Topic: [XMR] Monero Mining - page 11. (Read 264875 times)

Hi,

I'm running small (I hope it will grow) monero pool - xmrpool.eu.
Currently we are having 0% commission which means more coins for miners (while block is found reward is splitted between miners based on the amount of hashes sent).
Port 3333 is for CPU miners (low diff) and 7777 for GPU rigs (high diff). Port 5555 for better CPUs and single GPUs.
Feel free to join us.

CPU miners.

How often do you see "accepted: 421/421 (100.00%), 34.38 H/s at diff xxx (yay!!!)" in your miner's log when mining with big pool ? Almost NEVER. You are mining for nothing, I will tell you why.

All majors pools set a very high minimal diff on their mining port (25000 on moneropool.com, crypto-pool.fr). This diff is YOUR local difficulty to mine. With a targeted 60s block time and a couple of CPU you have almost NO chance to find and submit a single share in 60 sec at a 25000 diff.

You are just mining for nothing (look a your miner's log).

Why the hell are they doing that ? They prefer to work with GPU or rig owners in order to decrease traffic and load to the pool (aka their own out of pocket money).

At xmr-pool.com we have a low start difficulty of 500 even auto adjusted lower if you come with a poor CPU.

We have a hudge 2.5Gps unmetered bandwidth and a 8 cores dedicated server. So we do not target a specific difficulty, we prefer targeting a time window. WE ACCEPT A SHARE FROM YOU EACH 5 SECONDS wathever is your hashrate. xmr-pool.com adjusts your local diff according to your hashing power in order to meet the 5 sec target.

On top of that xmr-pool.com is 100% FREE. No pool fee for the next 12 months!

Point your miner to mine.xmr-pool.com on port 443 now and watch your shares being accepted

Yeah, I'll post a step by step guide over the weekend.

It didn't give me any noticeable hashrate improvements but I figure the errors going away improve my submitted shares (maybe?).

Can you provide how-tos on installing cuda 8 and the nvidia drivers? The link in my sig is all ubuntu 14 and cuda 5 or 6 or something....

did this make the 950 perform any better?

Installed CUDA 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 and my sporadic CPU validation nonce errors went away with GTX 950.

I had some trouble at first, but use gcc 5.4 when you are installing the NVIDIA drivers and CUDA 8, then switch back to gcc 4.8 when compiling ccminer.

haha, I see what you did there

thanks for the reply - I'll get in touch through a PM.

I would suggest writing to OP...
He's a nice guy but pretty busy, so give him a few days to answer maybe. 

quick question: how can we get our cool monero mining pool listed on this thread?

thanks,
Big - http://xmr.coolpool.io/

ps: for more info, check out our thread here - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xmr-xmrcoolpoolio-0-fee-while-in-beta-us-east-coast-powerful-server-1608848

Announcing new FREE Monero pool



0.0% commission until pool first birthday (2017/09/21)
Light, stable and reliable.
8 cores dedicated server: ultra fast!
2,5 Gbps unmetered bandwidth: low latency.
Firewall passtrought mining port: 443.
24/24 monitored pool.
Anonymous mining (no registration needed).

Point your miner to  mine.xmr-pool.com on port 443

Thank you for mining with us !

These are old, but maybe will get you started. Sorry, never minded with nvidia before.

http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/xmr-nvidia-miner/

http://www.holynerdvana.com/2014/07/mining-cryptonote-coins-with-nvidia.html

Edit if you  are building a system for mining only, I would never use windows, use Linux. Learn to compile. It's hard, frustrating and difficult, but it's worth it in the end!

Good luck and welcome!

Hello, I have been here a few weeks trying to learn about mining (mainly interested in XMR & ETH) and am about to build a rig with 3 (to start) RX 470's.  Until now, I have been using MinerGate to get familiar with mining process. Although I really appreciate its user-friendliness being a complete noob to this, I cannot get it to recognize/mine with the GPU in my current personal PC. Granted, it's an old Nvidia GeForce GTX 550-Ti and maybe it's simply not capable of mining anything, who knows. But, MinerGate support was not helpful at all. After 3-4 emails with their tech support, they finally told me that it would take a long time to try to figure out what the problem is and recommend that I use an alternate GPU miner, of which they link several (including Claymore's) directly on their website.

So, I downloaded and attempted to launch Claymore CrypyoNote GPU Miner v9.5.  I was able to edit the BAT file i downloaded from MinerGate to add my email address and save succesfully, but when I try to launch the EXE, (via Open command, double-click or Run as Admin), I get a brief DOS box? to pop-up but then it closes before I can even read what it says and nothing else happens.

Now, after this, I read through the readme and realize that this version only supports AMD GPUs, which will theoretically be fine for me new build, but obviously will not work for my current old Nvidia GPU.

So... can anyone recommend a good, easy to use XMR GPU miner currently available for old Nvidia cards?  I am not at all familiar with command lines, compilers, etc, so hopefully there is something out there with not too steep of learning curve. I am currently on Windows 7 64-bit and my new system will either be W10 or Linux (but with AMD 470s).

Thanks!  

Moneropool.com and https://monerohash.com/ are my 2 faves atm.  Minergate makes you install their software right? I just use claymores miner for now. Nothing awesome like your card tho lol. Want to try Wolf0's latest miner soon tm.

thanks

hi im new to mining , have been mining using minergate pool for about 1 months , been getting 1kh/s with my rx 480 and amd x4 880k using their gui miner , wta why everyone seems to dislike minergate? im starting to get worry about this pool , is there any problem with this pool? if so could you recommend me a good xmr pool? thanks in advance

Good afternoon, the reason why I write is because i made an error of interpretation Regarding, payment automatic to exchange, thought it was every 0.5 xmr, I apologize for my mistake and I ask you to manual payment the amount so far unavailable in my Pending Balance.

Then I leave attached screenshots, hoping for a prompt and satisfactory response.

My Monero Payment ID Poloniex
7afcaf04551be39a1bcfb304d2d526fb18548edcfa4a9f22f9a09e327b5c8a49

My Monero deposit address Poloniex
47sghzufGhJJDQEbScMCwVBimTuq6L5JiRixD8VeGbpjCTA12noXmi4ZyBZLc99e66NtnKff34fHsGR oyZk3ES1s1V4QVcB

I am monerol, i like Monero and i will do everything for its success.
I have started a monero pool here http://pool.monero.org and willing to make it the biggest open source pool.
You are welcome to mine there, i will contact monero developers and going to giveaway some of pool fees to them.
I use only Xeon bare metal servers to run it.

Welcome to http://pool.monero.org mining!

Point your miners to pool.monero.org

CPUMiner (forked by LucasJones & Wolf) - MINERD

YAM Miner (by yvg1900)

Claymore CPU Miner

Claymore GPU Miner

ccminer (forked by tsiv)

 
Hi everyone,

Here is an excellent tutorial on how to compile your mining software on Linux :

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xmr-tutorial-how-to-compile-your-mining-software-on-linux-1614177

Yes, 2MB cache/thread is true.
but you probably will get maximum hasrate on cores, rather than hyper-thread.
you can try with your current cpu with hyper-thread disabled.

Hello everyone... read the last 7-8 pages of this read today as I am looking to get a primarily XMR rig up and running... hopefully within the next week or so.  There is some really good info in this thread that has already helped educate me about mining nuances, so I appreciate all that people have shared!

I have been trying to find CPU hash rates for XMR, but til now, have not found much more than a quite old spreadsheet on googledocs. I was able to crosscheck my current PC's old 2600k on this sheet and am getting around 115 M/s with it which is close to what is shown on this sheet. But, since this does not have any recent CPU's, I wanted to reach out and see what people's experience has been.

About my build:
- ASRock Mobo that supports 5-6 GPUs (leaning towards LGA-1151 socket but may consider 1150)
- 2 MSI RX470 GPU's (to start, then add more later if profits are in line with expectations)
- CPU: was grappling between the i7-6800k and i7-5820k but now leaning more towards the 6800, mainly because it's a slightly newer CPU with slightly better overall performance. I get can both for around $200 with the 6800 only about $20 more than that 5820.  However, it then became apparent that a lot of people were building rigs with a very cheap g4400 or g4500 CPU, so I am now trying to figure out the ROI on each.

That's where I need some assistance... either in confirming my theory below, or with people's own experience with any of these (or similar) CPUs.

I believe it was GingerAle who posted a few pages back about the G4400 getting 60 H/s.  That CPU has 2 threads, so assuming it will provide 120 H/s. This is of course quite low (my current 2600 gets that already) but I do realize it has a low TDP of 54W. Still, that equates to only about a rate of 2.22 Hashes/Watt, which again, is not great for XMR.

So, I am now trying to calculate the same rates for the i7-6800.  This has 12 threads, so my main question is, can I expect about the same 60 H/s per thread on this CPU (meaning it could get 720 H/s for XMR)?  It does has 15MB of Cache, so shouldn't be any limitation there... if the 2MB per thread requirement I read is indeed valid.  Is there something else that could limit this?  Or, is it actually likely to get more than 60 per thread since it is a slightly faster and higher end CPU?

If indeed it can get in the 720 range, that would make my decision easy, because that would equate to 5.14 Hashes/Watt (even with its 140 TDP), which is about 2.5x of the g4400. Yes, the 6800 would cost me $130 more, but my break even on that expense would only be about 3-4 months at current rates, so worth it I believe.

Any data or experiences with i7-6800k or similar would be greatly appreciated!

Made it further - needed to tweak BIOS settings to recognize the GPU.

Anyway I am now in CUDA territory...I am beginning to wonder if I should have stuck with Ubuntu 14.04 since there is plenty of documentation there.

I get this error when trying to compile ccminer


Nevermind - got it!

[2016-09-11 22:55:09] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 950, 224.98 H/s
[2016-09-11 22:55:09] accepted: 13/13 (100.00%), 224.98 H/s (yay!!!)
[2016-09-11 22:55:10] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 950, 202.82 H/s

hi all,

can anybody help me?

I have an nvidia 9600 gt (an old card), I tried to mine. Miner shows the hashrate but no one pool shows it - hashrate is zero.

win7/32 bit, ccminer 1.1