My first post here!
I just recently started researching and exploring the world of crypto currencies and stumbled upon WinMiner. Been using it for a few days now and it's a great idea!
Very easy to use, super simple, which is I guess what you were going for.
However, there's room for improvement.
Firstly, it seems quite inconsistent with how it calculates earnings - like the guy above me said.
Also, I am doing CPU mining, so I will only have CPUs selected to do mining and not GPUs. However, even with the on board GPU displayed in the Available mining devices and unselected, it still says Mining: KRB @ xxxh/s = $$$ - and it's the exact same number as the above CPUs. Does that mean it's really using the GPU to mine too, or not? Very confusing.
I am mining through a VM, so was wondering what the best config for CPU would be - how to configure the CPU bit? Are results likely to be the same if I configure the VM with 1 CPU with 16 cores or 16 separate CPUs with 1 core?
Does anyone have experience in whether it's better to use Linux & NiceHash or other apps instead of Windows? I heard it's usually better on Linux but didn't really have that experience, so I'm not sure what to think. My knowledge is limited so it might be that I didn't configure something properly :'D .
It seems that WinMiner fluctuates A LOT with mining XMR for $.30 a day to KRB for $.70 a day. How come? Is this due to the currencies changing in value so frequently or what? Obviously it's better if I mine KRB for $.70 per day than XMR for $.30 a day. But WinMiner changes between them automatically and when I want to put it back to KRB manually, I get a tiny number like $.20 - even though it was showing $.70 just a moment ago? Is it possible that the currency is changing in value so quickly and so frequently?
Also, would it be good to invest in a good GPU to do some mining? If so, what are your recommendations?
Keep up the good work guys!
Thanks (y)
EDIT: One more thing I noticed - Why is it when I open Task Manager, CPU utilisation isn't 100% when WinMiner is mining? Most computers show around 50% CPU utilisation and only one of computers is showing around 80% CPU utilisation by NsCPUCNMiner64.exe. All of them are configured to be in "Farm Mode" mining. Am I right that it should be 100% utilisation or what am I missing? Would appreciate an answer as I want to maximise utilisation on these machines.