Is this a joke post?  How do you plug in a riser in the wrong direction?  Do you have a pic?  Are you referring to the part that goes in the 1x slot?

No go on sparkpool either.  The internet is shared among the people renting rooms in the house so I wouldn't trust how secure it is.  It's VPN or nothing, but luckily NiceHash seems to work stable for the past 24+ hours.

I'm connecting to the interwebs through a VPN (currently checking out Nord) and for security reasons, I won't connect without one.  I've successfully mined a few £££ via NiceHash using DaggerHashimoto (Excavator v1.6.2a).  However, when using T-Rex or GMiner to mine ETH via the ethermine pool, I can't connect.  GMiner says "Failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" then "All user mining pools are unavailable" then "Miner terminated, watchdog will restart process after 10 seconds".  T-Rex just says "ERROR: No connection, retry after 10 seconds".

I'm not sure why NiceHash can connect with no issues.  Interestingly, I tried the default beam, etc, eth, and eth+zil bat files from the GMiner 2.44 zip and I can connect to beam and eth+zil, but not etc and eth.  I tried both Ethermine (eu1.ethermine.org) and MiningPoolHub (europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535) pools in GMiner with no luck.  Help!

Is it still profitable mining on NH or MPH?  I used these as I didn't really like to mine speculatively and preferred to mine and convert to ETH or BTC.

Whattomine says the best coin to mine with 1070s is Beam and I'd happily do that but I want to convert to ETH or BTC, is it possible to do this or do I have to do it manually on an exchange?

I also used to tweak my GPUs to mine ETH using this guide, is there a better one out there for mining different algos on MPH/NH?  Or is it really better to speculatively mine and hold multiple low-rank coins?

Any thoughts and advice appreciated!

Glad to see I wasn't the only one that found this confusing  Thanks for making me look there again though!  I kept trying dev=0,1,2 because I proved it was working direct in the miner cfg file, who would've thought the AM parameter needed to be a different syntax?

I kept trying different variations in AM but they all had "=" so even just trying dev=0 would not work.

Found it!
--dev 0 1 2 works in AM, but not in the cfg file
dev=0,1,2 works in the cfg file, but not in AM

Thanks for the help guys!!

Not sure what you are asking specifically, but yes, if i go through the miner directly, I can make it run only 3 GPUs.


No, the readme says space separated but the config shows comma separated.
dev=0,1,2 is what I'm using successfully
dev=0 1 2 and the miner will only run GPU0

I have read the readme   And that's why I can get the miner to work..... but no luck when going through Awesome Miner


Following your instructions but I can't click on "new" afte Configure, the button is greyed out and unclickable.  This is on DSTM Zcash Cuda Miner.

Yes, just that.  I just want to enable/disable GPUs as I'm planning to do some testing and want to run AM and NH at the same time.

Well, I was trying with both the dev command through AM and in the .cfg file with no luck.  At this moment, I've taken out all instructions from AM but the dev command is still in the .cfg file, still does not work.

Please confirm how to do this, I look forward to it.  I've tried in all places I could think of:

I've tried Options > Pools > Equihash MPH pool (port 17023) > Advanced and added pool specific command line parameters
I've tried Options > Profit Profiels > Custom Profile > DSTM Zcash Cuda Miner > Configure and added command line parameters to mining software
I've tried right-click on miner > Properties > Command Line and added parameters to mining software
I've tried going to C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\zm_0.6_win_2\zm_0.6_win and editing the zm.cfg file

Nothing works and it looks like the .cfg file is ignored when AM starts up the miner or AM injects it's own commands and thus ignores the .cfg file.   

I need to add the dev=0,1,2 option to the DSTM miner in AM but I have tried with no success to get AM to pass this option forward.  I've even tried going into the actual miner folder (C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\zm_0.6_win_2\zm_0.6_win)and edit the zm.cfg file but it is ignored when AM starts up the DSTM miner.  Any help appreciated!

I'm using this via Awesome Miner and MiningPoolHub.  Is there any way to just make it use specific GPUs instead of all GPUs available?  I want to test alongside NiceHash and have NH on 3 GPUs and AM on 3 GPUs and be able to compare mining output.  Thanks!

Not sure how to implement your suggestion on AM, really.  In NiceHash, I expect to just un-tick the GPUs and they will not be used, but I cannot find how to do the same in AM

I'm trying to find a way to get AM to only mine using 3 out of 6 GPUs?  I'm hoping to run some tests with GPUs 1-3 running on NH and GPUs 4-6 running AM.  Is this possible on the free edition of AM?  If not, which paid version supports this?

Thanks!

I've started mining early January this year and was using NiceHash until the end of February.  I've started using Awesome Miner and mining in MPH pools.  I wonder what is the best way to mine considering my setup of 6x 1070 GPUs.  I've tried adding individual pools and combining that into a custom pool:
https://i.imgur.com/1vPq2D3.jpg


I've also tried just ticking the MPH button as pointed to by the red arrow:
https://i.imgur.com/nopPech.jpg


What I've noticed is that pools from the MPH button are ports 17XXX while the ones that I've added are ports 20XXX and that the profit numbers do not match.  I was told that the 17XXX port algos get their profit numbers from MPH whereas the 20XXX port algos get their profit numbers from WhatToMine.  I have a feeling I'm doing things wrong but I can't exactly figure out what.

Is it better to be mining a specific coin, ie, ZEC for a long time considering PPLNS?  Therefore using a 20570 port?
Is it better to be mining a specific algo, ie, Equihash for a long time considering PPLNS?  Therefore using a 17023 port?
Is it better just to tick the MPH box and let it mult-algo, multi-coin for a long time considering PPLNS?

What exactly is "a long time"?  Looking at MPH ZCL page, it looks like blocks are found every 2-3 minutes, so is 20 minutes a long enough time considering PPLNS?

Comparing ZCL with ZEC,
ZCL says Est. Avg. Time per round (network) is 2min 15sec, Est Avg. Time per round (pool) is 3min 2sec
ZEC says Est. Avg. Time per round (network) is 2min 47sec, Est Avg. Time per round (pool) is 27min 16sec
Why is the ZEC (pool) time much longer?  What does that mean?

Thanks!

Greets to all!  I just started using AM recently and have added pools from Mining Pool Hub instead of just ticking the MPH box in Profit Switching.  I wonder if there's any use in adding pools from other sites like Suprnova and Yiimp?  For example, I've got info on the ZEN and BTG pools from MPH, should I add ZEN and BTG pools from Suprnova?

If Awesome Miner gets stats from WhatToMine anyway, how will it determine whether to use the MPH pool or the Suprnova pool?

It seems like the conversation is going full circle now   As I understand this, your plugin checks coin profitability for coins not on WhatToMine... is that it?  Why mine obscure coins?  If someone wanted XXX coin, why would they worry about profitability?  If they wanted profitability, wouldn't they be better off mining established coins?

Sorry for the n00b questions but I'm fairly new at mining, just have one mining rig, so maybe there are things that exist on a multi-rig setup that small-time miners would not see?

Basically, I'm trying to understand the purpose of this plugin and why I would want it?  From what I understand, I can enter pool and coin info in Awesome Miner for known coins and AM would mine the most profitable one for me, so what does the plugin bring to the table that AM is missing?

Thanks!

Thanks for that reply.  I think when I buy my 11th rig, that would justify the $170 purchase   I was asking what use it had (the $170 purchase) for those with just 1 or 2 rigs; for people who manage just fine with the FREE or the $35 version of Awesome Miner?

This is currently around 15-20 days of mining for us little guys

If you're only trading with this computer, why are you certain you want an 8700K processor?  That's an i7 overclockable CPU.  Why are you thinking of 32GB RAM?  Not even gaming PCs need this much CPU or RAM.  For reference, mining rig builds go with the weakest/cheapest CPU, ie a Celeron G3930 which retails at CAD$58 compared to a 8700K which starts at CAD$460, and 4GB of the cheapest RAM sticks available, ie CAD$50 for a single 4GB stick compared to CAD$300+ for a 2x16GB RAM kit.

Spending CAD$2,500 just doesn't make any sense for a mining rig with just one GPU or for a trading PC that can handle 3 monitors; you can build both for much less.  That setup you linked would make an awesome gaming PC or VR PC though!

Cheers for confirming that!

Stupid question but how is spending $170 and using this plugin better than entering the pools manually and getting AM to switch between them?  Sorry for the noob question, but really a noob to all this    Basically, why should I spend my next $170 of mining profits on AM instead of just withdrawing it to my fiat bank account?  Thanks in advance for the help!

Thank you for that.  So this checks prices or profitability of different pools?

Reading on, an API was mentioned.  Is this what is needed?

https://i.imgur.com/dJLrxuv.jpg


If so, that's quite steep for a new miner like myself with only one rig  I was thinking of buying AM anyway, but only the standard edition.