Bad bitcoin mining rig build

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: Rolf, it might be worth updating the comprehensive guide above, which is excellent BTW, to include the information regarding the cabling. Neville November 18, 4: What are your thoughts on going for a pre-built ASIC miner or rig instead of building one for the first time?

Have you faced this issue? For all the videos, blog posts and time taken to educate the general public. It is greatly appreciated!!! I have been reading and watching for almost a week trying to get a grasp of the how I am going to test the waters , so here is the initial plan. Time to refurb one of my computers from when I had a computer shop. After 5 yrs of collecting dust. I started in and put down my tools in I am ready to get it together to get back into it for myself.

More for testing right now… MB: Wil December 1, As I wait for a real video card to test Ethos out on, after 4 years and with a puff of smoke I have the old system running. Hi, Amazing stuff you are doing. Besides the manufacturers websites, where do you recommend buying asic mining equipment?

Ideally, they would accept bitcoin as currency. Ben December 19, 9: Also in regards to the CPU, will using a cheaper duo core limit us in any way? Mike December 26, Do you have another recommendation for a similarly functioning gpu to make this build with? Send me an amazon affiliate link to click on and I will, no worries there, will gladly help u get the commission.

Rolf December 27, 6: Mike, thanks for asking. Mike Plambeck December 27, 6: Can you tell me one more thing, is mining with a 6 GPU rig like this profitable similarly to mining with an antminer s9 for Bitcoin? I ask because I wonder if I should focus on purchasing antminers for Bitcoin or do 6 GPU setups, or both at the same time? Best I could find. Nick December 27, Just one at the time? For a beginner which one should I start with?

Mine whichever one you like the best and believe will go up in value the most. Nick December 27, 7: How much do you think I will make per month with one ring?

And overall amount, just guessing based on your experience and expertise. Nick December 28, The one you mention in your blog it is not available anywhere. Thanks a lot for your feedback. Dani Dekamhi January 15, 5: First of all thanks for all the info which was very helpful.

My target is to build up 1 rig, to see how it goes and then continue building new ones. Worst case scenario i will end up with a monster gaming pc. Zach January 27, 7: Rolf, thank you for the very detailed and easy to understand info!

Or would the amount of ZEC which you can mine from 1 be less than one-sixth. Below are some basic components but the rig setup guide dives a lot […]. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Plug in the CPU fan. Plug the SATA cable into the motherboard. Attach the power supply to the right side of the case. Use the screws that came in the box. Plug the power cord into the power supply, turn on the power switch.

Press the ATX power button, or short the power button header pins with a screwdriver. The machine should boot. After setting the BIOS, connecting Ethernet, and rebooting, EthosDistro boots to a screen that is more user-friendly than just a command line: IP address of the miner itself — access by SSH — this one is at Depends on the IP address of your location.

SSH to the IP address like so: A fuller one is below: Useful Commands for EthosDistro I only use a few commands when checking on miners. For EWBF it looks like this: Operating EthosDistro and Checking the Panel 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: These are the settings: This is the result: Summary I like GPU miners.

Cryptocurrency mining is for everyone who wants to participate — best of luck! Super article, learning so much from your site Rolf. Hi Rolf, Thank you for helpful information. Thank you in advance. Hi Rolf, Firstly great blog.

When the system boots, it will copy whatever file is referenced in remote. For just a single miner, edit the local. Put this at the beginning of the local. I like to keep the configurations for multiple mining pools in the file, commented out with the symbol. That way if I want to change what I am mining I can just alter the configuration without looking everything up again.

Before you start mining, you definitely want to have a wallet address of your own to mine to, which in this configuration is set by the proxywallet configuration item. For any Bitcoin based cryptocurrencies, like ZEC and ZEN, I actually prefer to mine to a software wallet, then transfer to a hardware wallet every week or two.

If you mine to a hardware wallet or exchange, change your pool settings so it only deposits once a day. More than once a day deposit into a hardware wallet or exchange can cause issues. And perform maintenance on your hardware wallet! I like to plug them in one at a time then reboot, so I can figure out if I have a bad riser or card.

The most common problem you will probably have is bad risers. I always order extra so I can quickly swap out a bad riser. There are two main sources of documentation for EthosDistro. The first is the local. A working example of the pool. I had to read it through about 10 times before I understood how to change the settings to make it work. The second source of documentation is the EthosDistro Knowledge Base.

If you have more than one GPU miner, or want to be able to make changes remotely, you can create a text file and post it on a web server. The example above is a portion of my web server based configuration file. 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.

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.

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?