Miner- SILENTARMY v5

Mining
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go to python.org and install 3.5.2 version

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When the cpu problem for 3+cards Nvidia will be solved?

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Iā€™ve had this problem. It wants python3.5, for some reason, or you donā€™t have python3 (older version) installed.

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Could not find ā€˜D:\Test Miner\silentarmy-5\silentarmy-5\sa-solverā€™ binary; make sure to run ā€˜makeā€™ to compile it

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I donā€™t know nor I use Windows and in case of thing like this the best test
will be just running with and without the patch to compare.

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ā€œsa-solver.exeā€ is there for you. just start in proper dir

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75-80 sols per card,. RX 470 4gb, consuming under 75W at the wall each.

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Awesome performance, will switch this afternoon. Thank you

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Charging a small fee ($5) for anyone who wants help setting this up with windows :slight_smile: you can add me to skype: codeverson (At least this way i can afford a new GPU :smiley:)

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Working windows version.
Only 2 things you need is cygwin64 and in installer of cygwin choose python3

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some people donā€™t even know how to do that :slight_smile:

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For Windows SilentarmyV5 do the following:

  1. Download python 3 for windows here: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/python-3.6.0b3.exe (edit: updated w/the version I used which worked, thanks Matthium for catching this).

  2. Install Python 3 from downloaded file.

  3. Download Silentarmy v5 fork from GitHub here: https://github.com/dagf2101/silentarmy/archive/master.zip

  4. Unzip it into a folder and open that folder.

  5. Download https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/releases/download/0.3a/nheqminer_v0.3a.zip, unzip and copy OpenCL.dll into the silent army folder from step 4 (Thanks ROLLOTOMASI).

  6. Back in your silent army folder, make a batch script named ā€œstart_miner.batā€ in this directory. Edit the file with the following contents (you should probably use your own t-address, but I donā€™t mind if you use mine):

    py silentarmy --use=0 -c stratum+tcp://us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u t1dJZCgeGNBhtoCcT95vBNg1Ech8deDBQ3N.zcash1cuda_silentarmy -v --instances=2
    pause

  7. Double-click the batch file to run it.

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Iā€™d read the readme for windows if i were you ā€œPLEASE NOTE THAT THE OFFICIAL
WINDOWS VERSION OF PYTHON DOES NOT WORK WITH THIS BINARY!ā€ not sure if the python.org link you posted will work or not.

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Thanks for pointing that out. I actually used this one:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.0/python-3.6.0b3.exe

Not sure if someone posted that above or not, but thatā€™s what I found on the computer that I installed the Windows SilentarmyV5.

Matt

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Super impressed with this miner

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I get ā€œCould not find ā€˜dagf-silentarmy-5\sa-solverā€™ binary; make sure to run ā€˜makeā€™ to compile itā€
Press any key to continue . . .

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For the record, how to use on NiceHash with extranonce.subscription enabled:

silentarmy -c stratum+tcp://equihash.[LOCATION].nicehash.com:3357#xnsub -u [YOUR-BTC-ADDRESS].[WORKER-NAME] -p x

[LOCATION] can be ā€œeuā€, ā€œusaā€, ā€œhkā€, ā€œjpā€.

Mind the #xnsub after the port number.

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Just pushed update to the feat/flush-and-sleep branch that is aiming to solve the 100% CPU core issue with Nvidiaā€™s OpenCL drivers. The CPU usage is down to 4%, mining performance is not affected.

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What does extranonce.subscription do?

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Just a feature that makes sure you stay connected to our stratum servers without interruptions.