excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a]

[Slava_K]

Latest, win10 x64. Not every time. All another miners dose not have any problems, even Alexis ccminer.

How often does it happen? Does it happen only at start or during working? OC?

It happen only at start. Not every time. 2-3 times at day. I am use nicehashminer.
P.S. Win10x64, 32GB RAM, 32 GB swap, i7 6700K, 1000W PSU, 2x1080, 1x980.

[NiceHashSupport]

You have cards overclocked?

[Slava_K]

You have cards overclocked?

No. Powerlimit 90.

[Slava_K]

You have cards overclocked?

Did you fix the bug?

[Beav]

Latest, win10 x64. Not every time. All another miners dose not have any problems, even Alexis ccminer.

How often does it happen? Does it happen only at start or during working? OC?

Yesterday rerolled to driver 378.78. Win 10 x64, RAM 16Gb, page file disabled, NHM 1.7.5.7

GTX 1070 only:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 0” gives me error 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 0” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

GTX 970 only:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 1” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 1” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

GTX 970 + GTX 1070:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -ca” gives me error 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -ca” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

[NiceHashSupport]

Try eu, hk or jp.

It looks like as if something is blocking traffic to you (you get no data from server). Check your firewalls, routers etc. We have got reports recently, that some routers are blocking stratum traffic so you might want to check settings.

[NiceHashSupport]

Latest, win10 x64. Not every time. All another miners dose not have any problems, even Alexis ccminer.

How often does it happen? Does it happen only at start or during working? OC?

Yesterday rerolled to driver 378.78. Win 10 x64, RAM 16Gb, page file disabled, NHM 1.7.5.7

GTX 1070 only:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 0” gives me error 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 0” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

GTX 970 only:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 1” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -cd 1” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

GTX 970 + GTX 1070:
“excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -ca” gives me error 3 times of 3
“excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u 3DJhaQaKA6oyRaGyDZYdkZcise4b9DrCi2.worker1:x -ca” mined during 1 minute 3 times of 3

We tested for this bug on several machines we own using various cards and could not get results you are claiming. Everything was working fine.

You have cards overclocked?

Did you fix the bug?

If it happens 3 times a day it is nothing to worry about - NHM will restart crashed miner.

[agente]

Gigabyte G1 gaming 1070 x 6
TDP 60
+100 core
+700 mem

2500/416each. Far from 440.. I tried 2x -ca and 4x -ca. Same results.

[exus]

trying excavator for the first time
Zotac amp 1070
settings -ca -ca -os 0 100 900 55 -or
running equihash bat I'm getting ~435H/s (+-2)   ~120W (+-3)  (2100 core 4700 mem)


can I put my settings somewhere inside nicehashminer.exe?

[Beav]

trying excavator for the first time
Zotac amp 1070
settings -ca -ca -os 0 100 900 55 -or
running equihash bat I'm getting ~435H/s (+-2)   ~120W (+-3)  (2100 core 4700 mem)
https://i.imgur.com/Os40KtR.jpg

can I put my settings somewhere inside nicehashminer.exe?

try put them into Settings -> Devices/Algorithms -> select your card -> select Equigash (excavator) -> and type them into field Extra Launc Parameters

http://i89.fastpic.ru/big/2017/0330/34/56f538bb5115c360b3655e0125ba2234.jpg

[exus]

try put them into Settings -> Devices/Algorithms -> select your card -> select Equigash (excavator) -> and type them into field Extra Launc Parameters

I'm trying but it doesn't seem to work

[Sanpan2113]

Am I missing something on the OC? Initially I thought it was because I had Precision open.
Closed restarted same thing.

Is the memory clock actually being increased or is it still at stock?
 Batch line:
excavator.exe -a equihash -s zec-us.suprnova.cc:2142 -u user.worker -ca -ca -os 0 100 70 60 -or

command line produces:
overclock | GPU#0  CORE: 1631 MHz  MEM: 0 MHz      TDP: 60 %

Also was curious about the p1 or p2

What exactly is meant by (p1=mode) is there a mode we can change. or adjust?

I am running a single Nvidia GTX 970 with latest driver and adjusted in nvidia settings to compute mode

Compared to nheqminer-5c with suprnova this excavator is actually producing a lesser hashrate, granted power usage has dropped and since this is
only a side project I am able to keep mining while having functionality on the pc for daily use.

nheqminer i adjusted to over 315 sol/s with t 5 -ca -cv 0 -cd 0 0
I am topping out at 295 sol/s with excavator

[Kompik]

Gigabyte G1 gaming 1070 x 6
TDP 60
+100 core
+700 mem

2500/416each. Far from 440.. I tried 2x -ca and 4x -ca. Same results.

How much watt does the card consume? You cannot compare different brands with 60% TDP. Each brand will have different consumption curve set. Your card is probably taking less than 120Watt at which nicehash calculates the 440 sols.

[NiceHashSupport]

Am I missing something on the OC? Initially I thought it was because I had Precision open.
Closed restarted same thing.

Is the memory clock actually being increased or is it still at stock?
 Batch line:
excavator.exe -a equihash -s zec-us.suprnova.cc:2142 -u user.worker -ca -ca -os 0 100 70 60 -or

command line produces:
overclock | GPU#0  CORE: 1631 MHz  MEM: 0 MHz      TDP: 60 %

Also was curious about the p1 or p2

What exactly is meant by (p1=mode) is there a mode we can change. or adjust?

I am running a single Nvidia GTX 970 with latest driver and adjusted in nvidia settings to compute mode

Compared to nheqminer-5c with suprnova this excavator is actually producing a lesser hashrate, granted power usage has dropped and since this is
only a side project I am able to keep mining while having functionality on the pc for daily use.

nheqminer i adjusted to over 315 sol/s with t 5 -ca -cv 0 -cd 0 0
I am topping out at 295 sol/s with excavator

Overclocking mem for 9xx cards doesn't work correctly for some reason, we need to check this out. With nheqminer you were also CPU mining, that is why you got higher score.

[agente]

Make sure you are using at least 2 threads. If only 1, then your GPU is not 100% loaded. 1 thread solution is good if you plan to do other stuff with your card. Imagine it as being an intensity switch.

We reached 440 with 115W TDP limited card that has OC set to 2120 core and 4700 mem. With next version, it is about 445 with these same settings.

Another example is 126W TDP limited card, OCed to 2110 core and 4400 mem (micron with BIOS patch) reaching 440 sol.

You can view how far is your card OCed when you launch excavator with overclocking set.

I set 125 tdp (70tdp with G1 Gaming Gigabyte) and core to 2100 (4400 mem) but with limited tdp throttle on value of 1930/1960..
What brand do you tested?

[giagge]

Try with 75 tdp on 1070 , its a good settings for performance and less power usage , try and post your result .

[agente]

Try with 75 tdp on 1070 , its a good settings for performance and less power usage , try and post your result .

75 tdp is not the same wattage for every brand. I just want to try to do the same of nicehash test and they did it with 120w tdp.

[fabric1771]

  :-)

I have nvidia zotac 1080 gtx (mini... but is almost like the normal one) and running 420 sol at 170 watt Stock

I have read is possible to get more  efficiency  :

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I have found   60%tdp
core +0
mem+710 mhz
430 sol
effic 4.02
107 watt


some better settings for nvidia 1080?

thanks

fabrizio

[khan_noonien]

Odd... nothing is really blocking me... same for EU, JP and other... other currencies work, just not excavator on my nvidia.  I also tested a different internet connection, in case my IP was blocked for some reason.  Would nicehash block ip for just certain crypto or all???  because I am connecting to nicehash on other crypto.

I was having the same problem as you, turned out to be my router, an AC68u. I switched to DDWRT and it works fine now.

[philipma1957]

Hi, miners.

We are presenting excavator - multi-algorithm advanced CUDA miner. Miner is close-sourced, but open to ANY pool and does NOT contain any fees. excavator is brought to you by NiceHash.

Supported algorithms:

equihash
pascal
sha256t

Some speed results:

equihash:
optimized GTX 1080 at 60% TDP = 500 Sol/s
optimized GTX 1070 at 60% TDP = 440 Sol/s

pascal:
optimized GTX 1080 at 60% TDP = 1240 MH/s
optimized GTX 1070 at 60% TDP = 970 MH/s

The main goal of excavator is to reach the best possible ratio between performance and energy consumption, thus providing the highest overall profits.

Download windows binary

Use

Code:

excavator.exe -h

for all available options.


Example: Mining with NVIDIA GPU on NiceHash EU location using Pascal algorithm:

Code:

excavator.exe -a pascal -s pascal.eu.nicehash.com:3358 -u [YOUR-BTC-ADDR].[YOUR-WORKER-NAME] -ca

Available locations are eu, usa, jp, hk.


Thank you for your using our service and keep on hashing!

Best regards,
NiceHash team

I will be getting two geforce 1080 ti and 1 geforce 1080

this will be my first all nvidia rig I want to mine zec on the nichhash website.


so


excavator.exe -a equihash -s equihash.usa.nicehash.com:3357 -u 1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje.nvidia3 -ca


would be correct for the bat file?

and windows 7 will work?