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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: BTC22 on May 18, 2018, 03:50:12 PM



Title: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: BTC22 on May 18, 2018, 03:50:12 PM
Is it EWBF?


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: fanatic26 on May 18, 2018, 03:55:13 PM
No it is not.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: BTC22 on May 18, 2018, 04:04:23 PM
No it is not.

Ok...what it is? That was my question.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: fanatic26 on May 18, 2018, 04:09:25 PM
Ok...what it is? That was my question.

Your question was specifically "is it EWBF?" and I answered. If you are asking for better alternatives try DSTM or bminer.

Bminer seems to be the popular choice these days.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: BTC22 on May 18, 2018, 04:24:01 PM
Ok...what it is? That was my question.

Your question was specifically "is it EWBF?" and I answered. If you are asking for better alternatives try DSTM or bminer.

Bminer seems to be the popular choice these days.

Im confused. Is Bminer just for AMD?


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: xlm19877 on May 18, 2018, 07:42:27 PM
if you use GTX cards ..try to use  EWBF

if you use AMD ... the best is claymore zcach miner


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: fanatic26 on May 18, 2018, 09:06:33 PM
Im confused. Is Bminer just for AMD?


Since he asked about EWBF which is nvidia only, I assumed he meant nvidia. bminer is nvidia based.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: Elder III on May 18, 2018, 09:18:45 PM
DSTM has been the best in my testing (Nvidia GPUs of course). Claymore's is best for AMD.

Zawawa was working on a new/improved kernel for Equihash in his GatelessGate mining software, but I don't think it's released to the public yet. With the Equihash asics coming this summer there isn't as much incentive for developers to work on that algorithm now.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: buzzkillb on May 19, 2018, 01:33:09 AM
Been really happy using dstm for nvidia GPU's.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: madnessteat on May 19, 2018, 10:32:24 AM
It is impossible to say exactly which miner is better. I use NVIDIA's CUDA EWBF'zcash for miner Version 0.3.4 b
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1707546.0

You can also see these:

NVIDIA dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.6.1 (Linux / Windows)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2021765.0

NVIDIA  Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash miner for CUDA GPUs (7.0.0)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2519271.0


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: Mike011 on May 19, 2018, 09:06:41 PM
Dstm miner zm 0.6.1 is what you are looking for for equihash algo. As for bminer, i`ve heard stories of it doing some unsavoury things in the past, something with keeping an open port or something. I can`t tell if that had changed tho, or is it completely safe to use, since i`ve never used it myself, been more than happy with dstm.


Title: Re: "Best" Zcash miner?
Post by: Lago_99 on May 19, 2018, 11:48:30 PM
dstm... submits more valid shares in the long run