Dual mining Ethereum and ZEC with decent speed!

[PanneKopp]

Hi Folks,

when I try 2 use this hint,
it always ends in about 57% rejects in equihash (pool-side).

I do not recommend this, until there is a real dual-mining solution (eg. Claymore).

Just my 2 Cents.

PanneKopp

[bitcoinsforall]

ZEC mining looks profitable but once price goes down its the same fate

[Marvell1]

yeah mining zcash is already unstable as it is

[N8sNathan]

I tried this out and it just caused too many problems. Since this experiment I've had a ton of problems with my GPU's mining straight zCash. Just beware that doing this may cause some problems...

[bitcoinsforall]

i tried with Nice Hash with a normal laptop GPU.. and got 5k satoshi in an hour..but laptop became too hot..

its profitable till the zec price is above btc

[ryantc]

if I understand this correctly, this will only happen on newer 480 cards with 8G of video ram?

[bittawm]

i got 2 rx480 8gb and a r9 290

I WANT MOR SOLS AND MHS

[Latreetim]

i got 2 rx480 8gb and a r9 290

I WANT MOR SOLS AND MHS

If you want to make big profits, you have to act quickly. the mining profitability might not last long.

[ryantc]

I tried on my 7970 (even it's recognized as 280x by Claymore miner) the speed on both ZEC and ETC to almost 0 

[smaxz]

i think this helps with powerful systems running efficient software on old zec miners that werent tweeked to use all the cards efficiency.

the new silentarmy miner no longer allows me to dual mine, even the 480's but the hash rates are really impressive.

[erok]

I dont get it lol. I run this:

Code:

title xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mining inc
:start
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us1.ethpool.org:3333 -ewal xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.suprnova.cc:2252 -dwal xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx -dpsw xxxxxx
cls 
timeout /T 10
goto start

Then I run my genoil and it crashes:

Code:

genoil.exe -c zec.suprnova.cc:2142 -u xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxx -i 20 -w 64 -P 1 -g 0 1 -k zec zec zec zec -f 2
cls 
timeout /T 10
goto start

What am I misunderstanding....

Edit* got it running but my speeds are horrible. Why would anyone do this?

OK I have found an interesting balance of some sort... using only two zec functions which request 4 threads I free up room to mine eth and dcr pretty reliably in that gap. The loss in hash on one coin though is the same for all really so you get what you put in. Lower returns but you do get to mine 3 coins at once... which is nice.
480 hash on zec is about 30/s
other two are about 80 and 100mh

[vapourminer]

ZEC mining looks profitable but once price goes down its the same fate

factor in 30-35% lower power draw and even if the btc payout is eventually the same as eth per rig it still makes more sense to mine zec with electricity factored in.

there is also total power draw if thats what limits you. someone with say 100 amps as upper limit can now use 30% more rigs for same amps.

[Latreetim]

ZEC mining looks profitable but once price goes down its the same fate

factor in 30-35% lower power draw and even if the btc payout is eventually the same as eth per rig it still makes more sense to mine zec with electricity factored in.

there is also total power draw if thats what limits you. someone with say 100 amps as upper limit can now use 30% more rigs for same amps.

In the Claymore V1 to V7, the power is 30% lower than the ETH mining. But now it is just 10% lower.

[Marvell1]

ZEC mining looks profitable but once price goes down its the same fate

factor in 30-35% lower power draw and even if the btc payout is eventually the same as eth per rig it still makes more sense to mine zec with electricity factored in.

there is also total power draw if thats what limits you. someone with say 100 amps as upper limit can now use 30% more rigs for same amps.

In the Claymore V1 to V7, the power is 30% lower than the ETH mining. But now it is just 10% lower.

yeah and its very hard to undervolt for zec vs eth since zec uses alot of gpu clock
witch in turn means higer voltages for and core clock above 1200
unlike eth where you can mine at max power with under 1100 core even

[Bananana]

 Anybody know what is the energy usage for dual mining Etheruem and ZEC?

[Truthchanter]

Anyone have this working with 4gb 470s or 480s? (dual mining zec and eth, both claymore miners)

[Selsonblue]

As someone that just built a new rx 480 x6 mining rig -- I would not try this setup until I hit my ROI. Likelihood of burning out cards is higher when stressing them with untested shit like this. 

My rig has been stable and hasnt required any additional attention after updating Claymore versions every few days. Not looking to babysit this rig for all eternity.

It is a good thread with some valuable info, but personally I would avoid doing this for the time being. Let other people burn out cards and provide software updates.

[BenCodie]

As someone that just built a new rx 480 x6 mining rig -- I would not try this setup until I hit my ROI. Likelihood of burning out cards is higher when stressing them with untested shit like this. 

My rig has been stable and hasnt required any additional attention after updating Claymore versions every few days. Not looking to babysit this rig for all eternity.

It is a good thread with some valuable info, but personally I would avoid doing this for the time being. Let other people burn out cards and provide software updates.

Well said

[Latreetim]

As someone that just built a new rx 480 x6 mining rig -- I would not try this setup until I hit my ROI. Likelihood of burning out cards is higher when stressing them with untested shit like this. 

My rig has been stable and hasnt required any additional attention after updating Claymore versions every few days. Not looking to babysit this rig for all eternity.

It is a good thread with some valuable info, but personally I would avoid doing this for the time being. Let other people burn out cards and provide software updates.

The newer Claymore miners stress the GPU more. So you have to lower the core clock frequency, otherwise, they are not stable.

[tc61]

What miner gives the best hash for Ethereum on a rx480 8gb?