Ether mining rig build discussion

in ethereum •  8 years ago 

images.jpgMy friend and I are planning a mining rig build to mine Ether. We have an i7 with 16 gigs ready for a video card. I have some questions:

What is the most cost effective video card?

Is Linux the best platform and which mining software is ideal?

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      ·  8 years ago 

    If you can find them, Radeon rx 470 8GB are a good choice.

    A headless linux machine is the most efficient.

    Are you sure now is the time to be getting into Ethereum? The difficulty is shooting up, Ethereum is going PoS at some point not to mention the current issues with the block chain.

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      ·  8 years ago 

    Thanks can you advise on other coins that are better to mine?

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      ·  8 years ago 

    I think nowadays altcoin mining become faded. Since mining is not a good solution for scaling up the altcoin. The altcoin is going to change from POW to POs. And there are more and more ICO with fixed amount of tokens. So the future of mining is not so optimistic...

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      ·  8 years ago 

    Does that mean that transactions will no longer need to be verified by miners?

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        ·  8 years ago 

      That means the method of generating altcoin is no longer based on how much computing power you have, but according how much altcoin you obtain and then generate the new coin according how much portion you obtain.... And soon Eth will becom Proof of stake and the mining difficulties will become more difficult. So I think is it to end for mining altcoin using mining mechine....

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        ·  8 years ago 

      Thanks for the info. If nobody mines it, how will the transactions be proven in the blockchain?

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        ·  8 years ago 

      They still use the bolockchain system, and it may need to store the altcoin into a specific for the generation of new altcoin , or through the ERC token system for the distribution of new coin, but there is a concern that, which is dangerous to put most of the coins into a specific, and the meaning of blockchain will lost, and POS solution may centralize the market....

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        ·  8 years ago 

      I get that but how will transactions be verified if there is no mining? Isn't that the engine of for example Bitcoin?

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          ·  8 years ago 

        Generally you earn more by B&H

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            ·  8 years ago 

          What is B&H?

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              ·  8 years ago 

            I run GTX 1070. Check out this link explaining why not to use RX Cards.

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                ·  8 years ago 

              What kind of hash rate are you getting? I have read 25 m/hs for that card.

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                  ·  8 years ago 

                Yeah, around 25 Mh/s without overclocking.

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                    ·  8 years ago 

                  Great. Do you run more than one card in your rig?

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                      ·  8 years ago 

                    I have 7 rigs running. 1 with 3 GPU, 3 with 4 GPU, 2 with 5 GPU. Depends on my motherboard. Hash.png

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                        ·  8 years ago 

                      Awesome. Thanks. What software do you use?

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                          ·  8 years ago 

                        WIndows 10

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                            ·  8 years ago 

                          I like the familiarity of Windows 10. Are there any advantages to using Linux? Also, what mining software do you use? I have tried Minergate before for CPU mining. I know Minergate only supports NVidia GPUs.

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