Best 480 brand and model to mine?

[kalhohan]

Hi,
Since there's several brand and models for 480, do  you have advice for me to buy the right model of 480 to mine ( eth or zcash)?
One with stability and ability to tune memory on bios.
By advance
Many thanks.

[du44]

Look at Sapphire - good cooling and i never seen Micron memory here,,,
And IceQ - lowest power consumtion from pci-e slot from all 480's

[kalhohan]

The reference one , or the one with 2 fans?

[Cryptozillah]

I have MSI, Sapphire and Asus Reference 480 8GB cards.
All of them perform the same.

30.5 ETH
55-57 ZEC

With strap modded bios.

I would just buy the cheapest one.

[toptek]

LIke Cryptozillah  said buy the cheapest one and mode, i did and it works just as good as the one that cost 20 bucks more only diffidence I saw was two or 3 fans over one and one bios not two that's with any 470 or 480 card till the 490 comes out then it changes some.

[mettalmag]

I have MSI, Sapphire and Asus Reference 480 8GB cards.
All of them perform the same.

30.5 ETH
55-57 ZEC

With strap modded bios.

I would just buy the cheapest one.

can you please share the bios ?
I can't get more than 53-55 on ZEC and 29.4 on ETH on any 480

[Cryptozillah]

I have MSI, Sapphire and Asus Reference 480 8GB cards.
All of them perform the same.

30.5 ETH
55-57 ZEC

With strap modded bios.

I would just buy the cheapest one.

can you please share the bios ?
I can't get more than 53-55 on ZEC and 29.4 on ETH on any 480

Sure
http://www.megafileupload.com/c54b/Reference_RX480_8GB.rom

[mettalmag]

I have MSI, Sapphire and Asus Reference 480 8GB cards.
All of them perform the same.

30.5 ETH
55-57 ZEC

With strap modded bios.

I would just buy the cheapest one.

can you please share the bios ?
I can't get more than 53-55 on ZEC and 29.4 on ETH on any 480

Sure
http://www.megafileupload.com/c54b/Reference_RX480_8GB.rom

Thank you a lot sir!

Will this go on every RX480? I have XFX saphire gigabyte and asus strix also

[Cryptozillah]

I have MSI, Sapphire and Asus Reference 480 8GB cards.
All of them perform the same.

30.5 ETH
55-57 ZEC

With strap modded bios.

I would just buy the cheapest one.

can you please share the bios ?
I can't get more than 53-55 on ZEC and 29.4 on ETH on any 480

Sure
http://www.megafileupload.com/c54b/Reference_RX480_8GB.rom

Thank you a lot sir!

Will this go on every RX480? I have XFX saphire gigabyte and asus strix also

No problem.
This bios is made for reference cards.
I have it running all my reference 480 8GB cards, different brands

[btrash]

Hi. I would like to know whats the reason behind buying the 8gb model. I see that this is the most common model to buy.

Isn't the 4gb ram model cheaper?

[Rabinovitch]

Because once there maybe appear a cryptocurrency with hard GPU RAM requirements to be protected from botnets: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1638450.msg16809282#msg16809282

[btrash]

so getting the 8gb version is mostly to future proof in case currencies decide to use more RAM?

[ioglnx]

Look at Sapphire - good cooling and i never seen Micron memory here,,,
And IceQ - lowest power consumtion from pci-e slot from all 480's

Any sources?

I have the PowerColor Red Dragon. They just have 6Pin PCIe Power connection. Samsung RAM and running fine at 1400/2200 (timings modded).

[superresistant]

 
Is there a good mod for ZEC on those cards ?

[kalhohan]

Thanks guys, just bought Sapphire reference one.
without mod it's performing 24.8 mh on eth with claymore, and 75 sol on zec also with claymore.

[bittawm]

Thanks guys, just bought Sapphire reference one.
without mod it's performing 24.8 mh on eth with claymore, and 75 sol on zec also with claymore.

 i have gigabyte ones and they hashing at 25mh etc and 70+ sols zec

[BenCodie]

Any Modded Rom for AMD Sapphire Nitro+ Rx 480 8GB OC for 100+ Sols/s on zcash
My GPUs are ellesmere with Samsung chip

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