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Claymore's NeoScrypt AMD GPU Miner.
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Latest version is v1.2:

- improved stratum routines to support more pools.
- added RX550 card support.


WARNING: NeoScrypt algorithm is VERY HOT, make sure you have powerful PSU and good GPU cooling, use "-powlim 50" option to get full hashrate.

LINKS:

GOOGLE: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j7mhliKrRS2IWp_lMrNfhRBAeJT7ISIu (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j7mhliKrRS2IWp_lMrNfhRBAeJT7ISIu)
MEGA:     https://mega.nz/#F!WthSUArb!00pET54lyIF1386tOGs1BQ (https://mega.nz/#F!WthSUArb!00pET54lyIF1386tOGs1BQ)


This is POOL version. Use any recent drivers. Miner requires up to 1.1GB of GPU memory.
For multi-GPU systems, set Virtual Memory size in Windows at least 16 GB (better more):
"Computer Properties / Advanced System Settings / Performance / Advanced / Virtual Memory".

This miner is free-to-use, however, current developer fee is 2%, every hour the miner mines for 72 seconds for developer.
If you don't agree with the dev fee - don't use this miner, or use "-nofee" option.
Attempts to cheat and remove dev fee will cause a bit slower mining speed (same as "-nofee 1") though miner will show same hashrate.
Miner cannot just stop if cheat is detected because creators of cheats would know that the cheat does not work and they would find new tricks. If miner does not show any errors or slowdowns, they are happy.

This miner is heavily optimized and therefore supports only most popular AMD GPU chips: Pitcairn, Tahiti, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, Vega.

Only Windows x64 is supported currently. No Linux support. No 32-bit support. No NVidia support.



COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

-pool    NeoScrypt pool address. Only Stratum protocol is supported.

-wal    Your wallet address. Also worker name and other options if pool supports it.

-psw    Password for NeoScrypt pool, use "x" as password, and/or any other options if pool supports them.

-a   algorithm mode for Ellesmere cards (RX470/RX480/RX570/RX580 cards), for other cards always "-a 1" is used. You can specify "-a 1" (default) or "-a 2" and find the best hashrate for your card.
   You can also set this option for every card individually, for example "-a 1,2,1".

-di    GPU indexes, default is all available GPUs. For example, if you have four GPUs "-di 02" will enable only first and third GPUs (#0 and #2).
   You can also turn on/off cards in runtime with "0"..."9" keys and check current statistics with "s" key.
   For systems with more than 10 GPUs: use letters to specify indexes more than 9, for example, "a" means index 10, "b" means index 11, etc; also "a", "b", and "c" keys allow you to turn on/off GPU #10, #11 and #12 in runtime.

-ftime   failover main pool switch time, in minutes, see "Failover" section below. Default value is 30 minutes, set zero if there is no main pool.

-wd    watchdog option. Default value is "-wd 1", it enables watchdog, miner will be closed (or restarted, see "-r" option) if any thread is not responding for 1 minute or OpenCL call failed.
   Specify "-wd 0" to disable watchdog.

-r   Restart miner mode. "-r 0" (default) - restart miner if something wrong with GPU. "-r -1" - disable automatic restarting. -r >20 - restart miner if something
   wrong with GPU or by timer. For example, "-r 60" - restart miner every hour or when some GPU failed.
   "-r 1" closes miner and execute "reboot.bat" file ("reboot.bash" or "reboot.sh" for Linux version) in the miner directory (if exists) if some GPU failed.
   So you can create "reboot.bat" file and perform some actions, for example, reboot system if you put this line there: "shutdown /r /t 5 /f".

-minspeed   minimal speed, in KH/s. If miner cannot reach this speed for 5 minutes for any reason, miner will be restarted (or "reboot.bat" will be executed if "-r 1" is set). Default value is 0 (feature disabled).
   You can also specify negative values if you don't want to restart miner due to pool connection issues; for example, "-minspeed -3000" will restart miner only if it cannot reach 3Mh/s at good pool connection.

-retrydelay   delay, in seconds, between connection attempts. Default values is "20". Specify "-retrydelay -1" if you don't need reconnection, in this mode miner will exit if connection is lost.

-dbg   debug log and messages. "-dbg 0" - (default) create log file but don't show debug messages.
   "-dbg 1" - create log file and show debug messages. "-dbg -1" - no log file and no debug messages.

-logfile   debug log file name. After restart, miner will append new log data to the same file. If you want to clear old log data, file name must contain "noappend" string.
   If missed, default file name will be used.

-logsmaxsize   maximal size of debug log files, in MB. At every start the miner checks all files in its folder, selects all files that contain "_log.txt" string and removes oldest files if summary files size is larger than specified value.
   Specify "-logsmaxsize 0" to cancel old logs removal. Default value is 1000 (i.e. about 1GB of log files are allowed).

-nofee   set "1" to cancel my developer fee at all. In this mode some optimizations are disabled so mining speed will be slower by about 5%.
   By enabling this mode, I will lose 100% of my earnings, you will lose only 3% of your earnings.
   So you have a choice: "fastest miner" or "completely free miner but a bit slower".
   If you want both "fastest" and "completely free" you should find some other miner that meets your requirements, just don't use this miner instead of claiming that I need
   to cancel/reduce developer fee, saying that 2% developer fee is too much for this miner and so on.

-benchmark   benchmark mode, specify "-benchmark 1" to see hashrate for your hardware.

-li   low intensity mode. Reduces mining intensity, useful if your cards are overheated. Note that mining speed is reduced too.
   More value means less heat and mining speed, for example, "-li 10" is less heat and mining speed than "-li 1". You can also specify values for every card, for example "-li 3,10,50".
   Default value is "0" - no low intensity mode.

-tt   set target GPU temperature. For example, "-tt 80" means 80C temperature. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-tt 70,80,75".
   You can also set static fan speed if you specify negative values, for example "-tt -50" sets 50% fan speed. Specify zero to disable control and hide GPU statistics.
   "-tt 1" (default) does not manage fans but shows GPU temperature and fan status every 30 seconds. Specify values 2..5 if it is too often.

-ttli   reduce entire mining intensity (for all coins) automatically if GPU temperature is above specified value. For example, "-ttli 80" reduces mining intensity if GPU temperature is above 80C.
   You can see if intensity was reduced in detailed statistics ("s" key).
   You can also specify values for every card, for example "-ttli 80,85,80". You also should specify non-zero value for "-tt" option to enable this option.
   It is a good idea to set "-ttli" value higher than "-tt" value by 3-5C.

-tstop   set stop GPU temperature, miner will stop mining if GPU reaches specified temperature. For example, "-tstop 95" means 95C temperature. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-tstop 95,85,90".
   This feature is disabled by default ("-tstop 0"). You also should specify non-zero value for "-tt" option to enable this option.
   If it turned off wrong card, it will close miner in 30 seconds.
   You can also specify negative value to close miner immediately instead of stopping GPU, for example, "-tstop -95" will close miner as soon as any GPU reach 95C temperature.

-fanmax   set maximal fan speed, in percents, for example, "-fanmax 80" will set maximal fans speed to 80%. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-fanmax 50,60,70".
   This option works only if miner manages cooling, i.e. when "-tt" option is used to specify target temperature. Default value is "100".

-fanmin   set minimal fan speed, in percents, for example, "-fanmin 50" will set minimal fans speed to 50%. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-fanmin 50,60,70".
   This option works only if miner manages cooling, i.e. when "-tt" option is used to specify target temperature. Default value is "0".

-cclock   set target GPU core clock speed, in MHz. If not specified or zero, miner will not change current clock speed. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-cclock 1000,1050,1100,0".
   Note: for some drivers versions AMD blocked underclocking for some reason, you can overclock only.
   Note: this option changes clocks for all power states, so check voltage for all power states in WattMan or use -cvddc option.  
   By default, low power states have low voltage, setting high GPU clock for low power states without increasing voltage can cause driver crash.

-mclock   set target GPU memory clock speed, in MHz. If not specified or zero, miner will not change current clock speed. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-mclock 1200,1250,1200,0".
   Note: for some drivers versions AMD blocked underclocking for some reason, you can overclock only.

-powlim set power limit, from -50 to 50. If not specified, miner will not change power limit. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-powlim 20,-20,0,10".

-cvddc   set target GPU core voltage, multiplied by 1000. For example, "-cvddc 1050" means 1.05V. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-cvddc 900,950,1000,970". Supports latest AMD 4xx cards only in Windows.

-mvddc   set target GPU memory voltage, multiplied by 1000. For example, "-mvddc 1050" means 1.05V. You can also specify values for every card, for example "-mvddc 900,950,1000,970". Supports latest AMD 4xx cards only in Windows.

-mport   remote monitoring/management port. Default value is -3333 (read-only mode), specify "-mport 0" to disable remote monitoring/management feature.
   Specify negative value to enable monitoring (get statistics) but disable management (restart, uploading files), for example, "-mport -3333" enables port 3333 for remote monitoring, but remote management will be blocked.
   You can also use your web browser to see current miner state, for example, type "localhost:3333" in web browser.
   Warning: use negative option value or disable remote management entirely if you think that you can be attacked via this port!
   By default, miner will accept connections on specified port on all network adapters, but you can select desired network interface directly, for example, "-mport 127.0.0.1:3333" opens port on localhost only.

-mpsw   remote monitoring/management password. By default it is empty, so everyone can ask statistics or manage miner remotely if "-mport" option is set. You can set password for remote access (at least EthMan v3.0 is required to support passwords).

-colors enables or disables colored text in console. Default value is "1", use "-colors 0" to disable coloring. Use 2...4 values to remove some of colors.

-v   displays miner version, sample usage: "-v 1".



CONFIGURATION FILE

You can use "config.txt" file instead of specifying options in command line.
If there are not any command line options, miner will check "config.txt" file for options.
If there is only one option in the command line, it must be configuration file name.
If there are two or more options in the command line, miner will take all options from the command line, not from configuration file.
Place one option per line, if first character of a line is ";" or "#", this line will be ignored.
You can also use environment variables in "pools.txt" and "config.txt" files. For example, define "WORKER" environment variable and use it as "%WORKER%" in config.txt or in pools.txt.



SAMPLE USAGE

miningpoolhub:

  NeoScryptMiner.exe -pool hub.miningpoolhub.com:20510 -wal Redhex.sample -psw x

nicehash:
  
  NeoScryptMiner.exe -pool stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.eu.nicehash.com:3341 -wal YourBtcWalletAddress -psw x



FAILOVER

Use "pools.txt" file to specify additional pools. This file has text format, one pool per line. Every pool has 3 connection attempts.
Miner disconnects automatically if pool does not send new jobs for a long time or if pool rejects too many shares.
If the first character of a line is ";" or "#", this line will be ignored.
Do not change spacing, spaces between parameters and values are required for parsing.
If you need to specify "," character in parameter value, use two commas - ,, will be treated as one comma.
You can reload "pools.txt" file in runtime by pressing "r" key.
Pool specified in the command line is "main" pool, miner will try to return to it every 30 minutes if it has to use some different pool from the list.
If no pool was specified in the command line then first pool in the failover pools list is main pool.
You can change 30 minutes time period to some different value with "-ftime" option, or use "-ftime 0" to disable switching to main pool.
You can also use environment variables in "pools.txt" and "config.txt" files. For example, define "WORKER" environment variable and use it as "%WORKER%" in config.txt or in pools.txt.
You can also select current pool in runtime by pressing "e" key.



REMOTE MONITORING/MANAGEMENT

Miner supports remote monitoring/management via JSON protocol over raw TCP/IP sockets. You can also get recent console text lines via HTTP.
Start "EthMan.exe" from "Remote management" subfolder.
Check built-in help for more information. "API.txt" file contains more details about protocol.



KNOWN ISSUES

- Windows 10 Defender recognizes miner as a virus, some antiviruses do the same. Miner is not a virus, add it to Defender exceptions.
  I write miners since 2014. Most of them are recognized as viruses by some paranoid antiviruses, perhaps because I pack my miners to protect them from disassembling, perhaps because some people include them into their botnets, or perhaps these antiviruses are not good, I don't know. For these years, a lot of people used my miners and nobody confirmed that my miner stole anything or did something bad.
  Note that I can guarantee clean binaries only for official links in my posts on this forum (bitcointalk). If you downloaded miner from some other link - it really can be a virus.
  However, my miners are closed-source so I cannot prove that they are not viruses. If you think that I write viruses instead of good miners - do not use this miner, or at least use it on systems without any valuable data.



TROUBLESHOOTING

1. Install latest drivers.
2. Disable overclocking.
3. Set environment variables as described above.
4. Set Virtual Memory 16 GB.
5. Reboot computer.
6. Check hardware, risers.



FAQ

- What command option X means?
  Read "Readme!!!.txt", "COMMAND LINE OPTIONS" section.

- How to mine using pool X?
  Read "Readme!!!.txt", "SAMPLE USAGE" section.

- Windows 10 marks miner as a virus.
  Read "Readme!!!.txt", "KNOWN ISSUES" section.

- Can miner stop overheated GPU?
  Yes, see "-tstop" option.

- Why this command line doesn't work (escaping '&')?
  Char '&' in command line means command separator, to use it in command line either quote string with "", or escape '&' (use ^& on Windows).
  No need to do this in *pools.txt or config.txt.
  Also all command line options must be in same line in .bat file, don't split them to several lines, it won't work.

- Will newer drivers have higher/lower hashrate?
  Usually no, but it depends... Check for yourself.

- Why -cclock/-mclock options do not work?
  Sometimes they do not work. Use Afterburner or other tools.

- Can the temperature be lowered?
  Yes, see "-tt", "-dcri", "-ttdcr", "-li", "-ttli" options.

- I see only one card via Remote Desktop Connection.
  It's a problem of RDC, use TeamViewer or some other remote access software.

- I see only one card instead of two in temperature management info.
  Disable CrossFire, don't use Remote Desktop Connection.

- Error "server: bind failed with error".
  Specify "-mport 0" option.

- How can I get stats from miner as EthMan does?
  Check API.txt file for json protocol details.

- Miner freezes if I put cursor to its window in Windows 10 until any key is pressed. Sometimes miner freezes randomly until any key is pressed.
  You should make some changes in Windows:
  https://superuser.com/questions/555160/windows-command-prompt-freezing-on-focus
  https://superuser.com/questions/419717/windows-command-prompt-freezing-randomly?rq=1
  https://superuser.com/questions/1051821/command-prompt-random-pause?rq=1

- Sometimes miner cannot connect to devfee mining server at first attempt, does it cause longer devfee mining?
  No, during these connection attempts miner still mines for you.

- How many cards are supported?
  Miner supports up to 32 GPUs.

- Miner crashed and I cannot restart it until reboot.
  Often when OpenCL fails, you have to reboot the system, not just restart miner. Sometimes even soft reboot won't work and you have to press Reset button. It is because the fail is at drivers level, Windows does not like such things and drivers too.

- EthMan loses rigs with 12 GPUs.
  Sometimes systems with 12 GPUs and low-end CPU become slow for remote access, you can see problems with EthMan and other remote management software.


FAQ #2:

1. If you think that the miner will mine even if you turn off the router, wait a couple of minutes more, it will stop.
2. Place all command line arguments in .BAT file in a single line. Arguments from the second line will be ignored.
3. I don't have any private versions with +50% speed.
4. I'm a software developer, so I think I cannot help you to build your mining rig properly or provide you with the list of necessary parts, please ask this question here on forum or search here, there are many threads related to hardware.
5. Please read Readme.txt or original post of this thread for command line samples, options description and FAQ.
6. I don't have miners for Tesla, IBM CPUs, Phi or for very old GPUs.
7. Mining on laptops is a bad idea.
8. You will not see full hashrate on pool immediately, you have to wait for 24 hours at least.

For stock cards I get the following speeds ("-powlim 50"):

RX480 - 930KH/s ("-a 2").
RX470 - 900KH/s ("-a 2").
RX580nitro+ - 1000KH/s ("-a 1").
Fury Nano - 1350KH/s.
390X - 1150KH/s.
270X - 450KH/s.
380X - 720KH/s.
280X - 825KH/s.
RX460 - 380KH/s.
Vega64 - 2200KH/s.
Fury X - 1530KH/s (user reported).

Doesn't seem as profitable as Ethash or Equihash for RX 580's. Should be a good option for Vega's.

http://whattomine.com/coins/8-ftc-neoscrypt?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=1000&p=150&fee=3&cost=0.12&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

rx 480 - 815KH/s why?
http://prntscr.com/ij466r (http://prntscr.com/ij466r)

1. "-powlim 50"

2.

-a   algorithm mode for Ellesmere cards (RX470/RX480/RX570/RX580 cards), for other cards always "-a 1" is used. You can specify "-a 1" (default) or "-a 2" and find the best hashrate for your card.
   You can also set this option for every card individually, for example "-a 1,2,1".

ok -powlim 50 -a 2
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Claymore,

Can you tell us please, approximately how much hotter/how much more power are the cards pulling when mining neoscrypt algo in comparison to ethash solo/dual or equihash algorithm?

Depends on cards and bios. I use stock cards, my current test rig (duo pro cards) takes 1600W for ETH-only and 2100W for Neoscrypt. It seems Neoscrypt requires same power as for dual mining.

Yes, if you think that FTC is the only Neoscrypt coin.

WOW ! i was waiting ages for this ! going to test it ASAP

what about nvidia cards?

Going by WTM, currently the most profitable Neoscrypt coin is 15% more profitable than ETH only mining on a weekly average basis. Once you factor in dual mining and the increased difficulty that will come shortly from Vega's, that will certainly make it less profitable, at least for RX 580's.

http://whattomine.com/coins?utf8=%E2%9C%93&adapt_q_280x=0&adapt_q_380=0&adapt_q_fury=0&adapt_q_470=0&adapt_q_480=0&adapt_q_570=0&adapt_q_580=0&adapt_q_vega56=0&adapt_q_vega64=0&adapt_q_750Ti=0&adapt_q_1050Ti=0&adapt_q_10606=0&adapt_q_1070=0&adapt_q_1070Ti=0&adapt_q_1080=0&adapt_q_1080Ti=0&eth=true&factor%5Beth_hr%5D=29.0&factor%5Beth_p%5D=150.0&factor%5Bgro_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bgro_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bx11g_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bx11g_p%5D=0.0&cn=true&factor%5Bcn_hr%5D=740.0&factor%5Bcn_p%5D=100.0&eq=true&factor%5Beq_hr%5D=318.0&factor%5Beq_p%5D=130.0&factor%5Blrev2_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Blrev2_p%5D=0.0&ns=true&factor%5Bns_hr%5D=1000.0&factor%5Bns_p%5D=150.0&factor%5Blbry_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Blbry_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bbk2b_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bbk2b_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bbk14_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bbk14_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bpas_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bpas_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bskh_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bskh_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bn5_hr%5D=57.0&factor%5Bn5_p%5D=345.0&factor%5Bl2z_hr%5D=420.0&factor%5Bl2z_p%5D=300.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0.12&sort=Profit&volume=0&revenue=current&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&dataset=&commit=Calculate

2200 KH/s on Vegas, sounds great ! Which driver ?

Oh, if you calculate the increased difficulty that will come, the only choice is ETH of course :) It seems I just waste my time with new miners...

More options is always a good thing, but everyone can't always win and you can't make everybody happy. :)

since this is your first release, what are your thoughts on optimization potential for this algorithm on your miner?
Not necessarily hashrate improvement per certain cards, I also mean reducing power consumption while maintaining the same hashrate.

My opinion is:
1. No power consumption reducing is possible.
2. No big speed increase is possible, may be 5-10%.

wow, wonderful, RX470 speed?

Please Also think about us........ NVIDIA miners.......
Earlier yours Zcash was also AMD only....
We look at you best quality products.

Both my ZCash and Neoscrypt miners will be AMD-only, sorry.
There are many NVIDIA devs here and they already released appropriate miners.

Like you literally have to read just a little above your comment.  What is wrong with people, this thread has ONE GOD DAMN PAGE TO READ.

One page.  Plus Claymore was nice enough to benchmark his software and post the results.  sometimes.....and yes a 470 is pretty much the same as a 570 so the speeds will be in the same ballpark

I get 900KH/s on stock "RX470 red devil" card with "-powlim 50 -a 2" options.

Your miners are the best out there. Keep up the good work. :)

Ok testing with vega 56.  It really seems to be a power limit problem.  With no real tweaking, just power limit on a stock 56 GPU, I get.

190w -19pl, 1300
235w 0pl, 1450

So, yes PL + 50 will get you good speed...but at an ridiculous power usage.  This is stock 56 though, not soft modded.

Agreed, my watercooled Vega64 at stock clocks takes 500W to show 2200KH/s, it's crazy. Though it takes similar power in dual mining too.

2x sapphire nitro rx vega 56

 160watts at wall  1500k/hs  -19 pl stock clocks

im told the fan on the standard vega pulls 30watts on its own

the nitro has 3 fans and its hardly hitting 50c

sapphire rx560  391 k/hs  not sure of wattage atm

Anyway, now AMD is not worse than NVIDIA in NeoScrypt mining, let me know if you can get 2200KH/s from single 1080Ti :)

Did anyone test how much undervolt is possible going from stock card settings for stable mining for any of these cards for neoscrypt?

It'd be interesting when we get more data from users here, especially when it comes to optimal clocks to use.
Personally I'm trying this on my Vega56@64 rig. At -25 PL and Cryptonight clocks (1408/1115) hashrate is approx 1550Mh/s per card (using blockchain driver). The whole rig is drawing ~1450W at the wall in the process. No idea how stable that is in the long run.

EDIT: Claymore, have you experimented with clocks at all? Any approximate sweet spots you can advise?

I'm running drivers 18.2.2 with my 570/580 cards.   the -powlim 50 option doesn't seem to work

"Failed to set new Power Control treshold for GPU #0"  .. that's exactly the message i get... spelling error and all.

No, I use stock clocks in my tests.


I use 18.2.2 and -powlim works fine with my RX580. Anyway, you can try to use AB to set power limit.

wow. this is great. i hope for more algos from you in preparation to these asics and pos thingies.

Thanks for your help.  Figured it out afterwards.  the problem wasn't your code, nor AB.  my one 580 is an OC version and it's power limit is coded to be 30 max.  setting -powlim to 30 or less worked fine.

nice!!!
More algos for the best miner around!!
Congrats Claymore for the good job!!

vega has to be softmodded with power play table mod to reduce power or itsa hog

all my vega 56 and frontier cards are softmodded and do 40mhs eth 2500 blake at around 200ish watts

Not tried neoscrypt yet tho with this new miner

Just tried this with my 2 vega64 and 1 vega56, xmr-based setup 1408/1150@900mV
vega64 is 2.1 mhs neoscrypt each card, vega56 is 1.9mhs.
Delta between idle and mining modes for 3 cards is ~750watt, so ~250 watt per card.
Good work, Claymore! ))

we are not far away, my 1080 ti gives 2000+ with latest excavator and just below 2000 with modified hsr...

nevertheless, it's good to have a decent amd neoscrypt miner, thanks
(I have different brands & models of cards, more fun....)

come one mate because there are other miner out there not means equality is same, plus more choise always is better & it can create a good dev competition my be in a pozitive way ... personal after i was use your Eth one damn i can say i wish you to change your mind & make Zcash & this new Neoscrypt supporting Nvidia to

but probabil maintain AMD & Nvidia on same equality is not easy task ...

anyway hope to change your mind & make a lot ppls happy

Cheers & thx

That sounds quite good. Would you mind sharing your overdriventool settings?
I am limited by my PSU (EVGA 1600 G2) to run these speeds but maybe I could get somewhat closer with some tweaking. These are my settings (although they won't mean much if I gimp them with -25 PL...

Name=Vega64b
GPU_P0=852;900
GPU_P1=991;900
GPU_P2=1084;900
GPU_P3=1138;900
GPU_P4=1150;900
GPU_P5=1202;900
GPU_P6=1212;900
GPU_P7=1408;905
Mem_P0=167;900
Mem_P1=500;900
Mem_P2=800;950
Mem_P3=1115;1000
Fan_Min=3600
Fan_Max=4900
Fan_Target=75
Fan_Acoustic=2400
Power_Temp=85
Power_Target=0

I posted my reg-file some time ago in vega thread, don't want to repeat. You can find it ...
I use old 23Aug blockchain driver.
I never use PL for downvolting, only p-states.

In your example I don't like 950 and 1000 mV settings for memory, they shoud be the same with corresponding P7-state (900 or 905 mV)

Don't think so...
1. Nicehash will add this miner for sure - and on some spikes of high demand for Neoscrypt Nicehash Legacy miner will switch even "reds" to this algo (using your new miner which gives comparable hashrate )...
2. Autoswitch beatween algos on Miningpoolhub with  also can use it
3. ETH -> POS , miners goes to ETC / Pirl / ... and diff rise - so some of them will go to Neoscrypt in search of better profit


Anyway - new decent miner on "non-red's" algo - is a good job.

If I don't increase mem voltage I can't run in at 1100+ MHz and lose quite a bit of hashrate... :(

the better make NeoScrypt dual miner  8)

I'm not able to test it myself (just yet anyways), so how is the power consumption for a RX 480/580 at stock clocks and stock bios? I'll do some testing later when I get a chance and share my results.

Great work.
Tried it on my mixed Vega/580 rig and Vega's are doing good.
However; one of my modded rx580 (Anorak bios) cards, temp just goint through the roof, and I stopped the miner before it reached 80 deg c. The other MSI rx580 gaming X 8gb is doing fine. applied the -powlim etc. Aug23 driver. Any thoughts?

Ollis

I have a 570 rig dual ETH modded (1100Mhz/2030Mhz 906mv).. I just installed the miner and started it .. I get 700khs per card and 97w reported on the afterburner ... when dual mining I get 118w per card .. Can anyone share best clock and gpu for 570
Thanks

Very similar results on my 1408/1100@905mv table. Power hungry for sure! May need to up the power supply.

Fantastic work Claymore! Will be moving over 2 Vega rigs tomorrow.
 ;D

Would be nice to get a Linux variety.

 ;D

I tried to use the miner, but at first, I got 0.815 as speed for RX580nitro+. I tried to set up the -cclock to 1400 then to 1300 and mclock to 2100, but after the miner starts and gets to
NS : Authorized my rig freezes and I need to restart it. Anyway I can try to improve my speeds on the RX580nitro+? What am I missing here?

Claymore you plan to create a miner for the algorithm Lyra2Z?

Hi
I have a rig with 5 r9 290. They draw 1150w at the wall.Hashrate is amazing with 900 per card.But Power Consuption is to high for my 2 psu. Command powlim doesnt change anything. I try 50 and 30 and 20 - nothing happens at power consumption.
I have modded each card with stilt bios. Driver Version is 15.12 which is recommend for other claymore miner.
Can you tell me to get the power consumption down ?

NeoScrypt already stress the GPU greatly.

What is the best coin/pool to mine using this?  what is the profitability like?

Works fine on old AMD 7850 - 370-380 kh/s

https://i.imgur.com/9evQArD.jpg

-powlim 50 not working

https://i.imgur.com/uLohHrG.jpg

Nvidia support any time soon *?

Claymore already answered on the first page of this topic :

me tested GoByte.
altminer.net

@ claymore
If i do the command powlim 20 in bat file i see in MSI Afterburner that the powerlimit is set to +20. Is there an issue ?

Good news for the AMD cards owners, i have notice that  there is more interest for the neoscrypt algo than in the past.

Claymore you are the best  8)

Thx for that great miner for radeon cards  :)

Hello. What about the rx550 with the LEXA chip?

Hey there, what's the results of RX 570 4GB?
I gotta change my PSU before testing this maybe.

Temp/hash/consumption?

Anyone who can give me a good bat file for this I want to full mine XVG on, AMD  rx580 Windows 10.

I am now dual mining etc and XVG (blake2s)  with claymore 11 on unimining.net
But I want this running asap

Thanks Claymore, for putting this online and the good work!

915 kh/s at stock speed

xvg doesn't have neoscrypt in multi-algo list. You can mine some neoscrypt coin and exchange it to xvg. On exchange or with miningpoolhub auto-exchange option

Thank you, do you have a recommandationwhat  to mine with my rx580 rig?

you can always check whattomine.com or similar sites ... and than think ...

any benchmark vega 56? is the hash 2200hash like vega 64?

Hello

First: 

Claymore@  Thank you very much for your perfect work like always!!

Has somebody good IDEA/experience with a correct neoscrypt pool -best would be a neoscrypt autoswitch multipool??

Claymore is an amazing and very intelligent person, thanks for another miner.

Try 1300 and 2000~2100 memclock, might improve some %

difficult to read the whole 4-page long thread? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3012600.msg30996521#msg30996521

I have a 4 pcs RX580 GB in a 12 rig waiting to be populated ... 2600Watt PSU

Board not modded, Timing just adjusted for Etash.

Got an error when launching Neoscript miner:

Miner cann't take control of the GPU power control

Test done
- A1,-A2 changed
- No TTStop,No TT limit no Fanmin,No fan max basically I remove everything
- No command after the EXE, everything is in the config
1. Install latest drivers. Done
2. Disable overclocking. Done. Back to the original timing. The only thing is that I left available only p7

3. Set environment variables as described above.

4. Set Virtual Memory 16 GB.
64 GB, Done

5. Reboot computer.
Done plenty of time

6. Check hardware, risers.
Done

I run out of option / ideas

Two second after Dual mining  again with XVG... because I don't know what to do

what are the temps like?  I feel the blower cards run too hot while mining neoscrypt and so is the power consumption at those 1408/1100 clocks.

My Vegas were hanging around 60c last I checked - Similar settings 1408/1100@905mV

Meanwhile...

Real results, not only numbers but pictures  of RX 570 4gb. But in Europe energy isn't cheap..

https://imgur.com/a/B3moM (https://imgur.com/a/B3moM) https://imgur.com/a/APGKG (https://imgur.com/a/APGKG)  https://imgur.com/a/zYlcM (https://imgur.com/a/zYlcM)
Rx 570 4 gb with kernel a1  around 700  undervolting core overvolting memory + 25W/board at the wall

"memory controller isn't full or at least seem so"

Rx 570 4 gb with kernel a2  around 800  undervolting core overvolting memory + 25W/board at the wall



Rx 570 4 gb with kernel a2  around 700  stock, etash timing + 38W/board at the wall nicknamed MegaWASP by my kid.


Back to dual mining, as its cheaper on the wall

So, if I was able to run those, how I cannot have the pleasure to see the Rx 580 up and running?

reference or AIB?

Reference. Always had some sort of issue with Vega aftermarket cards. Checked again and still sitting at 60c. Fans are running at 90% though. Doing a quick restart and will grab rough power draw numbers for you.

-----------
edit: power settled out at 275 watts per V64 measured at the wall. Going to need to find the time to update my table mods to Red's 900mV  ;D

Decided to try out this miner on my old legacy Radeon 7970s rigs.

Gets like 850 kh/s, this reminds me of the speeds I got from my old Litecoin setup.

I think I got like 750kh/s back then with Scrypt at 300 watts per 7970 GPU.

It uses more power than ZEC and a lot more than XMR with Tahitis.

I'm running my 7990 at 900/1500@950mv downclock, so only 700kh/s per gpu. But temps are acceptable.

My vega64 are liquid )) So no problems with temps. My vega56 is air-blower. It keeps 55 degrees gpu, 68 degrees hbm2 at 100% fan. But it is rather cold in that room ))
There is one big concern - if downvolt settings will be f.cked of by something it can burn all around on stock voltage )) from 250 to 500 watt per card is not joke ))

I haven't played around with the voltages on this also. But how is it compared to ZEC mining?

I think with ZEC it was unstable at voltages so low.

it is good with xmr and this new neoscrypt, but zec gives some problems. It can work several hours but than crash.

I have been testing for the past ~19 hours on a personal computer with a RX 480 8GB (ASUS Strix model) at stock clocks, stock bios, 60% fan speed.  With a generic .bat file I get about 833 Kh/s at 109 watts (reading from Afterburner, it would be more at the wall but I don't have a killawatt on that machine). This is a pretty nice increase from the previous neoscrypt miner(s) for AMD. I also tested briefly with "-powlim 50" parameter added and it upped the hashrate to about 916 Kh/s but at a whopping 145 watts (reading from Afterburner). That is just not worth it to me, even without taking into account the much higher temperatures. In any case, at stock power I'm pretty pleased with the boost in performance and it's been 100% stable so far. :) I'll tinker with settings at some point to see if core and/or memory overclocks improve the hashrate without raising the power limit.

thanks for the update!

3 Asus Strix OC .

https://i.imgur.com/u1pdquz.png

Just a test of 5 minutes. Didnt tweak to much.

What settings did you have for the cards?  I am getting around 850 for mine with my Ethereum settings.

Same! How do you configure the miner to get over 1k? When I try to increase the core clock and go over 1200 and start the miner, I  get either disruptions and see funny colours on my screen or the rig just freezes.
I have noticed also, that the powlim- 50 does not work. No difference if its 50 or 40 or 30... How can I increase my speed to over 815, which is what I am getting from my 580nitro+ SEs... really disappointing, since I get around 31.5mh/s in eth.

I hope that the neoscrypt algo coin will rise, in the present state of the price in the market, we can make an add even profit because of the power grabbing of this miner, but anyway thanks @Calymore for your hardwork, you really a true LEGEND in Crypto World!!

I'm using :

-a 2
-cclock 1300
-mclock 2090

And instead of powlim
-mvddc 930
-cvdcc 930

https://i.imgur.com/jIM3M5h.png

It's the same configuration i have for eth. With bios mod 1750 to 2000 straps.

When I get time, i will try to tweak them some more. To see if it's possible get better results.

This is a very decent and stable miner. Thank you Claymore!

Hi Claymore

Is it also possible to do solo mining with this miner?

have not check the whole thread, I saw the results for VEGA64, they are quite nice and it seems that VEGA now is king for neoscrypt hashrate
but what bout VEGA56 or flashed into VEGA64 VEGA56, what hashrate do they have? any difference from each other? is it worth to flash 64's bios?

A little less than the 64.  You should get up to 1.9 but power usage is really high.  I cant run cards with 250w+ on them with my current power setup for vegas.  If you keep them sub 200w you can get 1.5 and tweak them a bit higher maybe.  Just use soft mod tables until you get something decent.

850 h/s with 570 Nitro+

1520 h/s with Fury X Sapphire.

Watt consumption is around 300 W for Fury

Is that on the wall wattage?

with one vega under a 6 fan custom loop, did some torture testing while rest of system idle (other non looped cards or cpu). this miner can really let the vega 64 go wild.
https://imgur.com/h38IBar

2.4MH/s @ 400W  :o
sounds great ! blockchain or adrenalin driver ?

adrenalin driver :)

Nice work on this Miner, Claymore. Doing a stable 2.24mh/s @ 230w with Vega 64`s! One minor issue, i see some tendencies of the miner hangs gpu devices when quitting the miner, i have to do a hard reboot in order for the cards to get in their normal state again. This may be something to do with my current OC settings, not sure.

it's the OC settings.  I had mine stuck hard as well.  Have to force reboot.

In fact 500++watt I think

Congratulations Claymore, you gave 280x's new life in those times of skyrocketing prices of new VGA's :)

I'm getting 1.95Mh on vega 56, ~1450 @ 955 v . Not sure how much W that is. So it's just as good as the 1080ti, which is nice.  It can do more I think.
Polaris cards seem to be capped at 1Mh, 580 or 480.
Adrenalin drivers.

need consumption watt information so it can be compared with 1080ti result

Somebody knows a good pool for neoscrypt?

maybe a pool switching automatically between best neoscrypt coins?

thanks for ideas

Hopefully a fair amount of "my amd pulls 75 watts from the wall" noobs will burn out there psu's using this , knocking them out of the game and bringing difficulty back down to sane levels.

Basically, I have 650W 90+ Gold PSU for two Fury X; when I overclock GPUs more, PSU starts to switch off - so these are rough calculations, but true

Can you share how you achieved this? Pretty decent hashrate/watt ratio as a matter of fact. I expect you used the 64 liquid bios?

altminer.net does this and i've been using it since getting this miner, going good so far (its user friendliness is a bit odd though, the pool addresses you have to figure out by things scattered around the page, not all in one line)

if you not want to farm random coin try to farm GoByte on official pool
https://us1.gobyte.network see more here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2442185.0

or you can pick here a coin see this treath "List of NeoScrypt Powered Coins"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=901149.0

altminer.net is good choise for multiple coin pool

cheers

4 x Vega56 with Vega64 BIOS with clocks 1340/1050MHz @ 900mV, hashrate is ~ 4 x 1.8 Mh/s, power consumption ~= 1050W from the wall.
Same rig with same settings on XMR gives hashrate 4 x 1750MH/s, power consumption ~= 710W from the wall.

Havent given the liquid bios a try yet, maybe i should try it. Had to lower the clocks slightly. Current settings are 1625/950 and 1090/950. Power target at 20% and temp target to 60c giving about 2.215Mh/s for almost 20 hours straight. 1656/950 gave 2.24 Mh/s but the computer would hang after a couple hours. Actual GPU clock is about 1463 Mhz at 0.894v. Latest Adrenalin driver, wattage have not been confirmed on wall.

Could you share you soft_pp settings.

I have taken some shared soft PP reg file with 1408/1050 clocks and only lowered the GPU clock.
Settings:
GPU_P0=852;900
GPU_P1=991;900
GPU_P2=1084;900
GPU_P3=1138;900
GPU_P4=1150;900
GPU_P5=1202;900
GPU_P6=1212;905
GPU_P7=1340;905
Mem_P0=167;900
Mem_P1=500;900
Mem_P2=800;900
Mem_P3=1050;900
Fan_Min=10
Fan_Max=4900
Fan_Target=60
Fan_Acoustic=2400
Power_Temp=85
Power_Target=0

So my cards consume about 250W each with 1.8Mh/s hashrate, profit/consumption ratio is not really good.

Wow these are bad results

Try downclocking memory and overclocking clocks, you'll get much better results.

Impressive. I need to tweak. Just need some time to do it.
Did you try with the august blockchain driver by any chance? I'm still sporting that antiquity as it's still the fastest driver for CastXMR. So I'd need a good reason to switch! ;D

Vega 56 ref, blockchain driver
1.464 Mh/s (1.364 Mh/s with monitor)
GPU 1112 mhz / 950 mv, memory 945 mhz / 950 mv, power -20
250 W from wall, 80 W idle

Now supported on my tool : Monitorig
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1448855.msg14651219#msg14651219

PS : Tested on My R9 Fury with powerlimit to 125W
I got 1000-1100 H/s :)

too high volts for core on that one.

Here's mine quick results Vega 56 ref. with 64 bios
1.835 MH/s @ 1375/1050 at 856mV

This sets hashrate to 1.272 Mh/s and power consumption to 244 W (80) on a device with itself 56 BIOS.

Further testing:
Vega56: 1.95 Mh/s, 1430 Mhz, 0.9V, 212 W in Gpu-Z, so 250-260 for the whole card and riser?
580s : 1.1Mh/s @ 160 W in gpu-z - these can surely eat less W.
480s : 1Mh/s @ 90-120 W in gpu-z.

7.1Mh/s from 5 polaris + 1 vega, good  8)

beast vega56!!!
the performance was competitive with 1080ti, im sure it will defeat 1080ti if there another optimize from claymore

GPU #0: gfx804 (Radeon RX 550 Series), 4096 MB available, 8 compute units (pci bus 1:0:0)
GPU #0 - no ASM kernel for this chip, this miner cannot be used for this card!
Error loading Data.bin
Cannot build OpenCL program for GPU 0
Total cards: 1
NS: Stratum - connecting to 'neoscrypt.hk.nicehash.com' <119.81.240.194> port 3341

ALGORITHM: NEOSCRYPT

Watchdog enabled
Remote management (READ-ONLY MODE) is enabled on port 4002

NS: Stratum - Connected (neoscrypt.hk.nicehash.com:3341)
NS: Authorized
GPU 0, GpuMiner k1 failed -48
GPU 0 failed
GPU 0, GpuMiner k1 failed -48
GPU 0 failed

RX550(4GB) is not supported?

It is not easy to set required clocks and voltages with blockchain driver. MSI Afterburner, OverdriveNtool or Wattool is not enough

1000kHs for 580?
Wow that would chuck Neoscrypt more profitable than Ethash on the RX series.
Need to update WhatToMine!

problem is wattage comparison.

dual mining wattage vs neoscrypt alone

i vote for dual mining for profitability.

is there a website where you can check which coin is profitable to mine?

something like CryptUnit and Whattomine but only for NeoScrypt coins

I don't. Dual mining is now less profitable than single mining ETH because the cash you make out of any blake2s coin is less than the extra power cost needed for mining it.

Dual mining is still profitable with RX 570/580's. The RX 570/580 uses at most 40 W more dual mining and it's still more profitable than just mining ETH. Currently I'm mining SmartCash and it's an extra $3.84 per month after power for a RX 570 and an extra $7.50 per card for a RX 580.

http://whattomine.com/coins/197-smart-keccak?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=140.0&d_enabled=true&d=233706.092&p=40.0&fee=3.0&er_enabled=true&er=0.00001900&cost=0.12&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

http://whattomine.com/coins/197-smart-keccak?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=210&d_enabled=true&d=233706.092&p=40.0&fee=3.0&er_enabled=true&er=0.00001900&cost=0.12&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

When you will add Linux version?  ???

You're grasping at straws.
I don't call 12.8 cents profit per card per day after electricity cost a profit! :D Especially since that can be wiped out with one notch of difficulty increase...

yeah dual mining is pretty much dead with asics on-line.

claymore's fee is down to 1.5%, it changes nothing I guess though

How hot will the GPU be?

You're the one grasping at straws. You said dual mining is less profitable than solo mining ETH, which at least for the RX 570/580's is not the case. The way I look at it is dual mining is currently paying almost half of the electrical bill for my mixed RX 570 & 580 rigs, which makes it more profitable than just mining ETH.

I guess people use dual-mining for heating, not for profit ))

Yes, yes, you're right.
I just made the calculations with my two rigs of a total of 14 RX 570s.
With my electricity costs, ETH only estimated profit is 20.80 vs 21.79 for ETH+XVG. So I'd earn $0.99 more a day dual mining. So again, in my opinion that's not worth it. I'd be creating more heat, more strain on the GPUs for very very little bonus.

It is working for my RX580 Rigs
Thank you @Claymore.
We also wait a miner for X16R algo  :D

Very hot, you need to reduce the voltagge and frequency to be safe.

Wonderful hashrate, but required wattage is crazy. I'm going to have to really hone my undervolting skills to take on this one.

@Claymore

Would it be a big deal to implement the getBlockTemplate protocol (needed for solo mining)?

 

You think Claymore will write miner for coin that even has no exchange? ))

Hi,

I have a couple of 7950 cards. I put just one of them just to test the new miner.

It gives 650 Mh/s but the "-powlim 50" is not working. It tell me "failed to set new power control treshold".


Can somebody explain me why ?

Thanks in advance.

Because your cards have max powlimit +20, check with Afterburner.

Has anyone been able to use this miner with 5+ R9 Fury or Fury X GPUs? I was able to get it to work with 4 GPUs, but not 5 let alone 6. It's not a power issue either, my server PSU is at less then 75% capacity and reliably handles a higher power draw with other GPUs and/or algorithms.

Windows 10 Pro, tried both 16.3.2 and 15.12 drivers (uninstalled with DDU in Safe Mode when switching drivers as usual). Standard batch file - set to both stock power and -50% power in AMD Overdrive with stock clocks.

~1550 hashrate at 100% power, ~1150 hashrate at 50% power for Fury X with stock clocks.

NeoScrypt coins:

Phoenixcoin (PXC) switched on the 13-Aug-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW);
Imperialcoin (IPC) switched on the 21-Oct-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW);
Feathercoin (FTC) switched on the 26-Oct-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW);
UFOcoin (UFO) switched on the 27-Oct-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW);
Guncoin (GUN) switched on the 28-Oct-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW);
Bollywoodcoin (BDC) launched on the 30-Nov-2014 (PoW);
Orbitcoin (ORB) switched on the 13-Dec-2014, Scrypt previously (PoW/PoS);
Halcyon (HAL) switched on the 20-Dec-2014, X15 previously (PoW/PoS);
Vivocoin (VIVO) launched on the 22-Aug-2017 (PoW);
Trezarcoin (TZC) launched on the 4-Sep-2017 (PoW/PoS);
Desire (DESIRE) launched on the 15-Oct-2017 (PoW);
Innova (INN) launched on the 19-Oct-2017 (PoW);
GoByte (GBT) launched on the 17-Nov-2017 (PoW);
CrowdCoin (CRC) launched on the 29-Nov-2017 (PoW);
Sparks (SPK) launched on the 22-Dec-2017 (PoW);
Sigil (SGL) launched on the 8-Jan-2018 (PoW/PoS);
TUNE (TUN) launched on the 12-Jan-2018 (PoW);
Cerberus (CBS) launched on the 13-Jan-2018 (PoW);
Dinero (DIN) launched on the 26-Jan-2018 (PoW);

And none of them is a shitcoin  ;D

Hi Claymore,

Hoping to get a reduced dev fee for those 280/380's.

Thanks for the miner!

this is weird. I'm still trying to figure out what's going on, but it's quite consistent:
I've got two vegas FE and when I'm running this miner from Win10 task scheduler (task with highest available privileges) the miner won't pass the initializaton stage.
And when executed directly it runs fine...

it just sits there, while machine is still responsive, the task is very much dead (vega with 2017.Q4 driver - the only one that supports Overdriven tool proper)
https://s9.postimg.org/oeynesvwf/cl-neo-fes.png

EDIT: well... apparently it looks like overdriven tool gives me trouble and not the miner... yep freaking driver I guess - had to delay task for half a minute after login in order to be able to set proper configs for cards.

Vega 56 with 50 % PL and 64 bios - 2.1 Mhs , Gpu-Z power consumption only 300W :-)

Only 300w? Isn't that higher then the 250W reported?

@Claymore, it would be nice to have -i (intesity) option if possible, just like your equihash miner or ccminer/sgminer.

Edit: Altough -li is also usable.

I'm not able to test it myself (just yet anyways), so how is the power consumption for a RX 480/580 at stock clocks and stock bios? I'll do some testing later when I get a chance and share my results.

with mining cryptonight I have to reset vegas in deivce manager to refresh drivers due to hash drop. is this the same case with neroscrypt and how are people automating this ?

The miner works! Mining TUNE w/ my AMD's right now.

We are adding the most profitable neoscrypt coins to http://www.smashpool.com (already added TUNE, CrowdCoin, Cooin2Fly) - This gives AMD miners so many alternatives to just mining ETH all the time. I love it.

Thanks for another great release Claymore. Greatly appreciated.

1.177 MH/s on 290X Tri-X OC VBIOS modded straps 1100/1375 Blockchain Oct 16 drivers 1709 Windows nice stability -powlim 50

I think this used to get under 500 with Wolf's NeoScrypt Miner on 14.9 / 14.6

r9 380 2Gb gets 0.583Mh/s at stock clocks. Can anybody get higher with this cards?

Can confirm it works. Tried it with 3 Vega Frontiers using the 1100Mhz power play tables:

This was just a quick test. Did not use -powlim 50 and was using -a 2. Very cool I'll keep testing it out and see how high I can push them.

https://i.imgur.com/b8wuF1H.jpg

That is similar to my speed.

Update on the vega - it's running now at 2 Mh @ 230W gpu-z 1477Mhz @ 0.94 V.  Not bad :)

Does anyone have any GPU / Memory clock recommendations for the RX570/RX580? I need to reduce the voltage draw as much as I can keeping decent performance... I'm around 1250/900-925-950 on the GPU and 1750/900 on the memory... I'm close but still not completely stable on it.  

not possible, I think. Vega 1408@900mV takes > 250watt with this miner

you forgot this..

AMERO Plus (AMX) launched on the 24-Feb-2018 (PoW/PoS): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009179.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009179.0)

This is nice.

430kH/s on a 560 with power set to -10 because this is my primary PC that I don't want to fry. Temp staying at 72-74, fan hovering at 72% after setting a 50 minimum.
I'm comfortable with letting that run overnight to see how I fare.

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When will be a Linux version?

Hello, I have a problem. I have 2 vega identical vega is there is one at 2mh and one at 1mh

Config file

-pool eu1.arcpool.com:1115
-wal
-psw c=SLN

-powlim 50

Equihash algo
most profitable from all
miner works like a charm

I prefer avocado with eggs on toasted rye bread personally.
how's your wife by the way?
It's been a while since I watched a movie.
Let me know when you bring the dog over.

[insert more off-topic quotes here]

 ;D

inno and gbx has been added to luckypool.xyz (http://luckypool.xyz)

So... I'm having a hard time achieving more than 1.7 MH with my Vega 64 on the current blockchain driver on Windows 10. It doesn't matter if I use stock settings or the settings other people are using here. I've also done some experimenting with settings myself. No luck.

Is there something I'm missing here?  ???

It would be helpful if you shared your .bat file or config settings - I don't have a Vega myself, but for those who do it would be very helpful for them to compare your settings and theirs to perhaps point out why you have a different hashrate.

Screen plugged into vega64 ? I had 1700 till i used iGPU, after that i had 2000+

Oh... so I have to run the Vega 64 headless to get the full hash rate on Neoscrypt? I don't have an iGPU and I don't feel like buying a secondary GPU. This is also my gaming PC and not my devoted mining rig, so running headless is not realistic.

Well, thanks for pointing out the problem. Too bad there isn't much I can do.  :(

Sry i was talking about Cryptonight algorithm. I had that 1700/2000+ on Cryptonight with my vega64 not on Neoscrypt.

That's perfectly normal. Unfortunately, antivirus software almost always freaks out about mining software.


I've switched over to the Adrenaline 18.3.1 drivers since my last post. My Vega 64 is achieving 2 MH on average with Neoscrypt now!  ;D

 I just have to restart the miner whenever I open Firefox, because the speed drops to 1.95 MH for some reason. Weird.

I'm using stock settings with these changes:

-5% core clock, auto voltage
975 MHz memory clock, auto voltage
3600 RPM fan speeds
+10% power limit

this miner is crazy fast and frying my miner room.... undervolt all the way down -70 voltage for 390, 390x  i got 1.0 - 1.1 mhs per card
Good job Mr. Claymore

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox - it might help to keep the hashrate consistent. You could also lower the intensity at the cost of some hashrate - check the readme for instructions on that.  Out of curiosity, does it do the same thing if you use Chrome, Edge, or (shudder) Internet Explorer?

I followed your suggestion and disabled hardware acceleration in Firefox. That seemed to fix the issue. I also tried Chrome, Edge, and IE. Those browsers caused small fluctuations, just not a nearly permanent drop like Firefox did when hardware acceleration was still enabled.

Thanks for the tip.

Would you point me to the right direction to get nVidia miner?

The probem is finding the nVidia miner that produces the proper hashrate is almost impossible. I have spent over a month and played around with 5 or 6 miners and can never get more than 70% of what others get on my GTX 1070 (I only get 714 while most coin calculators claim i should get 1100)

Excavator is the best for neoscrypt. If you don't get the expected speed, then something is totally wrong with your machine.

You may want to try ccminer-alexis-1.0 with the -i 16.5 argument. I hear it is supposed to get good hash rates on the 1070 and 1070 Ti with that setting.

You can find a copy of it here: http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/ccminer-alexis-1-0/ (http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/ccminer-alexis-1-0/)

I'm also inclined to agree with Nitrobg on the possibility of a hardware issue if you can't get a better hash rate. Another thing to keep in mind is that your graphics card may simply be slower. Not all graphics cards are equal.

You could attempt to get a replacement for your graphics card through RMA, just to be sure that there is nothing wrong. I'm not sure it would be worth the lost profit, though.

With a strap I used from branko on anorak I am able to achieve 400-410 h/s with my xfx and GByte rx560 unlocked shaders onn this miner. 1150c 1200m -10PL. It has been a mofo to get stable but this is where it works 100%

I have not been able to find any other neoscrypt hashrate on rx 560... Is my hash about right?

@nitrobg Excavator is not best all alround, for some type my be ;) yes nicehash team they work to improve ... hsrminer is better like speed but it have big issue with functionality & support, other option it can be Ccminer KlausT 8.19 & 8.20 same it get better speed but same lack of functionality

@Blazin ccminer-alexis is outdate ;)

short version Nvidia on Neoscript & Equihash (only 1 chose dstm, excavator is very unstable) algorit miner have lack of a good miner

sory for off topic Claymore & still hope to see you release support for Nvidia to :)

cheers

Hi, thanks for your work.

When I run it on my Win10 box with 6 RX480 I am only getting invalid shares. Any ideas?

Thx
SJ

Use HSRMiner Neoscrypt Fork it produces 1200 h/s on Neoscrypt for my each 1070 asus strix oc with overclocking, without - around 900-1000

my old r9 290 do with stilt BIOS 920h/s but with claymore it use 230w from the wall
With gatelessgate i get only 500h/s with 190w at the wall.

Guys, I have been trying to find a way to increase my hashing rate on my rx580 SE's, but it seems I cannot squeeze more than 0.864-0.865mh/s ??? Can anyone tell me if I should search for a different BIOS mode with different timings for this scrypt? I have bios modded my cards so that they would mine ETH with 31.5-32mh/s, but obviously that's not really helpful for this Neoscrypt algo. Also, if I try to increase the core clock speed to over 1250 the rig crashes and I start seeing screen disruptions and the miner freezes lul.

I'm also mining ETC/ETH with moded vBIOS and works great. What I found is, going back to stock vBIOS works best with neoscrypt and then overclock/undervolt as much as your cards allow without crashing.
If that doesn't work for you, then the guys at anorak might be able to help you.

I have not tried it on any Rx 580s yet, but on Rx 480s it can do ~950 on stock settings and stock bios. Some GPUs are ~890, but others are over 1000. These are 8Gb models, but I don't think the amount of memory makes a difference.

Nice. Decided to put my old 280x back to work: getting ~840kh/s stock. Not bad?

Has anyone tried just turning off compute mode instead of going back to stock bios??

this one GPU or GPU+Mobo? lol

Hi,

I avoid the hard reset(reset button) with this windows tool "NotMyFault", where you can purposely crash your system and reboot this way :)

this occured after the devfee switch....


and sometimes


Please help, where should i look for the problem ? risers ? cards ? miner ? drivers ? OverdriveNTool settings ?

edit:
lowering memory clock helped...

What is power limit?

Hi, what about the rx550?

Good evening, I mine in multiport on mining dutch and the FTC and GUN is rejected each time, the other currencies are mined. Why ? With nsgminer, I do not have this problem.
Merci d'avance.

Ok I will add it in next update, no ETA though.


I'd like to see full command lines for both my miner and nsgminer so I can check it.

NeoScryptMiner -pool stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.mining-dutch.nl:9991 -wal lezartnono19.R9280x -psw x

nsgminer -k neoscrypt -g 1 -w 64 -I 16 -o stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.mining-dutch.nl:9991 -u lezartnono19.R9280x -p x

Here are the lines of commands, and your miner is really good, the hash is far superior to nsgminer. I use claymore for etash and equihash, I am really satisfied.

This command line works fine for me, just found 16 shares, zero rejected. The reason can be in overclock, my miner requires more power than nsgminer because it's faster.

Yes I find shares too but as soon as it switches on FTC, it rejects.

Try that, it's the only FTC port and for GUn (3615) idem.

NeoScryptMiner -pool stratum+tcp://neoscrypt.mining-dutch.nl:3347 -wal lezartnono19.R9280x -psw x

Ok now I see. It must be something related to stratum, I will check it soon.

Ok, thanks, I'm waiting for your news.

v1.1:

- fixed issue with rejected shares.
- reduced CPU usage for systems with a lot of GPUs.

Very good job !!! Un grand merci !!!

Only getting rejected shares when mining FTC.. Version 1.1. bat= NeoScryptMiner -wal WALLET -psw x -powlim 50. Pools are in pools.txt Log below:

Edit: working with 1.2. Kudos for fast fixes mr.Claymore.

v1.2:

- improved stratum routines to support more pools.
- added RX550 card support.

Anyone tried rx550? Hash rates?

Bad as expected: about 200KH/s for stock RX550. Neoscrypt uses both memory and core, so this card is too weak for it.

Please share config Vega 64 or Vega 56. OverDriveNTool vs SoftPowerTable

Thanks

Ya. In Cryptonight RX550 shines because it's a memory-intensive algorithm. But with Neoscrypt the CUs weaknesses is clear.

Im getting 1475mh/s on my fury nanos any idea how to increse that?

1000/500 1100mv +50 PL

This miner is free-to-use, however, current developer fee is 2%, every hour the miner mines for 72 seconds for developer.
If you don't agree with the dev fee - don't use this miner, or use "-nofee" option.
Attempts to cheat and remove dev fee will cause a bit slower mining speed (same as "-nofee 1") though miner will show same hashrate.
Miner cannot just stop if cheat is detected because creators of cheats would know that the cheat does not work and they would find new tricks. If miner does not show any errors or slowdowns, they are happy.

Hi,
please consider adding some devfee pools other than nicehash, because nicehash is blocking some countries and also there are some countries who are blocking this pool only( I don't know why ).
I'm not sure about the latest release, however on version 1.0 which the awesome miner is still using, the miner works fine on MPH,dutchpool,zergpool,.... But when it comes to devfee it fails trying to connect to nicehash pools and there's nothing I can do because it's being blocked either by nicehash or my isp so it continues with mining and retries every 20 sec with no luck.
Any other devfee pool is fine except for nicehash.
Thanks for your efforts and good luck.

I know about this issue, however, I cannot add other pools because it's not easy for me, there are many NeoScrypt-based coins and pools, they are rather small and therefore I cannot select what coin to mine in long-term. Nicehash selects best coin and I don't have to create any local wallets for these coins. You can use "-nofee" option if nicehash does not work for you.

Can you CPU mine this currency?

P.S. can you please elaborate on why mining on a laptop is a bad idea? I currently don't own any desktops and my laptop has done an ok job at mining other cryptocurrencies

can i solo mine neoscrypt coins with this?

help pls?

i've already done the .conf for the wallet.

i just wanted to test if i could use claymore against my wallet server.

im on win10

whats the best setting for vega 64 lc in overdrivetools
profitability looks better than cryptonight atm

You can, but it's not worth it at all (unless your electricity is free). Even then, you'll make fractions of a penny a day.

You *can* mine on laptops, but you can't expect that laptop to live too long. Unless its specifically a gaming/high-performance laptop, the hardware in it isn't meant to be used 100% 24/7. Eventually, the fans will likely stop working, and you'll have to deal with overheating issues. You would also need to be able to replace the thermal paste on your cpu/gpu, as it would likely break down quickly under mining conditions.

If you want a cpu-only coin, check out WAVI or XMG. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3146751.0

my claymore show this
"Failed to set new Power Control treshold for GPU #"
what is that?
what i have to do?
i just add my script with this ( -a 1 -powlim 50)

need info
thanks

With 1400cclock and 2200mclock I am able to pull up to 1050h/s with this miner, which is just incredible!
The negative side of it is that my 5 cards are drawing 1kw/h from the wall and they are hot af!
Found a sweet spot @ 1300cclock/920h/s, which is still really good as far as other miners go.

Not all GPUs support +50, so try -powlim 20 or -powlim 30.

Claymore,
Would you add fury x card hashrate in your #2 post,
I can confirm 1530Kh/s on fury x
stock speeds

https://i.imgur.com/whZSLNV.png

Ok, added.
It seems I can improve speed by about 5% for most cards, I will do it when have enough time for it.

Hey, im using that program to mine NeoScrypt but its mining coin automaticly; how can i select spesific coin like NYX Coin.

You serious? Select a pool you wan't to mine in and then select a coin by using the correct wallet.

Hi Claymore,

VEGA64 cards?

"-a 1"  ?

Find the right pool for a specific coin.

As you can see, "-a" parameter is for Ellesmere cards only:


So don't specify this option for Vega, it won't change anything. You can use "1" for Vega in rigs with mixed cards.

We started a new mining pool where neoscript is available, If you would like to try it is https://yapool.net/en/usd/ (https://yapool.net/en/usd/)

If you try it, it would be nice to have feedback

I've a problem

03:09:38:101   3274   Check and remove old log files...
03:09:38:102   3274   args: -pool hub.miningpoolhub.com:20510 -wal ldw0790.tuna -psw xx -powlim 50 -tt 60 -a 2
03:09:38:102   3274   
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03:09:38:104   3274   ?           Claymore's NeoScrypt AMD GPU Miner v1.2             ?
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03:09:38:105   3274   
03:09:38:106   3274   b107
03:09:38:316   3274   NS: 2 pools are specified
03:09:38:318   3274   Main NeoScrypt pool is hub.miningpoolhub.com:20510

The chinese word isn't problem. It is simply error by my local language.

I'm stucked at connecting to miningpoolhub.

I added except to antivirus program.

and in cpu miners, It is worked with cpuminer-aes-sse42.exe (most of cpu miner programs didn't work but it works specially)

I did -a 1, and -a 2 but it isn't work.

I'm using windows 10 1809 build. and I updated from Redstone 2. I'm now trying to reinstall the windows.

Could you help me?

ok It fixed.

I reinstalled windows 10, and It works! Thank you

could anone tell me the power needs for neoscrypt algorith for the GPU ?

RX550 and RX470 ?

I have Ellesmere, Baffin and LEXA GPUs.

just try it out and you'll see on the wattmeter or in gpuz.  It is much more intensive than mining cryptonight or even ethereum. 

If you keep the power limit at normal and don't increase it by 50% as Claymore mentions in the Readme, then the power consumption is similar to Ethereum, probably a touch higher, but less then dual mining in my experience.

May we have a getblock function to solo mine?

I always loved the versions you made with solo mining options for other coins and was wondering if it would be hard to port over from your other versions of claymore for other coins that solo mine.

Just a request if thats cool

0.780 to 0.810 mh/s   using -powlim 50 in the command line

I do not know why , when one has 3 equal cards, and the speeds are not the same or very very near the same.
I have this issue , on and off.

Not sure why this is

ehmmm-... sry but you know that "-powlim 50" means +50 powerlimit which will break down every system.. all newbies will burnout his cards with this start settings.. im running my crads with -powlim -25 GPUmhz 1250 and Memclock 1100 and i get for each crad ~1.7Mhs  ;)

EDIT:/ sry .. my rigs are running on vega64

Can I use same OC settings and bios for ETH when using this?

Apparently this matters only for VEGA's. Here is my example on Strix RX480(default 1310/2000Mhz):
-powlim -25 - ~0.680Mh/s
-powlim 50 - ~0.940Mh/s

VERY GOOD jOB

thanks

Any new changes/modifications/supports for new Radeon VII cards are planning?
with vega settings just about 2500h. I think it will be about 3000h