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Title: [Discussion] Summer is coming... Reference 480 8GB Modding
Post by: GPUM1ner on April 30, 2017, 05:15:56 AM
The RX 480 8GB Reference (Blower Style) GPU's are pretty much rated as one of the worst GPU's for mining due to their single fan blower-style design. During the winter, these cards were fine, but as temperatures are rising for summer, they are beginning to run very hot.

Many members are still using them and I wanted to start a thread to hopefully gather some information and improvements with how miners are dealing with the design so that other Reference RX 480 users could benefit.
I wanted to see if we could find the optimal settings for the GPU. Lets see your settings/configuration/mods/etc.

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Card 1
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Manufacturer: AMD/ATI
Memory Type: Samsung
ASIC Quality: 73.1%
Current Hashrate: 29.3 MH/s


Ambient Temp (Outdoors): 22.3c/73f
GPU Temp: 67c
Fan Speed: 73%
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Card 2
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Manufacturer: AMD/ATI
Memory Type: Samsung
ASIC Quality: 84.4%
Current Hashrate: 29.6 MH/s

Ambient Temp (Outdoors): 22.3c/73f
GPU Temp: 64c
Fan Speed: 60%

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Current PBE Configuration:
https://i.imgur.com/TnMNBbH.png

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Relevant Software:

Polaris Bios Editor 1.4.1:
https://github.com/tpruvot/PolarisBiosEditor/releases/download/1.4.1/PolarisBiosEditor141.zip (https://github.com/tpruvot/PolarisBiosEditor/releases/download/1.4.1/PolarisBiosEditor141.zip)

ATI/AMD Flash 2.74:
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/ (https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/)

GPU-Z 1.20.0:
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/ (https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/)


Title: Re: [Discussion] Summer is coming... Reference 480 8GB Modding
Post by: alucard20724 on May 13, 2017, 05:47:25 AM
I'll be paying attention, i've got a few cards i need to play with.

I'm linking another thread that might be of use also

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0)