Happy holidays everyone, and Happy New Year ! Just in time, Claymore has updated his XMR miner to V.11.0. Speed increase to be competitive with other software solutions, support for AEON coin, updated dev fee pools (read: removed Nicehash…), better stability and better security. Download it here ! Happy mining !
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The latest news !
Updates and Mining News !
Updates !
- Claymore CPU CryptoNote Miner 3.8
- NiceHash Excavator 1.3.7
- Gateless Gate Sharp 1.1.1 by Zawawa
- MKXMINER – Lyra2rev2 miner for AMD ! (vertcoin, monacoin, XVG and others)
News !
There has been a lot of new coins lately. The most profitable to mine so far are Bitcoin Gold, ETN, BTX, – or – if you don’t feel like switching all your rigs, consider going to nicehash, zpool, yiimp, miningpoolhub or another multicoin pool that switches automatically. Although be aware fees may be higher.
Plus the new 1070ti is out, and performance is up to expectations. Happy mining.
Update V10.2 Claymore ETH dual miner
Small update for Claymore ETH Dual Miner, now V10.2. Check out details on the thread here. Overall some nice improvements and features that the community of miners requested :
- DAG generation time included in DEV fee when it needs to change
- Detailed stats for rejected shares
Mining Software Updates
Here are a few mining software updates for a variety of algorithms that will help you reach higher hashrates:
- Excavator by NiceHash, v1.3.3
- Works very well for a multitude of algos, you may consider trying NiceHash Miner v2
- CCMiner V2.2.2 by tpruvot
- Includes the latest PHI algo and the HSR algo
- New XMR miner for VEGA – Cast XMR
- CCminer by KlausT
- Faster Neoscrypt and Keccak
- Nanashi CCMiner v2.2-r2
- Faster Lyra2rev2
- DSTM ZCash Miner
- Faster than EWBF, check the thread on bitcointalk.
XEVAN / Bitsend Nvidia miner
Small update to say a XEVAN Nvidia miner is out, with windows binaries. Now since people rushed on the algo profitability is down, but in line with other smaller coins. Big thanks to krnlx and palgin.
Update for Claymore’s XMR miner
Short post for Claymore’s new XMR miner, which has been updated to v10.2. Although it features an improvement over his previous version (including nicehash support), it is still better on some GPU’s to use SGminer or XMR-Stak-AMD. We will be waiting for his V11 update, which should bring more speed improvements and more bug fixes. It is, however, the easiest software to use for new users. Check it out here.
VEGA RX 56 Review
Welcome to the future. Well, a little late, but VEGA RX 56 is here. Turns out for the most part the future isn’t so great 🙁 But fear not, there is hope. Best profitability is with Monero, so here is our review of AMD VEGA RX 56 on XMR.
First off all, you need the AMD blockchain beta drivers (always use DDU). Once you have done that, you can stick with wattman for now. Make sure crossfire is disabled, and enable HBCC (your system needs 16g of ram…usually). You can play with the settings to see what gives you the best hashrate and the least watts, but here is what we found to be quite acceptable.
- Frequency all the way down, -30%
- Memory to 945 (see what is stable)
- Power limit -21% (see what is stable)
- Fans, fans, fans. Must be around 3500rpm at all times, but check your VRM temps to see. Core temp is useless. Hashrate will fall if the memory gets too hot.
Now you can run XMR-STAK-AMD, (well after editing the config file) and see your results. Your config file is pretty straightforward. You need to set gpu threads to the number of gpu’s * threads per gpu. In our case, that is 2 threads per GPU. It looks like this for one GPU:
- { “index” : 0, “intensity” : 2016, “worksize” : 8, “affine_to_cpu” : false },
{ “index” : 0, “intensity” : 1600, “worksize” : 8, “affine_to_cpu” : false },
We get 3800hs for 2 VEGAs, 400watts from the wall. It is possible to get better results power wise using a registry mod. You can check it out on youtube here (at your own risk). A big thanks to Hellae and rednoW on bitcointalk VEGA thread.