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

[kkourmousis]

Mine ranges from 30.0 to 30.3 eth and 750-760 dcr @145-150w across all 8 cards.
1160/2025/875 with dcri25.

Electricity costs much for me so I prefer the lowest possible consumption.

I can get to the numbers (performance wise) that you posted but not with 145-150w. How did you measure that?

I use the following method for measuring gpu power draw:

• Remove all gpus and risers from the rig. I mean unplug them completely
• Measure idle consumption of the rig.
• Reconnect all gpus and risers
• Measure mining consumption of the rig.
• Perform a  mining - idle consumption and divide by the number of the gpus

Keep in mind that if you have your GPUs or risers plugged in (even without having them mining) they do consume power.
Also, I only measure power consumption using a wall meter.

Did you use that methodology for your measurements @greatauror28 ? What brand of RX 580 do you have?

[mzeoatrakeb]

What speed are you getting using RX580 8G

I can answer that for my case.

I am getting an average of ~29.2MH/s ETH & 7000MH/s DCR, per RX 580 8GB Nitro+, consuming a little bit less than 160w per gpu

Windows 10 Pro
Radeon™ Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.1
Claymore Dual Miner v.10.1
Modded BIOS

my config:

-esm 0
-asm 1
-etha 0
-estale 0
-mode 0
-dcri 30
-retrydelay 2
-tt 70
-tstop 80
-fanmax 85
-fanmin 15
-cclock 1140
-mclock 2070 (average across all my gpus)
-cvddc 850
-mvddc 850
-platform 1

I have mod bios ...30.3MH/s  and 110-120w per card
Dual mode 51C single mode 42.

[aliitp]

guys i really need help with this, last night i downloaded claymore's (and other eth mining GUI app) the thing is as soon as i start mining ETH my entire PC becomes sluggish to the point you can't control ANYTHING there, the mouse is almost frozen, ctrl+alt+delete is responding after 5+ minutes, everything is almost to the point of being frozen, i was forced to click the shutdown button on my chassis and wait 3+ minutes for the machines to suspend all processes and eventually shutdown the PC !...

Not sure what was wrong but am sure the CPU was Not utilized at all so why did this happen ?!?...

My PC is pretty much highest end, with 5820k 6 Core 12 Threads, and 3x GTX 970's on SLI !!...

i was monitoring the program and it was reporting 0 hash/sec so it wasn't working either, is this because am having nvidia cards and why is this terrible slowness happening and can we avoid it and be able to mine properly with 3x GTX 970s ?

Help appreciated...

[dzobnin]

Hello everyone, apologies if this already came up before. I hope you can point me in the right direction. I get the following error:

watchdog - eminer thread hangs
Miner thread hangs, need to restart miner!

no issues are being reported in log files with any GPUs. Sometimes it happens after connection to the pool has been lost. Sometimes after dev fee mining when it tries to re-connect.

example from log file:

ETH: Stratum - Cannot connect to eu1.ethermine.org:4444
ETH: Stratum - Failed to connect, retry in 20 sec...
watchdog - eminer thread hangs
Miner thread hangs, need to restart miner!

Rig setup:
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.11.0-kfd-compute-rocm-rel-1.6-180 x86_64)
claymore 10
13 x Sapphire RX 570 Nitro + 4gb Elpida
plenty of RAM and swap
I am on WIFI with USB dongle.

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        3735572      619720     2799392       12704      316460     2909084
Swap:      48090108           0    48090108


Any pointers welcome.

[mewhoyou]

Guys,

When i set this ... only my first GC applies to it.... other GC are still standard setting... anything I am doing wrong?


-esm 0
-asm 1
-etha 0
-estale 0
-mode 1
-dcri 30
-retrydelay 2
-tt 70
-tstop 80
-fanmax 85
-fanmin 15
-cclock 1050
-mclock 1850
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
-platform 1

[Rickirs]

guys i really need help with this, last night i downloaded claymore's (and other eth mining GUI app) the thing is as soon as i start mining ETH my entire PC becomes sluggish to the point you can't control ANYTHING there, the mouse is almost frozen, ctrl+alt+delete is responding after 5+ minutes, everything is almost to the point of being frozen, i was forced to click the shutdown button on my chassis and wait 3+ minutes for the machines to suspend all processes and eventually shutdown the PC !...

Not sure what was wrong but am sure the CPU was Not utilized at all so why did this happen ?!?...

My PC is pretty much highest end, with 5820k 6 Core 12 Threads, and 3x GTX 970's on SLI !!...

i was monitoring the program and it was reporting 0 hash/sec so it wasn't working either, is this because am having nvidia cards and why is this terrible slowness happening and can we avoid it and be able to mine properly with 3x GTX 970s ?

Help appreciated...

Thats nothing unusual , when GPU is 100% in use, it causes little sluggish response from computer( its actually display only, computer is fine). What I suggest is try with with SLI turned OFF from NVIDIA control panel and then try again.
Also, keep eye on the temperature / stats of the cards just in case.

[woodaxe]

just some info to sum things up:
I've got various 570s (hashing at 28.5-30MH) and vegas 64(40-41MH) running on winX anniversary with drivers: 17.10.2, 17.10.3, 17.11.1
Using overdriven tool for proper (not the same values for various stages, as claymore does) frequencies and volts - works great!
(actually I use it for vegas FE with 2017Q4 driver as well)

NEVER had an issue with setting "compute mode" - just fucking ignore the AMD GUI crap

Also for all those lazy people using AB - just DON'T. It should be the tool of last resort - only if nothing else works and immediate results are required... and can be achieved without fucking everything up.
Seriously. I'm tired of repeating myself on this issue. Don't use AB for AMD ever.

ok ive got it  but dont know how to use it is there a guide or something  have you got  link

many thanks

[Rickirs]

ETH: Stratum - Cannot connect to eu1.ethermine.org:4444
ETH: Stratum - Failed to connect, retry in 20 sec...
watchdog - eminer thread hangs
Miner thread hangs, need to restart miner!

May be issue with internet or particular pool, may be adding alternate pools / server to epools.txt help.  

[blackhwk77]

Try specifying it for each card like -cclock 1050,1050,1050,etc for all settings.

Guys,

When i set this ... only my first GC applies to it.... other GC are still standard setting... anything I am doing wrong?


-esm 0
-asm 1
-etha 0
-estale 0
-mode 1
-dcri 30
-retrydelay 2
-tt 70
-tstop 80
-fanmax 85
-fanmin 15
-cclock 1050
-mclock 1850
-cvddc 900
-mvddc 900
-platform 1

[aliitp]

just some info to sum things up:
I've got various 570s (hashing at 28.5-30MH) and vegas 64(40-41MH) running on winX anniversary with drivers: 17.10.2, 17.10.3, 17.11.1
Using overdriven tool for proper (not the same values for various stages, as claymore does) frequencies and volts - works great!
(actually I use it for vegas FE with 2017Q4 driver as well)

NEVER had an issue with setting "compute mode" - just fucking ignore the AMD GUI crap

Also for all those lazy people using AB - just DON'T. It should be the tool of last resort - only if nothing else works and immediate results are required... and can be achieved without fucking everything up.
Seriously. I'm tired of repeating myself on this issue. Don't use AB for AMD ever.

ok ive got it  but dont know how to use it is there a guide or something  have you got  link

many thanks

Thank you, disabling SLI has fixed the problem and all mining apps worked like a charm, i was actually thinking of reformatting the whole machine and installing windows 10, but anyways   

another issue i got is that mining performance using two different apps is just 10 MH/sec per card 
http://grabilla.com/07b07-4f23d2b3-d4dc-44ef-890e-5056d8da9a31.png

I thought the GTX 970 can do 20 MH/sec (EACH), any ide on this ??...

Thank you,

[greatauror28]

Mine ranges from 30.0 to 30.3 eth and 750-760 dcr @145-150w across all 8 cards.
1160/2025/875 with dcri25.

Electricity costs much for me so I prefer the lowest possible consumption.

I can get to the numbers (performance wise) that you posted but not with 145-150w. How did you measure that?

I use the following method for measuring gpu power draw:

• Remove all gpus and risers from the rig. I mean unplug them completely
• Measure idle consumption of the rig.
• Reconnect all gpus and risers
• Measure mining consumption of the rig.
• Perform a  mining - idle consumption and divide by the number of the gpus

Keep in mind that if you have your GPUs or risers plugged in (even without having them mining) they do consume power.
Also, I only measure power consumption using a wall meter.

Did you use that methodology for your measurements @greatauror28 ? What brand of RX 580 do you have?

Hey!

I have 8x Sapphire Nitro+ cards. I do get that the cards do consume even when not minining. I do have the TPLink-HS110 smart plug and the Kasa app on my iphone. When no cards are plugged and system is on, it pulls 53w. When I have all 8 cards dual-mining, it's pulling around 1240-1260w at the wall.

(1260-53)/8 = 150.875w per card.

I have both cvddc and mvddc set at 875mV and as per HWinfo, they average from 850 to 865mV when running.

If you want to consume less, try lowering your dcri value from 30 to 25 like mine. It'll lessens your dcr hashrate but should save you around 5-8 watts per card.

I have posted it before

[Rickirs]

Random quote..

ok ive got it  but dont know how to use it is there a guide or something  have you got  link

many thanks

Thank you, disabling SLI has fixed the problem and all mining apps worked like a charm, i was actually thinking of reformatting the whole machine and installing windows 10, but anyways   

another issue i got is that mining performance using two different apps is just 10 MH/sec per card 
http://grabilla.com/07b07-4f23d2b3-d4dc-44ef-890e-5056d8da9a31.png

I thought the GTX 970 can do 20 MH/sec (EACH), any ide on this ??...

Thank you,

Hopefully you were trying to quote me.. right ?

Anyways, in Nvidia control panel, look for "Optimize for compute" -> Enabled and see what you get.

Also, see this discussion at reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6hclmp/gtx970_mining_faq/

[vndevil]

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[faanigee]

anyone tell how to use compute mode with amd....!!!
if possible attach screenshot...!!!

[Rickirs]

anyone tell how to use compute mode with amd....!!!
if possible attach screenshot...!!!

Isn't Nvidia's control panel feature only ?

You can simply overclock your card as per need instead.

[bit70]

anyone tell how to use compute mode with amd....!!!
if possible attach screenshot...!!!

It's possible to opt for compute mode during installation, which will only install OpenCL support. This prevents some installations from severe crashing, as it happened to me. With the following commands everything worked smoothly for me

Code:

tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.40-483984.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.40-483984
./amdgpu-pro-install --compute
sudo reboot

Is that what you meant?

[kkourmousis]

Hey!

I have 8x Sapphire Nitro+ cards. I do get that the cards do consume even when not minining. I do have the TPLink-HS110 smart plug and the Kasa app on my iphone. When no cards are plugged and system is on, it pulls 53w. When I have all 8 cards dual-mining, it's pulling around 1240-1260w at the wall.

(1260-53)/8 = 150.875w per card.

I have both cvddc and mvddc set at 875mV and as per HWinfo, they average from 850 to 865mV when running.

If you want to consume less, try lowering your dcri value from 30 to 25 like mine. It'll lessens your dcr hashrate but should save you around 5-8 watts per card.

I have posted it before

I was unlucky enough to buy the TPLink-HS100 and not the HS110 model (actually the HS110 didn't exist in my country at the time). I am considering buying it now, even though I am currently using a borrowed Ubiquiti mPower (EU) which I have found to be pretty accurate.

My idle system consumption is 35w and total consumption while Dual mining is 1307, so it is 159w/gpu. Reducing dcri is the only thing that I haven't tried yet, I will do so in the next days and let you know, thanks for the tip.

[RaminBAFS]

Hi guys,
I'm new to this thing literally set up everything today  
Problem is I have a 1080GTX card and been mining for an hour with total share of 15...can't pass 22mh/s! Very disappointing  
I don't want to overclock or anything but I was hoping I could at least get something around 30
Thnx

[MikeGR7]

Hi guys,
I'm new to this thing literally set up everything today  
Problem is I have a 1080GTX card and been mining for an hour with total share of 15...can't pass 22mh/s! Very disappointing  
I don't want to overclock or anything but I was hoping I could at least get something around 30
Thnx

Sorry, make better research next time before you buy.

Your card is bad for mining ether because it uses GDDR5X memory.
You should have opted for 1070 instead. Do not bother to Overclock it max 1MH/s gain...

Anyways not all is lost, search Zcash mining and go that way instead of Eth.

Your card will do much better there 

[DuckyODucky]

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