EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner

[o00o]

My SeaHawk X w/ Micron running at 9.6 Ghz yields 525 Sols @ 170 watts.

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[Apolyon]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

[Kejvu]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

I would recommend you buying RX 570 4GB for mining ETH, ROI is much more faster that investing in GTX 1070 + RX 570 with 6gpu and all parts cost 2000euros max, gtx 1070 with 6gpu will cost you 3000euros.
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[Apolyon]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

I would recommend you buying RX 570 4GB for mining ETH, ROI is much more faster that investing in GTX 1070 + RX 570 with 6gpu and all parts cost 2000euros max, gtx 1070 with 6gpu will cost you 3000euros.

Thanks for your reply, I already have a 6x RX 570 mining rig and unfortunately there no hope for availability RX 570s again soon in Poland and that's why I'm planning to build w ZEC mining rig.

If I could I would buy RX 570... but maybe after nvidia rig.

[Kejvu]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

I would recommend you buying RX 570 4GB for mining ETH, ROI is much more faster that investing in GTX 1070 + RX 570 with 6gpu and all parts cost 2000euros max, gtx 1070 with 6gpu will cost you 3000euros.

Thanks for your reply, I already have a 6x RX 570 mining rig and unfortunately there no hope for availability RX 570s again soon in Poland and that's why I'm planning to build w ZEC mining rig.

If I could I would buy RX 570... but maybe after nvidia rig.

Then go with MSI Armor or Asus.  I was put Gigabyte version in calculation becouse here it's cheapest version of gtx 1070. Here where I'am you can find Asus Dual GTX 1070 for 440Euros. MSI Armor for 433e and MSI Gaming for 425e.

[vince212]

anyone here getting this error

 0 Thread exited with code: 46?

[xyburcoin]

I guess everyone getting that error if too much overclock...

[nUm81]

Dear EWBF_,

I've been trying to get your lovable Zec miner 0.3.3b Windows 64-bit version to work with the Radix42 (https://github.com/radix42) Windows port of Zcashd version 1.0.8-1 (running it as zcashd -daemon).

My zcash.conf (in %appdata%\Zcash)

Code:

addnode=mainnet.z.cash
rpcuser=aaxa
rpcpassword=axaa
rpcport=8232

I'm running miner as:

Code:

miner --server localhost --port 8232 --user aaxa --pass axaa --pec

Result:

Code:

+-------------------------------------------------+
|         EWBF's Zcash CUDA miner. 0.3.3b         |
+-------------------------------------------------+
INFO: Server: localhost:8232
INFO: Solver Auto.
INFO: Devices: All.
INFO: Temperature limit: 90
INFO: Api: Disabled
---------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Cannot connect to the server. 7

Debugging:

• I have a 100% synched blockchain and can connect to Zcashd with the Zcash Desktop GUI wallet 0.69 Beta from https://github.com/vaklinov/zcash-swing-wallet-ui/blob/master/docs/Readme-Windows.md
  
• I can telnet to port 8232 on localhost (from a Linux VM), so I know something is responding there
  
• I can mine on pools such as Luckpool with "miner --server luckpool.org --port 3357 --user t<address>.m1  --pass x --pec
  
• I can mine with the local Zcashd and CPUs, but as you can figure this is not the method I want to use
  

Unless I'm doing something wrong here, please enable solo mining for your miner. I'm more than happy to e.g. have it connect to a pool for the devfees.

Have you tried using 127.0.0.1 rather than localhost or the name of the PC?
 
You could also try setting up a DNS record for the ip address of the pc if the miner is looking for a domain name to connect to.

[Herdirfauzi]

It needs to be deeply understood for me, and I will try it for the next few days .. thank you very much!

[mr.hump]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

Hi there!

I have 1 gigabyte windforce and 5 msi armor. Armor is better with cooling and have lower temperatures with lower fan noise. PCB, fans, heatsink and pipes are bigger in armor. So i suggest you to go with armor.
BTW, here in Ukraine there is a lot of MSI armor taken from Poland and
Illegally brought through border).

[Apolyon]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

Hi there!

I have 1 gigabyte windforce and 5 msi armor. Armor is better with cooling and have lower temperatures with lower fan noise. PCB, fans, heatsink and pipes are bigger in armor. So i suggest you to go with armor.
BTW, here in Ukraine there is a lot of MSI armor taken from Poland and
Illegally brought through border).

What about performance between those two models? Did you have in Ukraine any Radeon RX 570 on the market?

[eli_lyd1]

I have 6card, but only show 4 card in ubuntu.

I use asus B250H-GAMING, how can I set the b250h to support 6card?

[64dimensions]

I have a EVGA 1080 ti FTW3 and I can't seem to get this card to work with EWBF's miner. It's running the latest display driver 382.33, which supports this card.

It will mine from from 0.6 to 2 hours and then just stop. I've played with every setting imaginable. The longest runs are with this setting: Gen1, +100/-100, 80% TDP, PCie 3.0 slot, 8gb of memory. This card is also the display card. At the wall the PC + this card draws 230 - 350 W. The PS is a EVGA 600W job.

This card works perfectly fine with CM's ETH miner and NH's ZEC miner!

[fullzero]

I have a EVGA 1080 ti FTW3 and I can't seem to get this card to work with EWBF's miner. It's running the latest display driver 382.33, which supports this card.

It will mine from from 0.6 to 2 hours and then just stop. I've played with every setting imaginable. The longest runs are with this setting: Gen1, +100/-100, 80% TDP, PCie 3.0 slot, 8gb of memory. This card is also the display card. At the wall the PC + this card draws 230 - 350 W. The PS is a EVGA 600W job.

This card works perfectly fine with CM's ETH miner and NH's ZEC miner!

Try nvOC with manual fans at 75 or higher, powerlimit between 200 and 225, +cc 100, and +mc 900.   

[painmaker]

[...]I launched EWBF's miner and my power supply blew up right after the line (http://imgur.com/a/yeopU):

Code:

CUDA: Device: 0 Selected solver: 0

PSU was a Seasonic G-450. 450W should be enough for a single 1070 and a few idle HDD. I replaced the PSU with another 450W unit, removed the GTX 1070 and the computer booted normally.

Now before I try again with the new PSU, my question is: is it just bad luck I blew my PSU the moment I launched the miner, or did I miss something important?

Having used Seasonic PSUs for their reliability and quality for some years I'm a bit surprised to hear that your PSU failed right after putting load on your GPU. May I ask how long that PSU has been in use for already? As electronic components (especially power circuitry) wear out over time my guess is that this was merely bad luck and shouldn't have happened with a PSU that has not been used for years (even in lower power demand scenarios).

However, it's important to understand that even if the gtx 1070 is rated as a 150W card, it might at times (for fractions of a second) cause significantly higher loads as the 1070-review @ tomshardware nicely illustrates.

Also, a PSU delivers its power over several rails (of differing voltages) and the sum of the wattage delivered across these rails can (under ideal circumstances) reach the PSUs specified power rating (450W in your case). But I haven't yet come across a single PSU that is able to deliver its entire rated power through one rail continuously, so each rails are served within certain limits meaning the 12V rail which is connected to the GPU with 6- and/or 8-pin plugs typically delivers significantly less power that the specified 450W.

So that in sum is why it is typically recommended to consider using a slightly higher rated PSU than the maximum expected power-draw.
Maybe it would be a good idea to set your cards power-limit to something around 60-80% which should still deliver good mining-results while possibly flattening the GPU's power-usage-spikes to more conservative levels (while additionally raising your sol/watt ratio).

[mr.hump]

Hi guys, I am new to ZEC mining, I want to buy 5x GTX 1070 and I'm confused which one I should buy.

The models I'm considering to buy are:

1. Gigabyte G1
2. Palit Jetstream (I read something about flashing bios from game rock model is it good for mining zcash or just stay on stock rom?)
3. Palit Game Rock
4. Gigabyte Windforce
5. Asus Dual OC
6. MSI Armor

I know there is some kind of luck which brand memory I will get but have any of you tested any of this above and can tell which is the best?

My friend have just bought G1 Gaming and got Micron memory getting about 430 sol/s is it good for the price?

Hi there!

I have 1 gigabyte windforce and 5 msi armor. Armor is better with cooling and have lower temperatures with lower fan noise. PCB, fans, heatsink and pipes are bigger in armor. So i suggest you to go with armor.
BTW, here in Ukraine there is a lot of MSI armor taken from Poland and
Illegally brought through border).

What about performance between those two models? Did you have in Ukraine any Radeon RX 570 on the market?

Yeah we have rx 570 here and its pricing is around 85% price of 1070 so it makes no sense to buy it now(
About performance - it is pretty much the same but msi mb 1-3% better because u can overclock it more because of a better cooling.

[EWBF_]

Dear EWBF_,

I've been trying to get your lovable Zec miner 0.3.3b Windows 64-bit version to work with the Radix42 (https://github.com/radix42) Windows port of Zcashd version 1.0.8-1 (running it as zcashd -daemon).

My zcash.conf (in %appdata%\Zcash)

Code:

addnode=mainnet.z.cash
rpcuser=aaxa
rpcpassword=axaa
rpcport=8232

I'm running miner as:

Code:

miner --server localhost --port 8232 --user aaxa --pass axaa --pec

Result:

Code:

+-------------------------------------------------+
|         EWBF's Zcash CUDA miner. 0.3.3b         |
+-------------------------------------------------+
INFO: Server: localhost:8232
INFO: Solver Auto.
INFO: Devices: All.
INFO: Temperature limit: 90
INFO: Api: Disabled
---------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Cannot connect to the server. 7

Debugging:

• I have a 100% synched blockchain and can connect to Zcashd with the Zcash Desktop GUI wallet 0.69 Beta from https://github.com/vaklinov/zcash-swing-wallet-ui/blob/master/docs/Readme-Windows.md
  
• I can telnet to port 8232 on localhost (from a Linux VM), so I know something is responding there
  
• I can mine on pools such as Luckpool with "miner --server luckpool.org --port 3357 --user t<address>.m1  --pass x --pec
  
• I can mine with the local Zcashd and CPUs, but as you can figure this is not the method I want to use
  

Unless I'm doing something wrong here, please enable solo mining for your miner. I'm more than happy to e.g. have it connect to a pool for the devfees.

Hi, Miner only works through the stratum protocol. I think the easiest way is to use something like a stratum proxy.

[RockSody]

Hi
ur program is great, thank u but our princess is another casdasdasd,
pls support other altcoins
gj gg

[fatdracula]

[...]I launched EWBF's miner and my power supply blew up right after the line (http://imgur.com/a/yeopU):

Code:

CUDA: Device: 0 Selected solver: 0

PSU was a Seasonic G-450. 450W should be enough for a single 1070 and a few idle HDD. I replaced the PSU with another 450W unit, removed the GTX 1070 and the computer booted normally.

Now before I try again with the new PSU, my question is: is it just bad luck I blew my PSU the moment I launched the miner, or did I miss something important?

Having used Seasonic PSUs for their reliability and quality for some years I'm a bit surprised to hear that your PSU failed right after putting load on your GPU. May I ask how long that PSU has been in use for already? As electronic components (especially power circuitry) wear out over time my guess is that this was merely bad luck and shouldn't have happened with a PSU that has not been used for years (even in lower power demand scenarios).

However, it's important to understand that even if the gtx 1070 is rated as a 150W card, it might at times (for fractions of a second) cause significantly higher loads as the 1070-review @ tomshardware nicely illustrates.

Also, a PSU delivers its power over several rails (of differing voltages) and the sum of the wattage delivered across these rails can (under ideal circumstances) reach the PSUs specified power rating (450W in your case). But I haven't yet come across a single PSU that is able to deliver its entire rated power through one rail continuously, so each rails are served within certain limits meaning the 12V rail which is connected to the GPU with 6- and/or 8-pin plugs typically delivers significantly less power that the specified 450W.

So that in sum is why it is typically recommended to consider using a slightly higher rated PSU than the maximum expected power-draw.
Maybe it would be a good idea to set your cards power-limit to something around 60-80% which should still deliver good mining-results while possibly flattening the GPU's power-usage-spikes to more conservative levels (while additionally raising your sol/watt ratio).

Thanks for your input. PSU has been running almost 24/7 since November 2013. It was powering a raid array of 6 SATA HDD, 8 GB of RAM and a Pentium G3220. Maybe adding a GTX 1070 was asking a little too much. I'll try to adjust the power limit next time.

[64dimensions]

I have a EVGA 1080 ti FTW3 and I can't seem to get this card to work with EWBF's miner. It's running the latest display driver 382.33, which supports this card.

It will mine from from 0.6 to 2 hours and then just stop. I've played with every setting imaginable. The longest runs are with this setting: Gen1, +100/-100, 80% TDP, PCie 3.0 slot, 8gb of memory. This card is also the display card. At the wall the PC + this card draws 230 - 350 W. The PS is a EVGA 600W job.

This card works perfectly fine with CM's ETH miner and NH's ZEC miner!

Try nvOC with manual fans at 75 or higher, powerlimit between 200 and 225, +cc 100, and +mc 900.   

Thanks!