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New bfgminer 4.1.99 Fork with Support for ZeusMiner Scrypt ASICs

13, Jun 2014

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It seems that there is now an alternative to the official cgminer 3.1.1 with Zeus support in the form of a new fork of bfgminer that adds support for ZeusMiner’s Scrypt ASICs (source). This fork is compatible with GAWMiners and Hashra Zeus-based Scrypt ASICs as well and it pretty much uses the same options as the official cgminer, but comes with support for many more features since it is based off the latest version of bfgminer. Below you can find a windows binary of the bfgminer 4.1.99 that you can try, just make sure to set the right number of chips depending on your miner model as well as the virtual COM port at which the miner is detected. The best operating frequency still seems to be 328 MHz for most people as a good balance in terms of performance and HW error rate, though you are welcome to play with it.

– You can download the new bfgminer 4.1.99 ZeusMiner binaries for Windows OS here…

New ccMiner Fork with Support for X13 on Nvidia GPUs Available

12, Jun 2014

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There is now a new fork of ccMiner for Nvidia GPU miners available that adds support for X13 mining (this is not an official release). The fork of ccMiner by tsiv (source) adds X13 support with a performance that is just a bit lower than what Nvidia GPUs are offering in terms of X11 mining hashrate, though the hashrate could probably be further improved with some optimizations. We have compiled a windows binary of the new ccMiner fork with X13 support that you can download from the link below and try it yourself or you can compile it from source yourself. Our tests are showing that with it we are getting a hashrate of about 1700 KHS on an Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti video card and 3300 KHS on a GeForce GTX 780 Ti (non-overclocked cards).

Do note that the windows binary you can download below is compiled for Compute 3.0, Compute 3.5 and Compute 5.0 cards (32-bit version only), so it will not work on older cards. If you are unsure what version of Compute does your video card support check the included GPU Compute Capabilities List file. It is also compiled with Visual Studio 2012, so if you do not already have Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 you will have to download and install it, otherwise you may be getting error for a missing DLL library.

– To download the ccMiner 1.0 beta fork with X13 mining support for Windows OS…

Download cgminer 3.1.1 with ZeusMiner Scrypt ASIC Support for Windows

10, Jun 2014

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We are currently testing two Zeus-based Scrypt ASIC miners and since they do require a special miner software with support for the chips, we are providing the latest version of the miner with the source code. It is a modified version of cgminer 3.1.1, a bit old version already, that has the Icarus driver modified to work with the Zeus ASIC hardware, but this is all we have for the moment. You need to set the operating frequency and the number of chips of the ASIC miner you use as command line parameters, for example a 300 MHz frequency seems to be the default one and the ZeusMiner Blizzard has 6 chips. You can check the Readme file and also find an example bat file for running the GAWMiners Falcon Scrypt ASIC that has 128 chips and is recommended to be used with a frequency of 328 MHz and is getting you about 27 MHS hashrate.

The ZeusMiner Scrypt ASIC miners and the miners sold by GAWMiners and HASHRA that are based on Zeus ASIC chips do rely on a virtual USB to COM driver, so you may need to download and install the latest Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP Drivers. After that you need to see what is the number of the virtual COM port of the ASIC device from the Device Manager of the computer and set that port as a command line parameter.

– You can download the cgminer 3.1.1 with ZeusMiner Scrypt ASIC support for Windows OS here…


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