Topic: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining - page 387. (Read 418253 times)

The image already has ubuntu 14.04 desktop on it.  Before you use it you need to edit the 'OneBash' file your nvOC flash drive will place onto a small windows partition.  Once that config file has been changed to point towards your address and to change OC/etc settings you don't need to touch anything when it boots - any prompts for passwords will be filled in automatically by the script, so don't interrupt it.  Mine goes from cold boot to mining in ~2.5 minutes.

Total noob here:  I have a new rig just built and i'm trying to decide which OS to boot onto it. 

Given i have no OS right now, does nvOC also serve as the OS?  Or do i have to DL ubunto first?

I'm asking because i went ahead and imaged nvOC anyways, booted it onto the rig, saw a lot of critical core errors, saw the ubunto loading screen and now its asking for m1-desktop-login. 

Glad to see people are hooking OP up with some hashes as thanks for his time and hard work! 

https://eth.nanopool.org/account/0xe12bdd454997e443ec0cae6bebb6bb3c74242aae

If you're running nvOC and it's working out well for you consider running your rig for a while (even if it's only an hour!) with his address to encourage him to continue developing this highly useful platform.  You rock, OP!  We appreciate you.

It's only EWBF, ccminer and Claymores do not have this drop in hashing power.

Answer 1 : i know eth is high right now and you want to mine it but nvidia cards are not as good as rx cards on mining eth so i would stick with zec thats my option tho
i only use nicehash pools for mining or selling how ever you want to look at it. and a 1070 farm will make more on zec than eth selling to nicehash.

Answer 2 : in the onebash file at the bottom there is the command line for claymore eth miner. try adding in the detect gpu settings see if it auto start them that way

Answer 3 : i have mine is a room with a temp of 95-105F and keep fan speeds at 75 and the cards stay around 68-71C

Answer 4 : you dont even have to have a screen or keyboard for this OS to work out of the box. i know it does say enter password but you dont have to do anything at all

Tips : i run my 1070s zotecs with a CC of +200 and MC of +900 with a PL of 125. ALSO linux is slower than windows when it comes to mining. But linux is more stable than windows
you will have a ton of more up time on linux then on windows. So you can ask yourself this. More up time or faster speeds...

Hi @fullzero,

I have been watching this space and trying nvOC because I would so much rather use Linux if possible. I've probably already said this but my experience with EthOS on AMD rigs has been great - awesome stability, remote monitoring, better ETH hash-rate than Claymore with no fee (by using sgminer-gm).... So I REALLY want nvOC to work at least as well on my Windows 8.1 rig, as Windows does.

Unfortunately I just can't seem to get the overclocks to stick! I'm mining ETH so in Windows using Afterburner I lower the core clock or leave it at factory and I overclock the memory to +750 on all 4 of my Nvidia cards (2 x 1070, 2 x 1060 6GB). This gives me a reported hash-rate in Claymore of around 107mh/s and uses around 600W for the whole rig.

When I use nvOC a couple of strange things happen (or maybe they aren't strange - you tell me?). When the terminal auto-starts I have to put in the miner1 password 3 times  before Claymore starts. For whatever reason, I always see the message "GPU#1 disabled". If I hit the "1" key it says "GPU#1 enabled and works. Also it usually seems to take 2 or 3 attempts before it successfully connects me to nanopool, i.e. it can't connect the first 1 or 2 times and then it does connect. In Windows it always connects 1st try. And finally - it's reported hash-rate mines at around 99mh/s which is the hash-rate I get when the GPUs are at factory settings. Another strange thing about this is that it appears to be using almost the same amount of power - 580W, but seemingly without the overclocking.

When the terminal runs I see it apply the numbers - 0 to core and 750 to memory, but the GPUs seem to be ignoring this for some reason. They are different branded GPUs - the 1070s are Gigabyte and the 1060s are Galax and they all seem to respond to Afterburner in Windows.

Here is a paste of the relevant parts of my onebash:


I will next try it with individual clocks set to "YES" but I did try that with version 0014 of nvOC and it didn't work. it doesn't need a "+" symbol does it it?  Like "MEMORY_OVERCLOCK_2=+750"?

Any help from OP or anyone else would be appreciated. I know it's only 8mh/s difference but I really want to be hashing as high as possible because I live in a country with VERY expensive power so highest hash per watt is important to me.

If claymore has the ability to mine this coin then all you have to do is change come setting in claymore command line in the onebash file very simple!! Don't be scared to try it

I tried to use it with 2 1060 cards, I could not log into the termintal M1:  I kept putting  miner1 as the password and it would not work.?

I can not get the individual power setting to work. How do I manually override the onebatch setting?

Yes, there are two ways. You need to open another terminal window and pass these commands

(This one does all GPU's currently under the system and xxx equal power amount) sudo nvidia-smi -pl xxx

(This one will do each individual power setting, just change the X to 0-12 and then pass power limit on xxx) sudo nvidia-smi -i X -pl xxx

That made it work! Thanks so much!

Firstly many thanks for creating this masterpeice it reminds me of other great works from the likes of Bach, Mozart and Picaso.



I tried searching this thread for the answer so apologies if it was answered already, I also scrolled through the first 15 pages.

Question 1 :

I have 2x ASUS Nvidia GTX-1070s running ( soon to be 9 ) but I cant seem to optimize the MHs for ETH mining.

On stock settings I get 26 MHs a card but I have seen windows users achieve 30-33 by changing the card frequency.  I am the first to admit I am a bit of a tech noob and I am sure the answer is obvious.

I tried various global CC and Memory overclocking but it didnt seem to make any difference.  ( i.e 120/400 , 150/600 , 200/600 )  

Essentially I closed the terminal, updated the details on onebssh ( while in Linux ) and then re ran the terminal  but no change to MHs from stock 100/100 settings.

Question 2 :

Also is it possible to start all GPUS when running the terminal?  GPU 0 always starts but then I need to hit "1" to fire up GPU 2.

Question 3 :

Has anyone found a good fan speed and power limit setting for these cards?

Question 4 : Is it normal to have to enter "miner1" 3x at the start?  It looks like the config file is supposed to auto populate it but on the image I downloaded 2 days ago this is not the case.

Any other tips alpreciated, and again apologies if these questions were already answered.

Hi @fullzero,

just a suggestion - could you add the ability to mine UBQ? I'm pretty sure claymore can do it if you set allcoins to -1.

I'm saying this because it has recently jumped to the top of the whattomine.com list for dagger-hashimoto coins a few times.

OK, got it to work after a few reboots. Is there a way to adjust the powerlimit of the individual gpus while they're running?