There is a fairly newer version of xmr-stak that now has no fee, have you tried it. It runs fine on my 'everyday' PC but at a lower hashrate than Claymore.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2783886.0I've had problems with xmr-stak crashing, on startup, on 2 different rigs but working OK on 3 other rigs, unfortunatley never figured out why xmr-stak kept crashing, so was forced to use Claymore's CryptoNight miner.
Is this one more profitable than traditional Claymore mining tools? Using this one, temperature will be higher or lower, and how about electricity cost? Generally, is this one more profitable than Claymore after subtracting all related costs (maintenance, electricity bills, etc)?
I found that xmr-stak would run my GPUs a little bit cooler and with a little bit less electricity costs but at less hashrate.
The Cryptonote miner I prefer is SMminer-gm-5.5.5, it gave me a little bit more hashrate than Claymore and it ran at lower power consumption, so this was why I prefered to use it.