Mining with Ethminer on Windows (AMD/NVIDIA)
Required Downloads:
Latest Ethminer Release
Latest Drivers (AMD GPUs)
Latest Drivers (NVIDIA GPUs)
Prerequisites:
Creating & Accessing a Pirl Web Wallet
Setting up Ethminer:
- Download & Extract Ethminer from the link provided above
- Right click in the director and click New > Text Document
a. Name the new document “Pirl”
- Open up the document and type the following for AMD
a. ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -S pirl.minerpool.net:8004 -SP 1 -O addresshere.rig1 - Open up the document and type the following for NVIDIA
b. ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -U -S pirl.minerpool.net:8004 -SP 1 -O addresshere.rig1 - Replace the spot that says "addresshere" with your public wallet address from when you logged into your account earlier. The address will look similar to 0x44f31B903532994507df7B18B8E9b48655e1a980
- In the upper left hand corner, click File > Save As
- Rename the file to pirl.bat
- Hit the drop-down menu for Save as type: and select “All Files” then click “Save”
a. This makes the file a windows batch file which will open up the miner with the credentials you made
Congratulations! You are now ready to mine with Ethminer! Double click the pirl.bat file and get mining! View your stats via http://pirl.minerpool.net/#/ or check your wallet occasionally
Notes:
- You are not stuck with pirl.minerpool.net, a list of pools can be found here: https://pool.pirl.io/
- You can view current network stats here: http://stats.pirl.io/
- You can download MSI Afterburner to overclock your system to get max efficiency. Use at your own risk!!
Troubleshooting:
“Windows cannot open specified file” when opening pirl.bat
- Make sure pirl.bat is in the Claymore Directory
- Right click and edit pirl.bat and make sure everything was copied correctly
Pirl Tip Address: 0xbf4cdb39928846b43be633cf07283c3b57dc3209
thanks for sharing
Great info, thanks. Following you.
I know this is quite old post, but it still shows up from time to time. Those parameters mentioned in this article are no longer valid (after 0.14.0 version).
Now they'd be something like this:
AMD:
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G --pool stratum1+tcp://[email protected]:8004
NVIDIA:
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -U --pool stratum1+tcp://[email protected]:8004