Are there any mining calculators?
Yes, there are two recommended mining calculators:
- Rough estimates: WhatToMine
- Long-term dynamic difficulty: MyCryptoBuddy
Can I buy an ASIC miner?
No, Ethereum is ASIC resistant.
Can I use my CPU to mine?
No, it is simply not powerful enough. To put power scaling into perspective, an Intel i7 7700k can produce a maximum of 17.7 Gflops whereas a Nvidia 1070 produces 6.5 Tflops (6,500 Gflops) of processing power.
How many MH/s will my card mine?
Please use WhatToMine or CryptoBuddy for this.
I sent my Ether to the wrong address, can I get it back?
No. Please check your addresses very carefully before sending ETH.
Is my card dead?
Maybe, but let’s do some basic troubleshooting. After each one of these steps, restart your rig and wait ten minutes before checking the hashrate again.
- Restart your rig
- Shutdown rig, reseat card
- Shutdown rig, remove known good card, swap card to known good riser. If it works okay, insert the known good card into the unknown riser. If not functioning, bad riser.
- Flash stock BIOS onto card
My hash rate is alternating, is this normal?
Yes. Hash rates that appear to flip-flop around the same few numbers are completely normal.
Why can’t I generate the DAG?
If your video card has less than 3GB of VRAM, it will be unable to generate the DAG file used for the hashing algorithm.