ETC Mining Ethereum Classic - The Rig - The Config & The payouts
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0.000 HBDETC Mining Ethereum Classic - The Rig - The Config & The payouts
# The Cost and The Payouts I have been mining Ethererum Classic for about 8 months now. At today's prices my payout is almost $3000.00 with 94.295 $ETC mined. So after hardware cost and power consumption I am up about $1800.00 profit over those 8 months. # Boiling down the profits and how I got there. Mined So Far | My Hash Rate ----------- | ------------ |  When I first started back in March of 2017 I was getting about 1 $ETC every 10 hours @ 67.7 mh. The difficulty level has increased to where I am getting 1 $ETC now every 67 to 70 hours. This will gradually increase. | This side shows my current hash rate and has some stats on it like the current BTC exchange rate and the average USD exchange rate for $ETC. It also shows that total profit you may expect over a period of time. [Software shown above is from Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.cryptomines.ethermine) # The Hardware and Software I Am Using I am using 3 AMD Sapphire GPU's. Two are [R9 290 cards](https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Amd-R9-290-Tri-x-4gb/162871475397?hash=item25ebe57cc5:g:K-kAAOSwRLZaaq1R) and 1 R9 280X. I bought these on ebay for about $150 each. The MB is an [ASRock Z87 Killer](https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASRock-Fatal1ty-Z87-Killer-1150-motherboard/122931729877?hash=item1c9f4d55d5:g:MxUAAOSwQN5aaTcm) Motherboard with 3 PCI16 slots and 4 PCIe slots I got for about $230, mine including an i7 CPU and 16GB RAM. In order to have the GPU's detached from the motherboard you will need some $5.00 [USB 3.0 PCI-E Express 1x To 16x Extender Riser Cards ](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2057872.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XUSB+3.0+PCI-E+Express+1x+To+16x+Extender+Riser+Card+.TRS5&_nkw=USB+3.0+PCI-E+Express+1x+To+16x+Extender+Riser+Card+&_sacat=0). You will also want a good power supply, I have the [EVGA 1000 Modular PSU](https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEVER-MINED-EVGA-80-PLUS-Platinum-1000-W-Power-Supply-PS-Fully-Modular-PSU/132482064796?hash=item1ed88be19c:g:MS4AAOSwVLRaYrAx). If you watch the auctions like a hawk you can still get all this hardware for low prices but they are becoming more difficult to find with crypto mining becoming more popular. I am also using a windows 7 operating system with the [Claymore 10 Dual Ethereum Miner](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0) software daemon. # The FrankenMiner 👺 Rig pic 1 | Rig pic 2 ----------- | ------------  |  My rig is an out of the box desktop, **literally** it is a ***FrankenMiner*** 👺,but it gets the job done with all 3 cards I am getting in ***-mode 1*** a combined Hashrate of about 58mh. This average down some form the original 67.7 in ***-mode 2***, Dual Mining, I started with back in march. GPU 0 is the R9 280x the ones hashing at 23x are my R9 290s  # The Mining Pool and The Config File I have been using the [etc.ethermine.or](https://etc.ethermine.org/miners/8E84B20E00ea647A550DfA8C75F1e9F8cA805B39) mining pool from the beginning. You may notice that my current config below includes a variable ***-mode 1***, this disables dual mining and only lets the software mine Ethereum Classic. If this is set to ***-mode 0***, then it will mine Ethereum Classic and [Siacoin](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/siacoin/). I ran with it in dual mode until the production rate got to about 50 hours per $ETC. At tht production rate I finally turned it off, ***-mode 1***, so only one miner was running. This increased my Ethereum Hashrate by bout 5mh per round. I have included my current running config file below so you can get an idea of how it is setup for [Claymore 10 Dual Ethereum Miner](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0) miner. ## Claymore Dual Ethereum Miner Comnfig .bat file 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 C:\claymore10\EthDcrMiner64.exe -mode 1 -esm 1 -epool us1-etc.ethermine.org:4444 -erate 0 -ewal 0x8E84B20E00ea647A550DfA8C75F1e9F8cA805B39.qht3 -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550 -dwal libertyranger.qht3 -dpsw x -dcoin sc # Happy Mining Just my two STEEMS Worth.<img src="https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmXUuZRuYxjHzKfdQAB8JrtXTzWCEtg1ixVn6dekXY65ym/Steemerica_mini.JPG" alt="Steemerica_mini.JPG" /> <img src="https://steemitimages.com/DQmXUuZRuYxjHzKfdQAB8JrtXTzWCEtg1ixVn6dekXY65ym/Steemerica_mini.JPG" alt="Steemerica_mini.JPG"/> Vote LibertyRanger as your Witness or Set Proxy. 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