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There are people that are so much into crypto currencies that they follow all new launches and try to mine what they consider will bring them more profit, and then there are the people that just want to take it easy and get a good profit from mining without too much work required and risk. If you are in the second group and are mining with Nvidia GPUs such as the GTX 750 Ti, then you might want to check out a tool called NiceHash Control that can track what is the most profitable crypto algorithm to mine and to sell your hashrate at NiceHash. The tool does take into account your hardware and what hashrate it provides you with for each algorithm, as well as the current price for the various algorithms supported by NiceHash and starts and stops specific miner software to mine the most profitable algorithm at the moment. In the end you are getting paid for your hashrate in Bitcoins directly and you make a nice profit, without having to track exchanges and exchange rates or follow new coin launches all the time.
All of this however does take some tweaking and tinkering in order to configure the software and miner to work with your hardware, and since we already did play with it we have decided to give you a package already configured for single GTX 750 Ti card mining and that will mine the most profitable algorithm choosing between X11, X13, X15 and Nist5. We don’t believe that mining for Keccak or Scrypt-N on Nvidia GPUs will be very profitable, let alone if you are going to be using Scrypt or SHA256 where ASIC miners have already taken over. If you have more than a single GTX 750 Ti card just multiply the hashrate set for a single card in the config file by the number of cards in your rig. The good thing is that this tool actually does take into account the hashrate you get with various algorithms, so even if the NiceHash website says that X15 is the most profitable algorithm for the moment it may mine X11 or X13 on your system. The reason is that while X15 might be more profitable in general, the higher hashrate you get mining X11 with the bit lower price for it might still turn to be more profitable in your case, as even with higher price the X15 hashrate will be lower than the one you get with X11 or X13 for example. We have included the latest ccMiner fork with X15 support, so all that is left for you is to set your BTC payment address in the config and run the AUTOSTART.BAT file, unless you have to do some hashrate changes in the config as well based on your GPUs that is. You might also want to check out the Readme file for some extra information about the NiceHash Control. So far the tool is working pretty well, though it needs some more polishing, unfortunately it is only available for Windows, so Linux users are not able to take advantage from it.
– To download the NiceHash Control 1.0.3 GTX 750 Ti ready to use pack for Windows…
The efforts for BlakeCoin (BLC) and other Blake-256 based crypto currencies merged mining support has already made this the best merged mining option to mine – multiple stable pools, multiple bonus currencies that you get along with BLC and good support. You can already trade not only BlakeCoin, but all other 4 bonus currencies as they are available on various exchanges and actually have some decent value. And now you can even rent mining rigs for mining Blake. So if you still haven’t tried BlakeCoin mining you might want to give it a try, the network hashrate is not so big, so you are able to mine some coins even with not so much hashrate.
Blake-256 Algorithm GPU miners:
– Cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– Cgminer 3.1.1 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia
– ccMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia
Pools for Merged Mining of Blake-256 coins:
– http://eu3.blakecoin.com/
– http://ny2.blakecoin.com/
– http://la1.blakecoin.com/
– http://cg1.blakecoin.com/
Exchanges for trading Blake-256 coins:
– AskCoin
– Atomic Trade
There is now a new sgminer 5.0 beta (source) available that is trying to provide an unified and feature-full GPU miner by integrating the kernels from the sph-sgminer, the SHA3 (keccak) from cgminer as well as the modified x11 and x13 kernels from lasybear’s fork of sgminer. The most important feature, apart form the wider crypto algorithms support in the new version is the support for runtime-kernel-switching on the fly. Simply said you are able to have multiple pools set in your config and these pools can be for different algorithm coins and with different GPU settings for each. So a single GPU mining rig can mine for different coins using different algorithms, or have these pools as failover etc. No need to use a different miner for different pools and for different coins anymore, or at least almost as not yet all algorithms are supported.
Currently the new sgminer 5.0 beta does have support for the following kernels: Scrypt, Scrypt-N, X11 (darkcoin-mod), X13 (marucoin-mod), SHA3-Keccak (maxcoin), animecoin, fuguecoin, groestlcoin, inkcoin, myriadcoin-groestl, quarkcoin, qubitcoin, sifcoin and twecoin. Do note that sgminer is still an OpenCL miner suitable for mining on AMD-based GPUs, for Nvidia CUDA support you will still have to rely on either CudaMiner or ccMiner, depending on the algorithm of the coin you are mining if it is supported. You can also run Nvidia GPUs with OpenCL on the sgminer, however the performance you will get this way will simply not be worth it as compared to what a dedicated CUDA-based miner might offer. The pool specific settings you can currently set on per pool basis in the sgminer.conf file are the following: pool-algorithm, pool-nfactor, pool-intensity, pool-xintensity, pool-rawintensity, pool-gpu-engine, pool-gpu-memclock, pool-gpu-threads, pool-thread-concurrency, pool-gpu-fan.
We have compiled a windows binary for the new sgminer 5.0 beta and you can download and try it yourself. Do note however that this is a beta software and still needs some more work in order to work stable and without problems. While we were testing it we had the miner crashing multiple times while building the binary of the OpenCL kernel, we have noticed that if you have more than 3 pools setup in the config it happens all the time, with 3 or less it builds the kernels just fine and after that it seem to work stable with more pools added. This happens regardless if the pools are using the same algorithm or are configured to use different algorithms, so good for testing, but do not be in a hurry to replace all of your other miners just yet.
– You can download and try the new sgminer 5.0 beta for GPU Mining on Windows OS here…