GPU pricing got a little crazy this year for a few months, and I took a break from building new GPU mining rigs because they were too expensive. I believe AMD GPU’s are still a little overpriced and hard to buy, so I decided to build six Nvidia GPU based mining rigs. AMD RX 480 and 580 GPU’s work really well on Ethash mining algorithms, and do a decent job on Equihash. Nvidia GPU’s are the opposite – they do better on Equihash and are decent with Ethereum. If you watch my latest youtube video, CryptoCurrency Mining Strategies and What I am Mining Sept 2017 (below), you will see that I advocate mining with many different types of miners, and mining many different types of cryptocurrencies, all at the same time. For example, in the past few months I have mined BTC, DGB, BCH, ETC, EXP, ETH, UBQ, ZEN, ZEC, LTC, MUE, DASH, and others. I also run masternodes and stake different cryptocurrencies to participate in other crypto generating activities.

Although the leaders in the cryptocurrency mining space are BTC, ETH, LTC, DASH, ZEC, and XMR, there are benefits to mining lesser known cryptocurrencies, if you are able to hold them for a while. The smaller crypto’s are volatile, and as long as they have a good team developing and improving them, they will go up in price over time. By holding then converting a portion of your mined crypto’s to Bitcoin or Ethereum when the price doubles, you improve your mining profitability substantially. And as long as the cryptocurrency has good prospects, if you hold it for a long time it might go up in value 5x, 10x, or even 100x. This has happened in the past, and will happen in the future. How To Use Graphics Card To Mine Electra ECA more. Anyway, to make a long story short, Nvidia GTX 1060, 1070, and 1080 GPU’s are good for mining ZEC and ZEN, and since I believe both project have good long-term prospects, I figured I needed to be making some Nvidia based GPU miners. This is a list of what to buy and how to set it up to get you mining quickly.

Right now I'm mining ethereum, which as far as I understand it is only mining using the GPU. I saw that there is a CPU miner for Zencash, could I. How To Mine ZenCash. Battle with crypto tokens Fishbank Ethereum. Do you think rx570 can be profitable if I mine Zen I'm also looking if what coin should. How to mine Zcash; How to mine Ethereum? Today we are going to show you how to mine Zcash with your CPU and GPU on Windows. We are going to use two miners.

Bill of Materials Equipment list – Links are to Amazon or Parallel Mining product page. Buy from wherever you can get the best deal!

ZenCash is a new currency and a lot of us are thinking on how to mine ZenCash or if it is mineable at all. The good news is that it is infact mineable and you can.

• Motherboard – – $95 • Processor – 2.9GHz LGA 1151 processor – $41 • Memory – 288-Pin Memory – $36 • SSD – with operating system and application pre-installed. – $49 • Case – – ALL ALUMINIUM 6.1 GPU OPEN AIR MINING CASE – $220 • Power Supply – – $240 • Risers – CARD ADAPTER W/ 24″ CABLE from parallel miner – Qty 6 – $64 • GPU – – $460 – qty 6 ->$2760 • Optional – – two pack – $10 • Case screws: • Motherboard to case – – qty 50 – $2 • Risers and GPU’s to case – – qty 200 – $9 Total Cost for Bill of Materials: ~$3500 Build Instructions Here’s some basic instructions for the most efficient order of operations when building the machine. The idea is to get a basic computer built, troubleshoot any potential issues, install the operating system and application, then build the rest of the machine. Hardware Build • Assemble the Case • Put the CPU, CPU fan, and memory on the motherboard. Plug in the CPU fan. • Optional – attach the ATX power switches and LED’s to the power header. • Plug the SATA cable into the motherboard.

• Put the motherboard in the case and screw it in with the smaller screws. • Attach the power supply to the right side of the case. Use the screws that came in the box. Attach power cables from the power supply to the Motherboard, CPU power, SSD. • Screw in one of the PCI-E Riser cards in the second slot (right above the CPU fan), plug it into the second PCI-E slot on the motherboard closest to the processor, and plug in power from the power supply. • Put a GPU into the PCI-E riser card, screw it into the case, and attach a PCI-E power cable to it.

• Attach a keyboard to the motherboard and HDMI monitor to the GPU card. • Plug the power cord into the power supply, turn on the power switch. • Press the ATX power button, or short the power button header pins with a screwdriver. The machine should boot.

If it doesn’t boot, this is the time to do basic troubleshooting. Don’t add any more graphics cards until you get at least one working. If it does boot, configure the BIOS, connect an Ethernet cable to the network that can get to the internet, and reboot. Motherboard BIOS Settings Turn off unneeded services on the BIOS, keep all the PCI settings on Auto, set the graphics TOLUD to 3.5GB. Make the power come on whenever power is applied to the board.

Here is a set of for a similar motherboard. Setting up EthosDistro mining operating system This is a purpose built version of Linux that is optimized for GPU mining.

It works really well, better than running Windows or Ubuntu for mining. By using EthosDistro, I save time and don’t need to mess around with the operating system. You can, of course, use the same hardware build and run Windows or Linux and mine with it, but I recommend using a purpose built operating system. What I really like about EthosDistro is how it has settings for adjusting power, fans, core clock speed, and memory clock speed. This allows for overclocking and power limiting of the GPU’s. You can also set up a single configuration file on a webserver, and by changing one file on your miner, have it go to that configuration file on boot, pull its config, and start mining. It even checks the file every few minutes while running, so it’s possible to reboot the miner to have it accept new settings.

After setting the BIOS, connecting Ethernet, and rebooting, EthosDistro boots to a screen that is more user-friendly than just a command line: This shows one GPU is successfully mining Ethereum. There are a few important pieces or information you need from this screen. • IP address of the miner itself – access by SSH – this one is at 10.172.0.232 • name of the miner – this one is e7423e • URL of the website with statistics. Depends on the IP address of your location. – this one is It is mining to the EthosDistro address. That needs to be changed. I recommend not using this screen for making changes, and instead using SSH from your PC.

Here are some options for SSH on different operating systems: • Linux – use the Terminal command line • Mac – use the Termminal command line • PC – use the Bash command line, or If you don’t know the first thing about Linux you may want to learn at least the basics.. Setting up EthosDistro to Mine for You The screen shows the IP address.

SSH to the IP address like so: ssh ethos@x.x.x.x (enter password live) The system is designed to download a file from a website and run. If you don’t want it do that, edit remote.conf with nano or vim, and make it a blank file. When the system boots, it will copy whatever file is referenced in remote.conf into local.conf, unless there is nothing in the remote.conf file. For just a single miner, edit the local.conf file with nano or vim to configure the miner to work for you.

Here is an example configuration for mining Zcash. Put this at the beginning of the local.conf file: globalminer ethminer maxgputemp 90 stratumproxy enabled flags --cl-global-work 8192 --farm-recheck 200 globalfan 85 autoreboot 12 globalpowertune 7 #zcash flypool ewbf-zcash=proxywallet t1baES7LZ8Wx1mATYqQxeCShQwVbwTgnhuU ewbf-zcash=proxypool1 us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 # nvidia miners miner 4288a0 ewbf-zcash # nvidia #pwr 4288a0 160 160 160 160 160 160 #cor 4288a0 1923 1923 1923 1923 1923 1923 #mem 4288a0 4314 4314 4314 4314 4314 4314 I like to keep the configurations for multiple mining pools in the file, commented out with the # symbol. That way if I want to change what I am mining I can just alter the configuration without looking everything up again. Before you start mining, you definitely want to have a wallet address of your own to mine to, which in this configuration is set by the proxywallet configuration item.

For any Bitcoin based cryptocurrencies, like ZEC and ZEN, I actually prefer to mine to a software wallet, then transfer to a hardware wallet every week or two. At this point, you can mine to a hardware wallet for ETH, ETC, and ZEC, and a software wallet for ZEN. If you mine to a hardware wallet or exchange, change your pool settings so it only deposits once a day. More than once a day deposit into a hardware wallet or exchange can cause issues. After you get the miner working with 1 GPU, then get the miner working with all 6 GPU’s. I like to plug them in one at a time then reboot, so I can figure out if I have a bad riser or card. The most common problem you will probably have is bad risers.

I always order extra so I can quickly swap out a bad riser. EthosDistro Documentation There are two main sources of documentation for EthosDistro. The first is the local.conf file. A working example of the is posted online, with all the comments and examples. The pool.txt and local.conf file documentation is dense, so it takes a few times reading it through to figure it out. I had to read it through about 10 times before I understood how to change the settings to make it work. The second source of documentation is the If you have more than one GPU miner, or want to be able to make changes remotely, you can create a text file and post it on a web server.

The example above is a portion of my web server based configuration file. Yes, you can just start with a couple GPUs - if you are buying the rest of the mining rig from scratch, however, make sure you get a motherboard with more PCIe slots so that you have the ability to add more in the future. I started with a simple 2-GPU mining rig and just added a third GPU as funds allowed. Here is a good resource site for choosing what GPUs to buy: There is a comparison chart here that actually helps calculate purchase and power cost for GPUs over the course of a year. I was going to start very cheap and just get a 1050Ti or two as they are about $100 each, but based on power usage and purchase cost, instead of a few 1050 Ti's I went for a single 1070 Ti.

It uses less power, and even costs less per hash to purchase (granted, if you only had $100 to spend you could get a 1050 ti and you would have to save up $400 more to buy a 1070 Ti).

ZenCash is a new currency and a lot of us are thinking on how to mine ZenCash or if it is mineable at all. The good news is that it is infact mineable and you can mine it just like any Zcash or currencies that are similar to Zcash – like ZClassic. To mine it, you can make use of Claymore miner if you have an AMD GPU or use EWBF miner if you have an Nvidia mining rig.

Here are some results after mining from popular graphics cards. R9 Nano: 450S/s; R9 390X: 410S/s; RX 580: 330S/s; RX 480: 300S/s; R9 280X: 290S/s; GTX1070: 435S/s; GTX1060: 295S/s Being a new currency gives you an edge over others as the difficulty level is low right now. GameCredits GAME Mining Efficiency here. This will increase as times passes and more and more people start mining ZenCash.

Before you start, you need to get a and once you have that, you need to download the miner for your rig. • – start ZENCASH.bat • – start start.bat Make sure to replace my Zencash address with yours. Feel free to mine for 10-15 minutes to show support. To see your progress and earnings, head over the and enter your Zencash address.

It can take 5-10 minutes before you start seeing any progress. So was not that easy? Basically if you have been mining either Zcash or Ethereum, you should feel at home. All you have to do is make some changes in the batch file and that it.