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

[bardacuda]

Howdy Devs and happy Miners!!

Question:  When the Claymore dual miner restarts (for whatever reason: coin switch etc.) it resets the core voltage value on my MSI R9 290x Gaming 4G to zero.  This is a huge problem because it hits 80C on this setting.  I have to manually go back into Afterburner and reset it to -100 everytime.  This gets the card back down to 70C without affecting my hashrate, so how do I access and change this particular setting within Claymore?  FWIW I also have an R9 390 in this rig but when Claymore resets the core voltage value this card is not negatively affected in the temperature department.

My Rig:
Running Nicehash Legacy
Crimson Blockchain drivers
MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 beta 12

Motherboard: 990fx-ud3
GTX 1070
Rx 580
R9 290x  <---problem card
R9 390

Thanks in advance!!
Chris

Edit the BIOS to have the desired voltage/clocks at load, then you don't need to use AB (or wattman or whatever) at all.

[bardacuda]

Wolf0 I have a question. Does it help (in the context of hash rates) to have a certain Linux kernel (as in a recent one...perhaps that you compile yourself) or a certain driver (amdgpu vs amdgpu-pro)? And I doubt it makes a difference...but what about mesa version?

btw I'm asking within the confines of publicly available packages specifically.

[VaynardW]

For RX 5xx users, May I ask which driver versions are you using?
Since AMD blockchain driver doesn't let me set mclk on one of my cards, i reverted back to using normal drivers, but now the current up to date drivers fluctuate both the core and mclk and drop the hashrate of both cards

[Skol600ml]

For RX 5xx users, May I ask which driver versions are you using?
Since AMD blockchain driver doesn't let me set mclk on one of my cards, i reverted back to using normal drivers, but now the current up to date drivers fluctuate both the core and mclk and drop the hashrate of both cards

The last good drive is still 17.7.1. No point installing new ones, they only break stuff and do nothing good, unless blackchain driver if you know how to overcome the issues.

[VaynardW]

The last good drive is still 17.7.1. No point installing new ones, they only break stuff and do nothing good, unless blackchain driver if you know how to overcome the issues.

Thanks for the info, the latest one i'm using is 17.7.2, if after switching to 17.7.1 it still fluctuate even though it works well on you, i can conclude that the problem lies somewhere else

[notbatman]

I can't imagine any farm of size messing with all of these little tools on every startup, so they must burn the bios with volts and clocks.

PBE can't do it, so ... what does?

Like they use Windows - that would be stupid. They use Linux, usually, and either VBIOS mods or tools like mine on *nix to access the VRM directly and control it.

I fried all the pcie slots on my windows box, may I ask what *nix tools you use? Specifically read and writing bios, a bios settings editor and monitoring GPU stats.

On windows I use ATIWinfLash, PolarisBiosEditor and GPU-Z.

atiflash - command line one. I'd have to go find the public one if you need a copy, but I could. OhGodATool (written by my owner & I) for VBIOS edits, as well as a couple private tools I wrote (amdtimingcopy, the wolfmctools suite for memory timing fine-tuning, and shit.) The only other tool I use for live monitoring (and the only one I know exists that isn't super under wraps) is my own; wolfamdvolt/ohgodavolt, which I've shown on BCT before (NSFW): http://lovehindpa.ws/screens/wolfamdvolt.jpg

Well if your owner allows it git would be a great place to make any tools you feel like sharing available.

[Jbodz83]

Hi guys,

below is my set-up and I was wondering if I could use 1200w under 7GPU, or should I add another PSU to support the wattage.
Appreciate your guide on this 

CORSAIR – 1200w
MSI M5 7 PCIE
4x - RX 570
3x – RX 580
MSI AB 4.4.0 beta 16

[Makak4R]

Yes, that's why I'm curious. It'd have been fine if it was 50 Watts increase in power, but jumping from 450 Watts to 600 Watts is really ridiculous, specially for a new bronze Corsair power supply.

I'm going to open up my PSU, GPU's, whole system and suck some dust through the stuff through a light vacuum cleaner. Let's see what happens.

just did the exactly same operation yesterday
cleaned all radiators form my watercooling system
as result my temps dropped about 10 celius, that is a huge drop for me
now it is much better and quiter

[stanis_r]

hello, can i change TDP on gpu with claymore or AB ?

[pickle]

Should it be possible to mine using a Vega 64 GPU and an RX 580 GPU together in the same rig? I'm getting hard lockups whenever I try to combine them...

[bardacuda]

Wolf0 I have a question. Does it help (in the context of hash rates) to have a certain Linux kernel (as in a recent one...perhaps that you compile yourself) or a certain driver (amdgpu vs amdgpu-pro)? And I doubt it makes a difference...but what about mesa version?

btw I'm asking within the confines of publicly available packages specifically.

Not really, as long as the kernel is relatively recent. And AMDGPU is always used - AMDGPU-PRO is shit atop it, and 99.99% of that trash you don't need. All you need is the OCL runtime; keep it light.

K thanks for the tips!

[Chipychop]

hello everybody

col anyone tell me the commands to see efficiency on Claymore minero like I do on zcash mine?

Thanks in advance

[Ursul0]

Hi guys,

below is my set-up and I was wondering if I could use 1200w under 7GPU, or should I add another PSU to support the wattage.
Appreciate your guide on this 

CORSAIR – 1200w
MSI M5 7 PCIE
4x - RX 570
3x – RX 580
MSI AB 4.4.0 beta 16

depending on the algo you wish to run, where obvious choices are ethash, equihash, cryptonight
you can make your cards take from about 100W(cryptonight) to 150W(dual eth) keeping the hashrate at good levels

[notbatman]

I've been doing a lot of research recently and I've found the new $800 RX VEGA can do up to 41 MH/s @ 300W.

Whoever the AMD CEO is she needs to stripped naked, tied to a post and publically caned with one lash for every MH/s under 80 MH/s and one lash for every Watt over 200W.

[greatauror28]

For RX 5xx users, May I ask which driver versions are you using?
Since AMD blockchain driver doesn't let me set mclk on one of my cards, i reverted back to using normal drivers, but now the current up to date drivers fluctuate both the core and mclk and drop the hashrate of both cards

I'm using the second-to-latest latest blockchain drivers (aug11) + Claymore 9.8 with no software-related problems. I embedded my overclock and underclock directly in BIOS and I control the undervolt using Trixx afterwards.

The last good drive is still 17.7.1. No point installing new ones, they only break stuff and do nothing good, unless blackchain driver if you know how to overcome the issues.

See above. As long as you do same settings it would work.

[fr4nkthetank]

From reading the discussions here, W0lf you could release a paid nix build on usb, with tools built in, plug and play form for miners.  Would be more interesting than what there is for AMD miners at the moment. 

[SnigglysMine]

Howdy Devs and happy Miners!!

Question:  When the Claymore dual miner restarts (for whatever reason: coin switch etc.) it resets the core voltage value on my MSI R9 290x Gaming 4G to zero.  This is a huge problem because it hits 80C on this setting.  I have to manually go back into Afterburner and reset it to -100 everytime.  This gets the card back down to 70C without affecting my hashrate, so how do I access and change this particular setting within Claymore?  FWIW I also have an R9 390 in this rig but when Claymore resets the core voltage value this card is not negatively affected in the temperature department.

My Rig:
Running Nicehash Legacy
Crimson Blockchain drivers
MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 beta 12

Motherboard: 990fx-ud3
GTX 1070
Rx 580
R9 290x  <---problem card
R9 390

Thanks in advance!!
Chris

Edit the BIOS to have the desired voltage/clocks at load, then you don't need to use AB (or wattman or whatever) at all.

Thanks.  Someone was nice enough to delete a post I made that might not have been clear enough...so...

To Claymore:  Is there a way to modify any file within the miner to set the core voltage to a fixed value?
What would that file name be and if you know, it's location within the nicehash miner.

[ZenFr]

Hi Claymore : is there a new version of your dual miner in the pipe, ready soon ?
The actual one is very good, but we ever hope better ;-).

I plan to release new version in 3-4 days. I've almost finished ASM mode for ETH+LBC, also try to find some workaround for voltage control.

Thank you for your reply.
Happy to know for a new release soon and the dual mining mode ETH + LBc will be my choice in the next days :-).

[SnigglysMine]

Hi Claymore : is there a new version of your dual miner in the pipe, ready soon ?
The actual one is very good, but we ever hope better ;-).

I plan to release new version in 3-4 days. I've almost finished ASM mode for ETH+LBC, also try to find some workaround for voltage control.

Thank you for your reply.
Happy to know for a new release soon and the dual mining mode ETH + LBc will be my choice in the next days :-).

Thanks for this.  I didn't see that one sentence buried amongst all the other boxes, lines, codes, and other stuff.

[chronek]

I've been doing a lot of research recently and I've found the new $800 RX VEGA can do up to 41 MH/s @ 300W.

Whoever the AMD CEO is she needs to stripped naked, tied to a post and publically caned with one lash for every MH/s under 80 MH/s and one lash for every Watt over 200W.

First it was not amd claims, second from badwitch calculation vega is capable do 80 MH/s and i think big mining farms have optimized miner (cause vega rx was sold out in first days even if is poor in gaming) , I think Claymore have asm for vega but just deley it for big mining farms sake ... It is business...