*** Put your CPUs to use - OcUK mining pool ***

[Zefan]

Just a quick heads up for those who don't regularly visit the Cryptocurrency subforum, but following the nicehash hack, @Frozennova has very kindly set up an Electroneum mining pool for forum users that can turn a decent profit.

If you're a complete beginner don't let that put you off! We have a decent community here who have gone to great lengths to explain how this all works to those new to mining.

We have a decent community here who have gone to great lengths to explain how this all works to those new to mining.

It's worth noting that Ryzen is especially good for mining, my 1600 is calculated to be bringing in £3.50 per day using the OcUK pool.

Full details here:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-and-quickstart-guide-in-first-post.18803113/

 

[gavinh87]

Mining noob here I thought mining was for GPU's??

 

[Frozennova]

Mining noob here I thought mining was for GPU's??

Certain mining algorithms are more effective than others.

Cryptonight (Which is the algorithm used by the coin we are mining) will return about £3.50 a day at the moment on a stock Ryzen 1700

 

[gavinh87]

Certain mining algorithms are more effective than others.

Cryptonight (Which is the algorithm used by the coin we are mining) will return about £3.50 a day at the moment on a stock Ryzen 1700

Is that as in 24hours? How much does it cost in energy to keep that going all day?

 

[Frozennova]

Is that as in 24hours? How much does it cost in energy to keep that going all day?

Yea, PC was on anyway buy according to my watt meter 3.5kw/H a day so 40-50p in electric (Can't remember what rate were paying)

 

[Akagi]

Would this not be better placed in the GPU forum, or is there a thread there too which I'm missing?

 

[Finners]

I click the link in the first page and its going to a Karbowanec OCUK pool?

 

[Armageus]

I click the link in the first page and its going to a Karbowanec OCUK pool?

link updated - apologies

 

[Disco_P]

How about a 5820K? Electricity is included in my bills, PC is watercooled and I need the heat for when the boiler breaks.

 

[Thekwango]

I just edited the one I think you mean. The link to the pool page is http://ocukminingpool.com/



There is one in GPUs, but we're casting the net wide to forums that have different demographics. Every little helps!

Looked at the link and it's just gibberish to my untrained eye! My Ryzen 1600 @ 3.8 is on pretty much 24/7 so would be up for giving this a whirl if there's a 'how to get started for noobs guide' kicking about?

 

[Zefan]

Looked at the link and it's just gibberish to my untrained eye! My Ryzen 1600 @ 3.8 is on pretty much 24/7 so would be up for giving this a whirl if there's a 'how to get started for noobs guide' kicking about?

I'll be around a little later on, I'll walk you through it if no one else has by then.

 

[Doug2507]

Noob myself but setup is pretty easy tbh. Excluding the odd hour or two a day out and about, I'll be available on the pool discord channel if you need help getting setup.

1st page of the mining pool thread has all the info you need but a 1 on 1 can make it smoother.

 

[Armageus]

Looked at the link and it's just gibberish to my untrained eye! My Ryzen 1600 @ 3.8 is on pretty much 24/7 so would be up for giving this a whirl if there's a 'how to get started for noobs guide' kicking about?

There is a noobie quick start guide within the first post - that's all you need to do for a start, the other wallet and crytopia transfer guides can wait.

 

[Thekwango]

I'll be around a little later on, I'll walk you through it if no one else has by then.

You, sir, are a gent.

There is a noobie quick start guide within the first post - that's all you need to do for a start, the other wallet and crytopia transfer guides can wait.

Just spotted that. I'll have play about this morning and see how I get on.

 

[Frozennova]

You, sir, are a gent.


Just spotted that. I'll have play about this morning and see how I get on.

If you get stuck ill be around in discord later and I can walk you through ig

 

[Armageus]

So I heard CPUs were pretty good at this sort of thing...

 

[sandys]

Gave it a bash last night, seemed easy enough to setup but made my machine quite unusable, I'm often doing a lot of light stuff so was going to run this in the back ground as I have done with other miners but its quite heavy and when I kill the miner the machine bluescreens,

Seemed to run well enough with a couple of cards doing 2.4 KH/s (0.8 per GPU, 0.8 for the CPU) but a bit inconvenient for me if I can't just start/stop it or use machine whilst running.

Any tips? I tried only using 2 CPU cores but didn't really improve, is there other mining software I could use perhaps for this pool?

 

[Akagi]

I have all kinds of issues with my PC generally, but this didn't actually make it unusable for me strangely.

Everything is laggy at first, but once I start actually doing things it seems to turn enough resource towards other tasks to still run properly

 

[Armageus]

Gave it a bash last night, seemed easy enough to setup but made my machine quite unusable, I'm often doing a lot of light stuff so was going to run this in the back ground as I have done with other miners but its quite heavy and when I kill the miner the machine bluescreens,

Seemed to run well enough with a couple of cards doing 2.4 KH/s (0.8 per GPU, 0.8 for the CPU) but a bit inconvenient for me if I can't just start/stop it or use machine whilst running.

Any tips? I tried only using 2 CPU cores but didn't really improve, is there other mining software I could use perhaps for this pool?

What GPUs are you using - if NVIDIA then you need to play around with some values in the NVIDIA.txt config file, "bfactor" and "bsleep".

 

[sandys]

Yup 1080Tis, I'll look into those settings