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RE: Ethereum AMD GPU Mining Tutorial Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Thank you for posting! I'm about to try this in Ubuntu 17.10 - I have one miner up and running Windows 10 and Awesome Miner. Now I am building a Linux GPU miner with similar hardware to compare any differences.
Easier than I thought. My Ubuntu mining is running smooth! A few things were ever so slight differences in 17.1, but it's all basically the same. GPU is mining at a similar hash rate as my Windows 10 miner. This one only has one GPU set up now since I literally got it up and running this morning. Have three more on deck to add, all AMD Rx series. Again, thanks for this write up, you're the only other guy I've found who's mining on Ubuntu.
NICE! I am glad you found it useful! I was going to throw win 10 on the testing rig and see about mining some other coins in preparation for the etherum fork that will end mining lol. If you come across anything Easy, Stable and profitable give me a comment or a message!
Indeed it is a good idea. I auto switch between Ethereum, and other equihash algorithms (Zcash, ZenCash, and Zclassic). Even mining bitcoin gold has been profitable lately. This year will see an explosion of alt coins, including Ethereum classic, so mining will still very much be a profitable thing in 2018, even after Ethereum goes to proof of stake. But mine it while you can and hang onto it!! Personally, though, I think the real one to pay attention to is EOS, which may someday overtake Ethereum (like the old tech startups in the 90s and 2000s) but I don't think it will just fade away into nothing.
YOU are the man Martico! I have all my cpu's mining xmr. They are just sitting there anyway. I also am hopeful for steam farming using my HDD's. Ive been looking around for something to mine to make use of those. They also are just sitting. I use ubuntu because I am familiar with it from the early days of bitcoin mining... The new coins however seem to only have windows miners. Which is a smart move from the developers. The main stream is more comfortable with windows. If you get time try to post some of your alt coin mining scripts!
Unfortunately, I ran this miner and it creates a lot more heat than my Windows miner. I shut it down when my cards were hitting 85° C - I was researching a method to undervolt the core clocks and overclock the memory. The only ways I found were rather cumbersome. So if you figure out a way to tweak the GPU settings in Ubuntu, let me know. Granted, I was running this miner on an inferior test circuit and I did not have a fan directed at it... but the difference was noticeable just placing your hand behind the GPUs. It kept my tech room warm this morning that's for sure!
I have not had that issue at all. I have rx 580's with the hardware bios switches on the physical gpu and im running the btc gold motherboard so that offers me the ability to OC everything from the bios on the motherboard. I knew that the GUI software for OC functions weren't going to work on Linux. (they work well on windows though)I even tried to use wine to open the overclock GUI software that comes with the AMD GPU's but that didnt work. Hence the motherboard Overclock feature. I actually threw my first one out because of this issue... I am going to have to switch over to mining on windows though... Im prepping for the swap using my test rig now... Bye Bye linux! you were there for me back in the day but.... hahahaa
That's for that tip, I'll have to try that! However, with all the old Windows 7 pro licenses I have sitting around, I'm probably going to go that route with this rig too, but I'm not done with Linux yet - this machine just needs to be up and running as soon as possible!
I'm running my rig on Ubuntu server with 5 Sapphire Nitro+ RX580's, trying to locate longer PCIE power cables but not easy to find in my area. As I do have one more RX580 not mining at the moment. Anyways back to my thought. So does this mean it is better to mine with Windows over Ubuntu? I am also getting roughly 19.38 Mh/s per card. Does flashing the GPU bios help with the hashrate in Ubuntu? Or is this mainly a Windows thing to do only? I could flash each card in my Windows machine but will those setting then work when I move it back to the Ubuntu rig? I'm using the AsRock H110 Pro BTC+ board. I also read somewhere where don't remember where but will look for it again that I can undervolt with a command in Claymore. Can you confirm this?