Parts
- ASUS B250 Mining Expert Motherboard
- 32GB RAM (Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400MHz)
- 250GB Sandisk SSD
- Corsair HX1000i modular power supply
- ASUS GeForce GTX1660 Super 'Tuf Gaming' graphics card
- PCIe Riser
- Mining rig case
- Power extension cables (Amazon)
- 5 pack of Arctic Fans which connect together

Set up windows 10
Install all updates
Install motherboard drivers/software
Remove all extraneous windows bundled software (like Spotify and Office and OneDrive).
Install TightVNC server on Miner and viewer on desktop pc to allow remote access
Purchase HDMI dummy video plug - the on-board GPU is disabled if there is no HDMI lead plugged in so VNC doesn't work.
Install Python


Install MSI Afterburner software
Overclocking tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGcQLgV5Gw

Install mining software - t-rex - https://trex-miner.com/

Visit https://www.mewccrypto.com/ > "Wallets" > "Meowcoin Core Wallets"

Download and install meowcoin-1.0.3-win64-setup.exe

After installation, MEOWCOIN Core will run
Select data directory (leave default)
Core will start
First screen will allow you to import an existing wallet using a 12-word recovery phrase (and relevant passphrase if you'd already specified it). If this is your first time, ignore this.
If you wish to specify a recovery passphrase to protect your new recovery phrase, specify it.
Click 'Generate'
Click 'Import'
MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP BOTH YOUR RECOVERY PHRASE AND YOUR RECOVERY PASSPHRASE SECURELY.
You will probably get a network access warning from your firewall. you should allow access to both network types.
You will get the opportunity to specify a passphrase to encrypt your wallet. This is not the same as the recovery passphrase you specified to protect your recovery phrase (though I guess you could use the same passphrase if you wanted to but I didn't). You will need to access any funds in your wallet.

Now MEOWCOIN CORE will attempt to download the entire blockchain to your PC. This could take a while... You can hide the window if you want to look at the interface.

Create a wallet address

You should create a unique wallet address to accept the funds from your mining from the mining pool that you use.
Click 'File' > 'Receiving addresses'
Click 'New'
Give your new address a label. I used the mining pool name so that if I choose to mine in different pools then I can differentiate which pool I have been paid from by creating unique wallet addresses for each pool.
You can't complete the meowcoin address because it's going to generate one for you.
Click 'OK'
You should see a line in the table with your new unique wallet address. If you click it and select 'Copy' you will copy just the wallet address.

This is mine (if you want to send me any MEOWCOINS) - MVuEAu4d8hk5xn5P1p11W9wr9d1fTMm9PQ

Now that you have a wallet address, it's time to set up the actual mining software. The one I'm choosing to use is called T-Rex.

https://trex-miner.com/

Click on 'Download' and choose your operating system. I'm on Windows, so I chose Windows.

The software is in a ZIP archive and doesn't require installation.
Unzip the archive to the desktop of your mining rig.

Inside the folder, you will see a lot of 'bat' files. Each of these contains a run command for T-Rex to enable it to mine certain coins at certain mining pools. Don't double click the 'bat' files to open them or they will start the miner! Right click and choose 'Edit' and lets have a look inside one. I'll choose 'RVN-ravenminer.bat' since the run command is very similar to the MEOWCOIN run command. The contents of the 'bat' file looks like this...

@cd /d "%~dp0"
t-rex.exe -a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://stratum.ravenminer.com:3838 -u RNm4LMBGyfH8ddCGvncQKrMtxEydxwhUJL.rig -p x
pause

The first line tells the script to change the working directory to the same on that the batch file is stored in.
The second line runs t-rex.exe with the following options:
-a kawpow : This is the algorithm that you going to mine with
-o stratum+tcp://stratum.ravenminer.com:3838 : This is the mining pool address and port
-u RNm4LMBGyfH8ddCGvncQKrMtxEydxwhUJL.rig : This is the username which is the unique wallet address followed by a 'worker' identifier (a name that helps you to identify which rig you are mining from - it's up to you what you call it). BE CAREFUL - this wallet address is NOT your wallet! You should replace this with your unique wallet address (of course this would be for a Ravencoin wallet) before you begin mining.
-p x : The password field is used to specify the payout method. Blank or 'x' specifies that you would like to use PPLNS payout, pps for PPS+ payouts and 'solo' for SOLO mining.
The last line keeps the CMD window open when the script ends so you can read any messages that are displayed.

There is no batch file for MEOWCOIN so I'll copy the RVN-ravenminer.bat file, rename and change it's contents.

@cd /d "%~dp0"
t-rex.exe -a KawPow -o stratum+tcp://eu.meowmining.lol:8881 -u MVuEAu4d8hk5xn5P1p11W9wr9d1fTMm9PQ.RIG0 -p x
pause

Notice that this is very similar to the other batch file apart from the mining pool address and my wallet address. I've used 'RIG0' as the worker id so that I can see what rig is contributing to my earnings.

As I stated before, I'm using the meowmining.lol mining pool.

Save this and double click. With any luck, your miner should start without any issues and mining will begin!!!