AMD Releases Driver for DAG Issue !!!

[jmigdlc99]

Has anyone gotten the Afterburner 4.4.4 beta version to work with the blockchain driver? I find that wattman to be a pain when tweaking OC settings because crashes always reset all the settings for each and all GPUs. Any advise will be appreciated.

[QuintLeo]

Tryid it on 280x
Got 12-13mh per one(8.1x64, cm9....nothing change from 15.12 driver. Stupid amd didn't applied their fix to truly good cards

 It didn't change because the R9 280x didn't suffer from the issue that the driver was intended to fix.
 The 280x was never a "truely good" ETH card in the first place - that was the 290 and to a lesser degree the 290x.

 Tahiti is arguably the best performance/price ratio for FP64 anyone ever released, but ETH doesn't use floating point....

The 7970/280x was actually very good at ETH only at the beginning. With DaggerCoins at Epoch #0 or #1 or so it can get like 28MH/s. And a year ago you could of found them on Craigslist for $100 second hand. The R9 290 while it was a little faster was always expensive to buy because it had high demand for gamers and was hard to find for less than $200. So the 280x was a better choice if it wasn't for the DAG bug.

 R9 290 wasn't hard to find at under $200 a year ago - MUCH under, yes, mine were $179 from NewEgg when I bought them last spring (Sapphire reference design, I think they were factory refurb cards).
 It's going to be an academic point in a few months though since the R9 280x is a 3GB card (I don't think anyone made them with a different memory capacity, but I MIGHT have missed a model somewhere).

 I don't remember ever seeing a R9 280x for $100 or less on craigslist, but I do remember seeing some in the $120-$140 range so I wouldn't be shocked if they were less in other locations at times - especially in or near large cities with more competition and more supply of used parts for sale.

[Bankincoins]

I went back to the old drivers.  Without undervolt tools this has to be changed in Bios which is a pain and hard to edit on the fly.   It will be worth it when the DAG becomes a bigger issue, but not right now.

It's really surprising how many people think this is great though.  You should really undervolt...

[tigz]

windows 7 don't work on official drivers (black skreen), but work on robinh00d drivers. watttools don't work, new version msi AB is work. Heshrate good, more, than standart drivers on 4-5%. and in the future it's more. But without wattols is shit - energy consumption is very hight

[adaseb]

Tryid it on 280x
Got 12-13mh per one(8.1x64, cm9....nothing change from 15.12 driver. Stupid amd didn't applied their fix to truly good cards

 It didn't change because the R9 280x didn't suffer from the issue that the driver was intended to fix.
 The 280x was never a "truely good" ETH card in the first place - that was the 290 and to a lesser degree the 290x.

 Tahiti is arguably the best performance/price ratio for FP64 anyone ever released, but ETH doesn't use floating point....

The 7970/280x was actually very good at ETH only at the beginning. With DaggerCoins at Epoch #0 or #1 or so it can get like 28MH/s. And a year ago you could of found them on Craigslist for $100 second hand. The R9 290 while it was a little faster was always expensive to buy because it had high demand for gamers and was hard to find for less than $200. So the 280x was a better choice if it wasn't for the DAG bug.

 R9 290 wasn't hard to find at under $200 a year ago - MUCH under, yes, mine were $179 from NewEgg when I bought them last spring (Sapphire reference design, I think they were factory refurb cards).
 It's going to be an academic point in a few months though since the R9 280x is a 3GB card (I don't think anyone made them with a different memory capacity, but I MIGHT have missed a model somewhere).

 I don't remember ever seeing a R9 280x for $100 or less on craigslist, but I do remember seeing some in the $120-$140 range so I wouldn't be shocked if they were less in other locations at times - especially in or near large cities with more competition and more supply of used parts for sale.

Maybe in your area you had better luck but I also got them refurbished from NewEgg last year and it was the best deal out of anything I found on Craigslist. On Craigslist alone it was at least >$200 and they were rare and hard to come by. I think since they were flagship models they were made in smaller quantities than the Tahiti.

The Tahiti were flooded on Craigslist, probably due to Litecoin mining days as I found that almost 50% of the ones I bought off Craigslist were mined at some point in their life.

[yoonline]

new version Crimson ReLive Edition 17.8.1, who will test it?

[kelstasy]

I'd like to ask owners of rx 570 4gb. anyone has tested beta drivers on higher DAG epoch like #180?

I doubt wether mount 2 rx 570 rigs or one with gtx 1070

because rx 570 are 4gb model and maybe in future it will be too low to mine anything...

which would be your recommendation?

thanks in advance

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2092279.msg20905036#msg20905036

The Dag size is not an issue for 4GB cards. Even 3GB cards will be OK until November 2018 and the Dag size won't reach 4GB until something like 2020. ETH will move to POS long before that.

Thanks man I was worried about the dag difficulty, knowing this I might consider the 1060 6gb because the rx 580 8gb are hard to find and expensive.

[s3r9i0]

Hi guys,
today I've installed a new card, re-installed driver and started miner.

Here is what I've seen:
http://imgur.com/Vu39VGJ

It looks like that new drivers simply emulate the dag 128 and by this way miner gives high hashrate.

[P00P135]

Hi guys,
today I've installed a new card, re-installed driver and started miner.

Here is what I've seen:


It looks like that new drivers simply emulate the dag 128 and by this way miner gives high hashrate.

Is that screen shot for ants to read?  Are you telling us about the DAG fixed drivers we already know about?   

[s3r9i0]

Hi guys,
today I've installed a new card, re-installed driver and started miner.

Here is what I've seen:
https://thumb.ibb.co/fFUvCQ/Untitled_1.jpg

It looks like that new drivers simply emulate the dag 128 and by this way miner gives high hashrate.

Is that screen shot for ants to read?  Are you telling us about the DAG fixed drivers we already know about?   

Pardon

The link was updated.

[1234ms]

Has anyone gotten the Afterburner 4.4.4 beta version to work with the blockchain driver? I find that wattman to be a pain when tweaking OC settings because crashes always reset all the settings for each and all GPUs. Any advise will be appreciated.

I have installed Afterburner 4.4 beta 16 with the blockchain driver and my rig is still stable after 48 hrs. Do not alter the wattman mclock and cclock settings, only use Afterburner to find the stable mclock and cclock settings for each GPU. I also re-installed windows 10 and disabled windows updates and windows defender.

[presi404]

Hi guys,
today I've installed a new card, re-installed driver and started miner.

Here is what I've seen:
http://imgur.com/Vu39VGJ

It looks like that new drivers simply emulate the dag 128 and by this way miner gives high hashrate.

Hi,

what cards do you have?
Is the mh/s stable or bouncing?

Thank you.

[4Dante]

Hi, first post.

I waste a such of hours trying to install on W7 without results (claymore crash)

Finally i decided install on W10 and with my Rx570 got a bouncing 28 eth and 700 dcr.


-Rx 570 Asus Strixx 4GB
--Straps 1:1500->1:2000 // 2:1500->2:2000
--Mem. Elpida
--Mem. clock 1950 mhz
--Core clock 1100 mhz
--Power draw 150w avg  

So, the drivers almost works, the power draw and the bouncing its a problem, but my eth avg increase in almost 2 mh/s in comparation with W7 and lasted drivers, and the electricity in my country is pretty cheap, like 0.03 usd per k/w. So i will use this drivers for now.

[Johny101010]

Hi,

I have faced issues after upgrading/updating to the blockchain driver. I am suspecting 1 of my gpus might be bricked.

I have 4x identical powercolor rx 580 8gbs, they were running around 64C+- degrees. After the blockchain driver one of the gpus started functioning unstable.

After trying many things I have realized that power draw of this card is lowering down to 80w sometimes 40w and back to 110w as it should be. so the graph is up and down all the way. Normally gpu only power draw for each card is 110w, as the others run and draw constantly.

So there is something wrong with this cards, heat is higher than the others, power draw is unstable and it causes watchdog gpu hang error.

What do you guys think might be the issue with this card?

I have the same issue with a MSI Gaming X 4G. It heats up too quickly and the fan does not ramp it up. Afterburner beta will control it only when it is open but it crashed the computer after a few minutes. Wattman crashes after 20 minutes. I haven't tried claymore controlling the fan yet.
The only way to make it work is put a big fan in front of it so the fan doesn't do anything.
If anyone has ideas I'm open to trying.

[Mattthev]

Hi, first post.

I waste a such of hours trying to install on W7 without results (claymore crash)

Finally i decided install on W10 and with my Rx570 got a bouncing 28 eth and 700 dcr.


-Rx 570 Asus Strixx 4GB
--Straps 1:1500->1:2000 // 2:1500->2:2000
--Mem. Elpida
--Mem. clock 1950 mhz
--Core clock 1100 mhz
--Power draw 150w avg  

So, the drivers almost works, the power draw and the bouncing its a problem, but my eth avg increase in almost 2 mh/s in comparation with W7 and lasted drivers, and the electricity in my country is pretty cheap, like 0.03 usd per k/w. So i will use this drivers for now.

Not a good bios mod! You can undervolt in bios, I've showed how in the guide, link in my signature. Then you can undervolt more in AB. 1100MHz should be like 800-850mV even less.

[jsanzsp]

Hi,

I have faced issues after upgrading/updating to the blockchain driver. I am suspecting 1 of my gpus might be bricked.

I have 4x identical powercolor rx 580 8gbs, they were running around 64C+- degrees. After the blockchain driver one of the gpus started functioning unstable.

After trying many things I have realized that power draw of this card is lowering down to 80w sometimes 40w and back to 110w as it should be. so the graph is up and down all the way. Normally gpu only power draw for each card is 110w, as the others run and draw constantly.

So there is something wrong with this cards, heat is higher than the others, power draw is unstable and it causes watchdog gpu hang error.

What do you guys think might be the issue with this card?

I have the same issue with a MSI Gaming X 4G. It heats up too quickly and the fan does not ramp it up. Afterburner beta will control it only when it is open but it crashed the computer after a few minutes. Wattman crashes after 20 minutes. I haven't tried claymore controlling the fan yet.
The only way to make it work is put a big fan in front of it so the fan doesn't do anything.
If anyone has ideas I'm open to trying.

Power draw 150w avg in gpuz?

[Kumic]

Claymore is working on a new miner. AMD is always making some changes, but that is usually not miner friendly.
There is some DAG issue too. It shows sometimes in miner DAG 129 or DAG 128. That is maybe an issue with Ethermine pool. Changing pool might be helpful.

[JustCauseBIH]

It shows sometimes in miner DAG 129 or DAG 128

Not related to miner, or drivers. It is pool issue (server issue on eu2).

But fact is that new driver does not have option for voltage control, like for eg. 17.2.1. On my rig average power consumption is 250w more.

[jackbox]

It shows sometimes in miner DAG 129 or DAG 128

Not related to miner, or drivers. It is pool issue (server issue on eu2).

But fact is that new driver does not have option for voltage control, like for eg. 17.2.1. On my rig average power consumption is 250w more.

I am using asia server and having no such issue. Change your server for now.

[Unclegogi]

Did anyone check new non-beta driver Crimson ReLive Edition 17.8.1 (release date 21.08.2017)?
Does it include DAG Issue fix from mentioned beta driver?