Re: GTX 1070 8GB card. Suggestions Please

Check out whattomine under the GPU section.

ETH/EXP are Dagger Hashimoto based coins and can dual mine with coins like LBC DCR and SIA. On whattomine this is called ethhash.

GTX 10 cards have an edge in ZCASH based coin mining. That algo is called equiihash on whattomine.

Coins I mine with my GTX 10 cards are: ZEC ZEN HUSH and KMD.

also, can you please tell me which miner you use for equihash?

EWBF miner has been the best for me for GTX 10 cards mining equihash.

You need to understand what is happening when mining to know how dual mining works. I will give you brief examples.

ETH - Ethereum, Expanse and others are compute light, memory heavy algorithms and most miners have extra memory overhead unused during ETH mining. This allows for dual mining of a compute heavy coin with a light memory footprint, like LBC/SIA/DCR/PASC.

ZEC - ZCASH, ZENCash, HUSH and KMD are all equihash coins and that algo is both compute intense and carries a beefy memory footprint. As far as I know, there is no dual mining with equihash.

Thanks for clearing things. So, does that mean i have to have separate miners for HUSH, KMD , ZCASH and ZenCash?

That term "miners" is a bit too bland now. Are you asking...

1. Do I have to have a unique mining software for each of those coins? A: No, they all mine using the same equihash algorithm and EWBF miner is just one CUDA based application compatible with them all.

2. Do I have to have separate mining configs for each coin? A: Yes, each coin will use a different port for both solo mining and pools will have a unique port of their own with need of address or login info.

3. Do I have to have multiple mining configs or rigs to mine more than one Equihash coin? A: Yes, either a single rig full of cards mines a single coin and you have multiple rigs uniquely pointing to each coin, or it is possible with some miners to specify single or specific GPUs in a multi GPU rig which would allow a single rig to mine multiple coins. Not easy...