My second ZEC + XMR+ ETH thread builds info links thoughts and photos.

[citronick]

if you havent tried "-i 0" in v4 ZEC miner by Claymore, be sure to use it.

My Nanos and 390 rigs, some cards have now touched 100-105 H/s overnight, from 70-80 H/s using "-i 2"

The -i 0 switch was suppose to provide lowest intensity and avoid CPU going 100% but after a while, CPU cycle reduction of about 10-15% from my 1840s and 4400s..... and surprisingly squeezed high hash as promised by Claymore.

Isn't 0 the default for the -i switch?
My 1840s run around 10% without the -i.

hey youre right rawbert - just ran a few rigs without the -i swicth and it defaults to -i 0 anyways and still hits the high sol levels.

btw, i noticed that the more RAM you have in the rig the faster the GPUs hit 100 h/s. I guess ZEC algo like a lot of RAM.

2 of my rigs have 16GB, I used to use them as proxy servers in the pre-Claymore days, these 2 rigs now with 390s are best performing in the farm, running steady at 100-105 h/s and no taxing on the 1840s.

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[xleejohnx]

if you havent tried "-i 0" in v4 ZEC miner by Claymore, be sure to use it.

My Nanos and 390 rigs, some cards have now touched 100-105 H/s overnight, from 70-80 H/s using "-i 2"

The -i 0 switch was suppose to provide lowest intensity and avoid CPU going 100% but after a while, CPU cycle reduction of about 10-15% from my 1840s and 4400s..... and surprisingly squeezed high hash as promised by Claymore.

Isn't 0 the default for the -i switch?
My 1840s run around 10% without the -i.

hey youre right rawbert - just ran a few rigs without the -i swicth and it defaults to -i 0 anyways and still hits the high sol levels.

btw, i noticed that the more RAM you have in the rig the faster the GPUs hit 100 h/s. I guess ZEC algo like a lot of RAM.

2 of my rigs have 16GB, I used to use them as proxy servers in the pre-Claymore days, these 2 rigs now with 390s are best performing in the farm, running steady at 100-105 h/s and no taxing on the 1840s.

Hmmm I must try more ram on the 6 card dual core rig see if that fixes the low sol/s and 100% CPU

[AriesIV10]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

[xleejohnx]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

It's only a 6$ difference for me eth vs zec
But if zec keeping going down I'll have to switch back to keep profits in the $700+
Then again if it keeps going down most will switch back then difficulty will rocket on eth
And zec will be more profitable again.
So it's really six in one hand and half a dozen in the other hand

[philipma1957]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

you should have 2 rigs minimum and one should do eth.

I mine both and shift from 80% zec to 80% eth.

I still feel zec has more pump to come so I have 15 gpus mining zec and 4 gpus mining eth.

I check both coins 3 to 4 times a day.

[vg54dett]

 I can set the vm to 32,000 and 64,000  as my ssd is a 128gb.

I set all my vm's at 32,000-64,000 as each board has four cards and my ssds are big enough to do that.
I did that for eth coin and left it foe zec coin.

How do you do that ?

[citronick]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

I prefer mining ZEC because of the power savings, lower temps, 34-35c.

Hard call this, unless ZEC tanks badly.... but I have a feeling that ZEC will find its realistic pricing level by end of month, hopefully it will be a 200$ coin.

[philipma1957]

 I can set the vm to 32,000 and 64,000  as my ssd is a 128gb.

I set all my vm's at 32,000-64,000 as each board has four cards and my ssds are big enough to do that.
I did that for eth coin and left it foe zec coin.

How do you do that ?

I will screen shot in a few minutes.

[AriesIV10]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

I prefer mining ZEC because of the power savings, lower temps, 34-35c.

Hard call this, unless ZEC tanks badly.... but I have a feeling that ZEC will find its realistic pricing level by end of month, hopefully it will be a 200$ coin.

Calculation to eval Net Profitability.

ETH
Electric Cost = $0.12 cents per KW
950W / day = .950KW
.950KW x 24hrs = 22.80KW

22.80KW x $.12 = $2.74 / day for the cost of running .950KW of electric.
ETH = $12.96 Profitability per day per RIG on 08Nov16
ETH = $11.50 Rate on 08Nov16
ETH = $10.02 Current Rate on 12Nov16

Profit for 1 RIG per day (6 MSI RX470 Gaming X) = $12.96 based upon $11.50 per ETH = (12.96 x 10.02) / 11.50 = $11.29 Profitability per day

Profitability - $11.29 per day
Electric Cost per day = $2.74
$11.29 - $2.74 = $8.55 Net Profit

ZEC
Electric Cost = $0.12 cents per KW
750W / day = .750KW
.750KW x 24hrs = 18.00KW
18.00KW x $.12 = $2.16 / day for the cost of running .750KW of electric.

ZEC = $14.40 Profitability per day per RIG on 11Nov16
ZEC = $180.00 Rate on 11Nov16
ZEC = $152.42 Current Rate on 12Nov16

Profit for 1 RIG per day (6 MSI RX470 Gaming X) = $14.40 based upon $180.00 per ETH = (14.40 x 152.42) / 180.00 = $12.19 Profitability per day

Profitability - $12.19 per day
Electric Cost per day = $2.16
$12.19 - $2.16 = $10.03 Net Profit


SUMMARY:

Net Profit for ETH = $ 8.55 today
Net Profit for ZEC = $10.03 today

Stay with ZEC right now.

 

[LoneRangir]

Net Profit for ETH = $ 8.55 today
Net Profit for ZEC = $10.03 today[/b]

Stay with ZEC right now.

Nice analysis.  Have you compared it to online calculators?  http://www.whattomine.com  I'm not disciplined enough to do my own comparative analysis.

I have 4 rigs:  I moved 3 back to ETH, and one is mining ZEC.  With the reward increase, and the awesome improvements that claymore has given us this week, my overall ZEC hashrate is week over week is probably flat.  I am falling behind the curve, assuming everyone is doing the same, but with the "race to find the bottom" that is going on with ZEC price, i'm okay with this.  Just my two cents....

[ps_jb]

6x RX 480

175MH/s - ETH
425H/s - ZEC

ZEC gives $0.65 less per day. So I stay with ZEC for now

[philipma1957]

 I can set the vm to 32,000 and 64,000  as my ssd is a 128gb.

I set all my vm's at 32,000-64,000 as each board has four cards and my ssds are big enough to do that.
I did that for eth coin and left it foe zec coin.

How do you do that ?

I will screen shot in a few minutes.

make that a few hours.  this is for win 7 pro 



win 10 does allow this

it turns out having  an 128gb ssd

2 sticks of 4 gb better yet 8gb ram  8gb to 16gb total

and an i3 cpu  make for a better zec miner.  better yet i5 seems best.



step 1 -3 in windows 7








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steps 7-9




last step  10

[citronick]

What are your thoughts on switching back over to ETH?

I prefer mining ZEC because of the power savings, lower temps, 34-35c.

Hard call this, unless ZEC tanks badly.... but I have a feeling that ZEC will find its realistic pricing level by end of month, hopefully it will be a 200$ coin.

Calculation to eval Net Profitability.

ETH
Electric Cost = $0.12 cents per KW
950W / day = .950KW
.950KW x 24hrs = 22.80KW

22.80KW x $.12 = $2.74 / day for the cost of running .950KW of electric.
ETH = $12.96 Profitability per day per RIG on 08Nov16
ETH = $11.50 Rate on 08Nov16
ETH = $10.02 Current Rate on 12Nov16

Profit for 1 RIG per day (6 MSI RX470 Gaming X) = $12.96 based upon $11.50 per ETH = (12.96 x 10.02) / 11.50 = $11.29 Profitability per day

Profitability - $11.29 per day
Electric Cost per day = $2.74
$11.29 - $2.74 = $8.55 Net Profit

ZEC
Electric Cost = $0.12 cents per KW
750W / day = .750KW
.750KW x 24hrs = 18.00KW
18.00KW x $.12 = $2.16 / day for the cost of running .750KW of electric.

ZEC = $14.40 Profitability per day per RIG on 11Nov16
ZEC = $180.00 Rate on 11Nov16
ZEC = $152.42 Current Rate on 12Nov16

Profit for 1 RIG per day (6 MSI RX470 Gaming X) = $14.40 based upon $180.00 per ETH = (14.40 x 152.42) / 180.00 = $12.19 Profitability per day

Profitability - $12.19 per day
Electric Cost per day = $2.16
$12.19 - $2.16 = $10.03 Net Profit


SUMMARY:

Net Profit for ETH = $ 8.55 today
Net Profit for ZEC = $10.03 today

Stay with ZEC right now.

excellent breakdown AriesIV10

ATM, ETH is also tanking below $10... something must be happening now .... it almost like people are dumping ETH and channeling funds to XMR

[Redrose]

The solution was finally -i 0. This command is a blessing ! A lot better than my old -i 1 (that I put for no particular reason). 9 hours that I put it and I've been constantly over my 24 hours average. Moreover, it seems I've gained 10 H/s. All is good in brief !

About the virtual memory, what does it bring ? I've never applied it and I was always fine. And with less than 1 Gb free, I doubt I'll do that much.

[LoneRangir]

Looks like ZCash Classic (ZCL) is starting to be a thing.  It is NOT on Poloniex or Bittrex, yet, though.  No block reward goes to the Devs.  You can mine it at suprnova. 

I'll give it a try with my CPUs , since I turned them off of ZEC.  Maybe throw one rig at them too. See what happens.

[ps_jb]

Looks like ZCash Classic (ZCL) is starting to be a thing.  It is NOT on Poloniex or Bittrex, yet, though.  No block reward goes to the Devs.  You can mine it at suprnova. 

I'll give it a try with my CPUs , since I turned them off of ZEC.  Maybe throw one rig at them too. See what happens.

Can you show us how to set up CPU miner to ZCL? I will have one i5 and oen i7 available to CPU mining in couple hours (expect ~40 H/s)

[LoneRangir]

Looks like ZCash Classic (ZCL) is starting to be a thing.  It is NOT on Poloniex or Bittrex, yet, though.  No block reward goes to the Devs.  You can mine it at suprnova. 

I'll give it a try with my CPUs , since I turned them off of ZEC.  Maybe throw one rig at them too. See what happens.

Can you show us how to set up CPU miner to ZCL? I will have one i5 and oen i7 available to CPU mining in couple hours (expect ~40 H/s)

You'll need an account at suprnova.cc, if you don't have one already, or mine at another pool of your choice.  This is a great multi-pool with support for a ton of different coins.  I use it as my backup.

I changed the command line to: nheqminer -l zcl.suprnova.cc:4042 -u <MyLoginName.MyWorkerName> -p <MyPassword> -t 3

[ps_jb]

I changed the command line to: nheqminer -l zcl.suprnova.cc:4042 -u <MyLoginName.MyWorkerName> -p <MyPassword> -t 3

I have an account - will use this command line, thank you!

[vg54dett]

Looks like ZCash Classic (ZCL) is starting to be a thing.  It is NOT on Poloniex or Bittrex, yet, though.  No block reward goes to the Devs.  You can mine it at suprnova. 

I'll give it a try with my CPUs , since I turned them off of ZEC.  Maybe throw one rig at them too. See what happens.

How do you sell it ?

[vg54dett]

Thanks Phil !