Mining with Ethminer on Windows (AMD/NVIDIA)

Required Downloads:

Latest Ethminer Release
Latest Drivers (AMD GPUs)
Latest Drivers (NVIDIA GPUs)

Prerequisites:

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

Pirl Mining with Ethminer on Windows (AMD/NVIDIA)