I just ordered mine from amazon today. Been reading through this thread. Noob question: If I get a prebuilt cgminer for windows, do I still need to install the Zadig usb drivers?
raspberry are pretty easy to setup if you follow the directions. on windows you are wasting too much electric it to run them 24/7
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well you would be correct if you only run the 2pacs and compacs.
if you run other mining software windows 10 and windows 7 on a pc are fine.
At the moment I run cgminer and nicehash
this give me 1 compac 1 2pac and the cpu mine xmr on the same pc.
the cpu xmr adds about 10 or 15 watts ands net a very small profit.
which means the 1 pac and 2 pac cost no extra on the mobo or cpu power use.
so I do better then a rasp pi but the pc cost me $$$ it is a lenovo m700 and I upgraded the cpu
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