Nvidia/CUDA GPU Hardware Questions

Mining
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yeah it maxed out my GPU but it didnt seem to generate much heat i was running on full load about 45 oC which in comparison to ethereum is way better

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Have been using GitHub - nicehash/nheqminer: Equihash miner for NiceHash for the past 2 days with a MSI GTX970. Also about 21-23 Sol/s.

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Does this miner only work with nicecash’s pool?

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There are different types available. Mine is running on zec.suprnova.cc

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no, you can set any pool by the -l option

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i tried it when they commited the new changes, but it is not working for me yet. hadnt have time to debug it yet.

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Some miners are locked to a specific pool.

GitHub - ocminer/nheqminer: Equihash miner for NiceHash for Suprnova
GitHub - nicehash/nheqminer: Equihash miner for NiceHash for Nicehash

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The Linux version I built from Nicehash did work with suprnova too:

~/Download/nicehash/nheqminer/Linux_cmake/nheqminer_cuda_tromp$ ./nheqminer_cuda_tromp -l zec-eu.suprnova.cc:2142 -u xxx -p xxx-t 0 -cd 0

	==================== www.nicehash.com ====================
		Equihash CPU&GPU Miner for NiceHash v0.3a
	Thanks to Zcash developers for providing base of the code.
	    Special thanks to tromp, xenoncat and eXtremal-ik7 for providing
	         optimized CPU, CUDA and AMD equihash solvers .
	==================== www.nicehash.com ====================

Setting log level to 2
[15:25:33][0x00007f62595a5740] Using SSE2: YES
[15:25:33][0x00007f62595a5740] Using AVX: YES
[15:25:33][0x00007f62595a5740] Using AVX2: YES
[15:25:33][0x00007f62563d4700] stratum | Starting miner
[15:25:33][0x00007f62563d4700] stratum | Connecting to stratum server zec-eu.suprnova.cc:2142
[15:25:33][0x00007f6255bd3700] miner#0 | Starting thread #0 (CUDA-TROMP) Quadro K1100M (#0) BLOCKS=14, THREADS=64
[15:25:33][0x00007f62563d4700] stratum | Connected!
[15:25:33][0x00007f62563d4700] stratum | Subscribed to stratum server
[15:25:33][0x00007f62563d4700] miner | Extranonce is 12cc011800000000000000001801cc13
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I see where I made my mistake. I had stratum+tcp:// in front of the pool address.

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Ah cool. Will give it a try if I find some time.

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Nicehash official miner is no longer locked to mine at a specific pool. You can set the -l -u and -p options (login, user and password). You can see it in the code: nheqminer/main.cpp at master · nicehash/nheqminer · GitHub - it accepts the parameters. Even if it wouldnt, you could just overwrite them in the code before compiling.

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With nheqminer and NVIDIA GeForce GTX970m with Ubuntu I get 13 sol/s . Is this reasonable or there is something unoptimized ? my CPU gives better results (16sol/s)

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Is unoptimized, because my CPU is a Intel Core i5 3570k without OC and make about 17sol/s

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Hey guys! Just got my hands on a nvidia 960. What sw are you guys using to mine with nvidia cards?

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if windows then nicehash EQM (still nvidia perform about 3x worse than corresponding amd so do not expect much) for my gtx980 oc on windows, binary: nicehash eqm 66 sols, compiled: tpruvot/nheqminer 58 sols, maztheman/nheqminer 41 sols, nicehash/nheqminer 25 sols, genoil opencl for nvidia - not tested

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You can also use Silent Army version. Works fine for me. GTX 1070 about 72 Sols.

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please specify that you run under Linux … makes a difference huh

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I run it under Windows 10 64bit with Phython.

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Going to run it on a windows PC as its used for other stuff occationally that require windows =)

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Isnt nicehash trading in the zcash for btc?