So... I wanted to take a few minutes out of all the other stuff I have been working on to send out a plea for help! A little over a week ago, I posted that I'm a miner. At the time, that meant I had loaded up a mining program on my laptop, and set it to work on collecting a few portions of Smartcash. I indicated I was going to try to piece an old desktop back together and get better results. And I sort of did that but...
I feel like I am doing it wrong. So I need someone who has more experience than me to lend a helping hand and guide me to the Dummy's guide to mining.
I dug my old PC out of the closet, got it updated to Windows 10 x64 on a clean install, and bought a GPU - The EVGA GeForce 1050ti.
I plugged the card in, and everything seemed good to go. Well, except that my old VGA monitor didn't have the right plug, so I am using HDMI to connect my old computer to my 65" television, while I sit on the floor in front of it with a mouse and keyboard in my lap.
Downloaded all the current drivers, and MSI Afterburner to get the card clicking at about 1695 MH/s. I'm guessing this is going to make my ccminer go way faster than the 144 MH/s I was getting out of the card in my laptop.
But my effective Hash Rate in CCMiner is 250 MH/s mining in the SmartCash Pool. I'm earning about 7 coins per day. With a coinmarketcap rating of $0.09 per coin, I am looking at earnings of Less than $0.70 a day. That seems wrong.
So how do I increase my effective hash rate in the miner off of the 250 MH/s and get more of the GPU's capability flowing? Or is it just that I have chosen the wrong coin to mine and need to get into something that will allow me to mine more efficiently?
I'm a complete novice at this, so please, pointers, tips, tricks, calming words of wisdom, I will take it all!
My wife wants the PC tower off the living room floor and stowed away somewhere that she doesn't have to see or hear it like I promised. But I can't do that until I have it working to my satisfaction that I am getting the most out of what this experiment is capable of.
Thanks for your help! I appreciate every little tidbit!!!
