I just switched over to AMD XMR Miner 0.65b (available from here: https://www.amdxmrminer.com/) so that I could mine another Cryptonote coin with my Ryzen 5 1600 while still mining DERO with my GPU. It's delivering around 723 H/s and Claymore CPU XMR Miner 3.9, with devfee disabled, is delivering around 380 H/s for the other coin (eDollar - EDC). That's the same total hashrate as I was getting with xmr-stak, just with more flexibility.

Joining the fun, but so far just running a CPU miner with my Ryzen 5 1600. Getting about 380 H/s with Claymore 3.9 and the devfee disabled.

I'm mining another Cryptonote coin (DERO) with my GPU. Might switch places depending on how this looks compared to the other.

I'm getting super jelly, to use an old South Park phrase, seeing all this Onda porn. As soon I as I get mine (and find some GPUs for it - looks like everyone is out of everything once again) I'll use my current clamp meter to determine which of the wires on the molex, sata, cpu, etc. connectors are actually in use; I seem to recall that being a question back in the 6th altcoin thread.

Does either/both pools support multiple users using the typical configuration of <address>.<worker name>? Right now I have a CPU miner going to dero.tech and a combination GPU/CPU miner (xmr-stak) going to pool.dero.live, which is a bit of a kludge but I know for sure it will work.

I second this for the Windows version, too - I don't need any miner to tell me what time it is. I would, however, like a running total of how long it has been mining, though. That helps me keep everyone honest (pool and miner).

Just for shits-n-giggles I configured Claymore's CPU miner (3.9) on another computer that is currently mining Trezarcoin to run on the dero.tech pool and it is claiming to crank out ~200H/s with an AMD FX-8300 CPU. The mining of TZC hasn't slowed at all so this is basically a 14-16 DERO per day bonus. Don't let those CPUs on your mining rigs go to waste!

I'll be trying out the other CPU miners later on to do a comparison.

Yes, these are my concerns as well. I've seen ATX PSUs from China that claimed to have passive PFC, for example, and it turned out there was a piece of cement shaped and painted to look like a PFC choke inside. 


Yep, you'd want (probably need) to use 220-240VAC for this. In the US the maximum continuous load allowed on any one outlet in a branch circuit is 80% of the wiring rating. If the wire is 12 AWG then that is 80% of 20A, or 16A, and 16A * 120V = 1920W. Note that this is power at the outlet; you have to multiply by PSU efficiency to find out how much useful output power is allowed. If it really is 80+ Platinum (95% efficiency) then you could theoretically draw 1824W from its output.

That doesn't look right for a 1060; I'm getting about 305 Sols/s and 2.9 Sols/W at ~1900 Core and 4200 Mem and 85% TDP for each of my Asus GTX 1060 3GB "white" cards (still working on the core/mem/tdp optimization, but I feel these are decent results right now).

I'm about the last person to defend the devfees charged by some of these miners, because many of them are still beta or even alpha-level in functionality/reliability, but I suspect the explanation here is that the devfee shares are mined at a much lower difficulty to better ensure a share is earned during the short mining period allotted.

But this is just a theory on my part.

Good question; good answer. I was wondering about the advantages vs. disadvantages of using a VPN for mining and concluded it didn't make sense for the mining rigs, but it might very well make sense for a machine running local wallets (as well as general internet use, of course).

My wallet daemon was spitting out a bunch of reorganization warnings and that isn't connected to the official mining pool, so it might be that dero.tech is the pool mining air this time.

Dammit, I was just about to ask what the hell is going on with the official pool - no blocks in 2 hours on either it or the entire network and even more puzzling is that the difficulty has remained the same the entire time, which is statistically improbable, to say the least.

Usually this is a laughable prospect, but if you have a decent CPU you can get a respectable hashrate out of it mining Cryptonote/Cryptonight. I have a Ryzen 5 1600 in my main desktop and XMR-STAK is able to churn out about 220-240 H/s with the CPU alone, and without any negative impact to usability. That said, older/slower CPUs may struggle to both mine and still do everything else - see my previous posts in this thread - so just be aware of that.

This error is usually from a driver wandering into parts of memory it shouldn't. But it could also be from a corrupt .NET framework. I'd try DDUing the driver and reinstalling it fresh first, then removing and reinstalling .NET. Finally, I'd throw the whole computer out at least a 3rd floor window, a la the late, great analog IC engineer, Robert A. Pease.

Look for Claymore's ZEC miner. It gives the best results for me with Equihash on AMD GPUs; note, however, that Nvidia GPUs tend to do better at Equihash (and Lyra2v2), just like AMDs tend to do better at Ethash and Cryptonight.

Gah, no, the 2.6 score was for the GPU, but it was also mining at the time and I think Win7 is too stupid to realize that. The HDD score is 5.9, so not the best, but not terrible, either. CPU and memory both score in the mid 7s. I would pause the miner to see if the score changes, but then the runtime counter will be screwed up and that triggers my OCD.  

Aren't you a little ray of sunshine!  And a wrong one, or, at least, wrong-headed to boot.

See, this is a case where the devil is in the details. The average SSD does, indeed, draw less power than the average HDD, but it also tends to draw that power all the time, regardless of what it is doing, whereas power consumption in a HDD very much depends on what it is doing, and it goes to damn near zero if the O/S spins it down when it hasn't been called on for several minutes. But setting that aside, let's take your claims at face value - an SSD draws 5W and this is "less than half" of an HDD. Okay, make the HDD 15W, so 10W of difference. Over the course of an hour that is 10 more Watt-hours of energy, and at a typical cost of $0.12 / 1000 Watt-hours that comes out to a little over a tenth of a cent per hour. If the SSD costs a mere $10 more than the HDD it will still take nearly a year of energy savings to pay the difference.

But you go on ahead and take your victory lap.

All 3 of my desktop computers have 16GB of physical RAM and resource monitor under task manager only shows ~22% of it being used so that's not likely the issue.

I rebooted the offending machine then loaded up all the programs that were running on it before and while the lag not nearly as bad, it is still there. I'm just going to chalk this up to the mysteries of Windoze.

Huh, I just noticed that my Windows Experience score dropped to 2.6 and the reason given was the performance of the Aero Desktop... I don't recall what it was before - who the heck pays attention to that score? - but I do remember it was limited by my HDD, not the GPU (besides, twin GTX 1060s are way more GPU than is needed to run Win10). Anyway, a bit of a mystery, but not a crisis so I won't worry about it.

Hmm... Both cards are running quite cool - 52C & 53C - so that isn't it. However, since I have 3 computers I rotated algos/miners between them and put DERO back on the RX 570 where it is humming along nicely, and lo-n-behold, the Win7 machine was still laggy as hell running Claymore's Ethash miner, then that oldie-but-a-goodie, Ethminer 0.12.0. Earlier this machine had been running an Equihash miner for several days without incident or any lagging, so I am definitely puzzled. Probably a reboot is in order.

It's time to fire up Windows Event Viewer and hunt through the logs for the shutdown cause, if present. Here's a good tutorial on what to look for:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/78335-read-shutdown-logs-event-viewer-windows.html

Windows Update is so infuriatingly borked in Windows 10 I can barely contain my rage. The only easy way to get it under control is with group policy editor, but that function is sadly missing from the Home edition (which I overlooked when I bought this computer - my first pre-assembled one out of the last 5 or so).