Most Efficient Way To Mine Dash DASH
Mining Dash can be done at home with any recent AMD GPU! Our renewed interest in both mining and altcoins, especially DASH. We decided it was time to try and mine again. X11 altcoins haven’t been “ASIC’d” yet, meaning there isn’t specialized hardware for X11 algorithm cryptocurrency. This has made X11 altcoins easier to mine with consumer hardware.
I own an AMD Radeon 280X in my own desktop, so I figured I’d give it a run. It was both tougher, and easier to setup than I thought. I’ve mined Bitcoin many times before in the past and present, but with ASIC hardware thousands of times more powerful than consumer hardware, Bitcoin mining requires a ridiculous initial investment. Do promise to change that though. Why is DASH Easier to Mine at Home? DASH mining won’t be profitable at this level for much longer, so get started now! Understanding that DASH utilizes the X11 algorithm is important to understand before mining.
DASH developers created this algorithm specifically to make it difficult for companies to manufacture hardware that solves it. X11 consists of 11 different cryptographic algorithms, so it’s more suited for GPU mining rather than CPU, although it is possible, but GPUs are more powerful at this. This makes mining more available to the people and decentralized as Bitcoin mining has become increasingly centralized. With that out of the way, let’s get into this. X11 AISC are on there way, so if you have a gaming rig, start mining now. It wouldn’t be profitable for long!
Through a process called “mining,” people use specialized computers to solve extremely difficult math. Dash, like Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies. There's nothing we can do until dash dev solve this bug. We redirected all Dash mining connection to Startcoin.
Getting started with DASH Mining What’s needed? • DASH Core Wallet • Windows Computer • AMD GPU of the following: • Cape Verde: 7730/7750/7770 • Pitcairn: 7850/7870/R9 270/R9 270X • Tahiti: 7870XT/7950/7970/R9 280/R9 280X • Hawaii: R9 290/R9 290X/R9 295X2 • Sgminer • Time and electricity Step 1: Get a DASH Wallet. Clicking receive will always give a new address, don’t fret, all these addresses allow you to spend payments received there. If you don’t have a DASH wallet, please download the. Personally I don’t trust payouts to third party wallets, so I always download the core program, regardless of cryptocurrency. Open the program and it will begin downloading the blockchain, which will take a while, so it’s important to do this first.
Be sure to backup this wallet while using it to ensure your Dash doesn’t get lost. Step 2: Download SGMINER Sgminer can be downloaded.Be sure to extract everything and keep it in an easily accessible folder. Other websites may include viruses with sgminer, so be careful when downloading. This is the mining program for AMD GPUs. It also comes with binaries for use with other devices, but this tutorial only covers AMD GPU mining. Step 3: Configure Sgminer. I don’t think there are any comparative alternatives, with regards to performance anyways.
But it is a delicate process to find the optimal settings and I would advise just finding a video on youtube that demonstrates how it is done, maybe you will find your problem that way. But if it doesn’t improve you could also add some leverage with cloud mining which is optimized for your specific coin of choice. I also use genesis mining as a supplement because the ROI is so low these days(about 4 mnths on 24 mnth contracts) that it may very well be the best investment around. The principle is still the same though, you have to research which coins will presumably rally the most and then go for those.
This way just makes mining possible for the technically challenged, those who don’t want to keep getting new graphics cards and gear, aswell as removing all stress factors for the pro miners. Either way, you may want to grab a discount if you do go for cloud mining, and genesis customers can share discount codes for newcomers such as this one: 809fKo Happy mining! May the hash be with you 🙂 •.
So, for the ultimate beginner, before you can get to the, you'll need a rig capable of mining Darkcoin. This guide is for the beginner looking to mine casually. Somebody looking to mine on a large scale would likely identify hardware differently.
This guide aims to offer some basic Hardware choice selections, with reasoning behind them. Most folks probably already have a CPU put together and are looking to add components in an effort to mine better. For these people your primary concern will be your GPU. Simply add a good one and move on down the road, as swapping out other parts will likely not produce much benefit. It's all about the GPU. One of the great things about Darkcoin is that you can simultaneously mine with a GPU (Graphics Card) and a CPU (Processor). That being said the vast majority of your hash rate (mining speed) will come from your GPU.
A great mining GPU will produce a hash rate of about 2.5 Mh/s where as a great mining CPU will produce about.5 Mh/s. It is because of this that most people will recommend (and rightly so) that a person focus on GPU when building a mining rig. Outside of raw speed another factor to consider is power draw.
GPU's suck up a lot of power and the fastest of the fast absorb a disproportionately large amount of power. It is because of this that some people will choose a 'slower' card over a 'faster' card, because it's 'more efficient'. So what are some good mining cards? Well for starters, here are 2 good resources: • - CPU tab at bottom • - Even though litecoin uses a different method to mine, the comparisons are still useful, and this list shows efficiency Generally speaking the cards fall into a couple speed tiers (not necessarily the most efficient). Ufasoft Zcash ZEC Miner Exe on this page. To be honest with you CPU mining is more of a bonus. You need a CPU to run a computer anyway, so why not get a little more mining speed out of it? CPU's tend to mine about 0.1 - 0.5 Mh/s. The resources above will show you comparisons of CPU mining capabilities as well as GPU speeds.
The gist however is that I7 processors are the fastest for mining. These may, however, be prohibatively expensive. The cost-performance ratio of CPU mining is not nearly as good as GPU mining. A $300 4770k will mine about 0.5 Mh/s where as a $400 AMD 6990 will get you 3 Mh/s. So the GPU nets (in this example only) about 6x the speed for a 30% increase in price. Recommendation: a used I5 2500k or used I7 off ebay - $150-$200 Baller Recommendation: an I7 4770k - $300. Assume your rig runs at 750w regularly.
A PSu that's 70% efficient will pull 1071 watts from the wall. Where as a PSU that's 90% efficient will pull 833 watts from the wall. That's over 200w difference from the same rig, and that kind of difference will add up over time. Recommendation: Rosewill Capstone PSUs - They're fairly cheap and tend to run at 90+ Efficiency through most of their power range (30% to 80% power draw). Basically a platinum PSU for the price of a gold (bonus is that they're modular).
Removing heat, in a lot of ways, begins with your case. Whether air cooling or water cooling you will need a case that efficiently moves air through it. It's difficult to recommend specific cases since form factor plays a large role. That said look for a case that pulls air in through the front using 120mm or lager fans (more than one intake is a good thing), and has exhaust fans either on top, out the rear, or both.
Your PSU fan will remove some air/heat depending on the way it's positioned, but when air cooling graphics cards you will require more airflow than that. If noise is a concern of yours look for cases that utilize more large fans (120mm minimum, but preferably 140mm and larger).
Lastly look at the internal layout and make sure there's no glaring obstructions, so that air will move freely. SSD or HDD, doesn't really matter. Suggestions: • Build what you want. I always wanted a small form factor gaming rig, so that's what I built and I use it for mining. • Reuse old parts. If you can reuse ram, hard drives, or CPU's do that.
Be careful reusing your old power-supplies since they may not be powerful enough. • Look to buy used. I got my CPU and GPU off of ebay for way less that retail and they both work great. Ebay is a risk, but it can pay off. • Price shop. Don't be too committed to one store.
See the post below for a good example. • Don't be too cheap.
Cut costs where you can but try to get quality hardware. A $30 difference in your PSU can be the difference between your miner running smoothly for the next 10 years and frying your computer and burning out your GPU. • Read reviews. ALWAYS read reviews. Newegg and Amazon are great places to check out reviews even if you're not buying from there.
Can I Bitcore BTX Mine With A Laptop. Also check out in depth reviews from Anandtech, Tomshardware, JohnnyGuru and others. • Map out your build before you start.