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XMRig 5.5.2 Update Provides Slight Mining Performance Boost

4 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Chrono85

XMRig is a high performance RandomX, CryptoNight and Argon2 CPU/GPU miner. A new version was released on Feb 1 2020, version 5.5.2 that features changes to the Random X implementation. User have been reporting a small increase in hashrate, so I wante...

XMRig 5.5.2 Update Provides Slight Mining Performance Boost

Minero Mining Performance on 8th Gen Intel Mobile CPUs

3 Feb 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Chrono85

I’ve been hobby mining Monero since 2013, mostly using discarded hardware that I acquire in my work as an IT guy. I keep a close eye on my performance per watt to make sure the hardware I’m running is at least breaking even, if not generating a (smal...