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Mining Rig Rentals Now Offering Neoscrypt Rigs
5, Nov 2014
The service for leasing your hashrate and renting some Mining Rig Rentals has added support for the Neoscrypt algorithm that has been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to the hard fork of FTC from Scrypt to NeoScrypt. There are currently almost 50 rigs listed at the service selling NeoScrypt hashrate, almost half of which as already rented, meaning that the user interest is quite big even though there are not that much crypto currencies using the particular algorithm aside from Feathercoin. The service Mining Rig Rentals has been the most active one in implementing support for new alternative cryto currency algorithms and thus it supports a few algorithms that no other similar service has available for users to either sell or purchase hashrate. So if you haven’t yet seen what MRR offers, then you might want to give them a try, regardless if you want to lease you mining rigs’ hashrate or rent the rig of someone else providing hashrate for a specific algorithm.
– For more information about the Mining Rig Rentals service for renting crypto mining rigs…
- Published in: Crypto News
- Related tags: FeatherCoin, FTC, Mining Rig Rentals, Mining Rig Rentals Neoscrypt, neoscrypt, Neoscrypt hashrate rent, Neoscrypt hashrate sell, Neoscrypt rig rent, Neoscrypt rig sell
The latest development version of sgminer 5 (source) now also includes support for the Neoscrypt crypto algorithm for mining FTC and other crypto currencies relying on it. The OpenCL kernel included is the optimized version also available in the cgminer 3.7.8 with Neoscrypt that offers better performance and supports the latest AMD drivers version 14.9 (thanks to Wolf9466 Neoscrypt kernel improvements). We have compiled a windows binary and you can download it below to try it out, however it seems that the performance we get with this version of sgminer is a bit lower than with the dedicated fork of cgminer 3.7.8 on AMD Radeon R9 280X, the performance on Nvidia GPUs is the same. There is still no CUDA miner for Nvidia GPUS with Neoscrypt support, so if you want to mine Feathercoin with Nvidia-based GPUS such as GTX 750 or GTX 970/980 you need to use one of the OpenCL miners.
– You can download the sgminer 5 dev with NeoScrypt support for Windows OS here…
There is an update of the official cgminer with Neoscrypt support to version 3.7.8 that adds new kernel with better performance and make the miner work with the latest AMD drivers 14.9, something that was not working with the older 3.7.7b miner. We have compiled a windows binary of the new cgminer 3.7.8 Neoscrypt (source) that you can download from the link below and try. Our first test on a AMD Radeon R9 280X without overclock has shown a performance of about 140 KHS, so about 50 percent increase from the older version and some people report going close to 200 with overclocked cards. Since there is still no CUDA miner for Neoscrypt available you can use this cgminer with OpenCL on Nvidia-based GPUs as well, though on Nvidia you are probably not going to see much of an improvement over the previous version of the miner.
– You can download the cgminer 3.7.8 with NeoScrypt support for Windows OS here…