Novice building a Mining Rig

bluebox

Yes, I’ve seen that before but couldn’t get it to work with my motherboard/cpu, originally an i5 but replaced with a Pentium because it was going to be a dedicated miner anyway. (I use CentOS too, not Ubuntu.) I do give up easier these days; you’d know if you have kids and thus no personal time. :rolling_eyes: :laughing:

If you can open the Nvidia Settings control panel and see the gpu in the list, you’re 90% there. The fan and clock settings will be greyed out/not shown until you add coolbits to your xorg conf file.

If your gpu isn’t listed in the xorg conf file, add it with nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus (or just -a), then edit the file and add this in the Device section for the gpu:

    Option  "Coolbits" "12"

Then reboot and see if you get the control panel settings enabled. If you can’t use the control panel at all, you might still be able to control the fans from the cli, but it’s kind of an ugly command (I’ll go back to my old dual 970 pc and look it up). It could still be that you can’t access any overclocking or fan tools without the nvidia kernel module loaded, though; you are running it without a display driver after all. :thinking:

ag2288

@bluebox it could be that Ubuntu is the reason behind my success.
Regarding overclocking it seems it will have to wait until I build dedicated miner as it seems that my “magic” does not allow me to change settings from nvidia-settings. I probably could change them from terminal, but I dont want to dig into that right now, so thank you for your help :)
I did try other version of ccminers and ccminer-ghostlander is doing incredible ~735 kH/s :) Other miners are around 600 kH/s, so there is no doubt in my mind which one to use :) Now i just have to decide weather to stay and mine feathercoin or try some other coin which could potentially have higher growth…
By the way my I ask where did you get 1060 for such amazing price you mentioned in the other topic?

bluebox

@ag2288 said in Novice building a Mining Rig:

@bluebox it could be that Ubuntu is the reason behind my success.
Regarding overclocking it seems it will have to wait until I build dedicated miner as it seems that my “magic” does not allow me to change settings from nvidia-settings. I probably could change them from terminal, but I dont want to dig into that right now, so thank you for your help :)

I might try it sometime with a dual xeon/intelHD server I have and the 1030 out of my kid’s gamebox. I doubt we can get the fan+o/c controls to show up since I believe the settings cli and control panel rely on having the nvidia kernel mod loaded for that.

I did try other version of ccminers and ccminer-ghostlander is doing incredible ~735 kH/s :) Other miners are around 600 kH/s, so there is no doubt in my mind which one to use :) Now i just have to decide weather to stay and mine feathercoin or try some other coin which could potentially have higher growth…
By the way my I ask where did you get 1060 for such amazing price you mentioned in the other topic?

I got them from Amazon and Newegg. Last year they were readily available, though limited to two per purchase, so I bought two from each place, $215-220 each. These days, 1060’s are like hens teeth and cost a ridiculous amount (from suspicious vendors). I mean seriously — $550 for a 6160-KR?? :rofl: I ordered another Seasonic PSU to power my two trusty 970’s on the same rig; much better to keep using those than pay THAT kind of money for 1060’s.

1060’s were and still are the most efficient neoscrypt hash-per-watt option out there, especially when overclocked. Perhaps too many people read my ccminer topic… ;)