Topic: WinMiner v1.126a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization - page 15. (Read 101148 times)

Probably if you want to do that you must contact them with registered email ...

Hi, please could you deactivate 2FA since I had a problem with my mobile device and I have lost all my data and now I can not access my winminer account

I have a lot in the past couple days. I have done direct comparison to NiceHash and WinMiner in terms of hash speeds and yield.

I do not have the crashing problems mentioned by others on either platform.

I'm compiling the details for a video, but will provide the short of my findings.

** I haven't edited any configs in either miner app, I plan to do so and test again

NiceHash :


- CryptoNight is significantly slower in comparison to Pool mining and Winminer in my experience
- NiceHash wouldn't recognize the CPU , where as Pool and Winminer had no issue using certain drivers. The success rate of drivers working was higher on Winminer in my testing.

Most appealing is the NiceHash 0 fee transfer to CoinBase, and then the ability to 0 fee limit sell on CoinBase or Gdax and withdraw to bank with an aprox 3 day wait.


WinMiner

- Likes to default to ETN which in my testing was not the highest profitability coin, I suppose this could be worked around by setting the priority of the miners and device, but in my opinion defeats the purpose of autoswitching at time when ETN is the highest profitability.
- CPU and GPU speeds were almost identical to manual mining application I tested against XMR Stak
- I find I need to clear benchmark to manually trigger a worker to change currency, even at the lowest switching %

Most appealing is PayPal payouts, the fee is a bit more than I would like, but the ease of use and speed I like, aprox. 5min trip to my Paypal account, and I'm swiping away on purchases.


I would like to see WinMiner partner with a large exchange and offer 0 fee transfers, or mirror NiceHash Coinbase relationship.

As of right now my rigs are on Winminer with intent to payout to PayPal to reinvest in hardware.

Thank you!
Noted and much appreciated!
Cast XMR is in final integration stage (waiting for a small change by its developer)

sgminer is pretty good at mining Cryptonight, almost 1900H/s on a Vega, and Cast XMR is also very good -although I mentioned it before-. XMR Stak CPU seems to be the best for CPUs but I don't have the settings at hand now.

Cast XMR is pretty easy to tune. Although not as easy, XMR Stak GPU let's you reach heaven with the tweaks below.
For example;
               "threads": 2,
               "rawintensity": 944,
               "worksize": 8
When you have "threads: 1" then you have to change "rawintensity: 1888" but "threads: 2" gives better results (for Vega , haven't tried with other cards)

Guys,

Need your help with updating the WinMiner wishlist for best mining software:

1. CPU Mining software
2. GPU Mining software
3. Weak machines (weak CPUs and GPUs with under 2GB)

We are looking for miner software, not currently on WinMiner, that you are using or have used or are aware of, that perform great (The more info you can provide the better - link, expected performance command line etc.)
We want to add them so you can enjoy them.

Thanks 

Wow, thank you for an exhaustive yet compact report of your findings with different types of machines and setups using WinMiner, Nicehash and Minergate. WinMiner is also my favourite in general, but for stability issues (particularly after Nicehash was hacked which drove many people to WinMiner which in turn was overwhelmed by the member influx; this is not any issue anymore), I mostly moved towards "manual" mining.

Thank you for the support and for the very important feedback!! 
We would really like to try and sort out the issues you have described so you would be able to enjoy a productive and stable experience with WinMiner - would be great if you could send us a quick note to support [at] winminer .com , we will take it from there and work with you to iron out the issues.
 

cool, yes, same here. I prefer WinMiner, it has lots of potential, and the interface is very cool. Mining wise, is like a 29% slower than Nicehash for the most part (if you perform the Precise benchmark on Nicehash), I think? Both programs depend on market fluctuations, so in that sense they are very similar.

I am testing both programs and that's what I found out. Lately I am using Nicehash but would like to go back to WinMiner, we shall see. I miss certain features and how potentially good it can be.

best regards

Thanks for the prompt reply mate 


Even I agree with you mate, I've also used both winminer as well as Nicehash, the experience of Nicehash is really good, although there is something about winminer which makes me stick to it. The new update of winminer looks really appealing.

Yes they are directly related.

Anyone ?? Would really like to know this

For yield, no. Not in awhile.

For performance, I can tell you out of Nicehash, Winminer, & Minergate that Winminer is currently the least stable. Let me be clear that Winminer is my favorite of the 3, but it is unfortunately very buggy.

I use Minergate on some of my low end systems with AMD GPU's since it is the most productive with those setups. Many people say that Minergate "steals" hashrate from you. I don't know if they are, but it is more productive than Nicehash or Winminer on those particular machines because it uses the GPU that they won't. I can say that Minergate by far is the most stable software though. I have machines that have run Minergate for weeks without a single reboot or crash. Actually I don't think I've seen Minergate crash EVER, and remember I only use it on my most crappy hardware.

I use Nicehash on my more powerful machines that I can't babysit daily. It seems to produce about the same as Winminer after all is said and done, but I have not done a thorough test. But anecdotally I can say they are very close. Like I said I only use it on machines that I can't get to everyday, and it does crash now and then. But it picks up where it left off after a reboot, so I can "set it and forget it" and generally not lose more than 12 hours, even after a crash.

As for Winminer, it is my favorite and I am behind them 100%, but man oh man the bugs are frustrating. Across about 30 machines that are about as diverse as they can be Winminer crashes ALLOT. On many of my machines it crashes multiple times daily. And something in the last 4 or 5 updates (that all came out in the last two days) is really messing up my 1070 and 1080 machines. 2 or 3 now won't GPU mine at all since they get an "ethminer has stopped working" crash over and over again. Much worse is that after after a crash, Winminer often "forgets" all its settings, so even if I have it set to autorun after a reboot, it won't start mining until I re-enter all the setup details. I lost *days* of mining on some of my machines due to this, which is why I had to go back to Nicehash with them. I've seen several other people complain about this same issue on various forums so I am sure their support is aware of it.

Again, Winminer is my favorite, even with the bugs, and I expect they will all get sorted sooner or later.

Has anyone recently compared WinMiner with (the revived) Nicehash in terms of performance / yield?

Yes, there used to be an 8 card limit imposed by the WDDM 2.0 driver model in Windows 10 but the fall creators update released WDDM 2.3 which removed that limitation. To what number we do not know and have not tested since it's hard enough to get 12 cards working correctly in a system. I have seen a video on YouTube of a guy mining with 32 cards on Windows 10 using splitters but it's not something I want to try.

Is the crypto market going down having any connection with winminer profitability being decreased ?? Cause i've noticed the same ??

we need withdraw in XRP , ETN or Enjin Coin

please add

that's very, very interesting... Nice, now I know my Vega 64 cards rig is finely tuned. What stills puzzles me is the fact that the numbers are "too precise". I mean, they are always either 99W or 100W... 

Although I kinda knew the rig was well tuned after measuring the power draw at the wall, that also confirms it. I am going to check the reported power draw of WinMiner on my Vega 56, 'cos I now know it's not a bug.

In regards to the 8 cards limit, I commented on that, and someone told me this "Windows HAD an 8 GPU limitation, the fall creators update and subsequent AMD/Nvidia drivers fixed it. Now we do not know if any OS or Driver limit exists anymore (max ive read people being able to do is 22 GPU's using mining cards and splitters etc).".

So maybe you can actually try more cards! Best regards.

Does anyone else have issues trying to mine a specific coin?

I've had it a few times where I tell the app to only mine a certain coin but when I hit start it comes back with 'No Jobs From Server'  It's very frustrating.

Thanks
TheMightySpud

First, the RMM program we use is ConnectWise Control. My company is an MSP provider in Central Arkansas that also hosts a mining co-location facility.

We spent lots of R&D time for our mining rigs to get 12-GPUs running but essentially you are limited to 8 AMD GPUS using the blockchain driver and 8 NVIDIA using their drivers. That means you can have at most 16 cards with those driver sets. If you were to use the latest AMD drivers you could use up to 12 AMD cards in a system followed by 8 NVIDIA cards. We use a mix of Biostart TB250-BTC Pro and ASUS B250 Mining Expert Boards with 12/19 PCI-e slots respectively. Power connectors is the limiting factor TBH since EVGA and a select others have PSUs with connector counts for more than 4 GPUS on a single PSU. Each rig has a 1300 EVGA G2 series powering the AMD cards pulling 1050W max power when dual mining and a 1000w EVGA G2 powering the NVIDIA cards pulling 855w when dual mining. Everything is housed in a custom build 12-slot chassis we have manufactured by a local company.

As for your question about a bug the power WinMiner is reading is the GPU only power draw which is not the total power of the graphics card as well as the system. A reading of 100w GPU only power should see a reading at the wall of approx 130-140w depending on what's being mined so I'd say everything is working normal.