AddyCMOS VS xmrig-cuda

SPECS: OS-AddyCMOS {https://gitlab.com/WheezyBackports/AddyCMOS}, 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive CPU-Ryzen 9 5800x RAM- x4 8GB, G.skill Flare X CL14-14-14-34 @ 3200MHz, 1.35V , CPU Cooler-Noctua DH-15s MOBO-MSI Gaming Plus Max x470 GPU-NVIDIA Geforce GT710 Low-Profile Card PSU-Seasonic PX-850 Platinum 850W PSU

Anyway there's the gitlab repo. It's meant to be flashed onto a USB stick then booted on any machine. If you use a UEFI system I recommend playing with your CSM legacy boot settings if it doesn't boot right away. This is due to it being partitioned for MBR BIOS and syslinux doesn't have full on UEFI support. The README is both on the repository and the systems /home/addycmos. The README also contains a list of file locations as well.

What mining algorithms does your distribution support? find it

If you plan on only CPU mining I have made a CPU mining Linux distribution for the Monero Ocean community. All you would need is to flash the image to a USB stick, boot it, and run the setup script. There's a README guide that explains how to set up the system. If you would like to use it you can find it on https://gitlab.com/WheezyBackports/AddyCMOS

If you're interested in the project you may find it on Gitlab at : https://gitlab.com/WheezyBackports/AddyCMOS

For Windows you can get the plugin precompiled from MoneroOcean/xmrig-cuda releases just match whatever is closest to your nvidia-smi CUDA runtime version (top right corner)

Setup another clone of the whole xmrig folder, change cpu->enabled:false and cuda->enabled:true, get moneroocean CUDA plugin, let it test all algorithms. Will earn more than the CPU. Run them both at the same time. If both enabled in the single xmrig session that locks algo to the same on both which would never be optimal.

Linux requires you to build the plugin yourself since there are no releases of MO/xmrig-cuda for it. Rough instructions are here, scroll down to the CUDA section. For proper toolkit, check nvidia-smi for what version of CUDA your driver contains (top right corner) then get that CUDA Toolkit.

GT620 is a Fermi based thing, that will work with CUDA 8.0, you'll have to run old drivers (probably 391.35) and obtain the MoneroOcean fork of xmrig-cuda for 8.0 release from me because official MoneroOcean repo doesn't build releases for 8.0 and I just built this for another user on here recently (will keep it updated too).

Then I go grab the MoneroOcean/xmrig-cuda release for that (or below) and xmrig-cuda-v6.15.1-mo2-cuda10_1-win64.zip fits that requirement.

If you need the CUDA plugin for xmrig then also use the MoneroOcean fork of xmrig-cuda or it will not understand cn-gpu.

Also if using the xmrig-cuda plugin for nvidia GPUs, use their fork as well or you will be missing cn-gpu algorithm support (it would be in the miner / but the plugin would fail to understand it).

Use the cuda10_2 release and see if it works.

MoneroOcean xmrig-cuda

The main things that are the same are: * Use MO forks of everything: xmrig xmrig-cuda plugin (if nvidia) * Setup cpu-only xmrig as normal. Give rig-id in pass field (rigName:[email protected]) * Setup another separate folder configured cpu off and cuda or opencl on with different rig-id * Let each run their benchmarking and generate algo-perf * Run them both