Friend rents a nearly unused dedicated server and I have multiple hardly used servers (as in resource intensiveness).

Started a few monero miners on those servers, let's see how this goes 😅

How does one just have multiple dedicated servers basically idling around, I'd be happy to a single small one instead of the free AWS t2.micro instance and a 10 year old 32bit Netbook.

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@Condor I can strongly reccommend supportxmr.com , very friendly pool and a great pair of admins

@linuxxx what miner and pool are you using? If you need any help/tips, hit me up!

@Condor pool doesn't care about what hardware you're using, you just need to find a miner compatible with your hardware...

That said, the 9800 GTX is a very old gpu, afaik all nvidia miners require CUDA support, so tough luck on that :/

Your Core 2 Quad is luckier, there's a fork of xmr-stak (the best miner available) with some extra improvements for non-AES-NI cpus: https://github.com/Dead2/...
You might be able to crank 50-100 H/s out of that cpu (ideally you'd want a cpu with loads of cache and many cores)

@Condor eh, not sure how much you're gonna get out of it though, or if it's gonna work at all - I tried using my old GT 210 (with support for cuda 2.1) with no luck, but I then realized it wasn't even worth the effort.
Still, wouldn't hurt to give it a try I guess

@Condor oh, that's neat!

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Running at around 60 H/S 😅

@ThatDude yes 😖

Any good suggestions for mining software with CUDA support? Having troubles with CGMiner (3.7, old version, supporting GPU) not being recognised by any pool as active... Went with nicehash for now...

@kb88 don't use nicehash, they're not reliable, and they're feeding off of you.

For monero, xmr-stak is the best out there, both for cpu and nvidia gpus

@endor also pointed a unused dedicated server at supportxmr a few months ago. Since then the network power went like 7 times so, if you really want to mine, you'll need some sweet gpus

@Condor they're really nice (unless you point a raspberry cluster at them, they don't like that). Even okay to just do CPU mining.

Btw. As miner I'd suggest https://github.com/fireice-uk/...

They have a 2% donnation. If you compile it yourself (which I suggest anyway) you can modify the donation amount.

@Wack cpus can be profitable too, it's all about operational costs ;)

What's wrong with an RPi cluster? Never used one, but I don't think they'd complain much. Unless each Pi in the cluster created an independent connection to the pool, in which case one could always use xmr-node-proxy.
And yeah, stak is awesome :D

@endor they removed a few pis a while ago, as they didn't use a proxy, but each pi had it's own connection.

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