Ethereum GPU mining?

[bbhaag]

Easiest way to get wet into mining is by using nicehash and its miner, choose daggerhashimoto for mining ether buy nicehash pays in bitcoins.

If im not mistaken mist is a wallet and not really a miner.

If you want to get ether, try claymore ethereum miner and choose a pool to mine to that pays in ether.

Thank you for directing me to a miner. That's what I though I was doing but I guess not. Dl'ed nicehash and tied my coinbase wallet to it for bitcoins. Is that ok? I took another screen cap. Does this look more in line with mining?
I took a look at claymore ethereum miner but a google search let me to a mega link and I don't necessarily trust ddl sites. Call me paranoid from my pirating days but is that the only way to get it?

 

[casiofx]

Thank you for directing me to a miner. That's what I though I was doing but I guess not. Dl'ed nicehash and tied my coinbase wallet to it for bitcoins. Is that ok? I took another screen cap. Does this look more in line with mining?
I took a look at claymore ethereum miner but a google search let me to a mega link and I don't necessarily trust ddl sites. Call me paranoid from my pirating days but is that the only way to get it?

Yupp this looked like mining.

By the way, what are your GPU model?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Thank you for directing me to a miner. That's what I though I was doing but I guess not. Dl'ed nicehash and tied my coinbase wallet to it for bitcoins. Is that ok? I took another screen cap. Does this look more in line with mining?
I took a look at claymore ethereum miner but a google search let me to a mega link and I don't necessarily trust ddl sites. Call me paranoid from my pirating days but is that the only way to get it?

Yep, you're doing it right. You likely won't want to mine on your CPU (it should be unchecked under the benchmark section, meaning it won't be used for mining) due to excessive heat/very little returns. But mining on your card should work fine, just let it autoselect the algorithm, don't go fiddling with those. Some algos are experimental and disabled by default, I recommend leaving them that way as they're prone to crashing.

What's it estimating for your earnings/mo? And what card are yo running? Those speeds look rather low. Even my 960gtx gets 375MH/s on pascal.

 

[fleshconsumed]

So I decided to put my system to use in the off hours by mining. I dl'ed Mist because it seemed pretty easy to setup and use. Go easy on me because I just set this up over the past hour or so but does this screen cap look ok to you guys? I thought mining was mostly gpu intensive but my cpu keeps getting pegged and my ram usage seems really high. Also the part I put a red circle around keeps changing. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Does all this look normal? Like I said go easy on me I'm really new to all this.

Yes, as people have already explained that's just Mist wallet. The -2731251 is number of blocks that still needs to be synced. Full chain is about 30'ish GB right now. It will take time to sync. Geth/Mist is memory/hard drive/cpu intensive when syncing historical data, I've seen it use 3GB of RAM and hammer my SSD up to 100MB/s which is why you're seeing high memory utilization, high CPU usage, and why your E drive is pegged at 97%.

You can use nicehash if you want hands off operation, most people in this thread probably mine with claymore directly to their ETH wallets.

P.S. backup your wallet keys! And password if you set one up in Mist wallet. Super important in case of a hard drive crash.

 

[bbhaag]

Yupp this looked like mining.

By the way, what are your GPU model?

I'm using an MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4G 4GB. I think I have it figured out now. I didn't realize I needed to run the benchmark first. Anyway, here's another screen cap I just took a few minutes ago. Judging by the whirling sounds coming from the case I'm finally on the right track. Now I'm off to mow the grass before it gets to hot out....

 

[PPLP_SMorse]

I'm using an MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4G 4GB. I think I have it figured out now. I didn't realize I needed to run the benchmark first. Anyway, here's another screen cap I just took a few minutes ago. Judging by the whirling sounds coming from the case I'm finally on the right track. Now I'm off to mow the grass before it gets to hot out....

If you're going to mine ether directly with claymore, then you can do a lot better than 21MH/s with your Rx480. I get 29MH/s on a XFX 4GB 480 and 28MH/s on an ASUS 8GB, overclocking the memory to 2000MHz and the core at 1150MHz only. Drawing less than 80W per card on average. I modded my bios though but even with the stock bios you should be able to get 24MH/s mining ethash coins.

 

[n0x1ous]

If you're going to mine ether directly with claymore, then you can do a lot better than 21MH/s with your Rx480. I get 29MH/s on a XFX 4GB 480 and 28MH/s on an ASUS 8GB, overclocking the memory to 2000MHz and the core at 1150MHz only. Drawing less than 80W per card on average. I modded my bios though but even with the stock bios you should be able to get 24MH/s mining ethash coins.

I get 27MH/s on 480 stock bios with 1100/2200 clocks....curious what the bios changes include to get faster performance with slower memory?

 

[PPLP_SMorse]

curious what the bios changes include to get faster performance with slower memory?

The modded bios is to adjust memory timings. I'm no expert but I know that memory speed is critical for the ethereum algorithm.

Edit: I don't run at 2200MHz because my computer displays artifacts when I go past 2000MHz, but if I could then that would give me even better hash rates.

 

[Dulanic]

The modded bios is to adjust memory timings. I'm no expert but I know that memory speed is critical for the ethereum algorithm.

Edit: I don't run at 2200MHz because my computer displays artifacts when I go past 2000MHz, but if I could then that would give me even better hash rates.

It's def all luck of the draw. I've got a 4GB Sapphire RX480 that will run 2250 /w the tighter timings /w samsung memory. Then I've got a 8GB that won't run stock speed /w the tighter timings. I had to downclock the memory 70Mhz for the tighter timings, but it still gets a higher hash rate this way.

 

[n0x1ous]

It's def all luck of the draw. I've got a 4GB Sapphire RX480 that will run 2250 /w the tighter timings /w samsung memory. Then I've got a 8GB that won't run stock speed /w the tighter timings. I had to downclock the memory 70Mhz for the tighter timings, but it still gets a higher hash rate this way.

you know of a guide for this? Im at the point where i would consider flashing all my 480s

 

[Dulanic]

you know of a guide for this? Im at the point where i would consider flashing all my 480s

It's pretty easy now that I figured it out... I am by no means good at it, but I have been playing around.

This has a decent amount of info on it... http://www.overclock.net/t/1604567/polaris-bios-editing-rx5xx-rx4xx

A couple tricks, to watch is ATIWinFlash can be funky..... the GPU#'s don't always match up, so keep an eye on the VBIOS # if your cards are diff brands etc... The "Active" video device flag is useless too Mine flags my secondary card as my active video device which isn't even hooked up to a monitor.

Second easy change is copying the 1500-1600 mem settings down to 1750+. You may or may not need to downclock the memory however, one of my cards OC's 400Mhz /w the tighter timings, another I had to downclock 70Mhz, but it still runs faster.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm using an MSI RX 480 GAMING X 4G 4GB. I think I have it figured out now. I didn't realize I needed to run the benchmark first. Anyway, here's another screen cap I just took a few minutes ago. Judging by the whirling sounds coming from the case I'm finally on the right track. Now I'm off to mow the grass before it gets to hot out....

Out of curiosity, why are you using the 2.0 Alpha build? It surely looks a lot more professional than the 1.7.x.x build, but their GitHub notes that it really isn't meant for public use.

EDIT:

Nevermind. I see that NiceHash has a new version of their website, which links to the 2.0 build when you download the miner.

 

[Insomniator]

Just setup Claymore (Eth only) and a Mist wallet with my GTX 1070 -- getting 27MH/s without any modding/thought put into it. No idea how much power I'm drawing though. I also have a GTX 1060 laptop I could run this on. I wonder what kind of profit I'd get at ~50 total MH/s.

 

[Raduque]

Wonder if I should rebuild my 280x miner.

Edit: Why are nVidia cards going up in price? Are they good for mining now? I have a 960 in a box on my shelf that I was going to use to build a new PC for my sister should I mine with that instead?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Nvidia cards are now being bought for mining since price/availability on AMD cards has gotten completely out of hand. Plus a lot of Nvidia hashing power is being used for ZEC.

 

[Jose Castillo]

wow eth and zcash took a big crash right?

 

[deanx0r]

ETH crashing helps with the trades. I made 3 ETH trading back and forth between ETH and LTC last week, but my ETH portfolio took a massive dive in value. Trading is just too stressful. I rather just plug all my cards and mine away.

 

[daxzy]

If you're going to mine ether directly with claymore, then you can do a lot better than 21MH/s with your Rx480. I get 29MH/s on a XFX 4GB 480 and 28MH/s on an ASUS 8GB, overclocking the memory to 2000MHz and the core at 1150MHz only. Drawing less than 80W per card on average. I modded my bios though but even with the stock bios you should be able to get 24MH/s mining ethash coins.

Not the 4GB version, unfortunately. I have the same card, stock bios, 1100/2000 and I get around 22 MH/s.

 

[chimaxi83]

Strange. My 4GB 290s are at 27.5MH/s at 1000/1250.

 

[DrMrLordX]

wow eth and zcash took a big crash right?

As goes one, so goes the other. I was expecting that dip to $250, still haven't quite gotten there yet (except on GDAX lulz).

 

[Jose Castillo]

As goes one, so goes the other. I was expecting that dip to $250, still haven't quite gotten there yet (except on GDAX lulz).

251$ right now on uphold

 

[DrMrLordX]

Ouch $238 and falling. Gotta wonder where this is gonna stop?

 

[Jose Castillo]

Ouch $238 and falling. Gotta wonder where this is gonna stop?

233$ on uphold....

 

[Charlie22911]

Seeing the cost of cards now has me tempted to dump my 5x 1070 and 6x 1080ti, still have the boxes and everything.
As far as coin price,I'm not at all concerned; they've always been moody.

 

[Aikouka]

Hm, I've just been using NiceHash so far, and I've certainly noticed a drop in overall gains. I wasn't sure if it was just from miners being added, but it seems like some of it may be related to the latest drop in price.

I'm still debating adding one more card. My biggest issue is the heat from it. I'm tempted to go back to water cooling, but with the extra added cost per card (worst that I have some non-reference designs that cost a lot more for blocks), I'm not sure if it's completely worth it over going with a hybrid card. My ROG Strix will require $150 just for a water block, and I'll have to buy a radiator as I sold all of mine. I'm not a huge fan of my D5 top (it gives almost no space below the pumps, so the wires are really squished), so I'll have to get a new one of those (~$90). At the moment, the cards don't get too hot, but I'm only running one card per system right now.