07:29 AM |
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Not off hand, but its a mobile (laptop) version of the i7 and is about 4 years old so I don't expect high numbers off it. I'll have to try my desktop i7 later on.
Are you running two mining threads? According to wikipedia those should have 4 MB of L3 cache and work best with 2 threads. I would boot up my old scrypt miner with my 7870's, but at a rate of only 0.25 XMR per card per day I may as well just buy the monero rather than mine it. I would really be happy with something along the lines of 5-7 XMR per day, but it doesn't look like 1-2 mining rigs could achieve that.
Buying rather than mining is very often a good choice. If you want to build GPU rigs for XMR something with 6 750tis and a good CPU should mine almost 2 XMR per day, possibly a bit more if well optimized. It is possible to build AMD rigs that are much faster (700-800 H/sec per 290x) at higher cost and a tiny bit less power efficient but you will be using a closed source miner (Claymore): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0
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November 10, 2014, 03:13:58 AM |
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I am running wolf's miner without the AES-NI support. Getting 47 H/s with 7 threads and my CPU load is at 97%. 2 threads takes me down to 23 H/s
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November 10, 2014, 03:16:06 AM |
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I am running wolf's miner without the AES-NI support. Getting 47 H/s with 7 threads and my CPU load is at 97%.
If you have a 4-year old mobile i7, try switching to 2 or possibly 3 threads. As far as I can tell from wikipedia, all mobile i7s support AES-NI so you should be running a miner with AES-NI support, not without.
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November 10, 2014, 03:34:01 AM |
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I am running wolf's miner without the AES-NI support. Getting 47 H/s with 7 threads and my CPU load is at 97%.
If you have a 4-year old mobile i7, try switching to 2 or possibly 3 threads. As far as I can tell from wikipedia, all mobile i7s support AES-NI so you should be running a miner with AES-NI support, not without. Wolf's miner with AES-NI automatically crashes when it loads the miner. I'll try 3 threads right now. 2 threads lowers me to 23 H/s
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November 10, 2014, 03:35:35 AM |
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I am running wolf's miner without the AES-NI support. Getting 47 H/s with 7 threads and my CPU load is at 97%.
If you have a 4-year old mobile i7, try switching to 2 or possibly 3 threads. As far as I can tell from wikipedia, all mobile i7s support AES-NI so you should be running a miner with AES-NI support, not without. Wolf's miner with AES-NI automatically crashes when it loads the miner. I'll try 3 threads right now. 2 threads lowers me to 23 H/s Strange. I wonder what CPU model that is. Without AES-NI yes it is possible more threads will help but you are even less likely to be cost efficient mining with it.
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November 10, 2014, 03:39:06 AM |
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7-10 threads all give me 47-49 H/s.
My cpu is a i7-2630QM 2.0 Ghz. That's all the info I have on it without using something like CPU-Z
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November 10, 2014, 03:42:03 AM |
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My cpu is a i7-2630QM 2.0 Ghz. That's all the info I have on it without using something like CPU-Z
http://ark.intel.com/products/52219/Intel-Core-i7-2630QM-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz"AES New Instructions: Yes" I have no idea why Wolf's miner isn't working. If you can get a miner with AES-NI you should increase your performance a lot. That CPU has 6 MB L3 so you would want 3 threads with AES-NI.
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November 10, 2014, 05:40:09 AM |
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Yes this was worth mining a few months ago. But now many of the linux miners started mining XMR and its no more profitable then X11
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November 10, 2014, 07:26:44 AM |
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I am running wolf's miner without the AES-NI support. Getting 47 H/s with 7 threads and my CPU load is at 97%.
If you have a 4-year old mobile i7, try switching to 2 or possibly 3 threads. As far as I can tell from wikipedia, all mobile i7s support AES-NI so you should be running a miner with AES-NI support, not without. Wolf's miner with AES-NI automatically crashes when it loads the miner. I'll try 3 threads right now. 2 threads lowers me to 23 H/s You could try yam miner: https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-gFor i7-2630QM you should download the Sandy Bridge version. You should enable large pages first ( http://support.sisoftware.co.uk/knowledgebase.php?article=52) and restart your laptop. The default fee for the yam miner is 2%, but you could change it to 1%. If your RAM become fragmented you can't use the large pages, so make sure NOT to see an error when you start the miner: "Error: Can not allocate hugepages memory, error=1450", because you'll get lower hashrate.
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November 11, 2014, 01:11:33 PM |
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November 17, 2014, 10:59:54 PM |
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On DwarfPool added ports with fixed difficulty, very useful for miners via proxyStratum-port: 9050 fixed diff: 50000Stratum-port: 9100 fixed diff: 100000Stratum-port: 9500 fixed diff: 500000Stratum-port: 9999 fixed diff: 1000000Four powerful dedicated servers in two locations: xmr-usa.dwarfpool.com xmr-eu.dwarfpool.com
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November 24, 2014, 06:14:53 PM |
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Could someone please point me to a tutorial on setting up a monero mining pool?
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November 24, 2014, 07:03:48 PM |
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Could someone please point me to a tutorial on setting up a monero mining pool?
I am not sure you will be able to find a tutorial on setting up a mining pool. Unless you mean connecting to an existing pool in order to mine on it.
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November 24, 2014, 07:10:17 PM |
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No, I meant some info on how to set up a pool myself. For example where does one get the software from? Thanks in advance. Could someone please point me to a tutorial on setting up a monero mining pool?
I am not sure you will be able to find a tutorial on setting up a mining pool. Unless you mean connecting to an existing pool in order to mine on it.
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November 24, 2014, 07:36:59 PM |
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No, I meant some info on how to set up a pool myself. For example where does one get the software from?
I suggest joining #monero-pools on IRC. There are usually people on there who can help you
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November 24, 2014, 07:39:55 PM |
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Ill try that, thanks. No, I meant some info on how to set up a pool myself. For example where does one get the software from?
I suggest joining #monero-pools on IRC. There are usually people on there who can help you
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November 24, 2014, 07:53:42 PM |
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Asked on IRC and got a link to cryptonote mining pool software on GITHUB. Pasted below in case anyone else is interested. https://github.com/zone117x/node-cryptonote-poolIll try that, thanks. No, I meant some info on how to set up a pool myself. For example where does one get the software from?
I suggest joining #monero-pools on IRC. There are usually people on there who can help you
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November 24, 2014, 07:58:44 PM |
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I just got started mining XMR via FREE Windows Azure trial. So, some of you may be interested in doing the same. They have Linux and Windows OS options. $200/1 month Free Trial. windowsazure.com
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November 24, 2014, 08:09:59 PM |
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I just got started mining XMR via FREE Windows Azure trial. So, some of you may be interested in doing the same. They have Linux and Windows OS options. $200/1 month Free Trial. windowsazure.comI hope you're on my pool then. It is strange, I thought Microsoft was auto banning every mining attempt on Azure.
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