Excellent, are you running the tests concurrently on similar rigs or consecutively? I am also doing a small test of Zergpool which has the ability to auto-switch between multiple coins using the same algo (I'm testing Neoscrypt). I don't expect that to be the most profitable use of mining hardware, but if it is better than mining a single coin then I might consider it. Regardless, whichever one earns the most will next get tested on my real mining rig of 6x GTX 1060 for 1 week.

As for the BTC fees, I suspect they will be higher with NM/MPH because I have a verified account at Coinbase, so a transfer from NH should be free... I hope...

That said, I actually don't know what to expect for fees when I transfer BTC from MPH to either my Bittrex trading account of my Coinbase useless-for-anything-except-fiat-conversions account.

One potential issue with Nemosminer is the over-payment of devfees with miners that do their devfee mining first if the most profitable algo changes frequently (which it does, from what I've noticed). This argues for using a much longer interval between profitability checks, but increasing that time defeats the purpose of an auto-switching miner. Finding an optimum will be tough, I suspect.

Day 3 of my comparison between Nemosminer on MiningPoolHub vs. NiceHash just ticked over and so far NiceHash is well ahead with 1.08846 mBTC earned vs. 0.89968 mBTC for Nemosminer/MiningPoolHub, or about 20% more.

I'll do a more detailed write-up in a new thread when the test ends on Thursday (after 1 full week of mining) but NiceHash has been ahead pretty much the entire time so it's going to take a miracle for Nemosminer to win at this point.

The 1050 Ti is surprisingly good at equihash - I got about 190 Sols/s out of mine when I was still mining with it (I managed to snag an RX 570 then 6 1060's and even a couple of 1080's before prices went totally nuts). I would think the RX 550 would be best used mining Cryptonote (haven't tried) so not really surprised you found the same.

Offsets are only useful if the base clocks are known, but even I can admit this is nitpicking at this point... 

My most consistent results were obtained running at +125 core and +300 mem with 85% power limit on my EVGA 1080 FE; this translates into an actual core clock of around 1785 (it does bounce a bit because of power limiting) and an actual mem clock of 4811 (rock solid).

I just concluded another test of hsrminer on the Trezarcoin official pool and so far the results don't look good but I need all the blocks to confirm before I bury the hatchet on this one. Let's just say that with average difficulty over the last 24 hours (which would be conservative, because current difficulty spent most of the day below that) I should have earned 38 TZC but so far the sum of confirmed and unconfirmed is around 29.

Is there a good calculator for estimating the probability of getting a block from staking x number of coins for y days? I found this http://crofly.bplaced.net/ but am not sure how to translate the info given in the wallet to the inputs for this calculator.

Yeah, the wallet took longer than I felt was normal/average to start syncing but it is now up to 16 connections and about 10% done.

I found that calculator earlier; it looks like you need around 25k BEAN to find a block every month. Sure wish there was a calculator like this for TZC staking...

Lol, and you all thought I was a tough customer...  

When I tried to open up MSI AB to change the polling time as you suggested it was responding with glacial slowness, only to be followed by Windoze telling me what I already knew: that the program was taking too long to respond. Well, duh... So I force closed MSI AB, opened it back up and it seems to be responding normally now. The polling time was set to 500ms (!) so I changed it to 10000 - 20x longer - and it's been running okay for about 15 minutes now.

Oh, and I did go through the algos that NiceHash uses and changed quite a few of them; it seemed to check everything by default, and I didn't want it doing any dual-mining, keccak or cryptonight (using a GTX 1080 on Cryptonight is a crying shame, I feel).

EDIT/UPDATE - the previously cranky computer has been running fine for several hours now so I decided to conduct a little experiment and switched back over to HDMI and the artifacts/black-outs returned. So it's either the HDMI port or the cable itself that is bad, but increasing the polling time in MSI has improved desktop responsiveness so the earlier suggestion was a good one.

Neoscrypt seems to work the GPU harder than any other algo with the same core/mem settings. For example, a single RX 570 I have mining Neoscrypt is pulling 420W from the wall (the PSU isn't the most efficient) while mining Ethash the power demand is closer to 340W, so 80W less (and mining Cryptonight it is even lower - around 310W).

However, a Seasonic 850W Gold PSU is supposed to be near the top in quality so that doesn't seem a likely culprit here.

I guess hunt through Windows Event Viewer for any errors/warnings.

So, I d/l'ed the wallet about an hour ago and I am only seeing a single connection to the network and even that is spotty. How many peers is your wallet connected to?

Lol, right as I type this I am now connected to 2 peers... Still, the above question pertains.

You mean people are mining with fixed-diff set too low relative to their hashrate? Do what Speedie did and ban them for awhile to get their attention. They were warned not to abuse fixed-diff, after all.

You've eliminated overtemp as the proximate cause of rebooting, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't attempt to keep temps at 70C or less.

Next up would be PSU instability from too high and/or too wildly varying of a load.

Also, risers are *always* a suspect when things aren't working right. Try swapping the riser if you have a spare (and you should always have a spare riser if you insist on using them).

I'm trying to ferret out my own mysterious problem with the display blanking out occasionally so I regret I am not much of an authority on these things, but I can provide perhaps a few things to check:

First, your power supply may not be up to the task even if the sticker on the side says it has sufficient wattage. You might want to buy a Kill-a-Watt to see the real, at-the-wall consumption of your rig.

Second, even 70C is uncomfortably hot for GPUs, and 80C is just asking for core/memory errors; cool those puppies down more.

Third, check Windows Event Viewer for errors/warnings just in case something was reported to it.

I'm hoping you veteran miners can help this humble Jr. member out... what is the typical cause of a multicolored/snowy line scrolling up the display just before the GPU blacks out for a moment, only for the display to return to normal for a random period of time? VRAM memory errors or what?

This is with a single Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080 that is currently set with MSI AB to: 85% PL, +50 core (hovering right around 1800), +200 mem (steady at 4714). Temperature is also fairly steady at 65-67C. I am doing a head-to-head comparison between NiceHash and Nemosminer/MiningPoolHub and I am experiencing zero errors with the EVGA GTX 1080 FE that NiceHash is using while this Asus is starting to worry me.

EDIT - screen was repeatedly blanking out and on a lark I tried switching from HDMI to DP (it was either that or use TeamViewer)... So far so good, but I am posting this edit specifically to jinx it.

That is among the dumbest things I have read on this forum so far. Firstly, I was asking questions, not criticizing. Secondly, the worst possible investment approach is to go buy something /then/ learn why you shouldn't have bought it in the first place. In this case I did a minimum of research before spending a whopping $11 in BTC to add this coin to my portfolio; do not think for one second that my spending that princely sum is in any way an endorsement of the coin, nor me joining some club.

Now either learn to discuss things in a civil manner without resorting to endless ad hominem attacks or kindly STFU. If you cannot restrain yourself from being an ass then I will simply add you to my ignore list and continue living my life in blissful ignorance of your own.

EDIT - As predicted, I am now ignoring AlphaInterceptor.

Huh, I hadn't messed with mem clock much at all so I'll give your suggestion a try. Right now I have both 1080's tied up conducting a head-to-head comparison between NiceHack® and Nemosminer/MiningPoolHub which will be running for another few days but I've been noticing occasional artefacting/black screens on the ROG Strix 1080 and that does point to vram memory errors (core errors invariably lock up the GPU completely).

Looks like there has been a nice rise in pool hashrate on https://itnspool.net/# overnight; the blocks are rolling in much more frequently as a result.

Same here; I just did a shift-reload of the page to update the broken icons and my payment history won't load.

Not quite 4 hours in but checking in anyway and Gateless Gate reports 0.2% rejected shares. There are pools where my reject rate registers as 0.0% even after 24 hours, but I consider a reject rate of up to 0.5% acceptable, and 1% or more problematic.

You should see me mix metaphors, then!



If the pure torture of sitting through the sales pitch didn't kill off timeshares, nor the fact you couldn't sell them later on for without taking at least a 50% haircut, then the South Park episode lampooning would have definitely struck the mortal blow (is that a coup de main or a coup de grace or what?).

Okay, bitbeans sound interesting and they are listed on Bittrex so that is definitely a good sign; none of this low-rent stocks.exchange or cryptopia crap. I was testing out PoS with TZC, as it is both PoW and PoS, but I probably won't see a block reward for 9+ months unless I vastly increase my holdings.

EDIT - what the hell, only 112 sats so I bought 1000. After I do some more altcoin trading I'll buy some more.