Hello Forums,
I have built my first mining rig,
I went for a little bit cheaper option with 2 cards only because I wanted to see how it goes before I blow more money into this. I ordered 4 more of these cards, along with 6 risers.
Rig- Asrock Fatal1ty H270 Performance,
- Kingston Hyperx Fury 4GB DDR4,
- Intel Celeron G3920 Dual-Core,
- Radeon SSD 120GB
- ASUS GTX 1050ti Expedition 4GB x6 + 6 Powered 1x -> 16x Risers,
- Corsair RM750i 750w 80Gold
Total cost: 1650$Set UpBIOS Settings- Update BIOS using EZ Flash
- Above 4G Decoding - Enabled
- Top of low usable drain - 3.5GB
Unless you set the settings like these there is a high chance your RIG wont even boot.
Windows 10 - Low
Hash Rate, around
2.2 MH/s per card. Maybe I should've updated Windows, but gave up on it quickly.
Windows 8.1 - Installing windows 8.1 fixed the low
Hash Rate for me. Setting the EthDcrMiner64.exe's priority to Realtime in Windows Task Manager, my
Hash Rate stabilized to "maximum possible", never dipping below that even when playing games (using Intel's HD integrated GPU for games, of course).
NVIDIA Driver - Install the newest driver from
NVIDIA website. Current newest is:
384.76 for 1050ti. Any driver does the same so don't worry. If you want to update your driver, first download
DDU to uninstall previous driver with it. It is highly recommended.
LinksClaymore's 9.7DDUMiner config-mode 0
-dcoin dcr
-epool eu2.ethermine.org:4444
-ewal wallet.worker
-epsw x
-dpool dcr-eu.coinmine.pl:2222
-dwal coinmineUsername.worker
-dpsw coinminePassword
-dcri 60
Overclocking- Power Limit: 100%,
- Temp Limit: 83*C,
- Fan Speed: 10*C = 10%, 20*C = 20%... N*C = N%
This is all that I've found out so far about OC-ing the cards for mining.- In case you are mining ETH / ETC only, pull the Core all the way back to -400 (Lowest), and Memory to +1000 (max) on each card, but on the last, 6th card. I've found out that all of my cards actually work fine with max OC on the Memory (even though it's Micron), but the last one crashes the entire system if set above +850. Core clock has absolutely no influence when you mine ETH / ETC only, so lower it down to minimize W drain and cards temperatures.
ETH ONLY: 94 MH/s (15.5 MH/s per card) - In case you are mining ETH / ETC + DCR / SC... You need to up the Core high now. Maximum stable I god today is +225 to the Core, and +1000 to the Memory (except the last card which is at +850 Memory) Core clock seems very significant when dual-mining.
ETH + DCR: 82.5 MH/s (13.8 MH/s per card), 1650 MH/s (280 MH/s per card)
Thanks for reading, have a nice day