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# Select a pool from the '''[[Pools]]''' page - or find one on the [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2752467.0 BitCoinTalk ANN]. Your rewards should average out over time, whether you join a large or small pool. Please consider pointing your miner(s) at smaller pools so as to distribute the hashrate and improve network health/security. You can [https://ravencoin.network/pools check pool sizes here]. Choosing a pool near your geographic location is suggested.
# Download a GPU miner. Several are available, but for the purposes of this quick start guide, one of the most popular miners, [https://github.com/trexminer/t-rex/releases T-Rex is linked]. Please note that this software is closed source and should be used at your own risk. Best practice: do not use closed source mining software on a machine containing personal or sensitive data. [https://github.com/RitoProject/ccminer Open source code is available here], but will require compiling for your appropriate operating system. This is beyond the scope of this article, and the open source miner performs poorly compared to T-Rex or Zenemy miners.
# If necessary, create an account with your selected mining pool. Some pools require a username. Others allow you to mine to an address. Most pools will offer a brief guide of their own, or even an example .bat file. For this example, we will point our hashrate at Minermore. The T-Rex software is more or less pre-configured and will require only a few inputs. Minermore does require you to register a username, so do that now.# Open the "config_example" file and change the appropriate information (right click the file and select a program like notepad or notepad++). Copy and paste your mining address (generated earlier) in the quotation marks where you see the string of characters starting with "R." Wherever you see <code>"CHANGETHIS.worker"</code>, enter <code>"YOURUSERNAME.worker"</code>.
'''Additional info:'''
# Remember starting out with power limit at 65% to 85% and stock settings on core and memory. x16r spikes in power draw, be sure to have headroom on your PSU and connect your [https://www.gpuminingresources.com/p/psu-cables.html risers correctly]
