It looks like you're new here.If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!Sign In Register Categories Recent Discussions Activity Unanswered Best Of... Categories All Categories Mining Pool Discussion General Project Discussion (non-technical) Education Protocol and Client discussion web3-js Whisper Swarm 2 RLP IoT & Hardware Smart Contracts and Dapps Serpent Solidity Projects Reference clients code and builds Eth & AlethZero- Cpp Implementation Geth - Go Implementation Mist Node.js Implementation Python Implementation Mix Other Implementations Meetups Other Events Jobs & Skills Press and Articles Audio/Video Ether Sale Other Languages Chinese German Italian French 2 Hebrew 6 Japanese Portugese Romanian Russian Spanish Turkish Watercooler Quick Start Guide To Mine Ethereum agent412 241 August 2016 in Mining PLEASE READ THIS, OR USE THE SEARCH BAR.

We'd like to keep this forum clean of repeat questions.Thanks!I've made this quick guide to help people new to mining, and I'll add to it if I missed anything.I hope this helps.Hardware requirements to start mining.GPU: It's up to you to choose what graphics card you want to mine with.is bitcoin mining bad for gpuHow much is it.bitcoin tax treatment canadaHow much power does it need.litecoin end of miningHow fast is it in terms of its hash rate.bitcoin conference in torontoThe GPU must have at least 2GB of memory, AMD cards are best to use and AMD GPU driver 15.12.litecoin comparison

This Mining Hardware Comparison list is very helpful.http://62.212.74.86/~mining/list/If you want a custom rom (Higher hash, lower power), you can contact HelioxFor example: RX 480 8G Samsung: 32+Mh ETH, RX 470 4G Hynix: 31+Mh ETHMotherboard: You'll need a motherboard that has enough PCIe x16 and PCIe x1 slots to support the ammout of graphics cards you plan on using in your rig.bitcoin bezahlen schweizThe Asrock H81 Pro BTC and Asrock H97 Anniversary, are both good boards to use, they are relatively cheap and they can support 6 graphics cards with 1 PCIe x16 slot and 5 PCIe x1 slot.And you will need to buy a power button, obviously to turn on your rig.Riser Cables: To use the PCIe x1 slots on your motherboard, will need to buy PCIe x1 to x16 riser card extender cables, it can also be used on the PCIe x16 slot.It's also great to give your cards some space from each other.I would recommend buying 1 or 2 extra ones, because sometimes you'll get one that doesn't work.

CPU: You'll want to buy a CPU that fits your motherboard.If you go with the Asrock H81 Pro BTC or Asrock H97 Anniversary, the Intel Celeron G1820 or G1840 works just fine for it.Power Supply: You'll need to calculate how much power you need.For example, I have a 6 card AMD R7 370 rig, each card uses 110watts of power for a total of 660watts, and the rest of the rig uses about 200watts.So knowing this rig will need 860watts of power, I went with a good 1000watt power supply that came will all the necessary cables.Hard Drive: A 60GB hard drive is all you need, and you can find a small solid state drive now for a good price.RAM: A minimum of 4GB of RAM.You'll also need to buy a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and its best to use an Ethernet connection not WIFI.You may temporarily need an optical drive, to install your drivers and Operating System.If you can do all that with a flash drive, that's great too., /help, you'll find 3 mining clients you can easily download and configure to start mining.

Claymore Dual Miner, Genoil Miner, and EthMiner.:8888/YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER_NAMEThen all you have to do is just run the bat file and you're mining away.You should know where your DAG file is, because if you don't keep an eye on it, your hard drive may quickly fill up.You only need the 2 most recent DAG files so it's OK to delete any older ones, but sometimes you'll have to delete all of them.For me, I just had to search for the folder "Ethash" and put a shortcut of it on the desktop.Also some helpful tips.Set your rig to turn on when power is connected, AND set your miner to run on startup.Just google run on startup.It's a must and you'll love it when your power goes out and you're not home.When your power comes back on, your rig will turn on and start mining again.Use a remote desktop.I use Google Chrome Remote Desktop, and I set it up on all my rigs.From my phone or another computer, I can control any of my rigs and keep an eye on them.May 20 123»Comments Biodom 693 August 2016 1 agent412 241 August 2016 Biodom said:In Mining:1.

Do 15.12 drivers work for RX 480 and 470?I thought that you need 16.7.2/16.7.3?2.Is anything else needed, like AMD OpenCL SDK and Microsoft redistributables, or are they unnecessary now?I'm not sure, I haven't used the RX 480 or 470 yet.But I'm sure it has been discussed on the forum.2.I didn't need anything else to mine.1 Abcedarian 76 August 2016 ethOS from gpuShack is easy to use. 3 newmz 299 August 2016 @agent412 - I like the beginner's guide, I wish I had this when I started!Abcedarian said:ethOS from gpuShack is easy to use. I also use EthOS and when I started I believe it saved me a LOT of time and effort on the software side of things, because it just works.No messing with which drivers, which OS, etc - you just edit a config to point to your wallet and reboot it and it mines.Some people bitch about paying for it, which I understand, but the quicker you can get a rig up and mining the sooner you will be earning ETH and that was definitely worth the price of EthOS to me.

/statistics/miners it will show you a graph and a list of mining pools, and their relative size in terms of how much hashrate they contribute to the network.You may want to join a larger pool because it's payments will be very predictable and regular, or take a chance on a smaller pool if it happens to be geographically close to you or you like something about it.Smaller pools can be unpredictable in terms of payouts and luck - but that can be either in you favour or not.4 Coinsinfo 2 August 2016 1 core16 16 August 2016 @Coinsinfo Yeah, but i wouldn't recommend it.The services are usually over priced and with the looming switch to POS you wouldn't be able to use your 1 year contract for anything else (as opposed to selling gpus or mining something else) August 20161 MarlynNeves 54 August 2016 1 kovancek 13 August 2016 core16 said:@Coinsinfo Yeah, but i wouldn't recommend it.The services are usually over priced and with the looming switch to POS you wouldn't be able to use your 1 year contract for anything else (as opposed to selling gpus or mining something else) /?p=buy-ethereum-miningUse them for quite some time now... 0 core16 16 August 2016 kovancek said: core16 said:@Coinsinfo Yeah, but i wouldn't recommend it.

The services are usually over priced and with the looming switch to POS you wouldn't be able to use your 1 year contract for anything else (as opposed to selling gpus or mining something else) /?p=buy-ethereum-miningUse them for quite some time now...Fair point, I would say they're the exception though 0 wlefever 7 August 2016 0 agent412 241 August 2016 @wlefever did you try using one of your other riser cables?To see if you have a bad cable.0 wlefever 7 August 2016 1 Jamis1979 22 August 2016 0 Siva 5 August 2016 U can add cards from whatever brand u want.I use 2x Sapphire R9 290X and 2 XFX R9 290X and i have no Problems 0 HasLux 48 August 2016 Biodom said:In Mining:1.You need AMD Pro drivers for linux.You must use ubuntu 16.0.4 and you may need to upgrade your kernel to get them working.You will no longer have aticonfig commands.0 armyman 23 August 2016 @agent412 thank you for the very useful guide!

Just one question about the software.I have just finished to set up my new rig which is composed of:ASROCK H81 PRO BTC1200 PSUINTEL PENTIUM DUAL CORE G32588 GB RAMEXTERNAL SSD6 x XFX RX 480 8 gbConsidering that I don`t need the miner to do anything else than just mining (is not my pc), what do you think is the best software setup starting from scratch, to make sure I use 100% of the miner capabilities (so best operating system, best mining software, if I need drivers, GPU`s managing software, mining pool, etc)?I hope your reply can also be useful for someone else more than me, thank you so much for your help!0 agent412 241 August 2016 @armyman It depends on what you're more comfortable with using.Windows 10 is fine and you can mine with claymore's dual miner.Personally I use windows 10 because I'm not really familiar with Ubuntu and it's easier for me to install drivers and software, and I use ethminer because I'm used to it and works just fine for me.1 armyman 23 August 2016 @agent412 thank you so much for your reply.

So just to make sure I have got it, win10+ claymore's dual miner if I want to mine ETH and something else (let's say SIA), otherwise, if I just want to mine ETH I can simply use win10+ethminer, is that correct?0 agent412 241 August 2016 @armyman That's pretty much it.But, you can also use claymore to mine only eth if you don't wanna dual mine.1 armyman 23 August 2016 @agent412 Thanks again, one last thing.If I do dual mining with Claymore, will that affect my performance in mining eth?Would I get better results on eth if I just focus my mining on it instead of dual mining, or it is not affected by dual mining?0 agent412 241 August 2016 @armyman I don't think it affects the performance, but it will use a little bit more power.1 Rabasso 135 August 2016 0 danny1 33 September 2016 wlefever said:So I tried adding a 5th card today (Red Devil rx 470) and can't get it to detect on Windows 10.Other gpus are reference 480's, Motherboard is Asrock H81 Pro BTC and I have powered risers, and plenty of power 1300 EVGA.

4 cards was working just fine but the fifth wont show up, fans just spin.Did you get it work?Try setting pcie to 1x in your bios 0 Manny_X10 5 September 2016 @agent412 have you heard of the software nicehash?Do you have any experience with it.Is the program you listed easy enough for a beginner?1 agent412 241 September 2016 Manny_X10 said:@agent412 have you heard of the software nicehash?i'm not familiar with nicehash, ethminer and claymore miner are pretty easy to use.0 shooter40sw 38 September 2016 0 supguys 21 September 2016 agent412 said:PLEASE READ THIS, OR USE THE SEARCH BAR.http://62.212.74.86/~mining/list/Motherboard: You'll need a motherboard that has enough PCIe x16 and PCIe x1 slots to support the ammout of graphics cards you plan on using in your rig.Nice guide agent412, this seems to be the most short and concrete guide out there, and I've seen many.As far I know there is no need to sync with the network as long you'r in a mining pool and almost every guide out there make emphasis on sync with it.

But I am facing a problem that is driving me crazy and I'm pretty sure is a software problem.I've been 3 days trying to start mining and there is no way I can make it happen.My system is aWindows 10genoil,etheminer or claymorecrisom 16.7HardwareAsRock H81 PRO BTCCPU Celeron G1840PSU EVGA 700WPowered USB 3.0 Risers8GB corsair memory120GB SSD2 XFX RX 480 8GB- The problem is that any of the mentioned miners above can find or do not recognize my GPUs, as soon I execute Start.bat it close intermediately after.My listing hardware is fine, the drivers are fine I'm using this PC to write this connected to one of the cards, my iGPU is deactivated in the MOBO, I've tried with just one GPU, changing the PCI-E ports and frankly I'm exhausted trying to find the answer in the forums and google, but there is no answer because everyone that happens this is because they don't have the proper GPUs and enough memory and the problem is that!I DO have the proper video cards!- I'm full of frustration about this because I have 4 more GPUs and 2 more PSU ready to mine but I can't even start with just 2 cards.

My conclusion for know is, I'm doing something terrible stupid or terrible wrong.PD: The motherboard says if you want to connect more than 3 GPUs you should connect the 2 molex extra power to the MOBO but I have powered risers and as far I know only data go trough the connectors that goes into the MOBO I suppose I don't need to connect the extra molex.Do anyone have a comment about this confusing recommendation of AsRock?- 1 agent412 241 September 2016 @supguys can you send me what your .bat looks like, the pool you're mining to, and which miner you want to use?Go with claymore's miner.As for the 2 molex connections on the MOBO, I would connect them.0 supguys 21 September 2016 agent412 said:@supguys can you send me what your .bat looks like, the pool you're mining to, and which miner you want to use?- :- I'm not sure if the problem is I'm configuring the miner in the start.bat- This is the log:20:14:12:283 ee0 args: 20:14:12:286 ee0 20:14:12:290 ee0 ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»20:14:12:294 ee0 º Claymore's Dual ETH + DCR/SC/LBC GPU Miner v7.0 Beta º20:14:12:297 ee0 ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ20:14:12:300 ee0 20:14:12:503 ee0 ETH: No pools specified!