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A fuller one is below:. Put just the url, nothing else, in the file. The first time I did this I left in two comment lines, then the url, and it did not work. There are many different ways to host a text file on a webserver, but that is beyond the scope of this article. With your copy of EthosDistro, you get a web panel with realtime statistics for every miner at your location.
This is a portion of the GPU miner panel I am running at my medium size mining location:. Those issues are due to bad risers — I got a bad batch from a different supplier I tried.
With this batch, the bad risers run for hours, then stop. It makes troubleshooting tedious and slow. As soon as I get some better ones, I am going to be a lot happier. In the example configuration above, I included three tuning settings. How you set them depends on what you want to accomplish. I prefer a mix of maximum hash rate with moderate power usage. Others try to maximize the hash per watt.
I found that setting the maximum power to watts worked the best. After that, I worked to increase the memory speed as much as possible. When operating, ethosdistro will turn the GPU processor speed down to keep the card within power limits. I usually put my miners on one cryptocurrency and leave it there for a month or two. Since prefer to mine and hold, I like to mine a cryptocurrency that has less competition. Some people are not able to mine and hold, and instead must mine and sell the rewards that they mine.
I still like to make sure that I am mining one of the more profitable coins, so as long as it is close to the most profitable, I am fine with that. These are the settings:. All five equihash coins are fairly similar in profitability. Nicehash is an interesting option also — if you point your GPU miner at it you will get paid in Bitcoin.
For mining and holding, you should do your research and determine which ones you think have the longest term potential to increase in usefulness, value, and price. Assuming everything stays the same system hash rate for each coin, price, etc. Now, to double-check the Whattomine calculator against reality, you have to check your mining pool. The hashrate for the 27 miners I have mining ZEC right now has averaged about Profitability, however, is a constantly moving target. If it is a cryptocurrency you believe in, mine it, hold it, and sell some when the price spikes higher to help offset your costs.
I like GPU miners. They are straighforward to build, flexible, and profitable. For most people just getting into mining, I tell them that it is great to have grand plans, but that they should start mining with just one miner first, because it is a learning experience.
After they run out of room at their house or apartment, then they can look at getting more and putting them into a place that has more electricity and cooling.
Jon Boyer October 3, 3: I just shared this with my partner. Rolf October 3, 4: Nice thing about GPU rigs is you can get everything you need in a week, and start mining right away. CC December 17, I probably have sooo many questions but first I just want to say thank you for sharing all your valuable experience and knowledge.
You are helping lots or people and helping the industry a lot in the process. Motherboards are msi z None of the rigs are performing at the hashrate I was told they could achieve.
Do you have any settings suggestions? Can you give me some good guidelines or direct me where to find them? Also, I need to add additional ventilation before the warm weather hits and I wondered if you might share the info on your filtered intake fan as well as your exhaust fan? Brian October 3, 4: Rolf — I appreciate your articles and videos. I hope to have my first miner up in my home in about a week as parts come in.
I have two quick questions: What is your set up for running GPU miners at V? It likes higher voltage, because there is less current. It does not really save much money. Thomas Wood October 6, Rolf October 16, 4: I go back and forth on that. With almost miners now I need something reliable and simple. Nathan Estey October 7, One of the rigs in this post, or 2 Antminer t9s or s9s? Love the site and I must tell you that I stumbled across you while researching distributed ledger technology for a paper in my Masters Finance class.
I would not start with an Antminer S9. Wil November 27, 6: Andrew December 6, Super BASH like with git,vim and all the goodies in it.
Plus it looks good and it runs claymore output fine remotely as well. Although sometimes if you use screen or TMUX it can get a bit weird on refresh. Have you had much experience or result using nicehash compared to pool? They always seem to come up high on whattomine etc. Nice article, and I today I was about to buy a similar setup.
Difficulty of all GPU-minable alt coins has exploded and still grows exponentially. But then I do it and it is profitable. At least for the last 2 years it has been.
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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I still like to make sure that I am mining one of the more profitable coins, so as long as it is close to the most profitable, I am fine with that. These are the settings:. All five equihash coins are fairly similar in profitability. Nicehash is an interesting option also — if you point your GPU miner at it you will get paid in Bitcoin. For mining and holding, you should do your research and determine which ones you think have the longest term potential to increase in usefulness, value, and price.
Assuming everything stays the same system hash rate for each coin, price, etc. Now, to double-check the Whattomine calculator against reality, you have to check your mining pool. The hashrate for the 27 miners I have mining ZEC right now has averaged about Profitability, however, is a constantly moving target. If it is a cryptocurrency you believe in, mine it, hold it, and sell some when the price spikes higher to help offset your costs. I like GPU miners. They are straighforward to build, flexible, and profitable.
For most people just getting into mining, I tell them that it is great to have grand plans, but that they should start mining with just one miner first, because it is a learning experience.
After they run out of room at their house or apartment, then they can look at getting more and putting them into a place that has more electricity and cooling.
Jon Boyer October 3, 3: I just shared this with my partner. Rolf October 3, 4: Nice thing about GPU rigs is you can get everything you need in a week, and start mining right away. CC December 17, I probably have sooo many questions but first I just want to say thank you for sharing all your valuable experience and knowledge. You are helping lots or people and helping the industry a lot in the process.
Motherboards are msi z None of the rigs are performing at the hashrate I was told they could achieve. Do you have any settings suggestions? Can you give me some good guidelines or direct me where to find them? Also, I need to add additional ventilation before the warm weather hits and I wondered if you might share the info on your filtered intake fan as well as your exhaust fan? Brian October 3, 4: Rolf — I appreciate your articles and videos.
I hope to have my first miner up in my home in about a week as parts come in. I have two quick questions: What is your set up for running GPU miners at V? It likes higher voltage, because there is less current. It does not really save much money. Thomas Wood October 6, Rolf October 16, 4: I go back and forth on that. With almost miners now I need something reliable and simple. Nathan Estey October 7, One of the rigs in this post, or 2 Antminer t9s or s9s? Love the site and I must tell you that I stumbled across you while researching distributed ledger technology for a paper in my Masters Finance class.
I would not start with an Antminer S9. Wil November 27, 6: Andrew December 6, Super BASH like with git,vim and all the goodies in it. Plus it looks good and it runs claymore output fine remotely as well. Although sometimes if you use screen or TMUX it can get a bit weird on refresh. Have you had much experience or result using nicehash compared to pool? They always seem to come up high on whattomine etc. Nice article, and I today I was about to buy a similar setup.
Difficulty of all GPU-minable alt coins has exploded and still grows exponentially. But then I do it and it is profitable. At least for the last 2 years it has been. Fabian October 21, 3: Thank you very much for your great tutorials. My rig is finally running with one GTX for testing and learning. In one month I will carry the system to Iran and start mining there with 6 gpus. I hope secure nodes on zencash will be released soon that I can set up one there, too. Ryan October 27, Thank you for helpful information.
Gpu Mining Rigs in Pakistan November 3, 4: Excellent guide to build ethereum mining rig, If you want to build with cheap hardwares than visit here. Scott November 3, I do realize it is using a server psu but i liked that it had a place for external fans. I am total noob trying to build first rig from your post. A little concerned over configuring GPUs in Ethos.
Tim Walters November 14, Hi Rolf — Thanks for the great info! Do you buy additional cables? Am I missing something? Finn McCall January 2, 1: Tim Walters January 2, 8: Finn McCall January 4, 5: