Nicehash user, but am thinking about using claymore stand alone

[backspin]

Hello,

I'm a new miner with about 30 days experience. My rig is just a 2 GPU RX 470, with a third rx 480 on the way and should be here tomorrow.

Essentially, the mining choice was with Nicehash because it was pretty simple to set up. However, with 2 GPU's, over the past 4 days, when I remote desktop to the rig, and look at the estimated payout, it has been saying it should earn around 4.50 a day. However, when I look at the payouts, over that time period, it's really only been around 3.50 per day. So, I'm wondering if there is something going on or if my calculations are just wrong? When I look at "whattomine", and put in 54.5mh for ethereum and 1.6Gh for Decred, over the past 4 days, it's usually easily above 4 dollars per day. Of course I just now checked it and the calculations are 3.75, but that seems to be a low.

What are everyone's experience with Nicehash, and should I go it alone with Claymore's dual miner?  


Thanks,

[bill gator]

I can't speak for anybody else or what the typical experience is, but I'll let you know about my last month or so. I recently got involved in mining and it has been pretty interesting, informative and frustrating to say the least. You cannot rely on those "projected payouts" to be hard and fast rules. I run a 1080ti and a 980ti on Nicehash; some days I get $3, but some days I get $9. There is fluctuation, because there is an element of randomness to mining. It is possible that your settings are not optimized, or that there would be a miner better suited for your hardware, but I've have a lot of trouble in the past with certain miners obtaining satisfactory speeds. NiceHash has been very consistent with getting the highest hash rate and switching to the most profitable algorithm on top of that. Some people are overclocking their cards, while some people are conserving their cards and running them cool, which is what I do. You can try to play around with different miners, but don't download anything that isn't verifiable and reputable. I wouldn't expect much improvement in terms of your payouts though.

Something else that I've noticed with NiceHash is that my Projected payout is constantly changing and never seems to be correct, you've got to test it yourself and just see what happens. It very regularly tells me I'm making $2 a day, but I make an average of about $5 a day even on those days.

[Swinging Phallus]

It's more of a preference thing honestly, the projected payouts will constantly fluctuate which is on reason why I decided just to stick with claymore and dagger hasimoto/ eth. Not to mention the Nicehash hack, but in truth in the end it's a matter of preference, I'd say test out the claymore miner to see if the earnings are more or less consistent and up to par and whichever floats your boat, go for it. eth.nanopool has a calculator function so you can see how much you are making daily/weekly/monthly, just remember - it's estimations, they will fluctuate.

[backspin]

Thanks for the input....  I think right now I'll stick with Nicehash, but that's only because I have too many other things to worry about right now.

However, if I decide to mine Decred with Ethereum... Where is a good decred wallet and where can I cash out?