Anybody have a different OS I can use for gpu mining? Maybe a YouTube video also?

That would be awesome. I really want to start gpu mining I have evrything built just need to flash my ssd

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Hi guys,

I have been trying to get away from windows and have been experimenting with ubuntu. And I made it mine.

I did a small tutorial to help if someone else want to do it too. I did it for aleo as example but if you guys want for other coins I can show it too.

Here is the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlwewH0RGo

As title?

Hi,

Interested to know what peoples thoughts are on the various mining projects?

I can see FLUX doing well.

CLORE AI at least has a website that looks functionable for renting GPUS and can also create nodes.

Warthog due to its unique balancing protocol.

Verus again has unique properties.

However I do feel if I just GPU mined via nicehash post ETH merge I would be in a much better position rather than holding a bags of shit coins.

How to enable the psu fans on the 3 different 750w psu's? Also, do i even need to?

3070 remained king of efficiency even after 40 series released. On progpow/kawpow, which i reference because its the most common asic resistant algo, I believe the only 40 series card that was more efficient than the 3070 was the 4090, all the others were worse. I see the low price tag for the new 5070 and it makes me suspicious that its gonna be terrible. Just like how 4060 and 4060 ti were worse than 3060 and 3060 ti. Damn nvidia man i swear they are gonna create a gpu scarcity market on purpose again this year if gpu mining picks up during bull market

Hi, I am thinking about using solar energy to cover a rig I already have with x3 RTX 3090 and x7 RX 5700 XT.

I am planning to spend cash on solar panels and then break even cards + solar panels in 2 years.

I would like to know what the community thinks about mining on solar panels and what are some tips and things to know before doing it.

I am completely new to gpu mining and solar energy so I would like to know more. thanks!

pic for attention of one of my 3080 rigs from yesteryear pre eth merge. long story short; i've noticed waaaaay more folks in today's mostly non-profitable mining climate claiming to have free electricty than ever before.

anyone else think its a bit funny how many ppl refuse to accept they are losing money not using fiat ti buy coins unless their power cost is under a certain threshold. idk what the word is maybe its cognitive dissonance or something? goes hand-in-hand with the folks who (much like new parents wanting others to share their pain and have kids) convince other ppl to start mining even when they dont know that persons kw/h power cost

|| || |ALEO Avg. Daily Revenue (GH/s)|f2pool|zk.work| |Daily|1.00309|0.94519| |past 1 week|1.26412|1.12025|

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It seems that ALEO’s GPU mining revenue is constantly increasing, and ALEO seems to be becoming a potential cryptocurrency for current GPU miners.

Learn more about ALEO mining steps:

https://f2pool.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/22915269214873-How-to-mine-Aleo

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As the market continues to decline, the activity of miners is also declining.

PoW has been very stable, so will there be any projects worthy of attention in 2025?

Similar to ALEO and KAS.

What kind of hard drive/SSD do i need for an octominer X12? Or do I just use a usb to run hiveos from it permanently? I'm gonna buy one from a third party site that sells them cheaper than the octominer site, but it looks like they don't include an internal storage drive.

Ideally I would like to a 256gb hard drive/ssd to run windows from. Just wondering if there's a certain size of SSD drive that will fit in the motherboard for an octominer X12

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Hi all

I've been trying to set up dual mining on my GPU (4070 SUPER) with Rigel, but I'm getting an error called "argument validation error: unsupported dual mining combination 'autolykos2 + fishhash', even though they are listed in here https://pool.kryptex.com/ru/articles/dual-intensity-setting-en as valid combinations.

Example .bat:

rigel.exe -a autolykos2+fishhash ^
-o [1]stratum+tcp://erg.kryptex.network:7777 ^
-u [1]northlogicvfx@gmail.com.northlogic_gpu_erg ^
-o [2]stratum+tcp://iron.kryptex.network:777 ^
-u [2]northlogicvfx@gmail.com.northlogic_gpu_iron ^

I'm fairly new to all this, so even if it's something very obvious that I'm missing, please point it out.

Thank you!

my old setup is

9700k

rtx 3080

32gb of ram

Is it worth mining some kind of crypto currency or renting it out on vast.ai or should I sell it?

Hello! I'm an ultra-budget west coast PC builder with a bit of a mining gpu problem. I bought 9 of these 6600xt cards for 90 each off a miner in seattle, but I'm begining to think it was too good to be true as this is the third one which crashes under full gaming load, and even can stutter on light titles. Underclocking fixes it.. are these bioses still altered? was i given dangerous to reflash gpus? I'd rather not brick them beyond my ability to get them working with a pc..

https://preview.redd.it/ecrspwg61cde1.png?width=2436&format=png&auto=webp&s=27e5a630a757a13d58ccaf180fa49dccb8d4c4e8

Waiting for Nvidia’s latest graphics card models, it seems like GPU mining will become profitable again?

https://preview.redd.it/mystib4qw4de1.png?width=528&format=png&auto=webp&s=d89d72cb985f804b7633125056ea37a28f769c0c

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It seems that ALEO’s GPU mining revenue is constantly increasing, and ALEO seems to be becoming a potential cryptocurrency for current GPU miners.

Learn more about ALEO mining steps:

https://f2pool.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/22915269214873-How-to-mine-Aleo

So if you had 6 of these cards collecting dust what would you mine with them?

Looking for ideas. I came across these. I used to mine eth back in the day buy sold all those rigs. 10 months ago I found some hardware and being a computer guy I put a couple gpus in my server rack and let them chew some rvn ever since. I don't really want to add more than 1200 watt more to my current server rack.

I know nothing is profitable but I'm still thinking about doing something with these cards.

For fun; if you added up the hashrate of everything you currently have going, what would it be?

I’m 880 sol on 192_7 1.44k SOL on 144_5 Ksol roughly on flux 625 mh on Kawpow 420 kh on xelis

Sometimes when a bunch of new comers show up where I’m mining, I act like a child with his big Tonka truck, and I put every single rig on something to show them how big my rigs are.

Rig measuring contest.

I have been getting this not verified since the 7th of January. What could I be doing wrong?

Gpu mining?

Cpu mining?

ASIC?

FPGA>?

I'm new to mining, and have what I hope is an easy noob question with an easy solution.

I am using the parameter --fan_control=50:::35:35:100 in Team Red Miner which has been working well to keep the 7900xt cool (particularly the memory junction temp runs hot on this card), but the problem is that if I close the miner window, the GPU fans stay running at whatever speed they were at when I closed the window.

I thought that Adrenaline would take over control of the fan once I closed TRM, but that hasn't been happening. I have to go into Adrenaline and set a custom loop and apply it, and then it'll take control again.

I've had issues with Adrenaline reverting to default at random whenever I set custom settings for mining. I also tried Afterburner, but it kept duplicating the custom fan loop for one card to another card even after I unchecked the synchronize option, so I gave up on both for the moment and just put the clock, memory, and fan settings in TRM.

Does anyone have a tip on how to get the fan to go back to defaults after I close the TRM window? This is in Windows 10, and I'm using Adrenaline version 24.5.1, if that matters. Newer versions kept having driver time out errors with my two cards. I'm using a 6800 and a 7900xt, both are XFX models.

I mean the question is pretty simple. The answer is different.

No need to say anything about nicehash, unminable, or whatever the other ones are. That isn't what we are talking about.

Favorite is hard, there's a few good ones. So I'll just go down the list of some of the ones I've used.

Aikapool has been my favorite because they have a lot of low net hash coins that i've been able to flip on the back alley exchanges.

But it started having some pools crash and then maintenance mode for some coins and then yesterday and today whole site took a shit. So I got a few bajillion of a few different coins chillin on there currently. Oh well.

Zeropool seems alright. My immature balance never really updates, the balance never does, and it takes like 3 days before the first payment comes in on Zero and I'm assuming LTZ and the like.

Herominers is a beautiful interface. Just a nice well kept place. But they don't have anything I go after other than Xelis. And I've got enough of that for me, you, your mom, and your sister. Don't want anymore right now.

Rockpool I struggle to connect with a majority of the time.

Dapool the estimated thing at the bottom is off by about 60-75% shit like this is why I have trust issues

Rplant I used a lot early on, haven't really messed with it again. They make setting up the command line for the .bat file super easy. But I don't really want anything they have right now.

Haven't tried too many others I can think of off the top of my head.

Hi everyone, relatively new to the field of GPU mining. Can anybody recommend some good low end GPUs that are still decent for mining? I am looking for about 4 more at the moment. Any recommendations would be great, or if anybody has any they would be willing to sell, that would be great too. Currently not trying to make much of a profit, but more gain the knowledge as too how to build them and tweaking for maximum profit.

I’ve got a RTX 4090 that I want to use for GPU-based passive income and maybe some video transcoding or compute sharing. I’m familiar with traditional mining, but since that’s not viable anymore, I’m looking at other decentralized workloads like Livepeer, Golem, or Vast.ai.

Here’s my current setup:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X
• GPUs: RTX 4090 (primary GPU), GTX 1070 (spare—open to suggestions on how to use it).
• RAM: 64GB DDR4
• Storage: 10TB HDD (already thinking of running Storj), NVMe SSDs for caching if needed.
• Internet: Upgrading to 1 Gbps fiber soon.

What I’m Considering:

1. Livepeer (Video Transcoding): I’ve heard some people earn decent returns, but what’s a good pricePerUnit to attract jobs without giving my compute away for nothing?
2. Golem/Render Network: Is it realistic to rent out a 4090 and actually make passive income, or would I be out-competed by bigger farms?
3. Vast.ai: I’ve seen people rent their GPUs through Vast.ai—would I be better off setting competitive pricing here vs running nodes like Livepeer?

Extra Question:

Any tips for managing bandwidth-heavy GPU tasks while living with family? I’m planning to upgrade to 1 Gbps, but curious if I should use QoS settings or dual connections to avoid bogging down the whole house.

I’m not expecting massive profits overnight—I just want to make the most of the hardware I have and offset some of the costs. Any suggestions on how to set up a reliable, passive income stream would be awesome!

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Cheers to a fresh start in 2025!

May this new year bring you immense joy, remarkable success, and unforgettable memories.

Anyone got their gpu on octaspace? Experiences?