Mining video card
mining, in fact, is a problem-solving process. First, we work out a formula with many answers, and then the dealer releases a random answer every other period of time. An answer is the prototype of a virtual coin. We can see who can calculate the answer at this time, and then this person or these people can divide the virtual coin. When the result comes out, we can find the answer, virtual currency is attached with information such as the computer information and problem-solving time of the tester, so that the virtual currency can be "materialized", that is, it has traceability and uniqueness attributes. At this time, the virtual currency is officially g out
using the graphics card is because the computing method of the graphics card is different from that of the CPU. The CPU focuses on logic computing. The graphics card is simple computing, and mining (that is, solving problems) just needs simple computing power. Therefore, mining with the graphics card
bitcoin miner is the equipment for mining bitcoin. The mining equipment can be ordinary computer or USB miner, It can also be a professional ASIC miner
It is true that ordinary computer CPU can mine bitcoin, but because bitcoin mining has formed a huge instry all over the world, it is difficult for indivials to mine bitcoin with ordinary computers. You need to buy expensive and professional bitcoin
ASIC mining machine
and join the bitcoin miners organization to dig bitcoin, that is, to join a mining pool for mining
First of all, CPU and GPU are designed differently for different missions in the computer:1. CPU is mainly optimized for serial instructions, while GPU is optimized for large-scale parallel computing
Modern multi-core CPUs aim at instruction set parallelism (ILP) and task parallelism (TLP), while GPUs aim at data parallelism (DLP)3. GPU often has a larger bandwidth of memory, that is, the so-called video memory, so it will also have good performance in high throughput applications
Through a specific program and algorithm, using the computer graphics card calculation rate, a large number of calculations are carried out in the selected mine pool to generate data packets
Simply put, it is to use your graphics card to work for others in your spare time in exchange for compensation. Only AMD's graphics card is suitable
graphics card mining to make money:
1. Determine the virtual currency to be mined
Generally, there are professional graphics cards to mine, and the mine is actually bitcoin. Users download the mining software from the computer and then run a specific algorithm. After communicating with the remote server, they can get the corresponding bitcoin. Most of them work by burning the graphics card, so the power consumption is large
the graphics cards and mine cards are usually ATI chips. The bitcoin market is not good, so the miners take out their mining cards and sell them as second-hand
what is mining
to put it simply, mining is to use the chip to perform a calculation related to the random number, and get the answer in exchange for a virtual coin. Virtual currency can be exchanged for the currency of each country through some way. The stronger the computing power, the faster the chip can find this random answer. Theoretically, the more virtual coins can be proced per unit time. Because it's about random numbers, you can only get rewards if you happen to find the answer. It's possible that one chip will find the answer in the next second, or ten chips won't find the answer in a week. The more chips compute at the same time, the easier it is to find the answer, and the mining machine with built-in multi chips appears. And a number of mining machines to form a "mine" at the same time mining is to improve efficiency. In the mine pool, multiple "self-employed" join an organization to mine together. No matter who finds the answer and digs out the virtual coin, everyone gets the corresponding reward according to the calculation ability of contribution. This way can make the income of "self-employed" more stable
relationship between mining and graphics card
the stronger the computing power of ant miner, the easier it is to dig out virtual coins. Accordingly, when the more virtual coins are g out, the difficulty of mining will be increased accordingly, so as to control the yield of virtual coins. The virtual currency is not unlimited. The total number of bitcoin is 84 million
for mining machines, the most important thing is the graphics card. Generally, you can choose the most basic motherboard that supports 6 graphics cards, and later you can choose the more complex motherboard that supports more than 12 graphics cards. The specific suggestions are as follows:
1. CPU - CPU can choose the most basic and cheap CPU, as long as you can bring the system up normally, Generally, you can choose Intel's g3900 CPU with a unit price of about 200 yuan< Operating system is too laggy. If you use 6 graphics cards, you need at least 4G of memory. If you are 12 graphics cards, the windows operating system needs at least 8g of the memory. Otherwise, the system will be very stuck and then can not work normally. The Linux operation system can be 4G memory. < br > />2.
3. Motherboard - it is recommended for novices to directly choose the special mining motherboard of Yingtai series. The models are tb250 BTC with 6 card slots and tb250 btcpro with 12 card slots, as well as H81 series motherboard of Huaqing
4. Hard disk - SSD hard disk is needed for hard disk, because the reading speed is fast, and virtual memory needs to be set. SSD hard disk can improve some performance theoretically. If you use Windows system, you need at least 64GB, and Linux system can use 16GB
5. Operating system for windows, it is recommended that win10 system, corresponding to NVIDIA series and AMD Series graphics cards, can recognize up to 8 cards respectively. If the motherboard of 12 cards needs N cards and a cards to be mixed, then we can make full use of the motherboard graphics card slot
6. Graphics card - the mainstream mining graphics card models are amd Series graphics cards rx470, rx570, rx580, NVIDIA Series graphics cards gtx1060, gtx1070 and so on. It is recommended to choose 4G or more memory, and 8g is the best.
The first step in setting up mining equipment is to choose the right hardware. This article will focus on GPU (graphics card) mining, of course, you can use CPU or ASIC equipment mining. Amd graphics card architecture is very beneficial to mining. NVIDIA card is not suitable for mining because of its low hash rate. The best NVIDIA graphics cards are less than 0.5 megahash. Notebook Hardware mining is not as good as NVIDIA card, which is a bad option for mining. You need to use a desktop system for mining. There is a desktop system to ensure adequate cooling of the hardware
the graphics card or card needs to be able to match the motherboard, and the power supply must have enough PCI-E connectors. Before determining the graphics card, pay attention to these. In order for the system to cool down sufficiently, you need to remove the cover of the chassis in order to get better heat dissipation. This is what people call "open air rig.". If you can aim the system at a fan or air conditioner, you can make the device cooler when it's running, thus extending its life and keeping it efficient
Why use graphics card to mine
compared with CPU, GPU is used for general purpose calculation. So it can stack hundreds of stream processors awesome. Each stream processor is like a small CPU. Although its ability to run complex programs is far from the power of CPU, it can not support many processors, so the actual performance, especially the single precision floating point performance is much stronger than that of CPU. p> However, as we have mentioned before, a card is very suitable for general computing such as virtual currency because it has many stream processors, and the speed of obtaining specific solutions is much higher than that of N card. Therefore, many miners rush to buy a card to calculate virtual currency for profit
of course, with NVIDIA's Pascal graphics card, n card's ability in mining virtual currency is not as different as a card before. So in the current situation that a card is generally out of stock, those mid-range N cards have become the second choice for miners
What are the disadvantages of mine cardfinally, I want to talk about why we can't choose mine card when we are shopping for second-hand cards. Because the miners are mining bitcoin, the most important thing is to seek profits. Therefore, the graphics card they use is running and calculating all the time, and its strength is far greater than that of daily game applications. In other words, running such a calculation for one day is equivalent to running a graphics card for one month
in addition, the places where virtual currency is mined are mostly the places where multiple graphics cards gather. Thousands of graphics cards are constantly calculating in a room, and their heat is also quite huge. Miners can not choose the chassis with good heat dissipation conditions like ordinary consumers, so that the heat can be released smoothly. In this way, the graphics cards can still operate for 7 * 24 hours under high temperature conditions, It also deepens its aging degree
the result of doing so is that the graphics cards used for mining are lost prematurely. If you buy these graphics cards, the result will be unstable operation, restart and other things will continue to happen
moreover, at present, manufacturers also have strict requirements on mine cards, such as banning second-hand sales and shortening the shelf life. If users buy these mine card graphics cards, future maintenance will also be a big challenge