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Mining ZCash with your CPU (Windows)

For the CPU part of this guide, we are going to use Nicehash miner. While this miner works for both CPU and GPU, we are going to get the best performance if we use different miners for CPU and GPU. This is because the Claymore miner is faster but only works for CPU.

Step 1: Here to download the miner: https://mega.nz/#F!P0ZjFDjC!Cmb-ZRqlbAnNrajRtp4zvA (https://mega.nz/#!xXI1Tb6T!3dHMEaZzNuoptADka8QuUDJImEn8JC1k-HeRmq98kTM)  (x86 & x64)

Step 2: Extract the files within the .zip

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In order to use this miner, you must specify how many cores you have for maximum performance. You can check your CPU core count by opening the Task Manager and going to the performance section.

Step 3: In order to start mining with your CPU type or paste the following command with the required modifications:

hqminer_zcash.exe -l eu -u ZEC-ADDRESS -t 8

Replace "eu" for your mining pool address found on the pool "Get Started" page, "ZEC-ADDRESS" for your zcash wallet address (transparent address) and lastly replace "-t 8" for the number of threads you want to use. (If you're using the Nicehash pool, you can use -l to specify your location like "eu" for Europe)

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Mining ZCash with your GPU (Windows)

On the GPU side, we are going to use the Claymore miner. Claymore has a long-standing reputation for optimizing miners and this miner speaks for it. It improves the hashing rate considerably and that is why we are going to take the time to download and use this miner as well. The genoil miner only works for pool mining and with AMD graphic cards. This miner charges a 2.5% developer fee. Every hour the miner mines for the developer during 90 seconds. However, the performance increase is well worth the fee charged. If you don't agree with the dev feem, don't use this miner

Catalyst (Crimson) 15.12 is required for best performance and compatibility. You can get very bad results for different drivers version, or miner can fail on startup.

For multi-GPU systems, set Virtual Memory size in Windows at least 16 GB:
"Computer Properties / Advanced System Settings / Performance / Advanced / Virtual Memory".

Here to download the Claymore Zcash miner : https://mega.nz/#F!P0ZjFDjC!Cmb-ZRqlbAnNrajRtp4zvA (https://mega.nz/#!xXI1Tb6T!3dHMEaZzNuoptADka8QuUDJImEn8JC1k-HeRmq98kTM)

1.always give the original link https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/releases
2.nheqminer 0.3 is very old and it doesnt have optimizations used by current miners.