# Assistance would be greatly appreciated

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/assistance-would-be-greatly-appreciated/6981>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/assistance-would-be-greatly-appreciated/6981 "2016-11-03T23:06:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![flightrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@flightrisk](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/flightrisk)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/assistance-would-be-greatly-appreciated/6981/1 "2016-11-03T23:06:36Z")

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Greetings,

I have been following the zcash for a significant amount of time before it launched.

I have build a computer with the following

Gigabyte Z170-HD3 motherboard  
Intel i7-6700k  
Crucial Ballistix DDR-2400 64GB  
Iocrest 4 port RAID card  
Toshiba TR150 x2 in RAID 1  
EVGA 750BQ power supply  
CyberPower CP1200AVR battery backup  
Ubuntu server 16-04lts with desktop gui on top

It took me quite a bit of time to slap it all together because what can I say, I am rusty.

The hardest part was getting ubuntu up and running with the RAID 1. I figured out how to start mining on all 8 cores with the tromp solver and can see my empty wallet thanks to zcash swing wallet UI.

I am getting this sinking feeling that I am going to spend a bunch of money on electricity and never get any zcash because I am only getting 16.1159 sol/s and from what I have gathered, I will have a very small chance of mining any zcash with this hardware.

I have been out of the computer scene for a long time and kinda get the mining pool concept and was under the impression that gpu mining would not be available at launch.

I have a multi-part question.

Should I join a mining pool?

If yes, which one?

Can I add 2 GPU’s to this box and run them instead of cpu and get higher sol/s rate?

What GPU should I use? I was thinking GTX1070.

Thanks,  
flightrisk

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**Author:** ![Mikezz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mikezz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Mikezz)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/assistance-would-be-greatly-appreciated/6981/2 "2016-11-03T23:16:17Z")

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> [@flightrisk](#):
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> ime to slap it all together because what can I say, I am rusty.
> 
> The hardest part was getting ubuntu up and running with the RAID 1. I figured out how to start mining on all 8 cores with the tromp solver and can see my empty wallet thanks to zcash swing wallet UI.
> 
> I am getting this sinking feeling that I am going to spend a bunch of money on electricity and never get any zcash because I am only getting 16.1159 sol/s and from what I have gathered, I will have a very small chance of mining any zcash with this hardware.

You should definitely join a Pool. And yes, you should add in some GPU’s, from my own experience you should buy AMD GPU’s. (RX 480 8GB) seems to be the best one yet.

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**Author:** ![flightrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@flightrisk](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/flightrisk)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/assistance-would-be-greatly-appreciated/6981/3 "2016-11-11T02:43:37Z")

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Thank you for replying, my machine has been running non-stop and I have no zcash ☹

Can someone suggest a pool, that is not a scam and has a quality setup tutorial.

It looks like my partner in funding this box and I are going to buy rx480 and slap them in.

Can I run the cpu and gpu all together on ubuntu on a pool?

Thanks