because so many RX noobs joined
And you were exactly one of them. You used your old cards to mine ZEC, and know you dont want other people enjoy full speed XMR?
yup exactly! newmz got quite lucky that his old cards were good for mining ZEC, now he wants those of us with newer cards to effectively be punished by Claymore not updating this miner? Man, talk about sour grapes lol. But all is not lost newmz... you can keep on mining ZEC until it falls to $5 if it makes you happy to see those blazing hashrates lol.
I'm sorry that I offended all you "RX noobs" as I so rudely wrote. I wasn't quite myself when I posted that silly tirade. I was drunk - I admit it. It was supposed to be a bit of a joke/troll based on the whole state of affairs in alt-coin mining over the last year: ETH mining was awsome until the RX cards were released and difficulty sky-rocketed. Then very recently ZEC was good but only for a few weeks - I even regretted that I had sold some 280X cards when I saw what they could do in ZEC. I personally looked around for something else to mine because I find it fun. I chose XMR because it seems to deliver what ZEC promised (anonymity) and it's slightly profitable for me and my rigs. I'm definitely not going to "keep on mining ZEC until it falls to $5" because I have to at least cover my electrical bill. I'm not a big farmer obsessed by ROI or whatever, I do this for fun and I have 2 rigs with 10 GPUs total. They happen to be mostly 290s, a couple of 290Xs and a couple of 380s.
I guess what I was really trying to say was - that I hope that if Mr. Claymore does update his CryptoNote miner (and RX cards are made much more XMR "viable") it doesn't cause a massive migration across to XMR just like the migration from ETH to ZEC. Of course I admit I was part of that migration, but I had already been mining ETH for many months. I just got really annoyed when a crap-ton of people appeared on the ethereum mining forum and it basically turned into the "RX470/480 BIOS flashing forum". So I guess I developed an unreasonable prejudice against RX cards. Sorry. Yes it's selfish to hope that RX card owners don't benefit from Claymore's skills, but I can't afford to buy a whole lot of RXs and start again.
For the record, I have been mining for almost a year. So compared to many on this forum I suppose I'm definitely a "noob" myself.
I apologise to whoever I offended.