The mining rig in the guide is a standalone PC which isn’t physically connected to a laptop or another PC etc.
If you remove the red graphics card, monitor and cat, this is what the completed rig will look like.
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Aw, I think the cat should be included in the tutorial as well 
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Unfortunately including the cat results in a 100% loss of hashrate due the to the chewing of various parts 
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I am looking for some advice. Looking at the speeds being achieved by others on this thread I feel I need to tweak my set up.
I have a Ryzen 5 3350g/ 3.6ghz quad core.
L2 cache 2mb
L3 cache 4mb
Ram 16gb / 2666mhz
Hard drive 512gb ssd
Only getting 1.3 k/h
I am using my work computer but even when I am not using the computer for work it doesn’t get much above.
I do run xmrig as administrator and huge pages have permission granted.
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With the 4mb of L3 cache, you’ll only have 2 threads mining capacity.
Does your mobo have dual channel ram capability, and are you utilising that with 2 ram sticks in the correct slots?
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Thanks for that. No dual just ram 1 x 16gb. Going to buy a Rzyen 9 3900x which has L3 of 64mb and 2 x 16gb ram. Got the taste of this mining and want to do it properly.
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Unless you plan on doing other stuff with the rig, 2 x 8Gb Ram is more than enough for just mining, afaik.
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AMd Ryzen 9 5900x, 16GB (2x8gb) CL14 memory, Win 10. 19042.1288
Average about 16khs with my GPU running about 18Khs but isn’t economically feasible.
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Hey guys, running a macbook pro for mining:
2GHz Quad i5
MAC OS Big Sur
16GB 3733 DDR4
Newbie question as I’m not great at this, is there any settings I can adjust in the miner set up to get a bit more juice out of it?
As I’m only averaging between 950-1100h/s.
Big Thanks 
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I know nothing about Macs, but if you give some more info - maybe a screenshot of the xmrig window with all the startup info, maybe we can see what’s what.
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And the next bits under that, which shows all the starting info 
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Well, huge pages isn’t running, which will account for a huge drop in hashrate afaik.
Go into your config.json and set hugepages to true in the cpu section.
You’ll also see a huge-pages-jit line below it. Mine is set to false in windows and huge pages works fine. But for Mac, you may also need to set that to true 
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BTW, got my huge pages running finally and forgot to say big thanks 
Really appreciate the help and now running consistently over 2kH/sec. Double what I was running before.
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If anyone is running a rig with an AMD threadripper I’d like to know your results. I’d like to see if it’s economically viable over 3900-5950x. Thanks.
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Hi, I have Ryzen 9 5900x, 16Gb (2x8Gb), Ubuntu and my average about 12.5Khs (Only CPU)
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you overclock? Thanks
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How hot is it getting ?
What is the ambient temp ?
And what is the cooler you are using ?
Is it in a case ?
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