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ZCash/ZEC GPU mining

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Hi all, been a while.

One of my Eth rigs was down for over a week (thanks Win10) so I picked up a copy of Ethos at http://ethosdistro.com/ and decided to give ZEC a try. Changed a few lines in the config and was mining straight away. Have no idea how to optimise Ethos but currently the 6x RX480 rig is going at ~240 hash (Cards were all flashed with "Boysie's lower power 29MH ROM" which runs at default core/mem 1095/2080)

I'll try switching more of my Win10-based rigs over to ZEC.
 
Madpacket said:
It's pretty crazy though. Mining ZEC is more power efficient and is currently 4x more profitable than Ether. So for someone like me who spends upwards of $800 CAD on hydro a month this a welcome change and helping me speed up my ROI.
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Wow, $800 for power... I'm averaging about $200 CAD a month for 3500 watts. My utility rate is at ~0.08

Mining 90% ZEC with an income of $1000 per month at current price. My guess is ZEC price is temporary so I'm only holding half of what I'm mining.
 
dajeepster said:
Genoil 0.6 is out
https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner
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I tried it and I can't get it to work right for any of my rigs. It seems like it has the ability to reset itself which is nice, but I so far its performance is far below 0.5 for me. It could be user error.

I'm getting @33 sol/s on a 480 with just the gpu, but if i try to run a equihash for cpu, it drops down to 16 sol/s
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That must be what I doing on one of my rigs with 0.5. That rig gets 26.7 combined between a 480 and a 460! I knew that was wrong before I even saw your post as my rig with two 470s gets 27 on each 470.

What is frustrating is I didn't use the -k tag (isn't that it?) and that is the rig with a 2600k (so you figure it could do a little CPU mining).

Claymore's miner can't come soon enough.
 
poofyhairguy said:
I tried it and I can't get it to work right for any of my rigs. It seems like it has the ability to reset itself which is nice, but I so far its performance is far below 0.5 for me. It could be user error.



That must be what I doing on one of my rigs with 0.5. That rig gets 26.7 combined between a 480 and a 460! I knew that was wrong before I even saw your post as my rig with two 470s gets 27 on each 470.

What is frustrating is I didn't use the -k tag (isn't that it?) and that is the rig with a 2600k (so you figure it could do a little CPU mining).

Claymore's miner can't come soon enough.
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Using either Genoil 5, or 6 I get mid to high 30's with one 480 while running with I5 4670k getting 16-17 S/s with that.
Together the S/s bounce around in the low fifties.

But that is using -k zec zec zec zec, that kicked up the hashrate on the 480 a little.


Edit: That is using all four cores ok the I5 4670k
 
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poofyhairguy said:
That must be what I doing on one of my rigs with 0.5. That rig gets 26.7 combined between a 480 and a 460! I knew that was wrong before I even saw your post as my rig with two 470s gets 27 on each 470.
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Running 2 instances of Genoil Zec miner 0.5, W10 Pro 1607 + Catalyst 16.10.3, I am getting ~ 130Sols/sec on R9 390 @ 1.15Ghz + R9 295X2 @ 1.1Ghz (or 40 Sols/sec per GPU on average). i7 6700K stock gets 26-28 Sol at 80% CPU usage (-t 6 flag instead of -t 8).

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Guys I really need help with the nehq cpu miner. I downloaded from the link in the OP of this thread and followed the instructions for nehq miner on nanopool. Command line looks write, the miner fires up, uses 90% of my CPU but gives 0 sol/s no matter what. cpu is stock fx 8350 with -t 7

thoughts?
 
Kozlow said:
When it restarts Genoil it opens a new cmd window a leaves the previous one open. After a while I get a bunch of open windows.

Does yours do that?
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No. Make sure you take out the "pause" from your main batch file if you have it there. I only see extra error messages when Genoil.exe crashes but a new instance still fires up and keeps on mining. I noticed 0.6 was released and has some built in checks for 0.0 S/s. Not sure how this works but it may be a better solution than the restart script. Will investigate.
 
n0x1ous said:
Does available cpu threads matter for using the -k zec zec zec zec? tried it that way and CPU (dual core celeron) wento 100% usage for 15 minutes and locked up. I am getting 150 sol/s out of my 6x480s @ 1100/2200. any way to improve on that?

Also does getting the nheq miner going on the CPU require using nicehash pool? Im using nanopool for everything else.....maybe thats my problem..
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That's around what I'm getting with the dual core Celeron's and 6 480's. What sucks is with only five 480's mining with a Core i3 6100 I get more hashes. I may temporarily swap out my Core i7's for the Celeron's but it's a lot of downtime to disassemble / re-assemble etc.

Don't bother with the -k zec zec switches on the Celeron's. It's only useful on processors with at least 4 cores.
 
n0x1ous said:
Guys I really need help with the nehq cpu miner. I downloaded from the link in the OP of this thread and followed the instructions for nehq miner on nanopool. Command line looks write, the miner fires up, uses 90% of my CPU but gives 0 sol/s no matter what. cpu is stock fx 8350 with -t 7

thoughts?
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What's your command line parameters?
 
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Madpacket said:
Don't bother with the -k zec zec switches on the Celeron's. It's only useful on processors with at least 4 cores.
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What's the benefit of these switches? I just created a custom batch file for NiceHash miner as following:

nheqminer_zcash -l usa -u ZCASH-ADDRESS -t 6
 
RussianSensation said:
What's the benefit of these switches? I just created a custom batch file for NiceHash miner as following:

nheqminer_zcash -l usa -u ZCASH-ADDRESS -t 6
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the -k zec flag is for Genoil. My understanding is it dedicates additional CPU threads making better use of your Radeon's giving your more hashes. I don't think it has anything to with CPU mining. That's what nheqminer is for.
 
Neurodog said:
Wow, $800 for power... I'm averaging about $200 CAD a month for 3500 watts. My utility rate is at ~0.08

Mining 90% ZEC with an income of $1000 per month at current price. My guess is ZEC price is temporary so I'm only holding half of what I'm mining.
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Yeah after $500 CAD my hydro company bumps up the rates. You think they would give you a discount for using so much yet they charge you more. Crooks. Also all the BS charges like "delivery" etc add up.
 
Memory use skyrocketed for me with the -k zec flag so I stopped using it.
Also, RS, doesn't running two instances actually lead to a lower hashrate than just running one? I tried it and it kept my GPU usage pegged, but the overall hashrate was lower running two instances.
 
Madpacket said:
the -k zec flag is for Genoil. My understanding is it dedicates additional CPU threads making better use of your Radeon's giving your more hashes. I don't think it has anything to with CPU mining. That's what nheqminer is for.
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Thanks!

What are your thoughts on ZCash? I am thinking of selling it as I mine it while the price is high, unlike Ether which I am holding instead.

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Yeah after $500 CAD my hydro company bumps up the rates. You think they would give you a discount for using so much yet they charge you more. Crooks. Also all the BS charges like "delivery" etc add up.
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It's only going to get worse after our stupid government decided to privatize HydroOne. Unlike the 407 highway that's not mandatory, there are no legitimate alternative energy sources in Ontario other htan using HydroOne's transmission lines. Still though, GPU mining has made PC/GPU upgrading more fun for me than any video games. As far as I am concerned, the minute GPU mining dies, AMD's "easy" sales will suffer significantly given that the competitor's blind userbase is already recommending/defending and is buying GTX1050Ti over RX 470 despite only $20-30 difference. Under such a biased market, the extra GPU mining sales AMD gets will also go away.

thilanliyan said:
Memory use skyrocketed for me with the -k zec flag so I stopped using it.
Also, RS, doesn't running two instances actually lead to a lower hashrate than just running one? I tried it and it kept my GPU usage pegged, but the overall hashrate was lower running two instances.
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I just started so I don't know the daily earnings yet. I'll test it both ways. I thought running 2 instances is additive - one window has 60-65 and the other has 60-65, total of 120-130? If not, I'll start running one instance then.
 
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I havent gotten a chance to switch over one of my rigs to zec yet. Is there a way to create a wallet in windows yet?
 
codyray10 said:
I havent gotten a chance to switch over one of my rigs to zec yet. Is there a way to create a wallet in windows yet?
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Yes, I am using Jaxx.
https://jaxx.io/

Once you download Jaxx, on the top right hand side, select Wallets and you can choose what cryptocurrency wallets you want. You can have Eth, Eth Classic, BTC, ZEC, all in 1 application.

I can't believe that at current rates and difficulty, the payoff period for an $155 RX 480 is just 1 month.

Has anyone tried ZCash on Fury/Fury X? I wonder how well it scales with a lot more shaders and 512GB/sec memory.
 
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n0x1ous said:
nheqminer -l zec-us-east1.nanopool.org:16666 -u Wallet/workername/email -p x -t 7

Using nheq .3a and Genoil .6
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Hmm, maybe just try using the defaults?

I'm simply using the following parameters on my 4790K and it works great. 25.5 Sol/s at default clocks.

"nheqminer_zcash.exe -l USA -u <polo_mining_address> -t 6"
 
RussianSensation said:
Thanks!

What are your thoughts on ZCash? I am thinking of selling it as I mine it while the price is high, unlike Ether which I am holding instead.

It's only going to get worse after our stupid government decided to privatize HydroOne. Unlike the 407 highway that's not mandatory, there are no legitimate alternative energy sources in Ontario other htan using HydroOne's transmission lines. Still though, GPU mining has made PC/GPU upgrading more fun for me than any video games. As far as I am concerned, the minute GPU mining dies, AMD's "easy" sales will suffer significantly given that the competitor's blind userbase is already recommending/defending and is buying GTX1050Ti over RX 470 despite only $20-30 difference. Under such a biased market, the extra GPU mining sales AMD gets will also go away.
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I'm just mining and selling ZCash for BTC and Ether right now. I guess it couldn't hurt to keep a little in case it moons but I honestly think as the amount of ZEC in circulation increases the price will come down. The pumping and dumping is based off the small amount of ZEC in circulation, this will also start to even out over time as available ZEC increases.

This is likely a short ride (1 - 2 months) before we're back to Ether or some other currency. Make a few bucks while you can!

Privatizing Hydro is another Win for Wynn 😀. These are the stupid moves politicians make to pay off debts (but this is better suited as another topic).

AMD is gaining a lot of good will with Polaris outside of mining, and if they deliver with Zen and Vega they have a real chance of turning things around. It's a lot of work trying to convince people who only see one brand to even look at other options but it can be done.
 
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