Quote from: Cookie.Monsters on January 27, 2018, 01:47:37 PM

Has anyone recently compared WinMiner with (the revived) Nicehash in terms of performance / yield?

I have a lot in the past couple days. I have done direct comparison to NiceHash and WinMiner in terms of hash speeds and yield.

I do not have the crashing problems mentioned by others on either platform.

I'm compiling the details for a video, but will provide the short of my findings.

** I haven't edited any configs in either miner app, I plan to do so and test again

NiceHash :

- CryptoNight is significantly slower in comparison to Pool mining and Winminer in my experience
- NiceHash wouldn't recognize the CPU , where as Pool and Winminer had no issue using certain drivers. The success rate of drivers working was higher on Winminer in my testing.

Most appealing is the NiceHash 0 fee transfer to CoinBase, and then the ability to 0 fee limit sell on CoinBase or Gdax and withdraw to bank with an aprox 3 day wait.

WinMiner

- Likes to default to ETN which in my testing was not the highest profitability coin, I suppose this could be worked around by setting the priority of the miners and device, but in my opinion defeats the purpose of autoswitching at time when ETN is the highest profitability.
- CPU and GPU speeds were almost identical to manual mining application I tested against XMR Stak
- I find I need to clear benchmark to manually trigger a worker to change currency, even at the lowest switching %

Most appealing is PayPal payouts, the fee is a bit more than I would like, but the ease of use and speed I like, aprox. 5min trip to my Paypal account, and I'm swiping away on purchases.

I would like to see WinMiner partner with a large exchange and offer 0 fee transfers, or mirror NiceHash Coinbase relationship.

As of right now my rigs are on Winminer with intent to payout to PayPal to reinvest in hardware.

JKresty

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