Sep 15, 2017 - Ethereum logo with laptop. So, with our eyes on Ethereum in particular, being the new rising star, that's exactly what we did here at HotHardware (1 ETH = ~ $277.85 as of this publication). We also learned some handy tips for tweaking your mining rig for maximum hash rate throughput, while keeping your.

• GPU - graphics processing unit (graphic card) • CPU - central processing unit (processor) • PSU - power supply • Mh/s - also referred to as mega hash per second is a unit measuring your mining speed • ETH/ether - Ethereum coins • OC - over clocking ( tuning your GPUs clocks to go faster resulting in more Hash power) • RIG - in the mining community it is referred to your mining setup. • Mobo - motherboard Getting you started! Obviously to get started you will require a minimum of 500$ might be cheaper if you already own some powerful GPUs because mostly just GPUs are used for mining Ethereum and other coins. There is also no need for fancy i7s or R7s, all you need is strong GPUs. A nice dry and relatively cold place,cheap electricity, some patience, and passion. So lets begin. Contents [] Creating and setting up your first Ethereum wallet As already stated we are gonna go with the most simple options so if you are an already experienced programmer or miner visit our forums for advanced techniques Why do I need a wallet?

A wallet like a real life one is used to store the coins you mine. Getting your wallet The best and most beginner friendly is the Mist/Ethereum wallet.

You can get one here. Don't worry GitHub is an open source website and safe place for all mining and non-m ining software and you will encounter it a lot. All you have to do is download the wallet, create a password and you get your personal address.

With this address you will revive coins to your wallet its gonna be a big part of your mining operation. What hardware to use.

We’ve never done an article on GPU mining on Legit Reviews before, but continued interest in the has caused Ether (the name of the cryptocurrency that runs on the ethereum blockchain app) to skyrocket in price by more than 2,800% this year alone. On Sunday, ethereum traded at an all-time high of $250.41, according to data from industry website CoinDesk. With increases and coin prices like that it has spiked the demand for discrete graphics cards in order to do GPU mining. Ethereum discourages the use of custom ASICs and FPGAs when it comes to mining, so this is something you could do if you wanted to on a PC with a powerful discrete graphics card. When you dive into the world of GPU mining you’ll quickly find that to make any serious money that you’ll need to invest in a fair bit of hardware. Let’s go trough the hardware that one would likely need if they wanted to build a 6 or 7 GPU ethereum mining machine.

Over at the you’ll find hundreds of threads about building a 6-7 GPU mining machine and you can make some pretty good money off a system like that. With 7 AMD Radeon RX 480 video cards that have been optimized for mining you should be able to get around 200 MH/s when mining ethereum, so if you plug that into a profit calculator you are looking at making a profit of $12,870 per year at the current difficulty and ETH price of $245. That’s guessing the rig uses around 1,000 Watts 24/7 and electric costs $0.1265 KW/h. (Please keep in mind the price of ethereum could always drop to zero or skyrocket, so think long and hard before you buy hardware to do this.). Custom Mining Rig Build By mining hardware (MHW) on ECF So, you want to building a mining PC?

This is a quick summary of what you’ll need to get going. Motherboard: You’ll need a little luck and possibly some magic or a custom UEFI to find a motherboard that supports six to seven video cards. The Intel Z87 and Z97 chipsets for LGA1150 processors offer a pretty good bang for the buck as they are being cleared out to make room for the newer Intel Z170 and Z270 motherboards for the LGA1151 processors. Our favorite board right for GPU mining is the MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON as it has the ability to run SEVEN GPU’s at a time when using the latest UEFI for. That board is starting to get hard to find, so alternatives would be the newer ASUS PRIME Z270-A at or the MSI Z170A Gaming M5 for. People are actually mining with eight video cards on the ASUS PRIME Z270-A motherboard thanks to an M.2 to PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter than can be had for.

The ASUS Prime Z270-P for also works with 8 GPUs if you use two of the M.2 to PCIe 3.0 x4 adapters. Processor: If you go with an LGA1150 motherboard the Intel Celeron G1840 Processor is often used as it a TDP of just 53 Watts and costs.

If you opted for the newer Intel LGA1151 platform something like the Intel Celeron Processor G3930 at would not be a bad choice and has a TDP of 51 Watts. Since the CPU load is minimal (usually under 15% for pooled mining) you can get away with a low-cost processor and they both come with a heatsink fan (HSF) that you can use.

We highly suggest turning off the Windows 10 search indexing service () on your dedicated mining rigs as that eats up power for something that isn’t needed. With it enabled we noticed our CPU load was going up to 40-50% and the system was using significantly more power. Power Supply: Your system is going to be running 24/7 and using close to 1000 Watts of power non-stop, so you’ll want to drop some coin on a good model. We highly suggest an 80 PLUS Platinum rated power supply that is 1200W or greater.

We’ve used the Enermax Platimax 1350W () with good success. If you plan on undervolting the GPU and reducing the power consumption you should be able to get away with a 1,000 Watt power supply. The EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 is solid 80 PLUS platinum model for or you can go with a lower cost Corsair RM1000x that is 80 PLUS gold certified for.

Depending on the model you get and the model of video card that you are running you might need to get some to connect all the video cards. If you plan on running two power supplies on one system you might want to pick up to power up and shut down both power supplies like normal. Memory: Depending on what motherboard you got you’ll need DDR3 or DDR4 memory. Chances are you’ll need DDR4 memory and we suggest using an 8GB of memory. Some people say you can get away with single channel memory, but we’ve always run dual-channel in our mining rigs. A typical DDR4 2133 MHz 8GB (2x4GB) memory kit will run you about from a big name brand.

Storage Drive: Small and inexpensive is again the name of the game here. You likely don’t want to use a M.2 PCIe graphics card as some boards will disable PCIe slots when a M.2 PCIe SSD is inserted into the board. For that reason we suggest going with something like a low-cost SATA III SSD.

The Kingston A400 120GB SATA III SSD at or PNY CS1311 120GB SSD at are hard to beat. If you don’t care about brand names or how easy it is to RMA if it breaks the DREVO Pro Series 64GB SSD at is cheap and will hold an OS. Riser Cards: Most go with USB powered 1x to 16x riser cards. These sell out often and they are mostly all. The reviews on most are mixed, so you’ll just need to pick some and roll the dice. You’ll likely be paying around $8 each. Case: Get creative and make your own!

Our favorite GPU mining builds are done using milk crates, some PVC pipes and zip ties. The might not look fancy, but they cost under $15 to make. Mouse/Monitor/Keyboard: Whatever is cheap! The AmazonBasics wired keyboard and mouse is just. OS: Windows 10 works and is essentially free, but ethOS Mining OS is a 64-bit linux OS that was designed just for ethereum mining and runs. Electricity Power Usage Meter: We highly suggest picking up a to see how much power your system is using. This will allow you to calculate your bills and dial in your GPUs by lower the power usage to your liking.

Power Cord: Are you building multiple systems or plan on putting them in a garage or basement? You might need to get to the power outlet. Video Cards: AMD Radeon RX 470/480 and Radeon RX 570/580 video cards are all the rage right now when it comes to ethereum mining, but they are extremely tough to find since they are all being bought to mine ether. Since we couldn’t find any Radeon RX 580 video cards to purchase at Amazon, Newegg, Micro Center or Best Buy we figured we’d try mining on some of the cards we had laying around to see how they perform. Let’s take a look at the results on our system running Claymore’s Dual Ethereum GPU Miner v9.4 and Windows 10 v1703. Best Performance: AMD Radeon R9 295X2 The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 came out in April 2014 and is over two years old, but this Dual-GPU card is able to be at the top of the performance chart with 57.6 MH/s of performance.

We’ve seen these selling for as low as $500 on eBay, but the TDP on this card is an awe-inspiring 500W, so packing 7 of these into a single system would be more than what any one power supply could handle. The thought of a single system pulling 3,500+ Watts is pretty crazy! Best Value Performer: The AMD Radeon RX 480 and Radeon RX 580 are solid performing cards.When the AMD Radeon RX 480 first came out it the prices started at $199 and for that you get around 24 MH/s of performance ether mining in stock form, but you can easily get that up to 25-27 MH/s if you wanted to mod the BIOS and dial the cards in. You can reduce the power usage in AMD Wattman to get the power draw on these cards well below the 150W TDP rating.

The new AMD Radeon RX 580 uses more power and costs more than the Radeon RX 480, but it gets higher performance and many are able to get 29 MH/s per card at around 135 Watts of power when you do all the widely known power adjustments. No wonder the AMD Radeon RX 580/570 cards are all sold out.

Biggest Upset: When we saw the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 getting 27.4 MH/s in stock form we were impressed, but then the faster clocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 with more CUDA cores only got 20 MH/s. We talked to NVIDIA about this and they said it’s because the Ethereum base code fits the GDDR5 latency characteristics better than GDDR5X. So, when it comes to Ethereum mining a GeForce GTX 1070 is better to have than the GeForce GTX 1080. That said the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti uses GDDR5X memory and is getting 32 MH/s. Looks Good On Paper: The AMD Radeon R9 NANO gets an impressive 27 MH/s, but that’s all you can really get on that model as AMD doesn’t allow you to overclock the HBM memory and if you reduce the power usage at all the hashrate drops as well. This 175W TDP card has good performance, but at $515 it will take a longer time to recoup your money. You can actually buy two Radeon RX 480/580 cards for this price and overclock them to get up to 27 MH/s and reduce the power usage/voltage to get about 40-50W lower power use per card. The AMD Radeon R9 390 gets an impressive 30 MH/s in stock form, but the cards 275W TDP makes is less desirable.

Worst Performer: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series cards don’t mine well on Windows 10 and use a fair bit of power, so if you have one of these cards you’ll want to run Windows 7 or EthOS where you can get higher performance levels with older driver builds. You’ll need to do your homework if you want to mine on a GTX 900 series card and generate revenue! Final Thoughts: We could have talked about mining for days, but it really depends on what hardware you get and how you configure all your software.

The AMD and Radeon RX 480 are the cards to get right now, but it’s tough to find them. You can build up a rig like this for $2,500 or less and make an extra $1,000 a month at the current rates. We highly suggest looking at and factor in the build cost and electricity to see if mining is right for you! Let us know if you have any questions in the comments below! 6/14/2017 Update: A new article has been published that covers mining Ethereum on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card that is! We managed to go from 27 MH/s up to over 32 MH/s with some small tweaks!

6/16/2017 Update – We have now have for those that are interested in how that GPU model does. After tweaking the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW+ we managed to get over 22 MH/s with the card running so cool that the fans didn’t even run! 6/26/2017 Update – The MSI Z170 Gaming M5 is getting harder to find and we listed up some alternative motherboard choices.

MSI is no longer producing or selling that model, so whatever is left in the market is it. 7/11/2017 Update – The growing number of miners, lowering Ethereum price and increasing difficulty has lowered the amount of Ethereum that one can mine. We highly suggest to remain profitable and to get your investment back! If you plan on buying a mining system today you are already way to late it appears and you might be better off using that money to buy the alt coin of your liking. I have not used Nvidia since I sold my 3 Nvidia GTX 770 and the Nvidia 3way SLI bridge and replaced them with 1 MSI R9 390X.

From the specs the GTX 1080ti FE is 11GB Core Clock Boost: 1582 MHz Base: 1480 MHz Memory Clock 11010 MHz PSU 600 watts. The GTX Titan V is 12GB Core Clock Boost: 1455 MHz Base: Clock 1200 MHz Memory Clock 850 MHz. PSU 600 watts. By those specs alone I cannot not say for sure. One would assume running 4 older 1080 Ti’s would in fact render a lot more total hashing power with a real high demand in power requirements. 600 watts x 4 just 4 GPUs not to mention the power requirements of your other rig’s components must be taken into account. That is 2400 watts just for the GPU’s.

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Thanks for the additional info and hopefully that will help folks. I admit that I only tried GeForce 382.33 and then the GeForce 368.81 drivers recommended in Claymore’s utility. Both performed under 3 MH/s on this Windows 10 build, so I called it a day as I had a stack of cards to test. You can dive deep into optimizations on each card, but I was trying to show what you get with the latest drivers with stock settings (with the exception on a couple cards)! Rolling back to a driver that old isn’t a big deal on a dedicated mining rig, but might be a tough sell to gamers that are looking to make some spare cash when they aren’t gaming or using their PC. A lot of anti-virus companies/software have flagged Claymore as a trojan, but it’s not one by itself.

This is because Claymore “can” be used to mine for a black hat hidden in a malware trojan package along with other “goodies”. Claymore itself, especially downloaded from the official links isn’t a trojan by itself and if you’re using it to mine for you, it definitely isn’t acting as one. The anti-virus companies don’t care and just labelled pretty much any mining behavior as potentially bad since it’s a known pattern for trojans to mine ETH or other coins for the script-kiddies.