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So  I had a mixed rig (5 560's, 2 580's and 4 1080's and 1 1060) rig which it didn't give me much problems (with the exception of me only running Phoenix miner / that Zechash one)...I also have 3 Vega 64's which I was running it on it's own because I didn't have enough power to combine them (no big deal)....today, I decided to remove my Nvidia cards and put all AMD's together...this is when hell break loose!!!!  At first, window keeps crashing on me so I was able to get it stablzed @ 8 gpu (instead of 10).  No big deal, but then trying to get it to run sgminer and the damn thing just won't stop crashing (kept saying my GPU is sick)....after 5 hours or messing with it..I had enough!

I don't know how you guys do it...but you guys deserve a holiday just for putting up with this crap....all my nvidia cards....ZERO problem.   AMD...nothing but problem!

anyway, just needed to vent a little..

Yea I know. I have two rigs.

First is 3x RX 470 + 1x R9 380
Second is 4x RX 580 + 1x R9 290x + 1x R9 380.

The first one is rock stable, the second one gives me problems. But due to the prices of the cards that was the best I could put together. All cards are used and working fine. When I stabilize the second rig it works days without problems, but some days it just crashes every hour or so. Oh well buy cheap, play cheap :)

Waiting for card prices to go down so I can buy a proper rig. NVIDIA most likely as its more versatile atm.

I have a few RX 580 rigs, some times they give me trouble, but they are usually alright.

Yeah, when they're bad they're very bad, but it'll settle down. You'll gradually smooth out the clocks for each card so they're stable and it'll be fine. Unless you have a cheap psu or some other glitch <cue manical laughter>....

Hear hear! AMD cards really suck once you are configuring them. I know because i have 470s 570s and VEGAs! Compatibility is shit. I have to DDU everytime i install drivers. All the reboots are because of AMD!

But in the end, when you get them calm and stable, DAMN. They are sweet babies that earn more than most NVIDIA counterparts.

I think you are doing something wrong in configuring your cards. Most of the mining computers are running with them and only a few people mine with Nvidia.

My colleagues have 20 mining computers, each with six amd graphic cards and one b250 motherboard with 11 cards. All the computers with 6 cards are running stable from more than one month. The only one crashing was the one with 11 but a linux distro fixed it too, so overall Amd cards are better for mining compared to nvidia.

Couldn't agree more  ;D

 ::)

Almost all of my rig fully AMD, but I have one rig with two cards only (1060).

My AMD card was:
R9: 290, 290x, 295X2, 390, 390X.
RX: 470, 480, 580.

All of my AMD rigs was mixed (R9+RX), I never have one rig with the same brand, series, type. Giving me a lot of issue at first, but now I can handle em.

I bought those 560's for fun because they were cheap and I figured I can get some ETH out of it.  To be honest with you..that one click bio wasn't all that bad and when I missed with 5 560's and 2 580's...not much problems and it was pretty stable once I had it running...

you know what they say...don't mess some thing that ain't broken.  Well, I did and it's still turned off after 5 hours of messing with last night (maybe I'll try again tonight before I throw in the towel).    My 3 Vega 64's were less problematic when I had them on the test machine alone....figured I'll save some electricity by moving down to my little mining farm.

Power is definitely not the issue...I'm running 1800w 240v psu.   Maybe I should increase my memory to 16gb instead of 8?  I'm just spit balling here trying to get some ideas from you guys

Running 4000+ Sapphire rx470 mining edition without any issues.
Then from the past some batches of rx480/rx570/rx580's. All doing good!

Just remember to use linux in stead of windows. HiveOs.farm is a really good OS.
Any questions, just ask!

(I really hate NVIDEA, so i got your issue turned around)  ;)

Which windows do you guys use? Windows 10 is a crap, better use windows 7
MY friend disabled 70+ different things on Windows 10 just to avoid updates. Crazy.

I am runing the problematic rig out of two for two days now without any issues. And I bet it could run for a long time if I don't tuch it. But some days it decides to crash every few hours.
Probably issue with mixed cards, but can't help it.

My AMD GPU's go down every 7 or 8 days when mining Ethereum on Ethermine and probably 3-4 days when mining Pirl on Minerpool.net

the problem is amd drivers, i posted this a while ago. You have to flash every single card to work properly, amd did this to its drivers. It was 10000 easier before the dag fix, now is frustrating.

still hanging around with Windows 7, downside is I couldn't get the latest driver and squeeze out more juice out of it.

but still happy for stability.

The problem is because of those piece of crap Vega cards. They dont play well with anything else and they mine everything but XMR like shit. You should sell those as quick as possible and buy some better cards.

there is nothing to do with vega, there is to do with amd drivers.

I have zero issus with my Nvidia cards but my amd rigs are picky with drivers and overclocking but I have them all on the beta blockchain drives and don't push the clocks that hard and they've been running for 2 months without a crash it's pushing they hard is when shit happens and those compute drivers all my rigs hate them

I have zero problems with my two rigs running Saphire Nitro + RX580, Linux is the key  ;D

I have few rigs with mixed Radeons (380/290x/580/fury) and those rigs are rock solid stable. The only issues i had was with PSU or burned cable.
All rigs are on Linux from USB flash drive. Uptime over month is nothing strange.
No expierience with nvidia mining rigs though.
Make notice that you can modify Radeons bios, some people doesn't understand the settings and flash best bios from internet. Not every card will work on those stable. Sometimes memory are to high or voltate to low.

I don't say ATI is better or Nvidia is better. I just think that if someone have issues with something then he should focus on resolving problem, not complaining.

I have 3 rigs with all AMD running ethos. The system was much stable before latest update. With the 1.3.1 I have been seeing problems. Recently I purchased a switch that I can reset from my iphone. So I am hoping with that I should be able to restart the rig anytime.

So you are already tired with the set up man? Off course you have not seen the more complex world when it comes down to the 13-15 GPU based rig and putting all together running even though its above the tolerance level of your CPU. Well, these crashes can be avoided with heavy RAM's and SSD memories. I mean that the vital part of it. If you are getting crashes then I would suggest you that you use linux OS for better stability. You can get more stability with the ethOS, which is specially designed to carry your shit load man!  No big deal though as it was your first attempt. You have to see many stuff around yet.

I have nvidia and amd rigs, rx 570, 580 and 1070, 1070ti
All rigs on windows 10 - no problem. Also I have 3 mixed rigs 6 AMD + 6 nVidia - rock solid.

So maybe it doesn't depend on GPU brand?  ;)

My 580 rig is solid, just keeps truckin

Same issues here.  After moving to 1.3.1 EthOS my local config files for power management stopped working.  My cards all juiced up to 7 for power and they are crashing now.  Rock solid and stable with 1.3.0.  I am probably going to go back because this is a joke.

No issues with NVIDIA cards.  Only AMD cards.

I will try to go back to 1.2.9. My 10 cards rig was stable for 3 weeks before I switched off and updated to 1.3.1

After I updated the driver for the adrenaline version everything was super stable.

I use windows 10.

here’s the funny part of this story...I unplugged all my amd cards and put 4 1080, 7 1060s just now.  Everything starts right now and zero problems.

I’m gonna call amd pms’ing cards from now on

No experience with NVIDIA, but I have 10 rigs with 12 AMD cards on each, 9 is built on RX570, last on RX580.

I have not restarted a single one of them since January 11th, which was actually a single one, the others have been running since 1st of december..

Windows 10, havent touched them since, never had any real issues.

Win installed, driver installed, compute mode, tested clocks and then they have basically just been running since with the occasional software restart.

I have 3  8x RX 580 rigs, 2 of them have been mining ~4000 hours non stop so far, the other one I've rebooted once in that time. It took a while to get them stable but well worth it

totally understand your sentiment. my RX570 took me a week to settle and stable. while nvidia cards took me only 1 day. tough week for me.

Did I read 4000 cards? 4000?! Wow...
That's around 600 KW of power? How is that possible? What sort of cable brings 600 KW? Mind boggling.

Well the 460/560 is a shit card that takes FOREVER to get stable. The 470/480/570/580 are a breeze to setup and are rock solid.
Throw the 560's out and use the rest of the GPU's and you'll never encounter even a hiccup.

The problem is not the cards, the problem is the owner.

If you are noob, you got noob-problems.

But don't forget about them VEGAs. Talk about hassle. You need to BIOS mod, REGEDIT, then configure overclock, then configure some cryptonight miner with so many crap settings like intensity and what-not. So unlike buying an NVIDIA card which is even almost at the same profitability levels already.

That's the beauty of it, once you got it right you could rely them as work horse with a minimal price compared to nvidia. Feeling accomplished is the great feeling afterwards.



might be a typo error, seems like 4000 hrs to me

sorry, we are not as cool as you....we just some home wannabe miners and that's why we here to share / vent / learn.   Now stop trolling us and go get 10000000mh on your mining farm (1 rx580 your mom got you for xmas)  :)

My 5x RX570 rig has been very stable recently, running for around 3 weeks without any issues 8)

If you have time and want to save money, buy AMD.
It may or may not cost your time to solve problem, mod BIOS, tuning.
And more easily crash.
But you can get a better hashpower/price.

Nvidia card can save your time, but you can get more than 1.5x hashpower/price at AMD.

That's it the choice depend on you.

im running my rig with claymore or GGS no problem only one equihash ;)