Move your topic to mining board.
Better to Mining (Altcoins) since GPU rigs can't mine Bitcoins.@DRAHdk Both GPU were outdated for mining Ethash (for Ethereum and forks) nor "mainstream" Altcoins, though 1050Ti can mine a lot of "Shitcoins".
I suggest you to go to whattomine.com to find the most profitable (or rather: less wasteful
) coin to mine using those GPUs.Then go to the Mining (Altcoins) board and find the suitable miner for your OS and selected coin to mine.
Hi nc50lc,
GTX1050ti 4Gb I bought just last week. Checking the numbers on profit, production/mining versus cost/consumption it's clear that even this newest card (best low profile card for the time being) is useless. But, as I explained, I produce a lot of power myself. I have 4 systems with 4 cards each ready to run on free power. Which therefore means that the numbers are in the green..I've used a lot of time finding hardware and putting rigs together using everyday hardware bettered with some industrial components. These 4 cards use less than 300watts including the CPU running the rig.
I have 6x 1000W resistors almost glowing in the dark, burning electricity as heat to get rid of my overproduction. This is why I'm a little inpatient.
4 systems with 4 cards each. GTX1050ti 4Gb has mined 0.31USD per card per day. (0.31USD x 4) x 4 = 4.96USD per day in the piggy bank instead of blowing it of as heat. So, not much invested in hardware. And, I do this because I think its interesting and funny to do. And, because I like the idea of us giving the banks something to think about. So I'm mining much less than everybody else, I know. But the coins I mine is 100% profit. I mine at nicehash as I write, which mean that I'm paid in BTC.
What I was looking for was a few guidelines from one of you guru's - on how to install these 2-3 mentioned miners so that I could mine using my 4 Linux systems with each 4 cards.
If I was to build a miner, mining with a GPU and had to pay for the electricity, then I think the best standard profile card consumption v. production is Nvidia Titan V. Very interesting! Look at the the high rate of production compared to the low rate of consumption. It's a little expensive, not everyday hardware so it's not be the one for me, but what a card. Compare it to e.g. the antminer S9. My second choice would be Nvidia RTX 2080 ti. Or just buy 100 of the newest antminers, move to the Danish island of Iceland, where power is almost free because of the geothermal conditions and mine there
So, please... Anyone who has got the time and want to help a person who is in the same situation you all where once. If you know how to install and setup CCminer, EWBF, Gminer(maybe Phoenix instead of Gminer) and T-Rex on Linux Debian/Ubuntu server CLI. On a clean installation of Ubuntu Minimal Server 18.04.x. With a example on how to run the miner a pool and solo. Do I need a config file or is it ok just to run the miner with the startup command and the right flags and setting? Automated using Crontab.
Right now I would like to have those 4-5 miners installed, or is it enough with 1 or 2? I want to mine:
T-Rex miner on stratum+tcp://x16r.eu.nicehash.com:3366
Phoenix Miner on daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353
Gminer on: stratum://zhash.eu.nicehash.com:3369
For what I picked up, it seems like these algorithm do best on my system:
Zhash, x16r, daggerhashimoto, skunk...
I don't quite understand the which miner is mining what algorithm and how to find the right ones. But I'll settle for getting this installed and then I'll go from there. Please help me guys.
Move your topic to mining board.
Yes, of course.. I'll certainly do that next time.
Better to Mining (Altcoins) since GPU rigs can't mine Bitcoins
OK, didn't know that. I know there's been written a lot about it not being profitable, but not possible - I didn't know that. Thanks.
I did order 2 Antminer9S just to test these as well. They are outdated as well, but again, when having this amount of free power every day, I just want to use it. But, I like my Linux rigs more. I've written a lot of shell-scripts which monitors and logs all kinds of stuff. Monitors temperature of each CPU core, each GPU and logs and warns if a certain limit is reached and shutdowns the system if a certain limit is crossed etc. etc. And I have all installed in RACK's so I like my Linux machines
I hope for a friendly Linux miner to help me out...
Sorry for the long post, I wanted to explain it properly.
KR
Dan
