Since that time i radeon hd 5770 for mac pro start looking for the rom and the last one was achieved from netizens. In the four apps featured above, the radeon hd 5770 cant keep up with the 5870. For the project page of the version produced by kerry cupit, see cgminer for. Having some trouble getting started mining bitcoins using guiminer and radeon hd 5770 graphics card. Insert the 5770 in your mac in pcie slot 2 and connect the power cable. Explore 7 apps like cgminer, all suggested and ranked by the alternativeto user community. This is how to flash an ati radeon hd 5770 graphics card for use on a mac pro. I cant seem to get cgminer to recognize my ati 5770, anyone have any idea what i can do to get it working.
I also have nvidia geforce gt 120 with 512mb gddr3 memory can i leave this card in my mac with 5770 card and use it. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the juniper graphics processor. Bitcoin mining speed with ati radeon hd 5870 youtube. This page will provide you with a script to get you started with litecoin mining. Gpu mining is strongly discouraged at this point see here, as it is both unprofitable and hard to set up correctly. I used efi rom from new imacs 5750 and original 5770 pc rom to create custom hybrid rom. Radeon hd 5770 pc to mac new to this apple macos neowin. Get the best deals on ati radeon hd 5770 mac and find everything youll need to improve your home office setup at. The file size of the latest installer available for download is 2. Cgminer 64bit only, opencl for android free download. Pc ati 57705870 cards flashed to work with mac pro mini spy.
This page is about mac os x compatible distributions of cgminer. Macminer is the first native mac, objectivec gui app for the most efficient mining software, bfgminer, cgminer, and cpuminer minerd are all included, with userfriendly setup from auto configuration to full manual editing of config files, as well as an api output table view for all the detailed statistics on your fpga and asic miners. It contains precompiled universal binaries for mac os x 10. All about cgminer for mac and the cg miner window in macminer. Just general desktop use or do you use applications that can leverage it. With the 5770, my setup usually gets about 160170khashs when mining scrypt coins. The radeon hd 5770 mac edition was a graphics card by ati, launched in july 2010. Trouble cpu mining with cgminer and cpuminer on ubuntu server. Inquiringminds 331 views comments 0 points most recent by ground lem august 2014. Buy ati genuine apple radeon hd 5770 1gb video card mac pro desktop 102c0160200. Ati genuine apple radeon hd 5770 1gb video card mac pro. Ccminer is an all in all miner for nvidia gpus that supports major crypto currency mining algorithms including the most recent ones. Simple like ios, yet powerful like a mac, this app gives you all the options.
The combined cpu, gpu, fpga, and asic miner for bitcoin, and litecoin. I grabbed a 5770 as an upgrade to a gt120 as the 5770 has gddr5 and faster speed. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. Pc ati 57705870 cards flashed to work with mac pro. Secondly, i am not getting into the security issues and there are a few on properly storing your private encryption keys for your digital wallet and how to properly and securely transfer your digital currency from banks or websites. I have a mac pro with a 5770 that i would love to try this out on.
I have been trying it out over the weekend on a couple of different laptops, one air and one pro. Remember that litecoin mining is very different from bitcoin mining, and usually requires much more tweaking to get optimal results. Ccminer beginners guide how to setup and use ccminer. Centos6 x64, build last cgminer with opencl support. We now have a merged mining pools for blake256 based crypto coins, currently supporting merged mining of blakecoin and photon, but for mining these you need a special version of cgminer with support for the algorithm being used by them. Litecoin mining on mac os x cpu mining blog davcamer may 12, 20 at 12. The actual developer of the software is con kolivas. Second, you may need to order this cable from amazon as it takes 2 pcie cables and my 5770 only had 1 installed. Graphics cards free delivery possible on eligible purchases. Insights i think the radeon hd 5870 in a 2008 mac pro is a compelling option for owners who want more gpu power without buying a whole new mac. Popular alternatives to cgminer for windows, linux, mac, web, selfhosted and more. Ati radeon hd 5770 mac edition specs techpowerup gpu. This method should work for most variants of this card, and. For instance, if i use the following command line to mine litecoins using my ati 5770.
How to mine ethereum with your macbook and egpu graphics. I would guess the benefit would be using the gpu and cpu at the same time. That is reasonable compared to many of the reported khs ratings that have been posted online for the 5770. It is based on cgminer by con kolivas cgminer for mac os x is here, which is in turn based on cpuminer by jeff garzik this page hosts unofficial universal binaries of sgminer for mac os x 10. I am simply demonstrating how you can use your mac hardware to mine ethereum. The program lies within business tools, more precisely finances. Thanks for the excellent guides on starting mining on a mac. Here weve made a complete beginners guide on ccminer from setup to configuration and troubleshooting. Ive used cgminer successfully on several mining pools with no problem. This is my graphics card is inserted in rom file will.
Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the juniper graphics processor, in its juniper xt variant, the card supports directx 11. Op the mac edition of the 5770 uses a blower cooler design. How to flash an ati radeon hd 5770 graphics card for a mac pro. Prepare your hardwareif you have not already, prepare a space for your mining hardware. In this tutorial im gonna show you how to use cgminer for scrypt or sha 256 mining. But there are three graphics intensive apps that we have not posted yet as we wait for remote results. For that youll want to look at cgminer and bfgminer. And, as with the block erupters, cgminer will fail to detect the bf1 fury stick unless that same kernel. Having some trouble getting started mining bitcoins using. Very low overhead free c code for linux and windows with very low nonmining cpu and ram usage stratum and gbt pooled mining protocol support, including ultra low overhead solo mining scaleable networking scheduler designed to scale to any size hashrate without networking. With the most powerful bitcoin and litecoin mining backends available on the mac, mac miners now have a user friendly application which even allows you to run the backends in the terminal if you just want an easy installation of bfgminer, cgminer or cpuminer minerd.
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