Claymore's ZCash/BTG AMD GPU Miner v12.6 (Windows/Linux)

[taylub]

Do you undervolt/overclock your Nano? I have Fury's and would like to drop my power draw. What's your settings?

nothing!

off the box on Windows 10 (Pro)
install 15.12 drivers
set power limit 50%

i don't play with volts or OC of the Nanos i get electricity pretty cheap like € 0,05 per kW (normal consumer pay like € 0,23 per kW)

I also have cheap power, but I would still like to run 6 x Fury on a 1300w PSU. That's why I'm wanting to undervolt them.

use msi afterburn. i've been able to lower the 290x to 125 watts average as per gpu-z. In my case i'm more worried on the fan noise so this voltage lowering brought the temp to the mid 60s and the fan to 60%, this while maintaining the sols at 337 to 347

Noob question. Does afterburner write to Bios or does it alter the wattage on software load? What do you set to lower the power? Powerlimit or actual mv offset?

Afterburner does not change the bios.  Some cards you can lower the core voltage with it and you can adjust the power limit on most, if not all cards to some extent.

[IOTUSA]

Do you undervolt/overclock your Nano? I have Fury's and would like to drop my power draw. What's your settings?

nothing!

off the box on Windows 10 (Pro)
install 15.12 drivers
set power limit 50%

i don't play with volts or OC of the Nanos i get electricity pretty cheap like € 0,05 per kW (normal consumer pay like € 0,23 per kW)

I also have cheap power, but I would still like to run 6 x Fury on a 1300w PSU. That's why I'm wanting to undervolt them.

use msi afterburn. i've been able to lower the 290x to 125 watts average as per gpu-z. In my case i'm more worried on the fan noise so this voltage lowering brought the temp to the mid 60s and the fan to 60%, this while maintaining the sols at 337 to 347

Noob question. Does afterburner write to Bios or does it alter the wattage on software load? What do you set to lower the power? Powerlimit or actual mv offset?

Afterburner does not change the bios.  Some cards you can lower the core voltage with it and you can adjust the power limit on most, if not all cards to some extent.

And if I understand it correctly, lowering core voltage forces the GPU to perform 'more work per watt' while setting power limit simply sets a hard limit on power consumption, forcing the GPU to throttle down rather than suck more power when it approaches the set limit. Right?

[GH]

And if I understand it correctly, lowering core voltage forces the GPU to perform 'more work per watt' while setting power limit simply sets a hard limit on power consumption, forcing the GPU to throttle down rather than suck more power when it approaches the set limit. Right?

1) Correct. It does the same work while using less power and producing less heat. But at some point it will get unstable.
2) Correct. Less work but also less power and less heat + safe & stable.

[IOTUSA]

use msi afterburn. i've been able to lower the 290x to 125 watts average as per gpu-z. In my case i'm more worried on the fan noise so this voltage lowering brought the temp to the mid 60s and the fan to 60%, this while maintaining the sols at 337 to 347

What you see on gpuz is not the total power consumption of the card. 125w for the gpu only is possible but with the rest of power components on the pcb the real consumption is much more(about 200w). Check with wattmeter if you don't believe.

Agreed, but the numbers for the GPU are still absolute so any savings you see on GPU level are still 'real' power savings.

[taylub]

use msi afterburn. i've been able to lower the 290x to 125 watts average as per gpu-z. In my case i'm more worried on the fan noise so this voltage lowering brought the temp to the mid 60s and the fan to 60%, this while maintaining the sols at 337 to 347

What you see on gpuz is not the total power consumption of the card. 125w for the gpu only is possible but with the rest of power components on the pcb the real consumption is much more(about 200w). Check with wattmeter if you don't believe.

Agreed, but the numbers for the GPU are still absolute so any savings you see on GPU level are still 'real' power savings.

In theory this is true but it is possible that only the asic power is dropping while the rest of the package is going up to make up for it.  Use hwinfo instead of GPUz, it will show you multiple power readings.  You can usually add the core power and "GPU Chip Power" together and thats your actual at the wall wattage. (your results may vary!)

Basically there is more than core voltage, asic values and TDP. These are the things commonly thrown up on these forums because they are the easiest to understand/adjust.

[kinsik]

Can anyone share hashrate of Sapphire R9 Fury on mixed with RX 480 rig. I get 395 sols with 1140/500 stock bios on 17.1.1 drivers.
Shall I get better performance of 16.3.2 ?

[taylub]

Can anyone share hashrate of Sapphire R9 Fury on mixed with RX 480 rig. I get 395 sols with 1140/500 stock bios on 17.1.1 drivers.
Shall I get better performance of 16.3.2 ?

The RX 4 series works better with 16.x drivers.  I cant speak for the Fury, never had any.

[Puffy23]

Can anyone share hashrate of Sapphire R9 Fury on mixed with RX 480 rig. I get 395 sols with 1140/500 stock bios on 17.1.1 drivers.
Shall I get better performance of 16.3.2 ?

The RX 4 series works better with 16.x drivers.  I cant speak for the Fury, never had any.

Fury runs best on 15.12 with asm enabled.  Stock clocks and bios gets you around 415 H/s

[rpg]

use msi afterburn. i've been able to lower the 290x to 125 watts average as per gpu-z. In my case i'm more worried on the fan noise so this voltage lowering brought the temp to the mid 60s and the fan to 60%, this while maintaining the sols at 337 to 347

What you see on gpuz is not the total power consumption of the card. 125w for the gpu only is possible but with the rest of power components on the pcb the real consumption is much more(about 200w). Check with wattmeter if you don't believe.

Agreed, but the numbers for the GPU are still absolute so any savings you see on GPU level are still 'real' power savings.

In theory this is true but it is possible that only the asic power is dropping while the rest of the package is going up to make up for it.  Use hwinfo instead of GPUz, it will show you multiple power readings.  You can usually add the core power and "GPU Chip Power" together and thats your actual at the wall wattage. (your results may vary!)

Basically there is more than core voltage, asic values and TDP. These are the things commonly thrown up on these forums because they are the easiest to understand/adjust.

Well it is lower from 160 and the temp from the 80s to low 60s. If you have a 290x reference you would know how important that is.

[CitricAcid]

Can anyone share hashrate of Sapphire R9 Fury on mixed with RX 480 rig. I get 395 sols with 1140/500 stock bios on 17.1.1 drivers.
Shall I get better performance of 16.3.2 ?

Yes, run DDu and then install 16.3.2

depending on if you want the gpu lottery -  but I would pull it back to 1125/500 and go from there... you should see 443-460 on the fury

[Swiped]

Anyone have an informed opinion of the direction of zcash, seems like it is turning into zcrash, but I am not well versed in the capability and functionality of all the cryptocurrencies to know of their potential and what projects are going on to make them valid with potential future growth.  I know it takes time for a technology to get traction and integrated into practical application, but I don't have a good feel for the future of zcash right now and only see it diminishing.  I would love some detail or thoughts as to what others understand concerning the potential future of this coin.

[zzzzzzzzzz]

Anyone have an informed opinion of the direction of zcash, seems like it is turning into zcrash, but I am not well versed in the capability and functionality of all the cryptocurrencies to know of their potential and what projects are going on to make them valid with potential future growth.  I know it takes time for a technology to get traction and integrated into practical application, but I don't have a good feel for the future of zcash right now and only see it diminishing.  I would love some detail or thoughts as to what others understand concerning the potential future of this coin.

Then I would suggest taking this post over to the Alt-coins/Speculation forum area, which is where that type of discussion takes place This thread is specifically concerned with "Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.1 (Windows/Linux)", which doesn't mean that it's the right thread for any post that has the word "Zcash" in it.

[pilotbtc1]

I optiminer miner does not work, 2 cards do not want to engage in mining that can be

[Calvinpie]

I optiminer miner does not work, 2 cards do not want to engage in mining that can be

With optiminer there's always a card hanging and I don't want to babysit rigs. CM 11.1 no problems!

[pilotbtc1]

I optiminer miner does not work, 2 cards do not want to engage in mining that can be

With optiminer there's always a card hanging and I don't want to babysit rigs. CM 11.1 no problems!

yes yes, but optiminer 1850 s / s - 5 cards Claymore 1730 s / s

[sanas]

I optiminer miner does not work, 2 cards do not want to engage in mining that can be

With optiminer there's always a card hanging and I don't want to babysit rigs. CM 11.1 no problems!

yes yes, but optiminer 1850 s / s - 5 cards Claymore 1730 s / s

Wait a bit, today or tomorrow will be new update, and again speed will be more than optiminer.

[cracker666]

I optiminer miner does not work, 2 cards do not want to engage in mining that can be

With optiminer there's always a card hanging and I don't want to babysit rigs. CM 11.1 no problems!

yes yes, but optiminer 1850 s / s - 5 cards Claymore 1730 s / s

Wait a bit, today or tomorrow will be new update, and again speed will be more than optiminer.

how sure are you on the speed increase

[Swiped]

Anyone have an informed opinion of the direction of zcash, seems like it is turning into zcrash, but I am not well versed in the capability and functionality of all the cryptocurrencies to know of their potential and what projects are going on to make them valid with potential future growth.  I know it takes time for a technology to get traction and integrated into practical application, but I don't have a good feel for the future of zcash right now and only see it diminishing.  I would love some detail or thoughts as to what others understand concerning the potential future of this coin.

Then I would suggest taking this post over to the Alt-coins/Speculation forum area, which is where that type of discussion takes place This thread is specifically concerned with "Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.1 (Windows/Linux)", which doesn't mean that it's the right thread for any post that has the word "Zcash" in it.

Ahh, good call.  I was unaware of that thread.  I will take this question there.  Thanks.

[AriesIV10]

ZEC-USD price down AGAIN - $35.39

[Zealotki11er]

ZEC-USD price down AGAIN - $35.39

Yeah, not sure where this is going. For the past 7 days really I have been mining to offset the price drop.