Quote from: FuryFever on May 30, 2017, 04:02:22 AM

I am not sure if anyone else mines on MinerGate for Ethereum (or other altcoins as they support a lot of them!), but I have been beating my head against the wall all weekend trying to figure out why my hashrate is so low mining with a GeForce GTX 1070 Video Card. I just started getting into trying to mine Ethereum with my new gaming rig. I did a bunch of research on how to start mining Ethereum and I came across MinerGate as a pool that I could mine ETH on. I thought that it was pretty cool that they had their own mining software as well to handle mining to my account for me. So I downloaded and installed their MinerGate v.6.6 software as well as NVidia CUDA v.8.0.61 SDK (although it says that I cannot install Nsight because I do not have any compatible versions of Microsoft VisualStudio installed, which I am not sure if I need or not?). I also installed GETH v.1.6.1 and Mist 0.8.10, although now I am not sure as if I even needed to install them unless I was planning to solo mine directly on the Ethereum blockchain instead of mining on a pool?

For reference, my gaming rig is running Windows 10 Pro, Version 1703, OS Build 15063.296 on an Intel Core i7-6700K 4.00GHz SkyLake CPU with 32GB Crucial Ballistix RAM and an ASUS STRIX ROG GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 Video Card.

In any event, once I got everything installed and setup on my computer, I ran MinerGate to see how well my setup would mine. After disabling "Smart Mining" (which automatically starts mining whatever altcoin it feels you will have the best results with, which is annoying that it starts that by default...), I manually started mining Ethereum. I figured it couldn't hurt to try to CPU mine at the same time that I GPU mine, so I enabled both to see what I could get out of my rig. However, all I am able to get out of MinerGate is about 420-440kH/s from my CPU (running on all 8 threads - as it is a 4 core, 8 threaded processor) and 8.75-9.25MH/s from my GPU (running on Intensity 4)! When I Googled what the estimated hashrate that my Video Card should be capable of mining Ethereum, it says that I should be averaging 25MH/s!!! I also tried disabling CPU mining just in case that was bottlenecking my system, but at best I only got about a 0.25-0.50MH/s boost from GPU mining only with my computer. So, why am I not able to mine on MinerGate at even 10MH/s when it says that my Video Card should be capable of mining at a much higher hashrate than that? At this point it seems like I'd be better off trying to solo mine if GETH can give me double the hashrate that MinerGate can...

Any help in getting this figured out would be greatly appreciated. I am very frustrated that I cannot figure out why I cannot get a decent hashrate out of this Video Card!

With only 1 GPU you should mine on a pool. Solomining and propriete software doesn't deliver good results. I recommend nanopool using Claymore 9.5 mining software. You can mine 2 coins parallel (i.e. SIA and ETC) and you should get at least 28-29 Mh/s on ETH and about 300 Mh/s on SIA. Download official SIA Wallet and make some extra money to compensate electricity. :-) without influencing Hashrate of ETH. I still have a Notebook with a GTX 1060 6GB. It delivers about 20 MH/s on ETH.
You should use MSI Afterburner to OC your GPU. Have a look to my settings https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1940360.msg19773784#msg19773784

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