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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.5 (Windows/Linux)
by
jackbox
on 18/06/2017, 02:02:09 UTC
But the fee is only 1% for ETH-only mining mode... that's what is posted on the front page...

Yes ETH single mode is 1% dev fee. If you dual mine you will pay 2% dev fee on ETH side only. Dev fee never mines from the extra coin like dcr, sia, pasc but you pay for it in ETH mining time.

In that case it makes absolutely no sense to dual mine because the profit from the extra coins is far far less than another 1% of ETH gone.

Actually, you do make a little extra dual mining. The extra 1% fee is about one-third to one-half of the income from the second coin. But if you factor in the extra power consumption you might be right. Dual mining uses quite a bit more power. Also it stresses the cards more and might cause earlier GPU failure. I stopped dual mining for these reasons and it destroyed one of my power supplies. I added a GPU to my rig. The PSU should have been able to handle the extra power but the PSU turned off and would never turn off again. Currently it is in service and waiting for a new replacement. So you are probably correct in the fact that dual mining is probably not worth it when you consider all the factors involved.