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Ethminer setup guide

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How to setup nvidia optimized ethminer version 0.11.0 on windows 10.

ethminer is open source and doesn't have a fee unlike claymore miner.

  • Hardware
  • Windows 10
  • Internet connection
  • Mining pool of your choice and your ethereum wallet address
  1. Download ethminer
  2. Unzip folder
  3. Make new txt file inside folder where ethminer.exe is located
  4. Write your own start bat file
  5. Run bat file

Direct link:https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases/download/v0.11.0/ethminer-0.11.0-Windows.zip Github link(you need to download (ethminer-0.11.0-Windows.zip):https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

(note that you don't need to run exe).

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0

setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100

setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -U -S eu1.example.com:4444 -FS us1.example.com:4444 -O <YourEthereumAddress>.<WorkerNameCanBeAny>

where:

–farm-recheck

is ms between checks for changed work

-U or -G

is for deciding between cuda or opencl you must choose one, either -U or -G

-U
cuda mining (nvidia technology link with list of supported gpus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA)
-G
for opencl if your card doesn’t support cuda
-S

stratum port of your mining pool

-FS

failover stratum mining pool in case first fails (optional)

-O
userpass YourEthereumWalletAdress.workername

To get full list of commands open command line in folder with ethminer.exe and write

ethminer –help

after changes save txt file and rename from anyname.txt to anyname.bat

(obviously name of text document can be whatever you want but part after dot (aka filename extension) must be bat)

If you want to add miner to startup here is the article how to do it

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