So... I wanted to take a few minutes out of all the other stuff I have been working on to send out a plea for help! A little over a week ago, I posted that I'm a miner. At the time, that meant I had loaded up a mining program on my laptop, and set it to work on collecting a few portions of Smartcash. I indicated I was going to try to piece an old desktop back together and get better results. And I sort of did that but...
I feel like I am doing it wrong. So I need someone who has more experience than me to lend a helping hand and guide me to the Dummy's guide to mining.
I dug my old PC out of the closet, got it updated to Windows 10 x64 on a clean install, and bought a GPU - The EVGA GeForce 1050ti.
I plugged the card in, and everything seemed good to go. Well, except that my old VGA monitor didn't have the right plug, so I am using HDMI to connect my old computer to my 65" television, while I sit on the floor in front of it with a mouse and keyboard in my lap.
Downloaded all the current drivers, and MSI Afterburner to get the card clicking at about 1695 MH/s. I'm guessing this is going to make my ccminer go way faster than the 144 MH/s I was getting out of the card in my laptop.
But my effective Hash Rate in CCMiner is 250 MH/s mining in the SmartCash Pool. I'm earning about 7 coins per day. With a coinmarketcap rating of $0.09 per coin, I am looking at earnings of Less than $0.70 a day. That seems wrong.
So how do I increase my effective hash rate in the miner off of the 250 MH/s and get more of the GPU's capability flowing? Or is it just that I have chosen the wrong coin to mine and need to get into something that will allow me to mine more efficiently?
I'm a complete novice at this, so please, pointers, tips, tricks, calming words of wisdom, I will take it all!
My wife wants the PC tower off the living room floor and stowed away somewhere that she doesn't have to see or hear it like I promised. But I can't do that until I have it working to my satisfaction that I am getting the most out of what this experiment is capable of.
Thanks for your help! I appreciate every little tidbit!!!
Maybe ditch win10 for a linux build? I have tried mining, but my desktop is really bad at it. :(
I kill off a lot of the processes that are running, but I am definitely doing something wrong, also.
I used to have a computer hooked up to my tv, great for streaming video. Get a wireless mouse and/or keyboard?
hahaha I used to use a wireless keyboard/mouse combo constantly and loved it. Problem is, my wife doesn't want a desktop tower sitting in our living room, and I don't blame her.
I tried a dual install to Linux, but I was very bad at it and couldn't for the life of me get the miner files downloaded and installed properly, so back to Windows I went.
I hear ya! I have been putting of installing linux forever.
Have you tried running a cpu miner at the same time? Wondering how much that would lower your hash rate. I usually run bitradio on my desktop, pays to listen to the radio. There are also storage type miners that might be able to run at the same time to increase your overall profits.
I have found that Windows 10 seems to cause problems and I've returned to Windows 7.
Seems to be far more stable for mining.
The machine I dug out was a Windows 7 machine but only had x32 instead of x64, while the PC itself was x64 capable. I would have to see if I can downgrade versions but keep the x64 version.
The miner seems stable, just not getting the hash rate I would have expecyted.
Thanks for the input!!
With nicehash you would be getting about 0.5 so i guess smartcash is the way to go. You can also try minnergate for a day to see if your revenues will improve
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