is it possible to mine zcash with amd+nvidia cards on one rig?

[Pachuca]

Hi,

 

I have a rig with amd and nvidia cards. There's no dual miner like for ethereum so is it possible to dual mine amd/nvidia gpu's on the same rig or am I stuck with just using one gpu or the other?

[Guest]

yes you can. 

[Guest]

Just use some cards in one miner, and use the other cards in a different miner.

[Damascus]

Yep

[Energycore]

You can. Miner software has parameters (or in-program commands in claymore's miner for instance) that allow you to set what GPUs the miner will use. Track the number of all your AMD cards and set them to ethminer, then set the nvidia cards to the zcash miner.

[Pachuca]

6 minutes ago, Energycore said:

You can. Miner software has parameters (or in-program commands in claymore's miner for instance) that allow you to set what GPUs the miner will use. Track the number of all your AMD cards and set them to ethminer, then set the nvidia cards to the zcash miner.

where do i do that? in the config file?

[Pachuca]

21 minutes ago, Almostbauws said:

Just use some cards in one miner, and use the other cards in a different miner.

I only have one mobo to use otherwise I would have already switched them.

[Energycore]

4 minutes ago, Pachuca said:

where do i do that? in the config file?

If you're on genoil's miner, navigate on an elevated command prompt to the folder where it's located and type ethminer --help. Here's a pic

 

 

The zcash miner should have a similar help string.

[Pachuca]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

If you're on genoil's miner, navigate on an elevated command prompt to the folder where it's located and type ethminer --help. Here's a pic

 

 

The zcash miner should have a similar help string.

I'm running claymore for eth and ewbf for zcash. I see claymore has an option to use only amd or only nvdia, but I can't figure out how to put it in correctly so I just disabled the nvidia gpu's manually. Any idea if running two mining programs at the same time would be a problem? I'm not seeing much of a performance loss either. 

[Energycore]

34 minutes ago, Pachuca said:

I'm running of claymore for eth and ewbf for zcash. I see claymore has an option to use only amd or only nvdia, but I can't figure out how to put it in correctly so I just disabled the nvidia gpu's manually. Any idea if running two mining programs at the same time would be a problem? I'm not seeing much of a performance loss either. 

No reason why it'd be a problem, if they're each using separate resources

[FireClawGames]

On 2/10/2018 at 4:40 PM, Pachuca said:

ewbf for zcash

You should try bminer. I've been mining Zclassic with the nofee option and it has been faster than ewbf.