Newbie Looking for guidance

[garetjax]

Looking for advice on getting into mining - does my current hardware and electric rate make it worthwhile? From what I understand my electricity might be cheap so wondering if its work it with my non-server equipment.

I have 2 idle rigs during the day:

i5-4670K + 32gb ram + nvidia 1060 - my deep learning newbie rig running Ubuntu Server 16.04

and my gaming rig

6 core i-5 8600 coffee lake, 32 gb ram, nvidia 1080 running windows 10

my electric rate - First 10 kWh: $2.70 per month. $0.09 per kWh for all over 10 kWh per month. Also if I pay promptly I get another 10% off - my town has its own electric company.

Also what to mine - Aeon from what I read here might make the most sense?

Thanks in Advance.

Garetjax

 

[Patrick]

With the GPUs you should earn around $4/ day mining Zcash. CPUs AEON or Monero.

 

[garetjax]

With the GPUs you should earn around $4/ day mining Zcash. CPUs AEON or Monero.

Thanks Patrick.

I setup Zcash on my deeplearning box that has a 1060 using your nvidia docker image. I wanted to use Polo but the auth processes wasn't working so I setup Kracken. I thought it had crashed because I was seeing data in Kracken but then nothing for 8 hours - even though running
nvidia-smi -l 2 I would see my gpu being throttled.

This morning I finally saw more data. Looking at my firewall it just didn't send anything out until this morning over 3333.

Is there any commands or tools to monitor ewbf on linux? My card is running at 82C constant

Kracken is reporting 301.18 sol/s

Thanks for your help. I'll try monero or aeon for my cpu next, then setup the same on my gaming rig.



Wed Nov 29 09:56:42 2017

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 384.69 Driver Version: 384.69 |

|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

|===============================+======================+======================|

| 0 GeForce GTX 106... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |

| 65% 82C P2 107W / 120W | 583MiB / 6071MiB | 100% Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+


| 0 1871 C ./miner 573MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

[keybored]

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Is there any commands or tools to monitor ewbf on linux? My card is running at 82C constant
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82C seems a bit hot. The card might be starting to throttle itself at those temps.
Tweak the fan curve if you have not already done so. If you can achieve 70C without going deaf from constant fan noise then do so.

 

[garetjax]

It's ubuntu and headless - only way I have found to control fan is to install x server - but not sure how to do that and set nvidia stuff at boot since using docker image. Is there any other way to control gpu fan in ubuntu? Or are you talking just set the temp limit in the docker launch command?

Thanks

 

[keybored]

Wasn't suggesting a specific method as I don't have any Nvidia cards running under .+n[i,u]x. Most of the stuff I see on the web is folks using various custom scripts.

 

[garetjax]

BTW I have fan control working - this is what I did:

Install Xorg

Run the nvidia mining docker to start miner.



sudo nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus --allow-empty-initial-configuration --cool-bits=7
X :2 &
sleep 10
export DISPLAY=:2
#set GPU 0..5 fan to 100%. (This assumes six GPUs)
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1 -a [fan-0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
sleep 3
sudo killall Xorg

I have it down to 75C. It's in a case and its only a single fan mini 1060.