Forest EPU XC dual mining ETC + ZIL review

Today, Luban will introduce you to a GPU mining machine. This new GPU mining machine may provide you with a different choice for mining in a bear market.

Just as the emergence of BTC ASIC miners once ended the history of GPU mining, the release of the world's first true ASIC ETH miner Linzhi Phoenix in 2020 also marks that ETH mining will begin to gradually transition to ASIC.

However, due to the highly tense global chip supply chain at the time, ASIC ETH mining machine manufacturers were slow to achieve large-scale mass production. The limited supply coupled with the rapid growth of ETH prices meant that the profits from mining ETH with GPUs were still very lucrative - until the successful deployment of PoS.

Almost overnight, due to the low price of ETC and the energy consumption ratio of GPU which is several times that of ASIC, the revenue is not enough to cover the electricity cost, so the proportion of GPU computing power in the whole network has dropped precipitously. Only some players with cheap electricity resources are still using GPU to mine ETC, ETHW or some other altcoins.

ASIC ETHash mining machines are also having a hard time. The average ROI time has increased significantly from 6-8 months before POS to 6-8 years after POS, which often means that there will never be a day to recover the investment in the mining circle. A large number of players began to sell their ASIC machines at low prices, and the price of ASIC ETHash mining machines dropped to the bottom in an instant.

At this moment, the ETHash&ETChash+ZIL dual mining solution, which had been unpopular before, has returned to everyone's attention.

ZIL's algorithm is also ETHash, but its operation method is very unique. Every one to two hours, you only need to switch the computing power from ETC&ETHW to ZIL for one to two minutes to get the full income. The income of this part of ZIL can even exceed that of ETC&ETHW, which took longer to mine, in late September and early October, and the whole process is automatic.

But is everything really as wonderful as it seems? You, the smart one, should have discovered the problem.

To dual-mine ZIL, your mining equipment needs to frequently switch from one currency to another. When switching, your mining equipment needs to reload the DAG files of different currencies, reconnect to different mining pools, reconnect to different currency blockchains, and start from 0 to increase the computing power to its proper level, and then quickly switch again. Each of the above steps between each switch takes a lot of time. This is why until today, ZIL's computing power mainly comes from GPUs - because dual mining or multi-mining has always been commonplace for GPUs, and this status quo will soon be broken by the newly released Forest EPU XC.

Forest EPU XC is currently the only ASIC ETHash&ETChash mining machine that perfectly supports dual mining. Its switching speed is comparable to that of GPU, and after special tuning, it truly achieves seamless switching. Its additional ZIL income has reached more than half of ETC's income, which means that Forest EPU XC has become the most profitable ETHash&ETChash machine at present, without a doubt.

We can see in K1POOL that every 100M can earn 5.61 ZIL per day (according to the actual situation)

At the same time, we learned that ForesMiner is actively cooperating with F2pool, K1pool, and Crazypool, using its own computing power to help the mining pools test and improve support for dual mining of ASIC miners, and deploy server nodes closer to us to make the loss caused by network delay infinitely close to zero, so as to further improve the overall profit.

We have previously reviewed ForestMiner's first product, the Forest EPU 1-C, and we were deeply impressed by its ultra-high single-machine computing power and ultra-high weight. However, we also discovered a problem at the time - the power consumption of the Forest EPU 1-C also exceeded that of other brands of ASIC ETHash miners on the market at the time.

The official explanation given to us at that time was that the main design of the chip used by ForestMiner was completed in 2018, but mass production was delayed until 2021 for various reasons. In the market situation when this chip was designed, computing power was king, and power consumption was far less important than it is now, so the team did not consider the energy consumption ratio too much. However, they also said at the time that since the entire architecture of this chip was completely independently designed by the ForestMiner team, there is a lot of room for later optimization, so let us look forward to it.

Let's get back to the point. The fact is that ForestMiner has greatly optimized its first product, Forest EPU 1-C, and launched Forest EPU XC. Its computing power and power consumption have been greatly improved from 2500M 3800W to the current 4200M 3500W. The computing power has increased by nearly 70%, and the energy consumption has only decreased by 10%. However, due to the significant increase in computing power, the energy consumption ratio has increased from 1.52W/M to the current 0.83W/M, and the energy consumption ratio has been reduced by more than 45%. This energy consumption ratio is currently only inferior to Jasminer, which is several times more expensive than ForestMiner.

So does its actual operation match the official claims? Let’s verify it!

This is our test machine Forest EPU XC. Let's take a look at the energy consumption. It is 1700 and 1750, so together, it is about 3450. I will put other official data in the video link.

Then let's go to the computer to see the actual operation of this mining machine: the mining machine is turned on, our Forest EPU XC, this is it, this is the computing power of the mining machine,

This is the hash power , so the green part, the green part here, 4.198 G, and here, etc and zil, so it's dual mining, so let's look at ETC, this is the hash power of ETC, the current hash power is around 4.29G/sec, the average hash power is, the hash power is about 4.2, yes, that's it, and then let's look at zil, so zil, the current hash value of zil, currently zero, but the average is about 4.55G, that's because it's dual mining, now switching from zil to etc, and will switch back later

So here, here is about our income, our daily rewards, so let's look at ETC, you can see here, every day we can get about, let's see it's 0.45, I think 0.45, about half, about half ETC , 0. 45, about Zil, every day we can get about, you see, about 250, I think that's accurate, so 250 Zil, every day, um, yeah. You see here is converting, converting from ETC to Zil , here is the current price of ETC and Zil , the current price of ETC is about $19 . 02 dollars, and the price of Zil is about $0.02 each, let's do the calculation, okay? Do the calculation, we can get about $0.45 per day, etc., the current price is about $19.02, so about $8.559, this is our daily income from ETC, let's look at Zil, Zil, we can get about 250 Zil, the current price of Zil is about 0.02, so about 5, so you see, the income from Zil is already

More than half of the revenue is for ETC , so it's spectacular, it's amazing, let's add them together, 5 plus 8.559, so it's about 13.559, that's our daily revenue, daily revenue, let's talk about the month , how about, let's multiply by 30, use 30, so our monthly revenue is about 406.77, so 400 monthly revenue, perfect, very spectacular, right? 400, and then here, here is about currently, all miners, so you see here, it's about ETC, yes, because our Forest miner is for ETC, right? So Forest miner and Jasminer and other miners, but now you can see here, the most profitable miner is our Forest EPU XC, so on average, the electricity cost is about 6 cents, so here is the average cost of electricity, but currently many miners just can't cover their electricity costs already, so, but our Forest EPU XC is betting .

Are you satisfied with the data of this mining machine? As miners, payback period and profitability have always been valued by us. The performance of this mining machine is indeed as the official said. In today's market environment, the release of this mining machine does give many people more choices. You can calculate whether it is suitable for purchase based on the electricity price in your area.