My very first mining rig
Hey guys, check out my first ethereum mining rig.
I became a crypto miner 6 months ago. I started with only 1 GPU. First I built it in a regular PC house (actually the one you can see on the picture). It does not take long time and I really liked this whole world and starting to expand my rig. Bought some more GPUs and this was my first rig. I used to call it as "ghetto rig". I used up things I found at home.
As you can see there were 3 GPUs in it:
Some weeks later I bought one more GPU and I realized I grew out my old pc house :)
Check out my posts to see my other rigs. Coming soon!
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thanks mate!
Very cool. Thanks for posting. Did you join a pool? If so, can you post some details on which pool and your choice of mining software?
I have a couple old PC's I'd like to convert and tried to set-up with Linux but couldn't figure it out, so I've gone back to darkside using Windows 7.
Thanx.
yes of course i joined to a ppol. ethermine.org. it doesnt really worth in solo unless if you have a huge mining farm. how old are your pc's? mining needs high quality computers but good luck, maybe you can start with a coin you can mine with cpu miner software. i use claymore for eth btw. keep it up bro!
Thanks delonge,
I have 2 old PC's and I'm planning to use the one with a GTX460 GPU. I reformatted the HDD last night and did a clean install of Win7. Set-up an account on Nanopool and downloaded CGMiner but haven't been able to figure out the correct set-up for URL, Worker, etc. I'm not a propellerhead so it takes me a while - but hey I can sharpen a chainsaw!
gtx460 sounds like a very old gpu, I don't think you can mine with that, for ethereum you need gpu with 3gb video memory, and it's hashing power should be higher than electricity cost or it will be a waste of time money and gpu.
I suspect you're correct. I managed to get CGMiner 4.10 operating by creating a .bat file but my Hashrate is looking like 0.000 h/s and I haven't figured out the Settings feature, so I don't know if my GPU is being used. Don't want to give-up just yet.
Well it is your choice but think if all your work costs so little, I got gtx660 on desktop but I don't try to mine with it even so it is reported to be able to do 40h/s on zcash but with all crypto instability and rising difficulty it will be useless very soon.