[Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s)

[Morgon]

Is there a way to have HwInfo64 remember layout settings?  I have organized them before but don't know how to make permanent.

In my experience, once you have it where you want, close the program and reopen it. Most of the time, it will keep your settings. If the rig crashes or you shut down the computer without explicitly closing HWInfo, it won't retain.

[commonorx]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

yes I do have breaks in what the dashboard interface shows for last night. When I have looked at CAST before when I see these, I see no errors. I have not looked at the miner for a long while so I don't know if there were any errors from last night. I am still averaging over 12 kH/s so that is good and my payouts are on track and pretty consistent. So the pool is probably fine but the dashboard updates are not always working. I will check to see if CAST reported any disconnects later tonight.

[commonorx]

i wrote that dual claymore isnt as profitable as other cryptonight coins   but in 1 month it will be for sure so i want to start adjusting my rig for Claymore dual  thats why i asked if there is some1 who  is currently running 6vegas + or more on Dual Claymore

You are way in the wrong thread. Please leave.

Enjoy making less money.

Bye!

[Cyan_Antares]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

hmmm, I didnt know Nicehash uses Cast XMR. I set it up another 6 Vegas rig, this time all of them are Vega 64, so I tested the 6 Vega 56 rig I started with and Nicehash is using sgminer, but the speed and profitability is really good, like 48€ day -I am saying euros here, to clear things up, do the math...-.

I performed the precise benchmark prior to start using Nicehash, it took several hours but it was worth it.

Hopefully Winminer is going to work with Cast XMR in the future, I really like that program.

[Kapz786]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't.

Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly

[Shnikes101]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't.

Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly

I don't believe this is a Cast issue. I occasionally have the same problem on other miners. Probably just a buggy Nicehash dashboard

[commonorx]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

hmmm, I didnt know Nicehash uses Cast XMR. I set it up another 6 Vegas rig, this time all of them are Vega 64, so I tested the 6 Vega 56 rig I started with and Nicehash is using sgminer, but the speed and profitability is really good, like 48€ day -I am saying euros here, to clear things up, do the math...-.

I performed the precise benchmark prior to start using Nicehash, it took several hours but it was worth it.

Hopefully Winminer is going to work with Cast XMR in the future, I really like that program.

Dude really!!

Features

- Full support for CryptoNight/CryptoNote based currencies:
Monereo (XMR)
Bytecoin (BCN)
DigitalNote (XDN)
Intense (ITNS)
Electroneum (ETN)
- Fastest miner for AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU series (more then 2KHash/s)
- Optimized cores for RX Vega Blockchain driver
- RX Vega Blockchain driver detection
- Multiple GPU support for upto 8 Vega GPUs
- Monitor temperature and fan speed of each GPU
- Full pool support
- Nicehash support
- Remote http access for statistics in JSON format
- only 1.5% dev fee

Point CAST XMR at a wallet for bitcoin and mine away. Caution.. you have to read.

[xeridea]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't.

Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly

I don't believe this is a Cast issue. I occasionally have the same problem on other miners. Probably just a buggy Nicehash dashboard

NH uses a really high share difficulty, so reported hashrate variance is extremely high. On rig of say 8KH may show 20KH, or it may show 0. Per worker speeds are worthless.  Can look at detail stats on an algorithm and show avereges over time though (for all combined).

[AlexanderDumas]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

hmmm, I didnt know Nicehash uses Cast XMR. I set it up another 6 Vegas rig, this time all of them are Vega 64, so I tested the 6 Vega 56 rig I started with and Nicehash is using sgminer, but the speed and profitability is really good, like 48€ day -I am saying euros here, to clear things up, do the math...-.

I performed the precise benchmark prior to start using Nicehash, it took several hours but it was worth it.

Hopefully Winminer is going to work with Cast XMR in the future, I really like that program.

Hi,
You can just use Cast miner and point it to nicehash servers like with any other pool.  I have been doing it for 1 month and it just works.
It may well be more profitable than using their software and going through their interface.

I would not touch Winminer with a rig like yours, you just loose profits compared to mining with dedicated software to a pool.
Beside, the ROI you can have with Nice Hash beat Winminer by a wide margin.

Winminer needs to work with virtually any computer that it is used on, therefore they use software that can automatically detect your hardware and begin working, yet for doing so, it does not take full advantage of your hardware.

Just use Cast to Nicehash pool and you will probably make more than 48euros a day.



take care!

[AlexanderDumas]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't.

Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly

I don't believe this is a Cast issue. I occasionally have the same problem on other miners. Probably just a buggy Nicehash dashboard

NH uses a really high share difficulty, so reported hashrate variance is extremely high. On rig of say 8KH may show 20KH, or it may show 0. Per worker speeds are worthless.  Can look at detail stats on an algorithm and show avereges over time though (for all combined).

I think it NH shows the real time hash rate at the precise moment the software decide to report it to your browser interface, therefore it shows large variations which is normal. All other Pools reporting web interface (Nanopool for example), generally average the readings, so they shows less of fluctuation in hash rate, but under the hood those fluctuations exist nevertheless. IMO

[AlexanderDumas]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't.

Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly

I don't believe this is a Cast issue. I occasionally have the same problem on other miners. Probably just a buggy Nicehash dashboard

Indeed it is the buggy Nicehash dashboard.

[AlexanderDumas]

I am glad to see most of us are using Nicehash with Cast miner as it is supposed to be.
At current profit levels is a no brainer.

[Cyan_Antares]

Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?

hmmm, I didnt know Nicehash uses Cast XMR. I set it up another 6 Vegas rig, this time all of them are Vega 64, so I tested the 6 Vega 56 rig I started with and Nicehash is using sgminer, but the speed and profitability is really good, like 48€ day -I am saying euros here, to clear things up, do the math...-.

I performed the precise benchmark prior to start using Nicehash, it took several hours but it was worth it.

Hopefully Winminer is going to work with Cast XMR in the future, I really like that program.

Hi,
You can just use Cast miner and point it to nicehash servers like with any other pool.  I have been doing it for 1 month and it just works.
It may well be more profitable than using their software and going through their interface.

I would not touch Winminer with a rig like yours, you just loose profits compared to mining with dedicated software to a pool.
Beside, the ROI you can have with Nice Hash beat Winminer by a wide margin.

Winminer needs to work with virtually any computer that it is used on, therefore they use software that can automatically detect your hardware and begin working, yet for doing so, it does not take full advantage of your hardware.

Just use Cast to Nicehash pool and you will probably make more than 48euros a day.



take care!

ah okay thanks! From your experience it is obvious that it works very well for youso it might be worth it to give it a try and point Cast XMR to use Nicehash pool. I installed the most recent version of Nicehash Legacy -which is the fastest, btw, whether you use nVidia or AMD cards- and never thought it would use Cast XMR, which in my case doesn't. I performed the Precise benchmark and after several hours of testing, when it started mining it used Sgminer, with great results that aren't far off from what you can achieve with Cast XMR, that has to be said. When I mentioned that I meant that I'd like to have Cast XMR listed among Nicehash miners, but haven't seen it. Sgminer is doing a very good job though, only a tad slower, but quite fractionally slower! Surprisingly so.

As for WinMiner, well, it has its advantages and disadvantages, but you can cash out pretty easily using Paypal (that's huge for me) or convert the money into an investment in Litecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. Their web interface is also very good, and it kind helps to check market tendencies. It's not perfect and as you say meant to be easy to use, so it's not the fastest. It'd be great if Cast XMR creator could integrate his program into WinMiner list of miners.

For now, both programs can work at the same time but I tested both simultaneously, having WinMiner just in memory, actually not mining, not doing anything, and Cast XMR gets to a point where it hangs when WinMiner is in memory even if you aren't using WinMiner to mine and everything says idle in it.

As for the money..., well, Nicehash can be relatively fast, 2 days ago was mining at an average of 55€ (EUROS) a day, however it also heavily depends on the market tendencies, like WinMiner. It's better to use Cast XMR and a dedicated pool and..., well, that's what I did until very recently.

Mined for about 2 months using Cast XMR (sometimes other programs depending on the coin, but mostly Cast XMR) and now I am hodling what I mined, so I am having lots of fun trying easy to use programs like Nicehash and WinMiner. Just for testing purposes or simply to cash out and buy more GPUs. Plus I study programming so sometimes it's easier for me to just let the rigs I've built mine, not worrying about coin prices and market movement. Total war to distractions, at those times.. Best regards

[kristikun]

i wrote that dual claymore isnt as profitable as other cryptonight coins   but in 1 month it will be for sure so i want to start adjusting my rig for Claymore dual  thats why i asked if there is some1 who  is currently running 6vegas + or more on Dual Claymore

You are way in the wrong thread. Please leave.

Enjoy making less money.

Bye!

as of now claymore is more profitable than nicehash cryptonight im enjoyin it

[AlexanderDumas]

i wrote that dual claymore isnt as profitable as other cryptonight coins  but in 1 month it will be for sure so i want to start adjusting my rig for Claymore dual  thats why i asked if there is some1 who  is currently running 6vegas + or more on Dual Claymore

You are way in the wrong thread. Please leave.

Enjoy making less money.

Bye!

as of now claymore is more profitable than nicehash cryptonight im enjoyin it

It lasted for about 20 minutes...

[commonorx]

i wrote that dual claymore isnt as profitable as other cryptonight coins  but in 1 month it will be for sure so i want to start adjusting my rig for Claymore dual  thats why i asked if there is some1 who  is currently running 6vegas + or more on Dual Claymore

You are way in the wrong thread. Please leave.

Enjoy making less money.

Bye!

as of now claymore is more profitable than nicehash cryptonight im enjoyin it

There is no way in the world that you can make more with a Vega when you are using a miner (claymore) that is first off slower than CAST XMR at mining cryptonight, and then also mining another coin that is on average worth $10 less a day with 6 Vegas, and uses more power from the wall. Your math does not add up.



Enjoy making less money with your Vegas!

[woodaxe]

cannot run more than 2 rx 470 8gig cards without crashing  i get error cl_mem_object_allocation_failure calling c1enqueueNDRangeKernel for kernel 0

works fine with 2  cards as soon as i add more i get the above.

windows 10 with  august 23 blockchain drivers  xmr cast 0.81   using  -G  0,1  etc to enable cards

  any ideas   or help would be welcome

[commonorx]

cannot run more than 2 rx 470 8gig cards without crashing  i get error cl_mem_object_allocation_failure calling c1enqueueNDRangeKernel for kernel 0

works fine with 2  cards as soon as i add more i get the above.

windows 10 with  august 23 blockchain drivers  xmr cast 0.81   using  -G  0,1  etc to enable cards

  any ideas   or help would be welcome

Oh wow. A problem no one has ever seen before in this thread.


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[chimdikweks]

Sounds limited with the crashes.

[eduncan911]

Hello all.

I must be missing something simple as I am not getting the expected 1800-2000 H/s per Vega out of my setup using Cast XMR.

AMD Blockchain drivers Aug 23rd, 17.30.1029 as the Installer says.  However, the digging into the Software stuff shows "17.30.1091.1011-170922a-318486C"

^- note that this is dated Aug 23rd, where others are saying "17.30.1029".  

Also Cast XMR says that the Blockchain driver isn't detected!?!?

I only get the following:

Vega 64: ~1250 H/s @ 1630c/900mV, 1095m/1050mV (stock settings is ~930 H/s)
Vega 56: ~1150 H/s @ 1630c/900mV, 1095m/1050mV (stock settings is ~870 H/s)

I started off following this guide to the letter: https://steemit.com/mining/@briggsy/briggsy-s-exhaustive-vega-56-64-monero-mining-guide-part-1-flashing-vega-56-with-vega-64-bios

I've since moved onto about a dozen different guides and recommendations.  Been browsing this post for hours and trying all sorts of combinations.  Nada.

One thing I have noticed is that Cast XMR does not report the proper temp or fan speed for the given CPU.  At least, I see a vast difference between Afterburner and what Cast XMR says (not the different GPU numbers, but actual values).

1x Vega 64
1x Vega 56 (flashed to Vega 64)
2x Vega 56 MSI Air Boost OC (can' flash to Vega 64)
1x Vega 56 Sapphire Nitro paperweight

Windows 10 Creative Update fresh install.  I have disabled everything with the "Windows 10 Registry tweaks for mining.bat" batch file (saved me the trouble).

I'm trying to stick only to OverdriveNTool for tweaking the settings.  

I've over-volted and under-volted.
I've +50% Power Target and -30% Power Target.
I've overclocked core and mem (oops, crash).
I've tried various combinations of all of the above, and left some alone, and can never see more than 1250 on the Vega64.

I've tried one GPU at a time, all GPUs, various combinations, etc.

I have not done any registry edits, as it seems the more recent guides don't have those settings.

I have tried 5 different pools and 2 different coins - all with the same effect.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.