My ethereum GPU mining rig build has just been sitting sprawled out on a folding table in the corner of my office, until now. I had to move my rig for someone to come in and work on our furnace … Continue reading Build a $6 mining rig frame with wood and screws (and a few zipties)
I want to mine ZenCash, and with my GTX 1060 6GB cards I’m currently getting about 255 sols/s using my optimized Ethereum or Ethash settings that I outlined here With those settings, I am getting about 508 Sol/s to 510 Sol/s and consuming about 171 watts. According to the ZCash GTX 1060 6GB hashrates for my specific EVGA GTX 1060 6GB SSC card, others were seeing up to 350 Sol/s for each card – so there’s definitely room for improvement! Overclock Settings GPU 1 Hashrate (Sol/s) GPU 2 Hashrate (Sol/s) Total mining rig power draw (including motherboard/power supply etc) Stock, … Continue reading GTX 1060 Mining Speed Hash Rate Tweaks and Adjustments for Equihash Mining Zcash or ZenCoin
If you missed part 1 of this series, check it out here where we look at profitability of mining vs investing if the price of the coin increases, decreases, or stays flat. What is the risk of investing in a … Continue reading Mining Vs Investing in CryptoCurrencies – Part 2
When I was setting up to move my nvidia ethereum mining rig over to a ZCash mining rig, I accidentally started the EWBF ZEC miner before I had shut down the Claymore Ethereum miner – and what I saw surprised me. On my Windows 10 GPU mining rig, both of the programs were running without issue, my power usage had only gone up 1 or 3 watts (my power monitor was showing 171 watts but now it seems to go between 172 and 174 watts). This is using the best overclock settings on my 2 GTX 1060 6GB GPUs to … Continue reading Dual Mining Ethereum and ZCash (or other equihash coin)
ZenCash is a fairly new coin – it started out as ZCash, and then split off after a hard fork to ZClassic, and now into ZenCash. From what I’ve read, there is lots of reasons to support this coin. This … Continue reading How to set up a Zencash Mining Rig
High quality graphics processing units (GPUs) require a PCI-e 16x slot on the motherboard. Unfortunately, when using the best gpu for mining, these cards not only use one of the few available PCIe 16x slots on your motherboard, they are also double-thick, which means they will use one slot and often cover the neighboring slot. Even if you could install two mining GPUs right next to each other, it would slow down thec ooling process and cause your GPUs to run hotter (possibly shortening the life of your GPU, lowering the hashrate as well, and using more power as they … Continue reading For a GPU mining rig, how many PCI-E 16x slots do I need?
In the ethereum mining rig followup after mining for 90 days, I broke down what sort of profit I had made, what return on investment, and started to look into what would be more profitable – buying more of the … Continue reading Mining Vs Investing in CryptoCurrencies – Part 1
As the ethereum network difficulty increases, the profit decreases. As you can see from this chart below, I generated 1/4 ETH in around 20 days when I first started in late July. Now, in September and October, it took almost … Continue reading Ethereum Mining Rig Update – 90 days in – Mining vs Investing
After building my ethereum mining rig, and tweaking windows to make it fast and lean, I just left it as is. I was busy with work, and doing some minor renovations around the house during the summer. Now that fall … Continue reading How to make your Ethereum Miner start on bootup
If you’ve been in the cryptocurrency sphere for very long, there’s no doubt that 2017 has been a crazy year so far – and it doesn’t look to slow down anytime soon! As the crypto markets are shifting and changing so quickly, it’s always difficult to try and pick just on card as being the best GPU for mining, but I at least hope to point you in the right direction. As interest in ethereum mining hardware has increased exponentially in the first half of the year, there is an extreme shortage on mining GPUs. As I went on a … Continue reading Best GPU for mining 2017