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Does this mean I’m mining?

I’d need to buy a bunch of FTC rather than mine if the price were to 3 tipple in a month.

Well let me know the next one, I’ll paddle on over from Texas.

Download a program like MSI Afturburner and see what the GPUs are actually doing. I used it to find out I had a GPUs that had fans running but weren’t actually doing anything hashing.

Well difficulty just jumped to 250 after that statement.

@chekaz said in How To Mine For Beginners??:

@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:

@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.

I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.

It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming

I’m starting to find out some of this; I’ve got different cards on the rig, the EVGA ACX 3.0 can’t handle overclocking as well as the Zotac minis and the Founders card runs about 10 degrees hotter than the others. Lesson learned, although you can just get a bad card here and there I’ll be building rigs with like cards to reduce variables. I’m thinking about going all in and building a 13 GPU split miner AMD/Nvidia

@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.

I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.

@narbss I’ve got the wallet from this website downloading and it’s only 3 years behind when I left this morning. I’ll go ahead and download the CCminer when I get back to the house and see if their readme has a walk through, I can’t unzip files on these computers here to check. If CCminer has a batch walk through then I think I should be fine. If not I’ll be back for some more help.

@wrapper I’ll look up the CCminer narbss linked and go from there. I’ll look at the pools posted on the site and decide which one works best between fees and what not. I don’t think at my level, of a 7GPU rig it will matter much. If I can get this rig up and running full tilt I’ll be building a 7-13gpu rig by the new year.

I really do appreciate everyone’s help, as I said I’m mere days into the whole crypto thing. I’m not expecting to get rich it’s simply a hobby. I spend thousands of dollars on other hobbies that literally have zero ROI other than fun. Mining is interesting, completely foreign to me, and is making me learn a completely new skill set which is perfect for a long term commitment to the effort. All of that makes it exciting, fun and frustrating; but It’s the only hobby I’ll have that makes money so I’ll be certain to give back to the community in some way.

@wrapper said in How To Mine For Beginners??:

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Try to follow the instructions, it’s easy to have AMD software when you have Nvidia etc , till you can see the trees from the wood … There are a lot of settings to get right, once that’s done though it should just run …

No offense, but I have no idea what you’re trying to say, it sounds like you’re trying to relate an idiom to software. If your trying to say ‘see the trees for the wood’ then I’m not sure how it relates. That idiom is used when someone is focusing on the details too much and can’t see that the individual trees make the forest. In my case I don’t know a forest from an ocean when looking at these guides and coding files.

Take this guide for example: https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8220/guide-how-to-mine-feathercoin-neoscrypt-based-coins-on-amd-gpus-with-sgminer

I’m running windows vs linux, I get that, I’m running nividia so I download nvidia drivers. get to step 6 and it says download SG miner, so I do that. Then it tells me “code
cd ~/sgminer
git submodule init
git submodule update
autoreconf -i -f”…

but what am I coding, is there a file I need to edit, do I create a word doc from scratch, what’s it being label or file type?

Then “check that the build worked” but how?

Step 7 “create start script” This looks like where the .bat file needs to be made but where do I put it, in the main folder, within a subfolder?

I looked at another guide but it used CC miner and talked about .exe files and I couldn’t find a download for CC miner anyway so I wasn’t sure which info to extrapolate from the CC guide and use in the (n)sg miner.

I’ve watched a lot of youtube videos on it but they are either outdated from 2013, using programs that don’t exist anymore, or they skip over all of the stuff I don’t know about.

I’m not trying to be lazy or disingenuous, I simply have no clue what I’m looking at. I’ve been doing this for 3 days now and knew nothing more than bitcoins exist. I’d like to think I’m doing Ok learning what crypto and altcoins are, building a computer in general, building a rig, and navigating miners and coins in the last 72 hours. I looked into Eth first but there’s too much hype and I don’t like where it seems to be going. I started nicehash because it’s easy but I don’t like what they do, in that you simply sell your hashing power for BTC/$$$ I want to invest in the future of alt coins and use them, not just sell them for $$$ to cover expenses like a business.

I downloaded both SGminer and NSGminer from github (linked form feathercoin.com) and have gotten nowhere with either, I think that a batch file needs to be created because it is what the command prompt uses as it’s guidebook on where to send and receive blocks and what not and how to allocate work. I’m not opposed to using either miner or a different one if recommended, I’m running Windows 10

I believe this is the server and port address you are asking about. the pool is ‘give me coins’ I haven’t mined anything yet so I’m not opposed to using a different pool if someone recommends it.

ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336

I’ve also downloaded the wallet from from the site and it’s only like 4 years behind LOL

I’m only running 4 1070s on nicehash right now because of PSU limitations The rig is setup to run 7 after I get a PSU capable of it, probably a server PSU from parallel miner or something.

I’m completely new to mining and all of the guides just assume you know what you’re doing and I don’t. I can figure out the wallet and setting up the mining pool account on give-me-coins but I can’t figure out the miner. I’ve tried watching youtube videos(out of date) and looking at the guides on here and other forums but they all just assume you know what folders to add and edit. I have no clue at all. Where do I find out how to set up a miner for windows/Nvidia step by step for new people like me?

Is that exchanging directly to Euros or are they going through bitcoin first like the other exchanges?

Yep, I’m looking build another one but 1070s are like gold. I may build a 13GPU rig from 1060s or RX580s since I can get them relatively cheap. 3GB 1060s are around $250 and 6GB versions are about $300 and about $290 for RX580s

CPU? you can only have so many channels available, each pcie slot would take up one, the usbs, satas, ps2 ports, etc. Go into your mobo bios and turn off everything you’re not using then find your pcie section and make sure it’s set to gen1 not 2, 3 or auto.

@jimmy24651 I wouldn’t call it great, I’m running 500kh more and running 4 cards compared to two of yours.

China? I thought you lived in the US? Amazon Prime that shit man.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=powerd+risers

Your problem is the ribbon riser, it sounds like all of your cards are being plugged into the mobo directly. This means power is going from the PSU to the Mobo to the card. The mobo can only handle so much power going through it, the french model from State Farm says motherboards can only handle powering 2 GPUs, anymore and it won’t power on or you risk frying the mobo. I wouldn’t try it again with more than 2 cards directly on the motherboard and/or using unpowered risers.

this is what mine looks like on 4 cards

stand by

So setting up a local node means you’re still using pool power but you control any costs and admin associated with it? I’m not ready for something like that just learning. If I feel comfortable with this I’d like to have 20 or so GPUs running by new years.

I know nothing about mining but from any stand point, if the numbers add up for you to run solo and your comfortable with the extra labor there isn’t a reason not to. From an ROI stand point, you have a few options

1. mine solo and eat costs until it’s no longer sustainable then move back to pool - this lets to keep the most FTC long term

2. mine solo and sell enough FTC to cover costs and hold the rest of long - you’ll eventually move back to pool but you’ll stay solo longer covering operating costs

3. mine solo and sell enough FTC to expand the operation to remain solo - this eats up more FTC and you hold less but you’ll remain solo for the entire time.

@jimmy24651 said in Question about a 2nd GPU:

ccminer.exe -a neoscrypt -q -t 2 -o (pool info) -u (worker info) -p (password) -d 0

jimmy, I’ll be downloading CCminer when I get home and I’m completely new to this, like, I’m googling every 9th word I see in posts. I have multiple 1070s also. So when you downloaded CCminer you just opened the main file after unzipping, created a .bat file and entered
“> ccminer.exe -a neoscrypt -q -t 2 -o (pool info) -u (worker info) -p (password) -d 0” into the word document?

I’m guessing the ‘-d 0’ is telling it that there is only one GPU? what did your final .bat file look like to run multiple GPUs? I’ll be running 4- 1070s right now and 7 when I get the new PSU in. Thank you for all of your help.