Hey guys,

I am new to the forum and also mining as well.  I am currently mining on a decent gaming rig.  It's not really a true mining rig as I only have one card in it right now.  I am in the process of purchasing another card, it will be a gtx 1070.  The current card is an ASUS ROG poseidon GTX 1080 TI card that is watercooled in a watercooled system (remember, it's a gaming rig first).  I know, it's not an efficient card, but I bought it for VR gaming and I hadn't really done much to my gaming rig in 4 years and felt the need to upgrade.  Haha.    I plan on just passively mining ethereum around the clock and just keeping it.  I am not looking to break even on hardware price or power usage (especially at current ethereum prices), just slowly grinding out ethereum and sia coin at the moment.  I will probably just hold ethereum until it crashes to nothing or continues to rise, for me it's just a mine and hold mentality for me to see what comes of all of these newer cryptocurrencies.  As for sia coin, I will likely use it to take advantage of the very cheap decentralized cloud storage 'prices' now.   

Anyways...

I had a question about the difference between command line options that seem somewhat similar to me.  The -ethi and -li commands are of interest to me so that I can possibly slow down mining enough to allow me to use my computer at certain times throughout the day.

For the purposes of using the computer, which command line option will give me a little bit of spare power to run other programs other than claymore?  Heavy web-browsing and simultaneous browsing as I have a 4 monitor system. 

Does -ethi simply alter ethereum mining without altering mining of the secondary coin so that changing -ethi may just shift more processing power to the secondary coin and thus yield very little 'relief' of extra power for other things to do on the computer?

I am assuming the -li command lowers processing power across the board for both ethereum and the secondary coin.  Assuming that (we all know what happens when we assume things), would utilizing -li be more likely to 'relieve system resources for other functions on the computer?

Also, these command line options should be input into the start.bat file created by the nanopool config option? 

Any information is much appreciated!

Cheers,
John