Hello, In this article, I will try to tell you how you can do Ethereum mining, which is one of the crypto currencies. I will try to touch everything from the very beginning to the very end.
Ethereum is an open source, public, block-based, distributed platform with smart contract (scripting) functionality. Although it is produced as an altcoin, its value continues to increase day by day.
Ethereum also provides a cryptographic token named "ether" that can be transferred between accounts and used to compensate participating nodes for calculations performed. An internal transaction pricing mechanism called gas is used to reduce spam and allocate resources on the network.
The founders of Ethereum are vitalik buterin, charles hoskinson, anthony diorio, and gavin wood. It was created based on bitcoin logic. It has a special language of its own. Using this operating system allows the development of "decentralized" software protocols. Thus, it is possible to create thousands of altcoins within the same main operating system and using contracts accepted on a single blockchain.
Enough explanation, let's move on to the etherum mining section. Ethereum GPU (Graphic Processin Unit) is simply enamelled with a video card, these GPUs receive a commission for each transaction they take and process encrypted transactions and leave them back to the block. Think of it like wire transfer EFT fee like banks. In other words, a low amount of ETH (Etherum) is given to you per transaction approved by your GPU. The higher your processing power, the more transfers you make, and therefore more Ethereum you can earn.
Things you need for miner:
A motherboard with at least 6 PCIe slots You can get the longest here, things like CPU and RAM don't matter.
I built a machine with an AMD motherboard and an AMD processor and 4GB of RAM.
Important GPUs I am using a MSI RX480 8G GPU. I bought the R9 380 first, but now I don't use it, they draw excessive electricity (up to 250 Watt). That's why I only use the RX 480s. The RX 480 is about 160 Watts.
Currently, GPUs used for mining are a bit difficult to find and their prices have almost doubled!
Since I will run the machine at home, I bought a cabinet so that it does not get too messy and I will place the whole system in it.
The second important element in this system is Power Supply . It should be able to handle the total power of all the cards. You can get a power supply of 1200 Watt alone, but I used two 750 Watt power supplies to be cheap. To trigger them simultaneously. Cut any black wire (GND) and One Green wire from the secondary power supply (on the Motherboard Socket) and connect it with the same black and green (Motherboard Socket) found on the first suppy so you trigger both at the same time. If I find the schematic diagram, I put it here from the biyer. Or I draw and then add it here ...
Let's start with the assembly. We simply screw the cards onto the two aluminum laths, they just hang under it, the main board Riser cables are the most basic Supplys and okay. In this design, I thought I would close the top covers of the cabinet, I thought I would blow the hot air with a snail fan, but the cards emit excessive heat, so I do not wear their covers. GPUs work at 65 degrees in winter and 75 degrees in summer. You can determine critical levels from program parameters. Do not operate the cards above 75 degrees for a long time. 65 max 70 is fine. You can stop at 75 degrees. These parameters are available in the readme document of the program you downloaded.
I put some gaps to get enough heat dissipation, normally you should not cover any of the sides. As you know, when there were two monsters in our house, I had to close them.
Everything is assembled, let's come to the tests,
I have installed standard windows 10 as an operating system, you can choose linux. Regarding the driver issue, all sites do not have such things as use this version, etc. I use automatic drivers I have no problems. Keep in mind that if you are going to use different models of cards in a Single Rig, by the way, Rig is trying the whole system.
By the way, the connection cables between the motherboard and GPUs above are called Riser. Here, when this mining event became widespread, the prices peaked. I bought 12 of them for 10 USD 4-5 years ago. now they have written on one of them. You should also get one of the above cables. If you type 1xPCIe to 16X PCIe, Google will get a lot of it.
Then go to ethermine.org and download Claymore miner. Follow the latest releases.
create one bat file and into it:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal <Your_Ethereum_Address>.<RigName> -epsw xtype and save.
At the bottom line, you write your own ethereum address in the Your ether wallet section. For this, you can install Wallet software on your computer or create a wallet from cloud wallet sites.
If there is no problem, the mining process will be started and your mining data will start to appear in your ethereum address. Again, you can see this data by going to ethermine.org and typing your address in the search field.