New to Nvidia mining.

[Bfljosh]

Okay, I'm totally new to Nvidia mining. (bought my first Msi 1080 gtx x card)

What do I need to download? When I mine with AMD I need AMD Sdk. What do I need for Nvidia?

Can I mine successfully on Windows 7 or do I need to switch to another OS?

What drivers are the best for Zcash?

What command line do I use in EWBF miner?

What clock/memory is the sweetspot for Msi gtx1080 x?

After mining 4 years with AMD I feel noobish again. Yay!  

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[P4ndoraBox]

I just received a brand new nvidia card as well. I'll follow your post.

[Vann]

For Zcash or ETH just download the latest Nvidia driver. I prefer Windows 7 to Windows 10 but you can only run up to five cards per rig in Windows 7 and up to eight in Windows 10. The CUDA developers kit isn't needed for the ZEC or ETH miners. For the EWBF miner v3.4b I use:

Code:

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
miner --server <POOL> --port <PORT> --user <WALLET> --pass x --templimit 79 --fee 2 -api <LAN_IP_&_PORT>

I have a MSI GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X and get ~565 H/s @ 165 W with these settings in MSI Afterburner:

Code:

70% TDP
83 Temp Limit

+130 Core
+750 Memory

For mining on Windows 10 you should also disable services:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCCjFU-4Bk

[Bfljosh]

For Zcash or ETH just download the latest Nvidia driver. I prefer Windows 7 to Windows 10 but you can only run up to five cards per rig in Windows 7 and up to eight in Windows 10. The CUDA developers kit isn't needed for the ZEC or ETH miners. For the EWBF miner v3.4b I use:

Code:

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
miner --server <POOL> --port <PORT> --user <WALLET> --pass x --templimit 79 --fee 2 -api <LAN_IP_&_PORT>

I have a MSI GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X and get ~565 H/s @ 165 W with these settings in MSI Afterburner:

Code:

70% TDP
83 Temp Limit

+130 Core
+750 Memory

That is the same card I bought. Thank you very much for this info. I have sent you positive rep.

[P4ndoraBox]

I have a Geforce GTX 1050 2gb. It is clearly not intended for mining, but I'm wondering where I can find some info about how to set up that card for mining too.

Any links ?

[Bfljosh]

Is it possible to combine AMD and Nvidia in one rig by installing the drivers to different hard drives?

[Vann]

Is it possible to combine AMD and Nvidia in one rig by installing the drivers to different hard drives?

Yes, that's exactly what I do. I run the latest 17.6.2 drivers and APP-SDK toolkit for the AMD cards dual mining on ETH and the latest Nvidia driver from mining ZEC. Both drivers are installed on the same Windows 10 rig, no need for second drive. You do need to use the pixel patcher after installing the AMD drivers to bypass the signature check if you do Bios mods on the AMD cards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAiScXPisAY

[Eliavres]

I bought a MSI 1060 6gb recently as well, it's my first nvidia card in over 15 years. Looks like I got lucky, it has Samsung mems, out of the box it did almost 19mh/s, with OC i can stretch it to over 23mh/s though for temps and longevity I'm keeping it around21.5/22 mh/s.

My biggest doubt ATM is what I should mine with it, dualmining ETH + SIA seems reasonable but is there anything more profitable?

What are you guys mining?

[rxracer]

....The CUDA developers kit isn't needed for the ZEC or ETH miners.

This... I can't get my head around it.  You're one of the few who's even mentioned the SDK.  I've been trying out mining on my GTX 970 FTW+ for a week or so with OpenCL cos when I tried to run genoil's ethminer in Cuda mode I get the error :

Using device: GeForce GTX 970 (Compute 5.2)
CUDA error in func 'ethash_cuda_miner::init' at line 243 : all CUDA-capable devices are busy or unavailable.
Cuda error in func 'set_header' at line 161 : all CUDA-capable devices are busy or unavailable.

I've read a few say the CUDA SDK is needed, but most just say install older Win7 drivers (I'm on Win 10 atm) & setup your bat file.  I did end up installing the SDK and CUDA mining worked.  At about 3MH/s!, but it worked.  Based on all I've read the abysmal hashrate was my fault for not downgrading the drivers.  The CUDA SDK forces you to install 371.something but  I guess it's not early enough.  

I was tired and just wanted back at @21MH/s so I could go to sleep.  It also seemed fairly comparable to CUDA hashrates I'd seen, but it's a really high ASIC card and I'm sure there's a bit more in it using CUDA.  I have a 1060 on the way for HEVC, which I'll also mine with when it's not in heavy use.  That card seems much more straightforward.

So do I just need to install the recommended Win7/8 drivers? 347.88 seems popular.  I realize the easiest thing (easier than writing this) is to install them and find out, but I also wanted to put this out there cos I know others have had this error, and still do.  So hopefully this can be a post for them to find an answer also.  

Thanks in advance for any help.

Edit - Well, 2 hours and 6 driver installs/fails/cleanups later and I'm nowhere.  Win7 347.88 eventually showed as being installed but no control panel, GPU-Z showed no functionality, ethminer couldn't see any GPU's.  I'm on the latest Insider build, so way past Anniversary update.  It's 6am, wanna sleep again with some dog barking endlessly 10 feet away from me...... 

[umine]

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Thanks in advance for any help.
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At first, Win7 drivers couldn't work properly on Win10, for win 10 use built 1607 aniversary update or 1703.
The second, you don't need CUDA SDK installation, just drivers. Visual Studio 2015 update would be useful for different ccminer versions
Have a small rig with 970 and 1070 on Win10, drivers 382.33 - works fine

[iamnewhere]

At first, Win7 drivers couldn't work properly on Win10, for win 10 use built 1607 aniversary update or 1703.
The second, you don't need CUDA SDK installation, just drivers. Visual Studio 2015 update would be useful for different ccminer versions
Have a small rig with 970 and 1070 on Win10, drivers 382.33 - works fine

For Win10 go always with 1703 update, without you have major performance loss for mining.

[thenguyen81]

Is there anyone know which one driver Nvidia GTX 950M ?
I was try 353.62; 381.65; 391.35 version but they can not open nvidia-smi.exe
It just shut down immediately after startup.