I burnt out a z170 mobo and am in the market for a new one, that can run my 6500 or 6600k. I got a gtx1080 ftw and could be making 60$ a month with it right now. I have not much knowledge on this topic but have watched a few videos. Just want to ask, what OS is easy for someone new to crypto mining.
I was looking at mining eth, rvn, idk a few others? I do like the idea of easyhash mining for btc … anyone has suggestions?
Windows is fine, hiveOS is what seriously committed miners use. Any distro will work as long as you have a boot drive and enough ram.
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For the sake of simplicity I would be using Mining OS for GPU rigs | minerstat. Should be free for your use case and is easy to setup and use.
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Question. I am looking for motherboards on ebay, newegg and cannot recall what bandwidth the pci-e lanes need for crypto mining. I think this is important when adding more gpus, and I have one atm but considering getting a second. I am looking at Asus Z170M-PLUS LGA 1151 which is cheap, has one x16 and the other is a x4.
Just wondering if anyone can give me a an idea if there are things I need to consider, know, should research before purchasing. I am googling actively, I will be using a intel i5 6500/6600k
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Maybe considering a different older motherboard cpu combo if its less expensive and will work with my gtx 1080 ftw.
Just a single 1080? You could use any old computer found in a dumpster for that.
PCIE version, lanes and bandwidth only become a concern when you’re using 6+ GPU’s or a particular revision of the 3060.
Really if you don’t know what to look for just do a search on amazon for “mining motherboard” then paste the name of the most popular board into your youtube search bar, an hour later you’ll have all the info you need.
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Thanks. But I want to stick to a budget, I got the Asus one.
This question is relevant to your choice in operating system. Is there a hard limit set on how many graphics cards you can run on a Windows 10 system? I have a rig with 12 RX 580’s and I can’t seem to get more than 6 cards to show up under device manager even though I have all 12 plugged in.
My system; Windows 10 pro 64bit, Ryzen 5 3600, Gigabyte x570 ultra.
Am I hitting my limit of PCI lanes with that chip? Is each GPU using 4 lanes? 6x4=24. I have each GPU connected through a PCIE splitter card each card has 4 USB ports that connect to a PCIE riser card but I’m under the impression that is a 1X connection…
Any help would be appreciated.
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Nice dude. Wish I spent my $ on more gpus instead of other crap. but hey, its still early. got more halvings to go! Ill be mining Eth till I can’t mine it no more and move onto the next best thing. Would love to get more gpus … 1080’s seem to be decent ?
150watts for 36 mh/s @ 25kh/w - for the one gtx1080ftw I have. I got a fresh install of an unactivated win 10 on ssd for my test. Waiting for that asus mobo still, and when I get another small ssd I would like to see what I get running some linux distro because I HATE Windows, microsoft.
Im not sure what limits there would be in OS for how many cards you can run, but I do know there are limits on mobo and cpu for PCIe lanes. But from what I know, or have seen, gpus mining dont use lots of lanes? but maybe this has to be configured as default may correlate to the motherboards slot layout. meaning if theres two x16 slots and 4 x4 slots, you may have to configure something to get them to use less lanes per slot? My risers are in the mail and I havent set up multi gpu mining so I really have no idea. You know more than I do
Update I got em all running using MinerStat.com’s OS “Miner OS” just a Linux distro running Phoenix miner 10 RX580’s with room for 2 more on this rack if I really wanted to squeeze them together. Average speed 286.542 MH/s at 750Watts! I could push my cards more but I’m under volting and have my core and memory clocks de-tuned to keep temps down AVERAGE 62C it’s a nice little space heater.
I like the RX580 more than the 1080 nvidia cards, my average speed per RX580 is 31.2 mh/s running at 75Watts max at a cost of around $400 per GOD that makes me sick but I have paid off all my hardware at this point nothing but profit now! I also learned you can upgrade almost any rx480 or rx580 4gb to 8gb if your savvy with micro soldering.
Doubling VRAM? Upgrading an RX 480 from 4 to 8 GB - YouTube