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

[Nippy-ua]

hallo
Ubuntu 16.04
all RX 470
Driver 16.40-60
all time card 0-1 low

Code:

ZEC - Total Speed: 1150.771 H/s, Total Shares: 53, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:01
ZEC: GPU0 100.688 H/s, GPU1 54.205 H/s, GPU2 248.172 H/s, GPU3 248.901 H/s, GPU4 251.801 H/s, GPU5 247.005 H/s 

Dmesg

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[fittsy]

I've got 2 of those extenders, but they do not work with molex riser - https://www.hashratestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/powered-pcie-1x-16x-16x-riser-cable-molex.jpg - any idea why ?
Do they need usb risers ?

That one is burned

As @azzAz says that wire is scorched a bit near the 1x PCIe connector. It looks like it overheated. Probably not enough power to the riser or a surge.

USB pcie risers run 1x yellow power wire (12v) and 1x red wire (5v) into the Molex connector. That cheap ass ribbon cable you bought has a single power and no ground wires. Heck, it probably cost you as much as a good PCIe USB riser would.

I sell PCIe risers so take my advice with a grain of salt, but don't you think it's weird that your Molex connector usually has 4 wires running into it but you only have 1 in your ribbon riser?

[ecohash]

I've got 2 of those extenders, but they do not work with molex riser - https://www.hashratestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/powered-pcie-1x-16x-16x-riser-cable-molex.jpg - any idea why ?
Do they need usb risers ?

That one is burned

As @azzAz says that wire is scorched a bit near the 1x PCIe connector. It looks like it overheated. Probably not enough power to the riser or a surge.

USB pcie risers run 1x yellow power wire (12v) and 1x red wire (5v) into the Molex connector. That cheap ass ribbon cable you bought has a single power and no ground wires. Heck, it probably cost you as much as a good PCIe USB riser would.

I sell PCIe risers so take my advice with a grain of salt, but don't you think it's weird that your Molex connector usually has 4 wires running into it but you only have 1 in your ribbon riser?

1 wire risers works normal...

[AKRO]

I've got 2 of those extenders, but they do not work with molex riser - https://www.hashratestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/powered-pcie-1x-16x-16x-riser-cable-molex.jpg - any idea why ?
Do they need usb risers ?

That one is burned

As @azzAz says that wire is scorched a bit near the 1x PCIe connector. It looks like it overheated. Probably not enough power to the riser or a surge.

USB pcie risers run 1x yellow power wire (12v) and 1x red wire (5v) into the Molex connector. That cheap ass ribbon cable you bought has a single power and no ground wires. Heck, it probably cost you as much as a good PCIe USB riser would.

I sell PCIe risers so take my advice with a grain of salt, but don't you think it's weird that your Molex connector usually has 4 wires running into it but you only have 1 in your ribbon riser?

Aye, I never bought ribbon risers, I got USB risers and paid import fees before retailers had them, ebay, wtvr, they came up even cheaper nonetheless, the idea of a piece of electrical tape and some exposed bell wire, idk it put me off, + the benchmarks in certain tasks that the ribbons would bottleneck in different implementations, not sure how true that is, probably more towards gaming. I don't even know what the parts on the USB risers do, they might not even do anything XD, the capacitors etc. but they look generally more polished and safer for high temp use 24/7 operation. like something that's ok to plug into your computer.

Edit: it does happen even USB risers are rubbish, you get one out of a bundle that is DOA if you get them from a bulk source, untested, etc. or just from a bad supplier, (more components can fail, more room for QC measures to fail) but all in all, from everything i've seen over the years, they're a much better and safer choice.

[Swiped]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

[zzzzzzzzzz]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

[peteycamey]

I switched to optiminer for now, but cant wait for a new version of claymore.

[d57heinz]

I've got 2 of those extenders, but they do not work with molex riser - https://www.hashratestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/powered-pcie-1x-16x-16x-riser-cable-molex.jpg - any idea why ?
Do they need usb risers ?

That one is burned

As @azzAz says that wire is scorched a bit near the 1x PCIe connector. It looks like it overheated. Probably not enough power to the riser or a surge.

USB pcie risers run 1x yellow power wire (12v) and 1x red wire (5v) into the Molex connector. That cheap ass ribbon cable you bought has a single power and no ground wires. Heck, it probably cost you as much as a good PCIe USB riser would.

I sell PCIe risers so take my advice with a grain of salt, but don't you think it's weird that your Molex connector usually has 4 wires running into it but you only have 1 in your ribbon riser?

Best guess is they don't provide a return path for the ground. It's having to ground thru those very small ribbon cables. That's the poorest design I've ever seen. At minimum It should have had a ground accompanying the yellow power wire.  I can't say as I've ever seen them made this way.  For example something like this. http://m.ebay.com/itm/Two-PCI-E-1x-To-16x-Riser-Card-Ribbon-Extender-Extension-Cable-With-Molex-Power-/262843375665?hash=item3d32afa031%3Ag%3AKmEAAOSwnHZYm2PO&_trkparms=pageci%253A4ab9292f-f0ee-11e6-82e8-74dbd18039d2%257Cparentrq%253A310e1c5915a0a2ab98bf6f3ffffb944d%257Ciid%253A10

The more I dig thru eBay. I can't find any with only one wire. 16x-16x also has power and ground.

BR

Edit some cool stuff coming on pcie 4.0. https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/newsletters/technical-bulletin/pci-express-4-lane-margining.html?cmp=IP-SEM&gclid=CKuOiYj7idICFRy5wAodhqgENA

[Claymore]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

[tkredmond]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

I will stick with CM. His SW works flawlessly for my rx 470s. Tried OM, but had no luck. Spent 3 hours but didn't even come close to CM performance.

[citronick]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again.  

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

Hi Claymore, what is the estimated time of arrival of your v12 turbo charged ZEC miner? Thanks

[Stealth8368]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

you do speak some amount of crap,as soon as Claymore name is mentioned you feel the need to respond even if your making it up as you go zzzzzzzzzzzz seems you have delegated yourself to unofficial forum mod lol funny though as you don't even use Claymore software,get a life...

[Laca012]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again.  

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

Hi Claymore, what is the estimated time of arrival of your v12 turbo charged ZEC miner? Thanks

He told weekend... But he didn't tell which weekend..  

[orbital_station]

How much average H/s can I get with using R9 290 cards?

I am considering buying r9 390, r9 290 or r9 290X.
Anyone here using these?

[gennadiv]

I hope that Claymore did it with the new drivers from AMD 17.1.1 so at the moment it is the best driver in the increase in speed

[ayiphelmy]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again.  

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

Hi Claymore, what is the estimated time of arrival of your v12 turbo charged ZEC miner? Thanks

Don't forget to put NOS on it 

[RobertD]

How much average H/s can I get with using R9 290 cards?

I am considering buying r9 390, r9 290 or r9 290X.
Anyone here using these?

These cards use lots of power.
Expect 370h/s for 275w using R9 290x with 390x bios mod @ 1150/1350mhz +25-50mv.
290h/s-310h/s with stock/stilt bios @ 1000/1250mhs.

Unless you can get 390 really cheap, stick with R9 290x + R9 390 bios mod. You can get R9 290x down to 150w but hash rate will suffer.  You need to use server power supplies for 290/290x/390/390x but you can get away with a single 1000w for 5x RX 470, 750w for brand name with perfect cooling.

At current prices your profit really depends on the price you pay for electricity.  It's really hard to beat RX 470 efficiency with current power prices.

Everyone is expecting a pump before AMD releases VEGA, which is Q2 2017. You *might* break even R9 290x by then. 
AMD is *speculating* VEGA being 2.5 faster than POLARIS, in other words 1000h/s for 250w.

[RobertD]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again.  

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

Hi Claymore, what is the estimated time of arrival of your v12 turbo charged ZEC miner? Thanks

Claymore updates every 3 days. So expect an update Wed 15/2.

[zzzzzzzzzz]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

You are wrong.

Well, regardless of what some people think, I am allowed an opinion, which is what my post was, my opinion. Trump voters, I guess. In this case, I would rather be wrong than right.

[zzzzzzzzzz]

Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again. 

I'm sure CM will produce a noteworthy update, compared to v11.1, but I'm nearly certain it will not be faster than Optiminer. I also believe that Optiminer will not be able to deliver further performance improvements beyond a percent or two. Just my take.

you do speak some amount of crap,as soon as Claymore name is mentioned you feel the need to respond even if your making it up as you go zzzzzzzzzzzz seems you have delegated yourself to unofficial forum mod lol funny though as you don't even use Claymore software,get a life...

Whoops! Sorry, I didn't realize I have to check with you first to see if my opinion is OK to post. I have used CM's software, on a couple of coins, I just don't use it at the moment. I'm certainly not the only one on this forum that thinks the Zcash miner software is very close to its max performance, but you are free, of course, to believe whatever you'd like, just as I am.