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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA & AMD GPU miner [1.2.11a]
by
MrAnderson978
on 07/08/2017, 10:49:43 UTC
zawawa, what about GCN1 cards?

Dual-mining and the Linux port are my priorities now, but I will definitely get to GCN1.

Zawawa, I'm relatively new to Ethereum Mining - I've only been doing it a couple of months.
I've tried your Excavator miner and I have to say I'm impressed!
I did some benchmarking with my computer which uses dual GTX 1060 6GB Nvidia graphics cards and while it's 2% slower compared with ethminer, I saved a whopping 12% on electricity using excavator compared with Ethminer, making your miner the more efficient miner by 3%!
Plus, your Excavator miner is a darn sight more stable compared with Ethminer too!

Kudos to you, good sir!

PS.  There's an bug with dag generation and share submission.  After about 4 hours of mining, Excavator generates a new DAG cache, and then the next dozen or so shares are rejected with errors, "Share above target" or "Job not found"