*Work In Progress** will expand and add pictures
This guide is to be used in conjunction with the Beginner's Guide to Building a Mining Rig.
After you have you're mining hardware put together it's now time to choose an operating system upon which you will base your mining platform. From a...
So, for the ultimate beginner, before you can get to the Darkcoin Mining Walkthrough, you'll need a rig capable of mining Darkcoin.
This guide is for the beginner looking to mine casually. Somebody looking to mine on a large scale would likely identify hardware differently. This guide aims to...
whoops, fixed. thanks for the heads up... and apologies for any issues this may have caused folks
I have also updated the guide with some small content changes, added a pic of successful mining, and added some more info to the advanced mining post.
I get a solid 3.15 mh/s with my 6990, and another 550 kh/s with my i7 4771
On Win8, I'm using a very basic command line input to get those speeds. Also the 6990 is clocked at 880 and 1250 which is the factory OC. The more I tinkered, the worse my hash rates were... so in the end I just went...
make sure you're running the darkcoin kernel, ie "-k darkcoin", if not it will default to scrypt, which will give you tons of rejects and get you banned.
Advanced Configurations
The following are intended as examples.
Settings in the .conf could lead to better or worse performance. In my experience the .conf has no effect. The only thing that altered the performance was intensity (x, raw, or regular) and shader count settings in the .bat file...
I taught myself to mine a week or so ago, and there's very few proper walklthroughs. People expect you to already have the knowledge and they simply throw node addresses at you and say "hyg, start mining". So... for the beginners:
Setting up a Darkcoin Miner
Step #1: Download a Darkcoin...