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

[Etolay]

My 290s increased in hash rate. 470 is a bit slower.

I have a total of 20-25 sols more from 9.3.

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[ffthomas]

thank you!

@claymore:

"- added support for round robin DNS"

I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?

I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

thank you!

@claymore:

"- added support for round robin DNS"

I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?

I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.

Round robin is a method of load-balancing that will allow 1 FQDN (ie : something.pool.org) to reply multiples with IP addresses, it can help when one IP isn't replying fast enough, you can have several others host IP to contact as a backup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS

For the claymore miner, it would probably mean better timeout/resolve handling in case of the first IP adress of the pool DNS record is unavailable or slow it'll try to contact the others, must not have been the case before. Will probably help for stale shares (share calculated by you but with a result already being submitted by someone on the same pool as you).

It would probably help too big farm that could be throttled by some pools limiting the amount of request per remote IPs.

[micairvas]

Claymore, Is there any room for further hash improvement for RX cards or that's it?

[Claymore]

NOTE: v9.3 is not performance release, in this version I improved compatibility/stability in GPU code and fixed Linux-related issues. You can use older versions if they are good and stable for you.

thank you!
@claymore:
"- added support for round robin DNS"
I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?
I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.

In theory, pools can balance servers load with this feature. Nicehash pool asked me about this feature so I added it. If a pool has several IPs and first IP fails, miner will try to connect to the second IP, etc.

Claymore, Is there any room for further hash improvement for RX cards or that's it?

I think it's possible to get better speed, but not too much.

[Gambler8899]

Thanks claymore...
320 sols on 290x stock and
290 sols on 290 stock 

Driver version?

I'm using 15.12 and 1030/1250 clocks,

Only getting 270 & 285

15.12. and bios http://www.overclock.net/t/1564219/modded-r9-390x-bios-for-r9-290-290x-updated-02-16-2016

[Juhagic]

when you will make new miner for monero???

The old miner is already very efficient.

[rpg]

NOTE: v9.3 is not performance release, in this version I improved compatibility/stability in GPU code and fixed Linux-related issues. You can use older versions if they are good and stable for you.

thank you!
@claymore:
"- added support for round robin DNS"
I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?
I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.

In theory, pools can balance servers load with this feature. Nicehash pool asked me about this feature so I added it. If a pool has several IPs and first IP fails, miner will try to connect to the second IP, etc.

Claymore, Is there any room for further hash improvement for RX cards or that's it?

I think it's possible to get better speed, but not too much.

claymore, my 8g rx480 shows memory usage of 60% and GPU usage of 100% with drops to 0% several times a minute. Do you think it might take another thread?

[amfofo]

what is the reason why my hashrate drops
i have mixed gpu

2x280x = 220 each
2x480 ref =210 - drops to 185
1x470 black ed - 209

http://imgur.com/MvxjSyU

[Claymore]

claymore, my 8g rx480 shows memory usage of 60% and GPU usage of 100% with drops to 0% several times a minute. Do you think it might take another thread?

GPU and memory are busy completely, you can check it by starting two miner instances, you will not get more speed.
Due to PoW implementation, GPU cannot utilize all its resources, so you don't see 100%.

what is the reason why my hashrate drops
i have mixed gpu
2x280x = 220 each
2x480 ref =210 - drops to 185
1x470 black ed - 209

Probably the reason is drivers, miner compiled with 15.12 and 16.11.3.

[Ursul0]

when you will make new miner for monero???

The old miner is already very efficient.

yet it lacks lots of features of the current wrapper: data from rx400 fans, config file, off/on gpu, reboot.bat, etc...

[manoe]

NOTE: v9.3 is not performance release, in this version I improved compatibility/stability in GPU code and fixed Linux-related issues. You can use older versions if they are good and stable for you.

thank you!
@claymore:
"- added support for round robin DNS"
I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?
I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.

In theory, pools can balance servers load with this feature. Nicehash pool asked me about this feature so I added it. If a pool has several IPs and first IP fails, miner will try to connect to the second IP, etc.

Claymore, Is there any room for further hash improvement for RX cards or that's it?

I think it's possible to get better speed, but not too much.

Two of the rx 480 4gb mod overclock in my rigs have hit 275 h/s and 277 h/s so probably with some time and hard work claymore can get this speeds stable. But probably whats normal it will cost some time and hard work for a stable one. Btw: thanks for V9.3 !

[Estimated]

For the 7970/280x, the 9.3 is faster than the 9.2 and the same speed as the 9.1. so it is a good improvement.

[Golku]

dont really see a boost for 470/480
only see that it went a bit lower with 5/8 sol each card

[rpg]

claymore, my 8g rx480 shows memory usage of 60% and GPU usage of 100% with drops to 0% several times a minute. Do you think it might take another thread?

GPU and memory are busy completely, you can check it by starting two miner instances, you will not get more speed.
Due to PoW implementation, GPU cannot utilize all its resources, so you don't see 100%.

Claymore, after a more detailed analysis it seems to be associated with a new job. Perhaps my old mobo still on pci-e 2?

[gaah]

Hi can anyone help me i have a psu on 700w and 2x rx 470 xfx 4gig & 1x rx 480 nitro 8gig and i dosen't get it to work when i start the miner my computer hangs and i have to restart it a fast easy guide to undervolt cards or something pls!

[drr0ss]

Hi Claymore,

At first, I appreciate to your work.
About miner monitor, is it possible to implement encrypted traffic between miner and monitoring software, also I think it is a good to shown the local clock and date on a web page UI.
I wish you much success in the coming year!

[rpg]

Hi can anyone help me i have a psu on 700w and 2x rx 470 xfx 4gig & 1x rx 480 nitro 8gig and i dosen't get it to work when i start the miner my computer hangs and i have to restart it a fast easy guide to undervolt cards or something pls!

thats more then enough. With normal clocking you need 300 watts with picks at 450. Chances are you are over clocking above the cards capabilities. Start with one card only with normal settings. Then add another and another. That will pinpoint if the problem is with the PSU

[gaah]

Hi can anyone help me i have a psu on 700w and 2x rx 470 xfx 4gig & 1x rx 480 nitro 8gig and i dosen't get it to work when i start the miner my computer hangs and i have to restart it a fast easy guide to undervolt cards or something pls!

thats more then enough. With normal clocking you need 300 watts with picks at 450. Chances are you are over clocking above the cards capabilities. Start with one card only with normal settings. Then add another and another. That will pinpoint if the problem is with the PSU

Thx dude! Think i got it to work now. . . 15 min with no problems <3

[MrJaekin]

Thanks claymore...
320 sols on 290x stock and
290 sols on 290 stock 

Try 1100 core and 1125 mem on your 290s.. I'm getting 320ish each