Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[NavyCuda]

Does anyone know the maximum safe voltage I can run HBM2 at?  I seem to have hit a wall at 1100MHz @ 1050mV.  I've risked as high as 1200mV but only managed an unstable 1125MHz on the memory clock.  1100 @ 1050 is rock solid for mining.

Your not changing HBM2 voltage. If your changing memory voltage via wattman your probably not doing anything(if anything your changing VDDCI). Vega's HBM2 voltage is locked at 1.35v for highest state. There is not much headroom to over volt it much more, since they are already over-volting it from the HBM2 spec of 1.2v.

You can't? *You* can't? Watch me.

Never said *I* can't ;P Already have it at 1.45v and pushing 1200. Just pointing out the other guy that thinks he's changing HBM2 voltage with the slider on watt man

Absent of evidence otherwise I think it was rational to think what I did.  Not sure I want to push that much voltage to hit 1200 MHz but I would like to learn the process.  Any suggestions on search criteria would be appreciated.

[cashen]

Very low hash rate less than 3Mh/s per card! Offering .1 eth to solve problem.

My settings:
Windows 10 with latest updates
Nvidia 1070 Hybrids with latest updates (tried many different versions as well)
Synced full blockchain with Geth
Windows tweaks for 16gb virtual memory
Claymore 9.7 (also tried 9.5)


I have 4 GPUs running and they are pulling less than 9Mh/s in total. I have spent like 20 hours trying to fix this problem i'm just about ready to part out this whole rig. I even tried reinstalling windows and trying everything from scratch without any luck. Willing to pay .1 eth to whomever can help me get this to 25Mh/s+ per card like it's supposed to be.

Save your ETH.

you need The Creative Update. You can't just hit update. need to download separate.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[MinerosYV]

hey guys, new to the forums.  Been mining for about 1.5 months.

I have 2 PCs mining, 1 was my main rig (older) and the other was a somewhat dedicated miner.  Both on wifi adapters

I've been having a problem in this couple of days with my main PC where i get the "socket was closed remotely by pool error".

When it's not mining, the PC's internet connection is completely fine.  Once I open the miner, connection drops (but shows as connected at the icon), can't go nowhere with chrome and the error pops in the miner.

Once I close the miner, internet connection comes back after a while (or sometimes I need to restart, but point being that connection is ok as long as the miner isn't on)

A moment ago I experimented with a lan cable.  Wifi adaptor in, miner started, same old problem.  Unplugged wifi adaptor and plugged in cable while miner still running, error went away in like 20 seconds and it's happily mining.  This happened while the other PC is mining fine the whole time with a different wifi adaptor.

So according to above, I've seemed to pinpoint the problem to the wifi adaptor, a TP link TL-WN823N.  Anyone knows how this could happen though?  I've also experienced extremely poor performance in online gaming with this adaptor, but I mean the thing still works when I'm just surfing the web, even streaming videos in youtube so connection speed is out of the question.  

What makes the adaptor go bad when executing connection-dependant programs?  Is this adaptor trash or not?

DON'T MINE WITH WIFI--

It really doesn't work well.  Wifi is OK while traveling, but at home I use cable.       --scryptr

If you want to use WiFi use an USB extention cable, been working happy for long time now.

It has to do with interference of the GPUs working, don't ask me how I know.
Try it an let me know

[spyder09]

I have been mining on wifi since I started with no issues. I have a usb extended wifi adapter for 1 right and the other is one of the plug in wifi extenders I have hard connected to my other rig that just repeats the wireless router to a new network name. I will probably build a few more rigs and run them off a switch off the wifi extender.

[TechPark]

See this screenshot to see how Claymore Miner contributes to Ethereum Difficulty growth.
When 9.7 was released the difficulty raised for 11% in 1 day. Impressive.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1hOylZFdKFr3Cdj23

[Skol600ml]

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

[NavyCuda]

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

Doesn't seem to support Vega either.

[cashen]

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

Doesn't seem to support Vega either.

Does this require a pixel patch to support modified bios?

[JulioTenorio]

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

I don't recommend, MSI afterburner or TRIXX doesn't work, overclock only on Wattman. In SG miner my hash decreased.

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

Doesn't seem to support Vega either.

Does this require a pixel patch to support modified bios?

Yes.

[TechPark]

I hope nobody bought GTX 1080's or GTX 1080 TI's for mining and resale on 2nd hand market.

Rumours are that RX Vega is going to be very cheap, like Ryzen CPUs.

Gaming performance above GTX 1080.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOwl-bZ-Yw

Not to mention Vega has some serious mining potential.  Today peak hash rate went to a new high for me of 52.2MH/second.  I don't have a 24hr average yet for the new settings I'm running.

If it's true that later model Vegas will get even faster HBM2, they'll be insane mining cards.

Glad, I waited now. They are saying it might be under $450!

Once, Claymore does the optimisations and with some bios tinkering: you could be looking at 60mhs GPU.

Who are they? Where are they saying it?
If Vega 450? What would be the price of 580? 570? 560 for 50$? Every schoolboy will mine crypto then !

[cashen]

Installed latest drivers. patched. Same result. only thing is WattTool is not working completely. I'm working remotely though. I had to use Wattman to adjust values.

again, exact same result.

[TechPark]

I hope nobody bought GTX 1080's or GTX 1080 TI's for mining and resale on 2nd hand market.

Rumours are that RX Vega is going to be very cheap, like Ryzen CPUs.

Gaming performance above GTX 1080.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOwl-bZ-Yw

Not to mention Vega has some serious mining potential.  Today peak hash rate went to a new high for me of 52.2MH/second.  I don't have a 24hr average yet for the new settings I'm running.

If it's true that later model Vegas will get even faster HBM2, they'll be insane mining cards.

Glad, I waited now. They are saying it might be under $450!

Once, Claymore does the optimisations and with some bios tinkering: you could be looking at 60mhs GPU.

NVIDIA most likely will drop the price of 1080 to be below Vega.
If Vega is too cheap (aka 450) it will be bought out in minutes by speculators who will set the price according to the demand.
Either way - Vega will cost exactly as much as you just almost can afford ! ))

[TechPark]

Terry Makedon‏ @CatalystMaker

I sense a BIG day for Radeon Software tomorrow. Cant wait to let the cat out of the bag......

https://twitter.com/CatalystMaker/status/889946633575780352


Lets all hope its a DAG fix 

calm down
https://www.techrival.com/amd-radeon-software-17-7-2-brings-enhanced-sync/

What exactly did you mean by your post?

[Skol600ml]

Any word about the AMD 17.7.2 released today? Working? Good? DAG?

I couldn't get it working. For the first time since i'm using 580 i needed to revert to the old drive.

Doesn't seem to support Vega either.

Does this require a pixel patch to support modified bios?

That would be novelty for 5xx. But it's possible.

[TechPark]

I have 11 rx 570. I have calculated that i use 1550w total setup in two rigs. Is this power usage high? Thats about 140w per card (including other components), or 135w without other components.

1. Always measure from the wall.
2. Make a measurement of your system with the GPUs completely unplugged from the motherboard/risers
3. Make a measurement of your system with the GPUs installed
4. Subtract measurement of step 3 from measurement of step 4 and divide by your number of cards

This is aprox your per card consumption. In order to be more precise you would have to take into consideration your PSUs efficiency diagram but I do not think it is worth the effort.

You should name the brand of the card as well if you want other users to post their data.

Another factor you may want to mention is your GPUs core and memory voltages.

All of my 9 Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 8GB consume aprox 142 watts on SOLO ETH mining and 162 watts on DUAL mining, 875mV on core 850mV on memory

Great post!
What do you use to set voltage? What are your GPU memory timings? Do you monitor GPU hardware errors? What are the frequencies and hashrates and dcri settings?

[TechPark]

Two fun ways - VBIOS edit is simpler, direct I2C access via MMIO registers on Linux through /dev/mem is more fun.

Both my Vega FE's are in my gaming machine running win10.  My Linux box barely had room for my GTX 970.

I have zero experience modding video card bios, and limited experience editing the bios for overclocking a CPU.  I've always been a person to leave things stock unless I have a pressing need.  OC'ed my 3770k for Arma3... playing with my Vega's for mining purposes since that's why I bought them.

This conversation does not belong here. Why don't you create a new thread for Vega before you are banned here?

[HarrisLam]

thanks for the reply about the wifi guys.

To be honest I was asking because like the few others who reply, i was happily mining on both rigs for the past month.

The adaptor really only showed its weakness in the game (namely dota 2) I play, but it could stream and youtube and mine just fine.  It was only having the socket error during these few days, but I never got it working ever since.

The other rig mines also with a wifi adaptor just fine while this rig is having its problems.  That rig has been extremely steady with the claymore miner so I know wifi could work if you can find the right hardware for it.  I'm just hesitating about buying a new wifi adaptor.

The TP link adaptor in question also got decent reviews online, making it feel like a hit-or-miss thing to me.  What if I buy a new and supposedly better adaptor for an even higher price and it also doesn't work...

arhhh.....

[Tarv]

It depends on GPU, settings, selected coin, it's price and net diff. For example, for SIA on stock 1070 ccminer shows 1400MH/s. In dual mode in v9.7 I get 650MH/s SIA (so 45% of pure SIA speed) with only 2% ETH lost (about 25.8MH/s instead of 26.4MH/s).
DCR speed is not so good, agreed.

After seeing this comment I spent some time today testing my 1070's with different -dcri settings.  I wasn't getting anywhere near that SC hash.  About 30.6mh/s eth and 309mh/s sia with default -dcri 30.

While testing on my main PC, I came to the conclusion that a -dcri 60 was about the best trade off for loss of ETH hash vs. gains of SC hash.  I was now getting around 29.5mh/s eth and 660mh/s sia.

I moved these new settings to the mining rig and the ETH hash just tanked.  Checking around I noticed that the cards wanted to draw more power with this new -dcri setting.  The 1070's in my rig are overclocked and the power was decreased.  Originally when I set up the rig, I tested the miner with ETH only and found I could get away with 75% power on the cards with no change to hash.

Increasing the -dcri seems to require more power.  I tried pushing the power to 112% and the hash rates just flew.  29.6mh/s and 693mh/s respectively.

Seems like quite a lot more power for that extra SIA hash.  Just posting as it's something people might want to consider.

TL;DR

-dcri 30, 75% power = 30.6mh/s eth, 307mh/s sia
-dcri 30, 112% power = 30.9mh/s eth, 309mh/s sia

-dcri 60, 75% power = 24.5mh/s eth, 490mh/s sia
-dcri 60, 112% power = 29.6mh/s eth, 693mh/s sia

[NavyCuda]

Who's gonna ban me? You? Jesus, I thought Claymore was sometimes a little pissy, but you're a bona fide dick.

I think he was talking to me.  Though I'm not sure why I would get banned for talking about a video card I have, that I'm looking forward to claymore's miner supporting.

[P00P135]

It depends on GPU, settings, selected coin, it's price and net diff. For example, for SIA on stock 1070 ccminer shows 1400MH/s. In dual mode in v9.7 I get 650MH/s SIA (so 45% of pure SIA speed) with only 2% ETH lost (about 25.8MH/s instead of 26.4MH/s).
DCR speed is not so good, agreed.

After seeing this comment I spent some time today testing my 1070's with different -dcri settings.  I wasn't getting anywhere near that SC hash.  About 30.6mh/s eth and 309mh/s sia with default -dcri 30.

While testing on my main PC, I came to the conclusion that a -dcri 60 was about the best trade off for loss of ETH hash vs. gains of SC hash.  I was now getting around 29.5mh/s eth and 660mh/s sia.

I moved these new settings to the mining rig and the ETH hash just tanked.  Checking around I noticed that the cards wanted to draw more power with this new -dcri setting.  The 1070's in my rig are overclocked and the power was decreased.  Originally when I set up the rig, I tested the miner with ETH only and found I could get away with 75% power on the cards with no change to hash.

Increasing the -dcri seems to require more power.  I tried pushing the power to 112% and the hash rates just flew.  29.6mh/s and 693mh/s respectively.

Seems like quite a lot more power for that extra SIA hash.  Just posting as it's something people might want to consider.

TL;DR

-dcri 30, 75% power = 30.6mh/s eth, 307mh/s sia
-dcri 30, 112% power = 30.9mh/s eth, 309mh/s sia

-dcri 60, 75% power = 24.5mh/s eth, 490mh/s sia
-dcri 60, 112% power = 29.6mh/s eth, 693mh/s sia

Did you try experimenting with core clocks while dual mining?  I found 75dcri with a higher core clock for my 1070's gave me higher results for both ETH/SIA at the cost of even more power.  In the end I just decided dual mining wasnt worth the added power, heat, and stress along with the 2% eth tax.