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

[halker2010]

Check your risers they be burned.

are you sure that "burned raiser" is not an urban legend?
bad molex contacts is something I encounter very often, but actually burned raiser is something that I haven't seen yet, but then maybe I'm just that good

"If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough."

Here is a pic of one of my failed risers, I usually caught them before they went this far, but this is an extreme example.

Thats a molex burn, exactly what the guy pointed out - that molexes burn, not risers.

what causes this tho ? poor wire quality or bad PSU ? i have one of my PSU 24 pin one burned liked half of it few months ago.

[Victorio]

what causes this tho ? poor wire quality or bad PSU ? i have one of my PSU 24 pin one burned liked half of it few months ago.

Powered risers use up to 5 A (AMD RX, nVidia Pascal cards), usually - about 3-3.5 A.
I prefer to avoid Molex and SATA connectors at all. The pins and terminals for 4 pin Molex are round and they do not fit 100%. It happens that 1-2 out of 4 Molex pins are not fully inserted into the terminals and the contact surface is barely sufficient. When the contact surface becomes tiny, the resistance increases and the contact heats, until it burns. Cheap cords and adapters from China are much more prone to this problem - the cable does not match the declared AWG rating (a cheap cable labeled as 18AWG turns to be 22AWG and holds only 1/2 of the expected current), the wire is steel instead of copper, the terminals are shallowly crimped, not soldered - a lot of weak points that might fry your equipment.
For ATX PSUs I recommend double-checking the fit of all Molex connectors.

[AlainC]

I prefer to avoid Molex and SATA connectors at all....

Crossing my fingers, I have good experience with molex plugged directly on Corsair PSU cables.
Quality is the key.

[Victorio]

This program will work on my computer with features 5gb ram, 2gb graphics card? 

Most probably - no.
The only profitable 2GB graphics cards that are able to mine are:
AMD RX460, RX560
nVidia GTX 1050
Yet you would be limited to ETH-forks with small DAG file - Ubiq, Expanse, Musicoin, etc.
It's not worth it.

[NewbieMiner17]

Check your risers they be burned.

are you sure that "burned raiser" is not an urban legend?
bad molex contacts is something I encounter very often, but actually burned raiser is something that I haven't seen yet, but then maybe I'm just that good

Yeah I had a burned molex (peripheral cables)... It actually burned out on the PSU itself and damaged one of my outputs. Have just ordered a new cable from corsair and used a different output... What could have caused this? Can I do anything to prevent it? Could a claim be made vs corsair for warranty on my 1200w PSU?

How many things did you have plugged into your molex line?  Did you use a corsair cable or a different brand?

3 RX480's N+ 4GB on each with the final socket unused. Corsair that came with it

That was your problem, you can only put a maximum of 2 on a single molex cable or you risk burning.

So what I should only have 2 on a 4-6 adapter? I mean its worked for over a year no problem but then its burned it. Because its damaged the slot on the PSU I also now don't have enough slots to buy extra cable and extend it.

Whats the other option? I'm not even sure what to call the adapters I could use as replacement. The peripheral cables were hard enough to find and had to go corsair directly for it :/

On another note... Who here mines with Nicehash to be paid in BTC? Was by far most profitable mining for me... Is there an alternative to nicehash that I can keep using through Claymore?

[Victorio]

On another note... Who here mines with Nicehash to be paid in BTC? Was by far most profitable mining for me... Is there an alternative to nicehash that I can keep using through Claymore?

MiningPoolHub has auto algo switch with Auto Exchange option. Connect to the Ethash port and it will switch among Ethash forks.
Another option is mining directly to an exchange address, where you set auto sell for the mined coin. You can use a pool-switching app, to mine different coins on the same algo.

[NewbieMiner17]

On another note... Who here mines with Nicehash to be paid in BTC? Was by far most profitable mining for me... Is there an alternative to nicehash that I can keep using through Claymore?

MiningPoolHub has auto algo switch with Auto Exchange option. Connect to the Ethash port and it will switch among Ethash forks.
Another option is mining directly to an exchange address, where you set auto sell for the mined coin. You can use a pool-switching app, to mine different coins on the same algo.

Sorry that went a bit over my head... Currently I'm mining ETH and DCR on the Nicehash server and they pay weekly in BTC. I'm manually putting in the exchange but I'm wondering if there's another one similar to Nicehash?

[Victorio]

Sorry that went a bit over my head... Currently I'm mining ETH and DCR on the Nicehash server and they pay weekly in BTC. I'm manually putting in the exchange but I'm wondering if there's another one similar to Nicehash?

I don't know if Nicehash allows you to choose which forks to mine within the same algo. Nicehash throws your miner the mining session that is paid best ATM - be it Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Ubiq, Metaverse or any other fork with the same Ethash algo. You mine someone's order.
If you are looking to leave Nicehash, you can mine directly ETH or ETC (more risky) and DCR directly on exchange accounts and set Auto-Sell (Bittrex allows it). Whenever a deposit comes to your Bittrex ETH wallet, it is sold at market price for BTC.
Use this scheme with caution.

[crypper]

On another note... Who here mines with Nicehash to be paid in BTC? Was by far most profitable mining for me... Is there an alternative to nicehash that I can keep using through Claymore?

MiningPoolHub has auto algo switch with Auto Exchange option. Connect to the Ethash port and it will switch among Ethash forks.
Another option is mining directly to an exchange address, where you set auto sell for the mined coin. You can use a pool-switching app, to mine different coins on the same algo.

Sorry that went a bit over my head... Currently I'm mining ETH and DCR on the Nicehash server and they pay weekly in BTC. I'm manually putting in the exchange but I'm wondering if there's another one similar to Nicehash?

Really? It's been almost 40 h since NiceHash hack and you still think you are mining for them and you will get paid. MiningPoolHub is something you are looking for. As mentioned they autoswitch you between most profitable coins and autoexchange  to the coin of your choice.

[Call_Me_Bambi]

On another note... Who here mines with Nicehash to be paid in BTC? Was by far most profitable mining for me... Is there an alternative to nicehash that I can keep using through Claymore?

MiningPoolHub has auto algo switch with Auto Exchange option. Connect to the Ethash port and it will switch among Ethash forks.
Another option is mining directly to an exchange address, where you set auto sell for the mined coin. You can use a pool-switching app, to mine different coins on the same algo.

Sorry that went a bit over my head... Currently I'm mining ETH and DCR on the Nicehash server and they pay weekly in BTC. I'm manually putting in the exchange but I'm wondering if there's another one similar to Nicehash?

Really? It's been almost 40 h since NiceHash hack and you still think you are mining for them and you will get paid. MiningPoolHub is something you are looking for. As mentioned they autoswitch you between most profitable coins and autoexchange  to the coin of your choice.

I have to second that recommendation, use MultiPoolHub. I tried several pools before settling on MultiPoolHub, it has a good selection of coins and it's autoexchange feature is brilliant and, unlike most pools, has a low withdrawal limit, support is very good too, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=472510.4800

[Cryptographertm]

hey just started using this miner with an old rx 460 saphire 4gb (pls dont bully my graphics card)

I was surprised it did anything at all with how old it is, had a few questions though

I've tried two different configs, one was just eth and sia, other was the eth+all and allcoins one, based on most profitable at  miningpoolhub.

I was wondering what the best setup for this old card would be (I read all the readme's but i wasn't sure what the up to date opinion was)

I tried this config first

EthDcrMiner64.exe
-epool us-east1.ethereum.miningpoolhub.com:20536
-ewal **
-eworker **
-epsw x
-dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
-dwal **
-dpsw x
-dcoin sia
-ttli 80

but wasnt getting eth shares

now im using this config

EthDcrMiner64.exe
-epool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
-ewal **
-eworker **
-esm 2
-epsw x
-allcoins 1
-dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
-dwal **
-dpsw x
-dcoin sc
-ttli 80


I added ttli 80 because I was afraid my card would blow up how old it is.


Also my start.bat looks like this

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020 -ewal ** -eworker ** -esm 2 -epsw x -allcoins 1 -dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550 -dwal ** -dpsw x -dcoin sc -ttli 80

output looks like this:

Code:

ETH: 2 pools are specified
Main Ethereum pool is us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
SC: 2 pools are specified
Main Siacoin pool is hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
At least 16 GB of Virtual Memory is required for multi-GPU systems
Make sure you defined GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
Be careful with overclocking, use default clocks for first tests
Press "s" for current statistics, "0".."9" to turn on/off cards, "r" to reload pools, "e" or "d" to select current pool 
OpenCL initializing...

AMD Cards available: 1
GPU #0: Baffin, 4096 MB available, 14 compute units
GPU #0 recognized as Radeon RX 460/560
POOL/SOLO version
GPU #0: algorithm ASM
No NVIDIA CUDA GPUs detected.
Total cards: 1
ETH: Stratum - connecting to 'us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com' <45.56.113.50> port 17020
DUAL MINING MODE ENABLED: ETHEREUM+SIACOIN
ETH: miner-proxy stratum mode
"-allcoins" option is set, default pools will be used for devfee, check "Readme" file for details.
Watchdog enabled
 SC: Stratum - connecting to 'hub.miningpoolhub.com' <54.209.131.18> port 20550


ETH: Stratum - Connected (us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020)
 SC: Stratum - Connected (hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550)
 SC: Authorized
ETH: Authorized
Setting DAG epoch #156...
Setting DAG epoch #156 for GPU0
Create GPU buffer for GPU0
 SC: 12/08/17-16:57:44 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
ETH: 12/08/17-16:57:45 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
ETH - Total Speed: 0.000 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
ETH: GPU0 0.000 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 0.000 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 0.000 Mh/s
GPU0 DAG creation time - 12011 ms
Setting DAG epoch #156 for GPU0 done
GPU0 t=64C fan=42%
ETH: 12/08/17-16:58:18 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
ETH - Total Speed: 5.612 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
ETH: GPU0 5.612 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 168.345 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 168.345 Mh/s
ETH: 12/08/17-16:58:21 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
ETH - Total Speed: 8.370 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
ETH: GPU0 8.370 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 251.103 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 251.103 Mh/s
GPU0 t=64C fan=43%
 SC: 12/08/17-16:58:39 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
GPU0 t=65C fan=41%
ETH: 12/08/17-16:58:57 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
ETH - Total Speed: 7.817 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:01
ETH: GPU0 7.817 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 234.495 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 234.495 Mh/s
 SC: 12/08/17-16:59:04 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
 SC: 12/08/17-16:59:05 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
 SC: 12/08/17-16:59:05 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
ETH: 12/08/17-16:59:06 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
 SC: 12/08/17-16:59:06 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
ETH - Total Speed: 8.005 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:01
ETH: GPU0 8.005 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 240.162 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 240.162 Mh/s
 SC: 12/08/17-16:59:07 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
ETH: 12/08/17-16:59:15 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020

Any advice greatly appreciated
(also Im only seeing ETH and SC, no "all coins")
(also my eth mining page dashboard says im getting 4mh even though console says  8?)

[Victorio]

hey just started using this miner with an old rx 460 saphire 4gb (pls dont bully my graphics card)
..
I've tried two different configs, one was just eth and sia, other was the eth+all and allcoins one, based on most profitable at  miningpoolhub.

RX460 is not that old, don't complain.
RX460 should push ~10 MH/s in stock and ~13-14 MH/s in OC with modded memory timings.
My advice:
-ethi 12 or -ethi 16
-dcoin sc
-dcri 15
-fanmin 50
-tt 65
-ttli 70
RX460 has slower memory compared to RX470/RX480, DAG switches take more time (5-10 sec vs 3-5 sec).

[Cryptographertm]

hey just started using this miner with an old rx 460 saphire 4gb (pls dont bully my graphics card)
..
I've tried two different configs, one was just eth and sia, other was the eth+all and allcoins one, based on most profitable at  miningpoolhub.

RX460 is not that old, don't complain.
RX460 should push ~10 MH/s in stock and ~13-14 MH/s in OC with modded memory timings.
My advice:
-ethi 12 or -ethi 16
-dcoin sc
-dcri 15
-fanmin 50
-tt 65
-ttli 70
RX460 has slower memory compared to RX470/RX480, DAG switches take more time (5-10 sec vs 3-5 sec).

wow thanks man i will do that now, what about the start.bat and ethpool dpool txts?

And does it matter what dropdown i select on the miningpoolhub site worker page? thanks again for quick reply. Im never sure what to put in config and what to  put in starbat so i just put same things in both (minus gpu settings which is only in start.bat)

also is "setx __" the correct format for start.bat like i have it above?

And I just got temperature control thread hangs for these settings

CONFIG
EthDcrMiner64.exe
-epool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
-ewal **
-eworker **
-esm 2
-epsw x
-allcoins 1
-dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550
-dwal **
-dpsw x
-dcoin sc
-dcri 15
-ethi 12
-fanmin 50
-tt 65
-ttli 70

START.BAT

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020 -ewal ** -eworker ** -esm 2 -epsw x -allcoins 1 -dpool stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550 -dwal ** -dpsw x -dcoin sc -dcri 15 -ethi 12 -fanmin 50 -tt 65 -ttli 70

OUTPUT:

Code:

GPU0 t=61C fan=51%
ETH: 12/08/17-17:42:14 - New job from us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17020
ETH - Total Speed: 10.572 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:02
ETH: GPU0 10.572 Mh/s
 SC - Total Speed: 158.587 Mh/s, Total Shares: 4, Rejected: 0
 SC: GPU0 158.587 Mh/s
 SC: 12/08/17-17:42:17 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 0)
 SC: Share accepted (78 ms)!
 SC: 12/08/17-17:42:25 - New job from hub.miningpoolhub.com:20550

thanks again my friend.

[evlo]

Should AMD overclocking work on linux? For me it does nothing and i don't know if I did something wrong or if it just don't work on linux.

[Victorio]

wow thanks man i will do that now, what about the start.bat and ethpool dpool txts?

And does it matter what dropdown i select on the miningpoolhub site worker page? thanks again for quick reply. Im never sure what to put in config and what to  put in starbat so i just put same things in both (minus gpu settings which is only in start.bat)

also is "setx __" the correct format for start.bat like i have it above?

And I just got temperature control thread hangs for these settings

1. What is "dropdown"? I don't use MPH. If you can elaborate, I'd try to figure out.
2. It's not necessary to double the same info in config.txt and start.bat.
This is enough:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe
3. Explain "control thread hangs". Did the miner crash? Try to change the -fanmin, -tt and -ttli parameters. The colder your GPU is, the more will it work.
I forgot to say you can use -mvddc 925 and -cvddc 925 (even 900 for both, on stock), if you use Claymore 10.x and newer drivers. Those voltage settings are quite efficient and safe.

[Cryptographertm]

wow thanks man i will do that now, what about the start.bat and ethpool dpool txts?

And does it matter what dropdown i select on the miningpoolhub site worker page? thanks again for quick reply. Im never sure what to put in config and what to  put in starbat so i just put same things in both (minus gpu settings which is only in start.bat)

also is "setx __" the correct format for start.bat like i have it above?

And I just got temperature control thread hangs for these settings

1. What is "dropdown"? I don't use MPH. If you can elaborate, I'd try to figure out.
2. It's not necessary to double the same info in config.txt and start.bat.
This is enough:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe
3. Explain "control thread hangs". Did the miner crash? Try to change the -fanmin, -tt and -ttli parameters. The colder your GPU is, the more will it work.
I forgot to say you can use -mvddc 925 and -cvddc 925 (even 900 for both, on stock), if you use Claymore 10.x and newer drivers. Those voltage settings are quite efficient and safe.

ah, there is a dropdown in the workers page there, its confusing, i just set it to AMD ethhash all ethash algos. seems to be working fine since im duel mining eth and SC.

Also I think ill just leave everything as is now, Im getting 10mh on eth now thanks to you, also that temperature thing only happened once so i think im good now.

thanks again my friend.

EDIT: actually wait, its so weird, my dashboard on the mining site says im getting 23mh but miner console says 10? very strange

[Victorio]

ah, there is a dropdown in the workers page there, its confusing, i just set it to AMD ethhash all ethash algos. seems to be working fine since im duel mining eth and SC.

If you set All Ethash algos, your miner will switch between different coins. Each switch=new DAG generation, it lasts ~10-30 sec, during the switch your miner does not earn money.
You can let the miner run on auto switch for 6 or 24 hours and count how many times it switched. So you'll get a picture how much % of time your miner is idling.
Regarding the hashrate - MPH shows the calculated hashrate, based on shares submitted/time spent. During larger time frames - 1h, 4h, 24h, it will be in line with the console reading.
If you decide to OC and mod your BIOS, PM me, I can help you.

[Cryptographertm]

oh wow I didnt know that ^.. so then im not sure what to set it since there is no eth/sc only option.

these are the options


(not sure why i blanked out the worker info i guess it doesnt really matter)

[Cryptographertm]

Also I know this is a stupid question but should i use different workers for epool and d pool? or use same worker?

[Victorio]

oh wow I didnt know that ^.. so then im not sure what to set it since there is no eth/sc only option.

these are the options

https://imgur.com/a/7TsxI

(not sure why i blanked out the worker info i guess it doesnt really matter)

Ethash>Ethereum
That is enough. You already defined SC option independently, in config.txt.

You can use different workers in epool and dpool. No reason, but possible though.