A lot of people want to get into mining, build a rig, but then do not know how to get started from there. This article will help you get started and pointed in the right direction and get you mining Ethereum in minutes.
At this point, I will be assuming that you have gotten all your GPU's installed with drivers, ready to start mining.
Download MSI afterburner. Under the red afterburner text is a hard to see "downloads" tab. Click this tab and then dowload and install MSI afterburner. Once installed, you can experiment with your settings, but I have found that for an Nvidia 1060/1070/1080, setting the power limit to 70 to 75, the temp to 70 to 75, the core clock 85 to 100, and the memory clock +350 runs very well. Once adjusted click the check mark to save the settings.
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner
Download awesome miner. Awesome miner is probably the best mining software out there to get up and running quickly. You can start out for free with two miners, and as you start mining and building more rigs, you can add more miner control by upgrading your awesome miner software.
http://www.awesomeminer.com/download.aspx
Once awesome miner installs it will open an "Add new miner" screen. Click the next button to continue. Select "managed miner" and click next.
In the miner description type, "Etherminer". Leave the miner host as "local". Leave the device profile as none for now. Click the next button.
Click the "By Coin" button. Scroll up and select "Ethereum" from the "Ethereum" header. Click the "OK" button.
In the software drop down select the "Claymore's Dual Ethereum Miner". Make sure the "Automatic Download" button is selected. Leave the dual mode at "Disabled" for now. For the pool, click the "New" button, and select "New Pool".
In the description type "Ethereum Ethermine". In the server URL type "us1.ethermine.org:4444". In the worker name type "Rig1". In the Worker password type "x". For the coin select "Ethereum" from the Ethereum header.
For the Wallet address you will need to enter your Ethereum address. If you dont have one, the quickest way is to download a Jaxx wallet. If you use chrome as your browser, you can add a Jaxx plugin from the chrome apps webstore. Once you have Jaxx installed, scroll to the ETH address and copy your Ethereum Address to the Wallet Address box in awesome miner. It should look like this
0x08693caaadc7f043a17ad1253bb8ebae0ba2b6ea. Please use my address to mine with if you want!!
https://jaxx.io/downloads.html
Press the "OK" button at the bottom to save. Your new pool should now be shown in the pool box. Click the "Next" button, and then click the finish button. You now have setup everything to start mining Ethereum at the Ethermine Pool.
Now highlight your new miner we called "Etherminer". Now press the green "Start" button. A new popup window will appear and you will now be mining Ethereum!!
Now lets check your mining progress at the Ethermine pool.
https://ethermine.org/
Once the Ethermine window is open, paste your address into the "Address" window on the webpage. Next click the magnafying glass.
This will open a window showing all the current stats of your miner.
One thing you will need to change is the payout. By default it is set very high and will take a long time to get money paid to your Jaxx Ethereum wallet. We can change this by clicking the "Settings" tab.
This will bring up another window where you will need to enter your email address.
In the next space type in "0.05". This is the smallest payout allowed, and will make the pool send you money everytime you have mined 0.05 Ethereum.
In the next box you will need to type your public IP address. Click the weblink below and enter in your public IP address.
https://www.google.com/search?q=whatsmyip
Next press the "Save" button.
Thats it! Now you can spend countless hours finding more pools and coins to mine. The best way to find out which coin you should mine is visiting https://whattomine.com/ and entering the quantity and clicking which type of gpu's you have.
