Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[mihis]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

[NiklasFalk]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

With Linux and Win7 (IIRC) it still works.

[crypper]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

[Call_Me_Bambi]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

Prepare to see a big GPU sell-off.

I'm now going to turn into a gamer. Is there any high-end game that requires 12 high-end GPU's at once and works with only 2 GB RAM + Pentium processor?

LOL

This is was great new for me; I was looking for a new gaming graphics card at around the time the crypto market went south and managed to pick up a nice RX 580 8GB (brand new) card for a good price.

[elguapoUMR05]

I could use some help troubleshooting my rig. For months my rig was solid as a rock running great until i foolishly ran a manual windows update. I have been working for several weeks to figure it out on my own but not been successful. Any help offered would be GREATLY appreciated. Here is my setup:

OS: Windows 10 Pro
MOBO: MSI Z270 Gaming Plus, Up to date Bios and Drivers
Power: Dual - Corsair TX-550 (Mobo & GPU 1), HP Server 750 PSU (powering Risers 2-6 and GPU's 2-6)
GPU's - 1-4 NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founders Edition, 5-6 RX580's
Miner: Currently 11.7 (could not get 11.9 Running)
NVIDIA GPU Driver: Currently 390.77

MOBO BIOS Config:
4G Crypto Mining - Enabled
PCIE - Auto (tried Gen1-Gen 3)
Power Failure Recover - Power State - On
Audio - Disabled

Pool - Ethermine

Problem: My problems started when I foolishly decided to manually install the Windows Update. I tried all kinds of things and eventually got frustrated and wiped the whole system with a fresh windows 10 install. Now that I got it back up and running I tried Claymore 11.9 but I could not get any NVIDIA drivers to work to get my hardware to show up (more than 1 GPU). I eventually got 390.77 and 11.7 Running but only showing 1 GPU. I'd like to get on 11.9 but when I read the help file I find this "10xx cards in Windows 10 x64: just use latest 372.54 drivers from Nvidia website, note that you must have Win10 Anniversary update."

I have searched the old drivers section of NVIDIA's site and can't find 372.54 and I'm struggling to understand how to get the Win10 Anniversary update.

Any suggestions here from folks with similar setups running 11.9 what drivers are you running?

PS. For now ignore the RX580's they are unplugged, also I've only got GPU 1-2 (both NVIDIA 1070's) installed/cabled up.

Thanks in advance for your advice/help.
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[Vann]

I have Windows v1709 with the current updates and the GeForce 399.07 WHQL drivers with Claymore v11.9 running very stable. Don't know if the problem is with the Claymore miner or the drivers, but there is an issue causing the NVIDIA drivers to crash after a few hours when mining on Windows 1803.

Use Rufus to copy a Windows 1709 ISO to a USB flash drive and do a clean install of Windows by selecting the UEFI setup from the boot Bios boot menu with only a single GPU in the primary x16 PCI-E slot. After the install is finished, on the first logon disable Windows feature updates in gpedit. On Windows 10 Pro you can set a Group Policy to defer feature updates until they have been targeted for business deployment, which is about 4 months after the public release, or you can also defer feature updates for up to 365 days. This way you still get the security updates.

gpedit ==> Computer Configuration ==> Administrative Templates ==> Windows Components ==> Windows Updates ==> Windows Update for Business ==> Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are Received ==> Set to 'enabled' and  in the drop down select 'Semi-Annual Channel'. Underneath that option set 'After a Preview Build or Feature Update is released, defer receiving it for this many days:' to 365.

Then run Windows Update to get the latest updates and reboot. Go back in to gpedit and disable driver updates to keep Windows Update from modifying your drivers.

gpedit ==> Navigate to: Computer Configuration ==> Administrative Templates ==> Windows Components ==> Windows Update and set 'Do not include drivers with Windows Update' to enabled.

Shutdown to install the rest of the GPU's. Afterwards download the latest driver for your GPU's and then run the GPU driver setup. For some reason the latest DDU is not working for me so I did a clean install option from the driver installer when installing the latest NVIDIA driver.

I also go in to Windows Apps from the settings to uninstall all the extra Windows crapware and disable all the Windows spyware in the Privacy settings.

[bitgameSolo]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

are you referring to any particular auto-switching mining platform or just setting to mine BTG in the .bat file? It seems like a lot of work to have to switch to what is doing best each week and nobody knows if BTG will sustain at a higher earning ratio than ETH. I do hope you can correct me here though...

[jimsta]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

are you referring to any particular auto-switching mining platform or just setting to mine BTG in the .bat file? It seems like a lot of work to have to switch to what is doing best each week and nobody knows if BTG will sustain at a higher earning ratio than ETH. I do hope you can correct me here though...

He's probably referring to mining BTG at Miningpoolhub and do autoexchange to Eth.

[gOCe]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

are you referring to any particular auto-switching mining platform or just setting to mine BTG in the .bat file? It seems like a lot of work to have to switch to what is doing best each week and nobody knows if BTG will sustain at a higher earning ratio than ETH. I do hope you can correct me here though...

He's probably referring to mining BTG at Miningpoolhub and do autoexchange to Eth.

Or Use Awesome miner, and point to a Yiimp Pool
https://ahashpool.com
https://zergpool.com
https://zpool.ca

using your desired coin in the password
-p c=
-p c=BTC

[crypper]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

are you referring to any particular auto-switching mining platform or just setting to mine BTG in the .bat file? It seems like a lot of work to have to switch to what is doing best each week and nobody knows if BTG will sustain at a higher earning ratio than ETH. I do hope you can correct me here though...

You can use MiningPoolHub. They will automatically switch you to the most profitable coin for mining at the moment and auto-exchange to any coin you like (no hustle, they do your exchange). And it's not about  "what is doing best each week", it's about "what is doing best each block". Up until recently mining equihash with Nvidia was more profitable than ETH. They would autoswitch you between BTG, ZCL, ZEC and ZEN. But due to recent asics introduction to equihash and fork of BTG, BTG fell out of traditional equihash autoswitch and is now a standalone coin with its own equihash variant; still though the most profitable coin to mine most of the time. There are plenty of options of what to mine (coins), how to mine (miners) and where to mine (pools) - do your research and calculations.

[crypper]

Or Use Awesome miner, and point to a Yiimp Pool
....
using your desired coin in the password
-p c=
-p c=BTC

Be careful choosing a withdrawal coin - consider transaction fees. BTC is not a good choice.

[bitgameSolo]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

are you referring to any particular auto-switching mining platform or just setting to mine BTG in the .bat file? It seems like a lot of work to have to switch to what is doing best each week and nobody knows if BTG will sustain at a higher earning ratio than ETH. I do hope you can correct me here though...

He's probably referring to mining BTG at Miningpoolhub and do autoexchange to Eth.

Or Use Awesome miner, and point to a Yiimp Pool
https://ahashpool.com
https://zergpool.com
https://zpool.ca

using your desired coin in the password
-p c=
-p c=BTC

i like this, but it seems that the TDP would be highly variable and create more stress on the GPUs... right? i suppose this is just nicehash 2.0?

[bulgar73]

Can I mine with this mining software also on CPU ?
I would like to mine ETC on my CPU. Yeah I know it is not profitable 

NO

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BTC

[Call_Me_Bambi]

Can I mine with this mining software also on CPU ?
I would like to mine ETC on my CPU. Yeah I know it is not profitable 

If you are interested in mining with CPU only then there are lots of other coins that are CPU mineable - Google is your friend
Here is a thread discussing CPU minable coins that might be of interest to you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683343.0

[0ethereum0]

Can I mine with this mining software also on CPU ?
I would like to mine ETC on my CPU. Yeah I know it is not profitable 

If you are interested in mining with CPU only then there are lots of other coins that are CPU mineable - Google is your friend
Here is a thread discussing CPU minable coins that might be of interest to you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683343.0

Yeah I already have a good coin to mine with my cpu but is was just a random question.
Thanks guys

[fr4nkthetank]

Dont mine at yiimp style pools guys, they are prop pools (for the most part).  That means that you will lose 15-20% due to pool hoppers.

[AzzAz]

Dont mine at yiimp style pools guys, they are prop pools (for the most part).  That means that you will lose 15-20% due to pool hoppers.

Good suggestion!

[Call_Me_Bambi]

Dont mine at yiimp style pools guys, they are prop pools (for the most part).  That means that you will lose 15-20% due to pool hoppers.

You get a +1 from me on that, I never liked yiimp style pools. I found it to be a bit of a PITA to configure a miner and then I wasn't sure I was mining the right coin (tried a couple coins then dumped yiimp pool for a PPLNS pool).

[fr4nkthetank]

Dont mine at yiimp style pools guys, they are prop pools (for the most part).  That means that you will lose 15-20% due to pool hoppers.

You get a +1 from me on that, I never liked yiimp style pools. I found it to be a bit of a PITA to configure a miner and then I wasn't sure I was mining the right coin (tried a couple coins then dumped yiimp pool for a PPLNS pool).

hehe Thanks.  Yeah well I mean pool hoppers arent on all coins.  Some yiimp pools have a very large % of found blocks for some small coins, so there is no real harm in mining those.  For reference its relatively easy to set up a yiimp pool if you want to have your own private pool.  And for setting up your mine just use this format for password
-p rig_name,d=DIFFICULTY,c=COIN_NAME   

So that gives you as an example -p 1080ti,d=8,c=BTC
But exchanging to btc might not be the best idea.

[MaxMidnite]

Still nothing from Claymore and at the same time Phoenix team stopped replying
I'm sensing something is going on?