Quote from: greasycajun on March 05, 2018, 04:13:41 AM

Quote from: jillscarbrough on March 05, 2018, 03:15:11 AM

GPUs
You are mentioning Ethermine and Nanopool, so I guess you will mine Ethash (ETC or ETH) or may Equihash (Zcash). You are using 2 X RX 580 8GB if you decide to mine Ethash coins such ETH, ETC and so on, for a better result, you need to modify your bios cards (You can find a thread about bios modding in this forum, simply just use the search function).

OS
You should choose OS that you think more friendly to you.

Pooled or Solo
If you plan to mine major coin, do pooled mining, don't do a solo mining except you have to plan to mine newly coins.

Wallet Address
Would be better using your own wallet (safer). But if you plan to trade it in the market, exchanger wallet address is okay, it would reduce a withdrawal fee from your mining poll.

Mining Software
For client software, I suggest using Claymore.

jillscarbrough Thanks for your help and input. I have been in the IT industry since 1999 so I am quite versed when it comes to Operating Systems. The only reason I am currently leaning towards Windows is I can't find ways to overclock/tune GPU's in linux. Windows simply has greater R/D and support when it comes to certain things.

I will follow your other advice also. Thanks a lot.

Ethos and Simplemining.net are Linux based OS with Builtin mining software, just in case you want to try it out.

clocking can also be done thru Bios mod especially on RX cards

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1882656.0

so If you run your Cards it is already OC'd