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

[snakey]

Hi guys, would appreciate a little help please.

I remember the early claymore versions were using a lot of cpu power....Just wanted to know if the latest version is using much of the cpu because I want to use a celeron cpu..

Can anyone please confirm that celeron cpus are ok and if yes which ones are ok for 1150?

Also is 4gb ram enough?

Thank you.

Running 2 mobos one with a 1156 i3 and the other with a 1150 celoron. Both with 4 gigs of memory. On the 1150 uses 5% of CPU with 200 meg pages and 3 gig free phisical memory. All under win7, one home the other pro

Thanks so much for the info.....So basically the same..

Does not affect the speed of your GPUs?

What model celeron please?

[QuintLeo]

For reference, my "big rig" triple R9 290 rig uses a Sempron 145 (single-core) CPU.
It sees the same hashrate per card on ETH/ZEC as my dual-290 rig that has a A10 7860K quad-core CPU.

 Neither ETH nor ZEC uses a lot of CPU (unless you're running an ETH older miner that generates the DAG file on the CPU, but even there it's interleaving that usage where it doesn't slow you down after the first startup).


 Folding, on the other hand, needs substantial CPU support.

[QuintLeo]

Whats the hash rate disparity between 8 and 4 GB memory on the 480 cards?

 8 GB RX 470/480 cards almost always have faster RAM (commonly 8000 Mhz effective stuff) than 4GB cards do (commonly 6600 or 7000 Mhz effective).

[snakey]

For reference, my "big rig" triple R9 290 rig uses a Sempron 145 (single-core) CPU.
It sees the same hashrate per card on ETH/ZEC as my dual-290 rig that has a A10 7860K quad-core CPU.

 Neither ETH nor ZEC uses a lot of CPU (unless you're running an ETH older miner that generates the DAG file on the CPU, but even there it's interleaving that usage where it doesn't slow you down after the first startup).


 Folding, on the other hand, needs substantial CPU support.

Thank you for the reply.

[hashgoalPool]

is there any way to mine with 6 gpus in gigabyte z170x gaming 3 mobo?  5 gpus work fine, but if i attache gpu to 6'th slot then cpu not boot up.

can anyone have idea?


thanks

[omshree]

is there any way to mine with 6 gpus in gigabyte z170x gaming 3 mobo?  5 gpus work fine, but if i attache gpu to 6'th slot then cpu not boot up.

can anyone have idea?


thanks

You might need a PCI-E 1X Jumper Wire. That usually does the trick.

[ffthomas]

Hi guys, would appreciate a little help please.

I remember the early claymore versions were using a lot of cpu power....Just wanted to know if the latest version is using much of the cpu because I want to use a celeron cpu..

Can anyone please confirm that celeron cpus are ok and if yes which ones are ok for 1150?

Also is 4gb ram enough?

Thank you.

Running 2 mobos one with a 1156 i3 and the other with a 1150 celoron. Both with 4 gigs of memory. On the 1150 uses 5% of CPU with 200 meg pages and 3 gig free phisical memory. All under win7, one home the other pro

Thanks so much for the info.....So basically the same..

Does not affect the speed of your GPUs?

What model celeron please?

I use Celeron G1840 in my rigs and I use Core i3-4160 only in 1 rig. I didn't experience any difference in mining hashrate. Claymore fixed the CPU-usage problem couple of months ago.

So you can use the cheapest Celeron for mining, everyone does that. CPU mining is not worth the investment and also the electricity cost, so you never need better CPU than the G1840.

[haxiboy]

I'm just wondering that i have two Asus Z87-Pro mobo with 7x PCI-e slots but only 6 of them are working for cards. Is there a way to make the 7th slot working?

[hashgoalPool]

is there any way to mine with 6 gpus in gigabyte z170x gaming 3 mobo?  5 gpus work fine, but if i attache gpu to 6'th slot then cpu not boot up.

can anyone have idea?


thanks

You might need a PCI-E 1X Jumper Wire. That usually does the trick.

any screenshot's?

[bolt1909]

is there any way to mine with 6 gpus in gigabyte z170x gaming 3 mobo?  5 gpus work fine, but if i attache gpu to 6'th slot then cpu not boot up.

can anyone have idea?


thanks

You might need a PCI-E 1X Jumper Wire. That usually does the trick.

any screenshot's?

Here...
http://imgur.com/a/dHYkD

[Alphagog]

I'm just wondering that i have two Asus Z87-Pro mobo with 7x PCI-e slots but only 6 of them are working for cards. Is there a way to make the 7th slot working?

You need to change the PCIE generation to 1.

[rpg]

Hi guys, would appreciate a little help please.

I remember the early claymore versions were using a lot of cpu power....Just wanted to know if the latest version is using much of the cpu because I want to use a celeron cpu..

Can anyone please confirm that celeron cpus are ok and if yes which ones are ok for 1150?

Also is 4gb ram enough?

Thank you.

Running 2 mobos one with a 1156 i3 and the other with a 1150 celoron. Both with 4 gigs of memory. On the 1150 uses 5% of CPU with 200 meg pages and 3 gig free phisical memory. All under win7, one home the other pro

Thanks so much for the info.....So basically the same..

Does not affect the speed of your GPUs?

What model celeron please?

A g1850 that I bought on open box sale at Fry's for $15 lol

[silentrunner]

R9 270                180       180

180w for r9 270  i don't think so it s an 150w gpu so it s more close to 100-110 probably

and 380 it s vary a lot with model and ram, the worse i have is asus 380 4G  it does only 206mh

I am getting about the same for Gigabyte R9 270 running 12.4.
Average of 4 cards (2 under win, 2 under linux)
H/s: 175
watt: 115-120

you using 12.4?  no speed decrease ?
because i tested and 12.4 (172) is slower than 12.1 (179)

12.1 was slower for me, about 172 H/s. 
No bios mods or overclock on my cards.

Drivers
win: 16.40.2311
linux: 15.12

[Sanguintan]

Whats the hash rate disparity between 8 and 4 GB memory on the 480 cards?

 8 GB RX 470/480 cards almost always have faster RAM (commonly 8000 Mhz effective stuff) than 4GB cards do (commonly 6600 or 7000 Mhz effective).

So it is better to buy the 8 GB version?

[aikklond]

Wanted to ask how much zcash per day does a 470/480 produce?

I used to mine in the past and would like to have a go at the sport once again

[AceCobra2]

Does anyone know why Sapphire is the goto brand for mining? Have a number of Sapphire RX480 (£240) but out of a batch of 12, 2 of them are not that good, constantly crashing. I am thinking of getting the ASUS AMD Radeon RX 480 STRIX 8GB version which is £220. What are the performance compared to Sapphire? I am getting roughly 300h/s on mine.

How about 8GB Asus Radeon RX 480 DUAL OC which is £190

[Mitja1998]

Hi guys, would appreciate a little help please.

I remember the early claymore versions were using a lot of cpu power....Just wanted to know if the latest version is using much of the cpu because I want to use a celeron cpu..

Can anyone please confirm that celeron cpus are ok and if yes which ones are ok for 1150?

Also is 4gb ram enough?

Thank you.

Running 2 mobos one with a 1156 i3 and the other with a 1150 celoron. Both with 4 gigs of memory. On the 1150 uses 5% of CPU with 200 meg pages and 3 gig free phisical memory. All under win7, one home the other pro

Thanks so much for the info.....So basically the same..

Does not affect the speed of your GPUs?

What model celeron please?

I use Celeron G1840 in my rigs and I use Core i3-4160 only in 1 rig. I didn't experience any difference in mining hashrate. Claymore fixed the CPU-usage problem couple of months ago.

So you can use the cheapest Celeron for mining, everyone does that. CPU mining is not worth the investment and also the electricity cost, so you never need better CPU than the G1840.

try mining Nexus with cpu. I get 80 PPS with one core on celeron g1620 and it uses only around 15 watts but it slightly affects zcash mining. Accordingly to nexus mining calculator I get 0.6$ worth of nexus per day with electricity cost deducted. If you have better CPU then it maybe wouldn't affect zcash speed. I get 190 PPS with three cores on xeon e5450 3ghz. So if you run nexus miner for one month it almost pays back the processor.

[carlo_0000]

Does anyone know why Sapphire is the goto brand for mining? Have a number of Sapphire RX480 (£240) but out of a batch of 12, 2 of them are not that good, constantly crashing. I am thinking of getting the ASUS AMD Radeon RX 480 STRIX 8GB version which is £220. What are the performance compared to Sapphire? I am getting roughly 300h/s on mine.

How about 8GB Asus Radeon RX 480 DUAL OC which is £190

yes sapphire is the best for mining  doesn't matter what gpu model, 270's 380's 470's  all my sapphire are faster than any others, mostly because they have higher ram frequency  and they always the cheapest in my area

and my asus (have 380 only) are the worst

[AceCobra2]

Does anyone know why Sapphire is the goto brand for mining? Have a number of Sapphire RX480 (£240) but out of a batch of 12, 2 of them are not that good, constantly crashing. I am thinking of getting the ASUS AMD Radeon RX 480 STRIX 8GB version which is £220. What are the performance compared to Sapphire? I am getting roughly 300h/s on mine.

How about 8GB Asus Radeon RX 480 DUAL OC which is £190

yes sapphire is the best for mining  doesn't matter what gpu model, 270's 380's 470's  all my sapphire are faster than any others, mostly because they have higher ram frequency  and they always the cheapest in my area

and my asus (have 380 only) are the worst

Thanks for the reply - thoughts on RAM? 4GB only slightly worse off than 8GB right? I am tempted to try out the 470 as they seem to represent very good value. Just thinking if the extra ££ is worth the very small increase in % hash

[fredeq]

Does anyone know why Sapphire is the goto brand for mining? Have a number of Sapphire RX480 (£240) but out of a batch of 12, 2 of them are not that good, constantly crashing. I am thinking of getting the ASUS AMD Radeon RX 480 STRIX 8GB version which is £220. What are the performance compared to Sapphire? I am getting roughly 300h/s on mine.

How about 8GB Asus Radeon RX 480 DUAL OC which is £190

Nitros are a bit lower on voltage than my gigabytes + sapphires have bios switches.
Gigabytes come with a 3 year warranty though.