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@haitch Ouch! I'm at 3500nonces/min, I think I'll quit the process and start again at 3 or 4 cores.
Can you change the amount of cores while it's in process? Say I want to run 8 cores at night, and then when I start work, take it down to 3 or 4 cores.
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@mrgoldy The xplotter process is restartable and will resume where you ended it, so yes - you can run it with X threads during the day and Y threads overnight. In the xplotter command you need to specify the starting nonce and number of nonces: eg:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 13919803089879865906 -sn 286096624 -n 30516232 -t <threads> -path <directory> -mem <memory>G
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@haitch if i was to buy a dedicated machine for mining, be it a laptop/desktop....what minimum specs would i need?
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@johnm the minimum specs I would recommend would be anything built after 2014. Ideally a 64 bit processor and operating system. Plotters use 64 bit, however some miners do not. Mining only would be ideal on pre 2014 models as i have done in the past with CPU miners.
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@ZapbuzZ so maybe a completely obvious question but would i not be plotting/mining on the same machine? so im a bit confused on your recommend anything after 2014 but mining being ideal in pre 2014 models....
as for the processor so ones its 64 bit im good to go?.... no need to have minimum i5 for example?
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the older the machine the slower it plots. It takes me 5 days to plot 8tb wth usb3 external on AMD FM2+ @3200Mhz But some people here have reported that the new core i7 intel can do the same in just 2 days. I have found older hardware or low end spec systems are great for mining. Its basically how long are you willing to wait vs your wallet size. Slower uses less energy and it doesn't take any more than say a 1ghz 64bit processor to mine. I say such that I like to use my astest plotting machine to play video games and surf the net so i can shut it down and use my old faithful to mine with less energy.
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@haitch Do you recommend a full format or will "quick" do?
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@newsense2004 I've always used quick.
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quick will do with maximum cluster size 64k oops my apologies guys I didn't mean to butt in :)
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@ZapbuzZ Thanks, a full format is going to take longer than i'd like to wait.
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@haitch IF I programed xplotter to plot 6000 nonces and i ended it whilst it had written 3000, and If i executed with the same command it will resume from 3000 nonces?
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@ZapbuzZ yes, but you need to specify the number of nonces - if you initially launched with -n 0, it will not resume, you need to specify -n 6000
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Is it normal my nounces are different on the drive I set to 64kb ? All my other drives have the same nounces besides this one.
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it is faster reading at 64k and it wont affect the others larger cluster sizes do have a small amount of waste per size. yes it is normal. If you are not comfortable you can go "default" cluster size but slightly slower reading rate of completed plot whilst mining. (less efficient)