Firstly, big thanks to Claymore for getting this great miner out to everyone! I know you mentioned that you still expect you can get better rates down the road but I think I am not alone in appreciation for you publishing this version now so we can mine more efficiently than other options currently available!
I have only read about half of this thread so sorry if I am repeating anything here but I did have a few observations and questions that I wanted to post.
- I have 4 MSI RX 470 4GB (strap 1500 mod, overclocked, undervolted) averaging between 40-42 Sols/s each using your miner. This is a vast improvement over the 13 I was getting using nicehash the last few days, so really appreciate the extra sols!
- I noticed that the power draw for this miner is much lower than your ETH Dual Miner. Even just solo mining ETH my rig was using ~625W at the wall, while your ZEC miner is only using between 400-450W! This of course increased the profit margin over ETH mining even more, which is great, but I have a question about the power consumption. Is it just that mining this coin is inherently less power-consuming than ETH? Or, does the much lower power draw mean that there is still a lot more headroom to work towards increasing Sols/s even more?
- Finally, after running your ZEC miner stably for about an hour this morning, I launched nicehash miner to use only its CPU ZEC mining function. Unfortunately, almost right at launch, it cut the Sols/s rate in your miner by about 25% on each GPU. Then after about 5 minutes, it crashed my system. Then crashed again after reboot, so I haven't tried it again. This seems a bit weird to me since I have used other CPU/memory intensive programs like Claymore Crytponote CPU to mine XMR and plotting & optimizing BurstCoin plots on HDDs and neither affected your ETH GPU miner.
Normally, I wouldn't even bother about CPU but this rig has an i7-6800k that was pulling 23 S/s, which equates to more than half of a GPU, so I hate to waste it idly. Anyone here been able to CPU mine ZEC with NH and GPU with Claymore successfully?
I have only read about half of this thread so sorry if I am repeating anything here but I did have a few observations and questions that I wanted to post.
- I have 4 MSI RX 470 4GB (strap 1500 mod, overclocked, undervolted) averaging between 40-42 Sols/s each using your miner. This is a vast improvement over the 13 I was getting using nicehash the last few days, so really appreciate the extra sols!
- I noticed that the power draw for this miner is much lower than your ETH Dual Miner. Even just solo mining ETH my rig was using ~625W at the wall, while your ZEC miner is only using between 400-450W! This of course increased the profit margin over ETH mining even more, which is great, but I have a question about the power consumption. Is it just that mining this coin is inherently less power-consuming than ETH? Or, does the much lower power draw mean that there is still a lot more headroom to work towards increasing Sols/s even more?
- Finally, after running your ZEC miner stably for about an hour this morning, I launched nicehash miner to use only its CPU ZEC mining function. Unfortunately, almost right at launch, it cut the Sols/s rate in your miner by about 25% on each GPU. Then after about 5 minutes, it crashed my system. Then crashed again after reboot, so I haven't tried it again. This seems a bit weird to me since I have used other CPU/memory intensive programs like Claymore Crytponote CPU to mine XMR and plotting & optimizing BurstCoin plots on HDDs and neither affected your ETH GPU miner.
Normally, I wouldn't even bother about CPU but this rig has an i7-6800k that was pulling 23 S/s, which equates to more than half of a GPU, so I hate to waste it idly. Anyone here been able to CPU mine ZEC with NH and GPU with Claymore successfully?
i7 3770 and 1x amd fury almost 11 hours stable now.. -t 6 ..win7 x64, 16.10.3 driver
~19 sols on cpu ~ 50 sols on gpu
You're using Nicehash for your ZEC CPU mining?
yes. nheqminer_v0.4b version
use the nheqminer.exe github download link at nicehash "getting started" page
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nheqminer.exe -l stratum.zcash.nicehash.com:3357 -u zcashwalletaddress -p x -t 6
OK... thanks to all that have replied with help on this issue... I really appreciate it! I have downloaded v0.4b as mentioned above and later linked by mike. I created a text file with the exact line above and saved as a text file in the main directory. I think I can figure out how to convert it to a .bat file, but I have a question about the "zcashwalletaddress" part. In using the NH GUI to CPU mine on my 2 other PCs, its converting my mined ZEC directly to BTC and sending to my Coinbase account. I would prefer to keep this intact, if possible, using this stand-alone non-GUI nheqminer. To accomplish this, can I simply paste my BTCwalletaddress in place of the zcash in the line above? Or, is this "selling hashing power" functionality only available if the NH GUI is used?
