Topic: [XMR] Monero Mining - page 14. (Read 264875 times)

wow, thanks so much @gingerale - I really appreciate your detailed feedback! Think I will look into an i& with as much L2 cache as I can find.

I remember digging into this at one point and the conclusion I came to was that its whatever the largest cache on-chip is. AFAIK, these caches are essentially just memory on the CPU itself to effect the highest speed, and the different cache levels relate to speed and priority... so its not like cryptonite is seeking out the L3 cache specifically to store the scratchpad to perform the PoW, its just going "hey you sloppy sons ah bitches I need to dump some shit in memory." Why cryptonite is a drunken sailor I have no idea. So the CPU dumps this to whatever memory it can. I assume it first goes to L1 cache and L1 cache is like "Please go elsewhere. L1 is reserved for the finest of processes" as it turns its nose up on the cryptonite PoW, cause aint no way L1 has 2 MB. Then it gets to L2 and its like "you gots some room for my pad?" and L2 goes "sure", because its a processor with a large L2. Yada yada yada, down the chain.

In the case that none of caches had the 2 MB space, cryptonite can still work, its just incredibly slow because the stuff has to go all the way from the CPU to the (gasp) memory, which is like Bourbon street for processes. And maybe you'll make it down to that crazy ass old tavern at the end of the strip.

I thought it was 2MB of L3 cache per mining thread not L2.

Depends on some factors: how much is your electricity? How cool is your climate? How much noise can you tolerate?

A CPU will tend to be more efficient. That said, check the L2 cache of the i7. Each mining thread needs 2 MB cache. So, even if you have 8 threads, if you only have 6 MB cache, your going to mine with 3 threads, maybe 4.

That said, I know the new skylakes can do 60 hashes / second on 1 thread.
Pentium(R) CPU G4400 @ 3.30GHz

I don't know what the hashrate on the 1060 is, but in general NVIDIA's use less power, but don't have a high hashrate. The nvidia mining software was developed on the 750 ti, and the 750 ti is where you see the best hashrate per dollar cost of GPU. For instance, the 750 ti gets 250 hashes / second, whereas a card 4X the cost (the 1080i) only gets twice as much hash (maybe 500 hashes per second). I've never heard of an nvidia card going over 500 hashes per second.

Meanwhile, the AMD 290x (or 390x) can pump out 780 hashes / second. However, that thing gobbles around 250 watts.

Also have a look here - full instructions:

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-monero/

I hope someone can help:

Which would be the best for mining XMR:
1. Upgrading to an i7 that support 8 threads
2. Purchase a GTX1060 GPU

Almost in the same price range.

Any tips would be much appreciated!

Have a look at minergate.com, as far as I know, they support the Nvidia cards.

tsiv's ccminer is your best bet I think:
https://github.com/tsiv/ccminer-cryptonight

Maybe someone else has an updated version, but that should work I think.

Any1?

Is there any Nvidia GTX 1060, 1070 , 1080 miner?

Oops typo that should have been H/sec  not KH/sec

So all together 3.0KH/sec

I see you commented including the following.  Those #s can't be correct for Monero. KH?

"My 6x AMD R9 280x’s produce about 500 KH/sec each for a total of 3000KH/sec"

Mom, can I have one of these for Christmas?   Please!

http://cryptomining-blog.com/5263-mining-with-a-8x-gpu-geforce-gtx-titan-x-system/

Anyone have any ideas what this set up would generate in overall total hash rate?

Would you go AMD or Nvidia?

Who wants to form a block relay network / pool alliance?

It's relatively easy with Monero - all you would need to do is add high-speed / high-hashrate nodes to the
flag when you launch the daemon that serves your pool instance (well, you do it in a conf file, with add-priority-node=IP:port). In my initial attempt to do this for my pool mine.moneroworld.com, I discovered that a striking majority of the pools listed here: https://monerohash.com/#network do not have their node ip's associated with their pool webpage IP or even the mining IP (fancy). Thus, forming this network would require those pool operators to publish their node IPs or communicate it with me or someone else directly.

Why form an alliance/ block relay network?

Well, in terms of decentralization, its not the greatest thing to do. However, this could also speed up block discovery for the network as a whole, and could also possibly increase the alliance's discovery of blocks compared to those not in the alliance (I'm looking at you, mysterious 8.5 MH/s of unknown hashrate).

Isn't this just pool collusion?

Yeah, it pretty much is. Well, its miner collusion, and the miners just happen to be pool operators.

Wait gingeropolous, i thought you hated pooling and were all about decentralization.

Yes, thats true. I still am. However, there's no good solution to prevent pooling that exists right now, so IMO the next best thing is to create a lot of pools and distribute the pool hashrate. And if these pools are directly relaying blocks to each other, then it does make the most sense for a miner to connect to a pool with the lowest ping, because they are (sort of) connecting to a meta-pool.

Won't smart mining help the pooling centralization problem?

Sure, smart mining will exist eventually, but it doesn't now. In the meantime, I try to work with the skills I have.

The ports actually don't matter - it automatically adjusts. So you could send them all to the same port or split it up like you have.

I have a
HD 7700  - low end 3333
i5 6600k  - medium -5555
Raedon R7 370 - 5555

would these settings be correct?

Why mine at mine.moneroworld.com?

The fees support the hosting of a block explorer, http://explore.moneroworld.com and the minimum payout is 1 xmr, so you don't spend all your money on those pesky fees! And the pool fee is only 0.5%.

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that https://monerohash.com/ now supports mining directly to an exchange address using a payment ID.

Although I don't encourage mining to an exchange, I know there are some miners out there that prefer it that way, so feel free to give it a try.

Minimum payout is 7 XMR. Payments are run twice per day.

EDIT: To clarify, the mininum of 7 XMR and the frequency of 2 payments per day is for exchanges addresses. Normal minimum payout is 0.3 XMR.

It has been done by some miners on Monero long ago. They used nvidia GPU from Amazon but I don't think it's profitable anymore unless you have a very optimized mining software.

Has anyone here ever configured a GPU specific server on a hosting platform or through a host provider to mine Monero.  Or configured a server running NVIDA Tesla GPU's?  Just wondering if it can be done and also what might the cost be to use one per month?