I love SMOS but XMRig is too inferior to SRBMiner on my rig, so I'm forced back to windows 10  |
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I have small rx 560 2gb rig.
XMR is the only thing I'm mining now, profits are small but consistent and power draw/temps are lower than Ethash.
Ethash algo is pretty much dead for me, I see no small DAG coins that are worth mining except maybe Ether-1. Not sure if I want to throw my rig at it yet.
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If you got problems with low hashrate you could try .srb file generated from an older version and use that old .srb file with current software.
I personally get best results using the .srb from 1.5.8 with any 1.6.x
Run 1.5.8 until you get a hashrate you're happy with, then rename the 1.5.8 .srb to the exact name as your 1.6.x .srb and overwrite it, hopefully you get an improved hashrate on 1.6.x
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All of a sudden my rig is getting a lot of restarts, the error I am seeing is "sdma ring timeout" Never had this before, maybe a recent update to the kernel is causing this  |
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Sadly I had to give up on Claymore, reliability has gone downhill for my rx560 2gb rig, finding much less shares and way too many incorrect.
I switched to Ethminer on SMOS and it's rock stable.
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Longtime windows 10 user, decided to give smos a try, I think it was worth the switch, love the remote management and rock solid rig stability.
The only downside is that linux gpu drivers seem inferior to windows, my hashrate went down ~2%, power draw and temps went up slightly. I also had to add a tiny bit more voltage to some of my cards to prevent incorrect shares, windows 10 was more tolerant of aggressive undervolts.
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This is how I always restart my AMD/windows 10 rig without issues:
1. Stop mining and reset cards to stock in OverdriveNtool.
2. Power off system, including PSU and wait 60+ seconds.
3. Power on system, wait 30+ seconds after desktop loads, and reboot once.
4. Wait 60+ seconds after desktop loads and then apply OverdriveNtool profiles.
5. Start miner.
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Any chance MPH will add pools for other small-DAG Ethash coins besides EXP and MUSIC?
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Yes Monero is up again on Bittrex, too bad exchange is still down on MPH  |
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Guys,
I have one miner that i cannot figure out. Mind you i have 30+ but yes i cannot figure this one out, and its driving me nuts.
The issue is that after the Windows 10 April update the miner will start but pauses....it does not close. I have tried everything i know and nothing. So i went ahead and installed a clean version of 1709 build with all of its updates.
I have reinstalled 11.7(which was working with no issues prior) and still nothing. I have tried adrenaline 18.2 and even downgraded to the blockchain drivers and still nothing. The motherboard is up to date, windows sees all the cards...no issues there. I have patched the drivers...etc...etc...
These are AMD RX560's that have been modded...and again these were working fine before the darn update got me.....I have also excluded the claymore folder in defender, set a pause for 30 seconds etc...
Im hoping someone out there has run into this prior....i am now having this same issue with another rig running rx470's
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
I have a 560 rig with windows 10 updated, if I switch to cryptonight and then back to ethash sometimes it will not work even after a reboot, I need to fully power off the rig and cold boot. You also might have a card(s) with the mem clock too high, trying downing them by 10 mhz at a time. Claymore 11.7 seems to be a tad more sensitive to overclocks. |
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For modding the bios for memory strap timings, what is recommended? I used to use custom memory strap timings for eth for 470s and 480s but never looked into memory strap timings for cryptonight
I just use the PBE one click mod, it does the job great, unable to squeeze more with custom timings. I saw an old thread that claimed Gigabyte rx560 4gb can get more with custom timings, but the guy who wrote it wanted a ridiculous amount of money for it. |
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With undervolting you can get power consumption down below 35W with the 550/560.
I have my 560's undervolted to 910 mV and they only draw 32W each. Clocked at ~1200/2160. 535 H/s with xmr-stak and 505 H/s with Claymore. But I use Claymore despite the lower hashrate because it seems to be more efficient at finding shares.
A tip with these cards when mining Cryptonight: Most of the time the highest stable memory clock is not optimal. The proper way to judge the optimal memory clock is by how well the card finds shares. For instance if your max stable memory clock is 2100, you might want to try underclocking to 2090/2080/2070 and watch to see the point where the card starts finding the most shares.
550 looks cheaper than 560.. they both hash the same h/s with cryptonight and have the same power draw? any reason to get 560 over 550? 560 2gb is pretty cheap and superior to all 550's for mining Ethash coins with small DAG size. Most 560's will do ~15-16 MH/s and 550's only ~12-13 MH/s. I have my 560 2gb cards mining EXP (expanse) it's very good because of low difficulty and stable coin price. I use MPH and auto-exchange it, but only when the price on the bigger coins dip. What about cryptonight algo? I'm wondering the optimum hashrate vs power consumption of 550 vs 560 On Cryptonight power consumption is virtually the same, depends on how much core voltage it runs at, the 560's undervolt flawlessly. 550 is only better value at Cryptonight if you're lucky to get 480-500 H/s (hope for Elpida). Many cannot do over 450 H/s. 560 2gb is guaranteed 500 H/s (Hynix or Elpida doesn't matter) and the better value if you can find it cheap. |
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With undervolting you can get power consumption down below 35W with the 550/560.
I have my 560's undervolted to 910 mV and they only draw 32W each. Clocked at ~1200/2160. 535 H/s with xmr-stak and 505 H/s with Claymore. But I use Claymore despite the lower hashrate because it seems to be more efficient at finding shares.
A tip with these cards when mining Cryptonight: Most of the time the highest stable memory clock is not optimal. The proper way to judge the optimal memory clock is by how well the card finds shares. For instance if your max stable memory clock is 2100, you might want to try underclocking to 2090/2080/2070 and watch to see the point where the card starts finding the most shares.
550 looks cheaper than 560.. they both hash the same h/s with cryptonight and have the same power draw? any reason to get 560 over 550? 560 2gb is pretty cheap and superior to all 550's for mining Ethash coins with small DAG size. Most 560's will do ~15-16 MH/s and 550's only ~12-13 MH/s. I have my 560 2gb cards mining EXP (expanse) it's very good because of low difficulty and stable coin price. I use MPH and auto-exchange it, but only when the price on the bigger coins dip. |
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With undervolting you can get power consumption down below 35W with the 550/560.
I have my 560's undervolted to 910 mV and they only draw 32W each. Clocked at ~1200/2160. 535 H/s with xmr-stak and 505 H/s with Claymore. But I use Claymore despite the lower hashrate because it seems to be more efficient at finding shares.
A tip with these cards when mining Cryptonight: Most of the time the highest stable memory clock is not optimal. The proper way to judge the optimal memory clock is by how well the card finds shares. For instance if your max stable memory clock is 2100, you might want to try underclocking to 2090/2080/2070 and watch to see the point where the card starts finding the most shares.
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Looking to reduce power consumption on my rx560 rig, Afterburner can't access voltages so finally got around to installing OverdriveN tool.
On power limit -5% my cards can do max 1208mhz core without throttling, keeping it there as it's closest to stock core speed without going lower, don't wanna go "lower than what I bought" I'm weird like that haha.
I undervolted to 950 mV, went down to ~37W per card, they did up to ~48W at stock 1050 mV, might try to go lower but I worry about stability.
I read that the rx 550 can go down to ~30W at similar voltages? That's awesome, is it because of less ComputeUnits?
I finished testing them today at lower voltages with the same -5% power limit @ 1208 mhz. Tested with Claymore Zcash since it stresses core the most. It straight crashes at 880 mV, at 885 mV it gives errors then crashes, at 890 mV it doesn't crash but gives errors. At 897 mV it runs stable but this is where it starts to lose hash rate. So I settled on 902 mV, they use ~34W each. I reduced overall consumption by ~42W against stock with 3x 560's. |
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Looking to reduce power consumption on my rx560 rig, Afterburner can't access voltages so finally got around to installing OverdriveN tool. On power limit -5% my cards can do max 1208mhz core without throttling, keeping it there as it's closest to stock core speed without going lower, don't wanna go "lower than what I bought" I'm weird like that haha. I undervolted to 950 mV, went down to ~37W per card, they did up to ~48W at stock 1050 mV, might try to go lower but I worry about stability. I read that the rx 550 can go down to ~30W at similar voltages? That's awesome, is it because of less ComputeUnits? Heavy uses more memory so you'll probably have to dial back intensity quite a bit. I haven't yet tried this myself because the CN coins I primarily mine have foolishly delayed switching to an ASIC resistant algo...
So, I have my RX 560's churning away on MUSIC (Ethash) instead.
I'm mining MUSIC too but I'm also finding good ol Monero to be minable with rx 560, after the v7 fork the difficulty went down enough to be worth it, it won't last long so enjoying while I can. |
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xmr-stak-v2.4.1-cuda8 (SMOS)
9x 1060 3GB 4923H/s (about 547 each at 80w, 150 core 1500 memory)
I'm probably optimizing it a bit wrong, but it's still more profitable than equihash at the same settings now (cards runs about 7 C colder than on equihash for some reason).
Hashrates aside, equihash was more profitable for me last month, because zencash went up from $17 to $24 this week. Because of how the market can move you're mistaken to think cryptonight is always more profitable than equihash, even though equihash gets inferior hashrates on AMD compared to equivalent nVidia cards. |
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With Windows 10 I always run this command in a .bat file before I start mining:
taskkill /IM /F ApplicationFrameHost.exe
It gets back a little vram from windows.
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I have a low end rx 560 rig, I see it as mostly a hobby too with small chance of making money. I'm hoarding Musicoin and a stockpile of many low difficulty cryptonight coins  |
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Best miner for rx 560 really gives the highest hashrate  Not fastest for my rx 560 rig. I tested both Claymore and PhoenixMiner extensively, PM has slightly more hashrate/less sale shares. Claymore is more stable though, so when I'm not home I run Claymore to be safer. Both softwares have their pros and cons. |
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