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Optimal number of threads when mining
As a general rule of thumb: Cryptonight, the PoW hash Monero uses, needs a 2 MB scratchpad in fast memory, so you will want to have all your mining threads able to keep their scratchpad in cache. So ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
In terms of power efficiency, the reigning champ was the Nvidia 750Ti. That GPU will get you 250H/s and use about 30-40W power. For efficiency, that puts it around 6H/s/W.
With the optimized ARM64 ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
There are no ASICS yet, and GPUs are about 2-4x faster than CPUs. Monero's PoW algorithm has a large memory requirement that would make it difficult to use an ASIC and less advantageous to use a GPU ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
People visiting this question in the future will find the answers provided are out of date. This website lists user-submitted hardware benchmarks that include Monero mining hashrate, power consumption,...
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Optimal number of threads when mining
I played around a bit with using different numbers of threads on different machines, and my best results came from just using half the number of cores on that machine. Here's part of my script to ...
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Is there any way to mine using an integrated GPU?
Wolf's GPU miner works with AMD integrated GPUs too. I tested it several months ago. https://twitter.com/hyc_symas/status/695730032291917825
On the A10-4600M each CPU thread got about 50H/s. In my ...
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Can I mine with more than one client on a given mining pool?
Nothing special to do if you're pool mining. Most pools just use your address as your "account name" and don't care if one device or 100 are mining to that address. As an example, some miners ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
Currently the rx400 series is the most efficient, powerful, and cost-effective mining equipment. I have gotten an rx470 to 700 h/s using about 80-90 watts. It required many hours of bios modification, ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
Monero could be mined by ASIC. The Bitmain Antminer X3 is U$1255, ships Aug. 21-31 2018, and weighs 7 kg, it does 220000 H/s using 465 W +7% (2.27 J/kH +7%) - but they clearly mention:
There are ...
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Hardware and Monero Mining
The "24-Core" supported by the motherboard you linked to is per-CPU, (e.g., E7-8890 v4 has 24 cores), so per quad-socket motherboard that would be 96 cores. However, these CPUs cost >$7K each yet you ...
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Is monero worth mining in 2021?
As others have said, you will likely have higher electricity costs than revenue. A few years back when I tried this, I found that my hash rate was several orders of magnitude below where I would see ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
This depends on whether you refer to "performance per watt" or "performance per purchase price".
Raw hash rates for different CPUs and GPUs can be found, for example, at http://monerobenchmarks.info/...
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Cheapest GPU that is possible to mine on
Cheapest GPU is the one you have available. I mean, you can start mining with an integrated GPU like an AMD Radeon HD 7480D and get around 50 H/s.
If you want a full list of GPU Benchmarks, feel ...
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Help me setup a good mining rig on my high end gaming computer
Its really not that hard.
Create your wallet (GUI works well)
install:
XMR-Stak
XMR-Stak seems to work well (one unified version for CPU & GPUS:AMD/NVidia). I did build it for linux, but ...
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Mining on Mecer Xtreme S01 PC-On-Stick?
Yes, since Z3735F has x86_64 instruction set.
But there is no AES so you will get a very small hash rate, and considering its design, it will probably overheat, so most probably not worth it.
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
This Google docs spreadsheet has a nice list of GPU/CPU hash rate reports to help you make up your mind!
Here are top-10 CPUs:
CPU ~H/s Threads TDP, W Miner app / version Settings / command line
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Can I mine with more than one client on a given mining pool?
You can start the same command line one each machine and it will work.
However, if you have hardwares with significant difference in hashrate, it may be better to target a specific difficulty.
That ...
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Which type of hardware is the most efficient for mining Monero?
The most efficient hardware for mining Monero, at this time, are AMD GPU cards. High hashrate power and low power consumption is the perfect combination.
Truly, the more cost-efficient hardware for ...
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Would this be a good hardware setup for Monero mining?
GPU mining configurations often use the cheapest CPU. Thus, your CPU should be powerful enough to work with 3 Rx 480. Yes, PCIE x 1 should work for mining but you have to buy a riser (recommended to ...
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CPU getting more hash than GPU
According to these benchmarks, K620 is supose to get around 120 H/s
http://monerobenchmarks.info/ (threads 32, block 6s)
Also XEON E3-1271 gets 338 H/s
So yes, its probably correct. But you can ...
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More cores are better for Monero CPU mining?
I would say that it will not automatically mine better. What is important is the cache size of the CPU. You need 2 MB for one thread.
Let's say your cache is 4 MB and you have 8 cores, you still can ...
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Is monero worth mining in 2021?
Is monero worth mining in 2021?
It's "worth it" profitability wise if your cost of running is less than the revenue you can make. Thus you need cheap electricity / low power consumption ...
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Can I mine with more than one client on a given mining pool?
Mining to the same address with several machines it totally fine.
Difficulty adjustment is made per connection, so having machines with wildly disparate hash rate mining to the same address is fine. ...
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Can I mine with more than one client on a given mining pool?
I run several instances of two different clients (CPU and GPU) on the same pool with no problem at all. No special configuration.
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Estimated R9 290 h/s?
I have two R9 290's online mining. I have an AMD Sapphire running approximately 723h/s sure I can do it a little better. Also have a PowerColor running but its only at 636h/s hopefully that will give ...
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How to manage a large number of low-powered miners?
What I'd like to do is have all these devices mine to a single address, without joining a pool. Is this possible?
You can use the start_mining <addr> monerod command for each miner and direct ...
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what is my xmr mining capacity
You can try mining with monero-wallet-cli to see your hashrate but I'm pretty sure it will be below 30H/s (a laptop i3 CPU). With this, you'd be getting about 0.006xmr/day. You can estimate mining ...
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Help to Setup a Monero mining farm $4000 Budget
With that budget I'd probably build a rig around the following components:
AsRock H110 Pro BTC+ (~140€)
6xMSI GTX 1060 GAMING X6G (~360€ each = 2160€ total)
One GTX 1060 overclocked using the ...
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Which is better for Monero mining: AMD Threadripper or Intel i9 7900x?
AMD Threadripper is clearly better. Take a look at this german article. If you don't understand german, take a look at the table with the number of threads. The more threads the better.
On the second ...
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