Miners update:
- lolminer-v1.27 (Added verify routine for Ethash dag epochs 400 to 450. In case the miner will detect defect entries, the CPU will try to fix this. Mining will be paused until the repair is completed. Use --disable-dag-verify to disable the verify & repair mechanism routine. Re-worked default Ethash kernels for Pascal GPUs - improved their performance. Added Ethash kernels for Fermi and Kepler GPUs. Most of them will only work for small epoch Eth forks. Nvidia cards on Ethash now pause when the stratum reports no current work (e.g. when connection was lost). Added a split DAG mode for Nvidia GPUs in case that the memory allocation fails on the primary kernels. This will be a bit slower, but improve compatibility, especially for 5G GPUs. Use --mode s to force it. Added parameter --cclk to fix the core clock of Nvidia Turing and newer GPUs without using external tools. Use a comma separated list to give different values to cards, use * to skip over cards. Needs super user or administrator privileges to work. Added new dualmode zilEx. This works like --dualmode zil but with the ability to use --dualdevices to exclude GPUs from switching to ZIL. They will continue on the secondary connection and do not switch. Added new dualmode eth. This will allow to point different GPUs to different pools. Added parameter --statsformat to use custom format for the bigger statistic box. The expected values are either compact or default or extended or a comma separated list of values. Use --help-format to get a list with accepted entries. Added reading of current core and memory clocks for AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Fixed a stratum error, that caused the "all shares stale" bug when too many reconnect attempts in a row did fail. Fixed a crash on Nvidia GPUs when mixing ethproxy and Nicehash stratum modes in dualmodes. Fixed zombie tune values not applied when using json format for configuring. Fixed displayed names of RX 6000 generation of cards and RTX 3060 in 460.x drivers. Deprecation notice: Furthermore Cuckaroo-29 with 48 cycle length - originally planned for Italocoin - got removed because of the lack of use)
Miners update:
- nbminer-nebutech-v37.3 (Add option --enable-dag-cache to allow an extra DAG for different epoch cached in GPU memory, useful for ETH+ZIL mining and mining on NiceHash)
Miners update:
- lolminer-v1.28 (Significantly improved/speed up DAG repair function. The miner should produce valid DAG at high overclock. Emergency temperature stop now also working for Nvidia using CUDA. Zombie mode GPUs no longer crash during DAG verify. When one Nvidia GPU stops because of a recoverable error, this will no longer crash all other Nvidia GPUs. Fix --disbale-dag-verify not working for OpenCL fired cards. Fixed overzealous reconnection on Ethash connections when not receiving new work within 30 seconds (now limit 150s))
Miners update:
- phoenixminer-v5.6c-beta (Lower percent of rejected/stale shares when mining on Nicehash. Fixed problem with reading GPU temperature with some AMD GPUs/drivers. Other small fixes and improvements)
SimpleMining images update:
- New BETA image
- SM-5.4.107-5-2-ub18-a20.40-n465.24.02
- Fixed emergency mode issues occured on some rigs
Miners update:
- phoenixminer-v5.6d (Official release. Changes from last 5.6c-beta: Fixed the problem with the missing GPU temperatures on Nvidia GPUs)
Update v1309:
- New feature Core Lock for Nvidia. In Core MHz field you can type as usual core offset from -1000 to 499 and this will decrease or increase base GPU core. New feature core lock is activated when you enter value bigger or equal 500. This is usefull for mining ETH on Nvidia GPUs 1660, RTX2xxx, RTX3xxx. Check what core clock currently is using your GPU and you can type that value directly in oc clock field. This will force GPU to stay at this clock and it might use 5-15 less watts. Powerlimit you can leave the same as it was before. RTX3060 takes normally 113W and by using core lock 1700-1800 it went down to 107W. RTX 3070 using value 1245 it went from 130W to 110W. High end RTX have very small savings. GTX10xx series should not be using that as it might give you oposite. Powerlimit should be considered as safe limit but if it is too low then core lock will not reach its value.
- New Delayed Nvidia OC. From this update powerlimit is applied as always before miner program starts. OC Core and OC Memory is applied 60 seconds after miner starts that is after DAG file is loaded into GPU, this allows Nvidia OC to be more stable on higher clocks.
- Improved sending dmesg in force reboot (Improved debug console sending during rig reboot via miner watchdogs)
- Fix error ssh server running on first time image running
- Added Ubuntu version to motd/info command in terminal console
- Disable remote ssh root login for increase security
SimpleMining images update:
- Official image updated
- SM-5.4.105-1-2-ub18-a20.40-n460.56
- Fixed emergency mode in some rare causes
Miners update:
- lolminer-v1.29 (Added the Nvidia 3060 "Unlocker". This new mode allows to mine at a speed about 3/4 of the maximum speed of this cards. Does not fully unlock card, but partially (~3/4 of max performance, +40-45% over locked card). Allows using risers. Allows multiple GPUs in one system. Needs Nvidia driver between 455.45.01 and 460.39. Other driver versions will run at locked speed)
NVIDIA RTX3060 unlock hashrate:
- RTX3060 can now hash 30-40% faster when you use meet two things. You use special OS image and newest lolminer 1.29. First You need to reflash your rig with special image. Select rig and set Actions,Advanced commands, select image called NV 3060 only and confirm. You an also download and reflash image manually
https://download.simplemining.net/images/archive/SM-5.4.98-1-a20.40-n460.39-v1304.img.xz . Then you just need to use newest lolminer 1.29. If You have any trouble ask on our discord.
[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]
