Archive for the ‘Mining Software’ Category

Updated Miner Control Tool Packages for AMD and Nvidia

25, May 2015

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We have updated our complete packages based on the Miner Control tool for Nvidia GeForce GT 750 Ti and AMD Radon R9 280x GPUs with the latest changes taking place lately. The latest versions you can download from the links below include the updated stratum servers of NiceHash and WestHash that are already in operation, and while the old ones still work they will stop resolving next month. We have also removed the YAAMP pool support as it has apparently been taken down permanently this time after a recent hack, if it becomes available back online at a later time we may add back the support. The latest updates also include the most recent versions of SP-MOD’s ccMiner for Nvidia Maxwell as well as the new sgminer fork with increased performance for Quark and Qubit with pre-compiled Binary Kernels for 280X. WhirlpoolX support has been removed as currently there are no altcoins utilizing this algorithm available for mining, if we get some new coins that are profitable to mine we are going to bring it back again.

To be ready to use the packages you just need to update the account settings for each pool to reflect your BTC payment address. Do note that the default configuration that we have set is mining from time to time for the author of the software (Miner Control) as a donation alternative, but you can change that setting should you wish to. The packages are ready to be used with either AMD Radeon R9 280X or Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti cards, but you can also us the Nvidia package for other GPUs or more cards – what you may need to reflect however in the config file is the total hashrate and power usage. Since the AMD packages contains not only specific settings for AMD Radeon R9 280X, but also pre-compiled binary kernels specifically for that particular card if using it with other GPUs you will actually be getting lower hashrate, though n problem to use it with multiple 280X cards.

– To download the Miner Control 1.6.4 AMD Radeon R9 280x ready to use pack for Windows…
– To download the Miner Control 1.6.4 Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti ready to use pack for Windows…

New sgminer With Optimized Quark and Qubit Binary Kernels

20, May 2015

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The Quark and Qubit crypto algorithms continue to be quite profitable, but until recently these algorithms were mostly in the Nvidia domain as the ccMiner for Nvidia GPUs was faster than the available performance on AMD hardware. There is however a new sgminer fork with compiled Quark and Qubit kernels that was sent to us that brings up the hashrate significantly on Pitcairn and Tahiti AMD GPUs. We have tested this particular sgminer on a Radeon R9 280X and we are getting about 11.22 MHS on Quark with a non overclocked GPU and about 12.3 MHS on Qubit and you can get higher with OC and increase in the Intensity. Quark is apparently quite profitable at the moment on NiceHash and WestHash due to the interest in SharkCoin or so it seems, so if you have some idle AMD GPUs that you are wondering where to point them there. Do note that the sgminer is not compiled by us and it comes with the standard OpenCL kernel files, so you need to use the binaries for the higher performance. Since we have not compiled this sgminer from source and it was sent to us already compiled we would recommend to be cautions and not run it on systems with wallets installed, just in case!

– To download and try the sgminer 5.1.1 with optimized Quark and Qubit kernels for Windows OS…

CPU vs AMD and Nvidia GPU Mining for Yescrypt Coins

13, May 2015

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Earlier this month GPU miners for Yescrypt getting released for AMD and Nvidia GPUs were released thanks to the work of djm34. These miners however still seem to be slower in terms of performance when compared to CPU mining for Yescrypt, so we’ve decided to give a quick test on what some up to date CPU and GPU hardware is capable of in terms of performance. There are two coins that rely on Yescrypt at the moment, these are GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY) and Unitus (UIS), though UIS is a multi-algorithm altcoin. Below you can download the CPU miner for mining Yescrypt that we’ve used for the tests and as for the GPU miners, we have already published them here on the website – the djm34 fork of ccMiner and sgminer with Yescrypt support as well as the latest ccMiner fork from SP.

Performance results for Yescrypt:
– Intel Core i7 5820K CPU: 5.22 KHS
– AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU: 0.793 KHS
– Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 GPU: 1.124 KHS

– To download the cpuminer fork with best performance for CPU mining Yescrypt on Windows OS…


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