mkxminer: Fast Lyra2Z/Lyra2rev2 miner for AMD GPU (ZCoin, GINcoin, VERT, MONA...

[Elder III]

Will this work with lyra2z also?

No this only works with Lyra2rev2 (sometimes called Lyra2v2).  There is a Lyra2z miner in development for AMD, but I think it's Linux only right now.

[lebuawu2]

Hello,

On Windows, with the latest AMD drivers (18.3.4), if the Compute mode is enabled, mkxminer is unable to use the GPU (hashrate is 0 and later on the device is reported as SICK).
It works fine with the blockchain driver but I am unable to use that one because of the 8 GPU limit it has.

I think with this miner you need to turn off compute mode. You also need to set core clock high and mem clock low.

[gzubeck]

The question I have to ask is why are you mining lyra2v2 coins when you can be mining crptonight v7? Your losing a fortune given that monero is highly profitable. If you want vertcoin or monacoin etc. you simply buy them after selling monero. Vega cards are cryptonight monsters.

Mining is a hobby not an investment.  So I knowingly leave some $$$ on the table, I don't want to increase the number of trades I have to report by auto-swapping, so I mine the coin I want to hodl.  On top of that my returns have been higher than most online calculators have predict, so on average my mining returns are fairly close to any other algorithm.

Periods like the past week or so with XMR and vega are a bit of an exception, but I have other reasons that I want to push and tune my vegas for lyra2re2 as well.

Speaking of which, I have all 6 of my vega 64s running at 60MH/s (barely) while at -25% power limit. (1460watts at the wall for the whole rig) 

I think I've hit the limit without further increasing voltage/power draw, as stability (and hashrate) goes down if all cards aren't running at the same speed, and it went unstable when I tried ~5mhz higher.  So I think I'm pretty much done.  I might try to see how far I can lower memory voltage....I probably have a bit more room there.  Helps with heat control.

Something else that gave me a little bit more OC headroom, is to find out the average voltage that your core oscillates around at your desired power limit, and edit your power play tables to have more options around that average.

In my particular case, my cards average at ~900mV at their power limit, so I have p-states at 800,850,875,900,925,950,1025,1100.  So a higher number of voltage options with smaller voltage jumps right around that average for the card to jump around to.  That is useful if like me you can't get your cards stable at a constant voltage.

This is a measure of scale. The bigger your investment the less it's a hobby. I would normally agree with you about not caring about what you mine when the differences are small in profits. I draw the line where I can earn 50% more by mining something else. Even if you just wanted to you could use nice hash to mine the v7 algo and receive higher payment in bitcoin short term. The only reason I would want to mine directly is if I think that coin is going to at least double in the next three months. Other wise your just better off paying taxes.

[BlackPrapor]

@winmkx Could you please add builtin stratum and getwork proxy server? Would make mining a lot more interesting =)

P.S.: most importantly, could you please add/confirm MultiMiner support for mkxminer? This would solve most issues with solo mining.

[etang6000]

Add support for give-me-coins

[Eddo25]

i can not start program im getting error 0x000007b how to fix ?

I get the same error. I thought it was because I had to re-install Windows 10, but maybe it's a Windows update causing it?

I found out what was causing it. I had to reinstall my paint program and it installed both the 64bit and 32bit versions of Microsoft Visual c++ 2012 redistributable 11.0.61030. After I installed those I decided to check mxkminer and it worked!

[uzgidebas]

Can you share link of miner for linux please?

[uzgidebas]

Anyone tried it with Galactrum (ORA), and what pool, if you succeeded?

It still looks very profitable:


https://www.crypto-coinz.net/coin-info/?45-Galactrum-ORE-Lyra2v2-calculator/

Pozdrav Branko,

It works. I use http://bsod.pw pool for Galactrum (largest hashrate). Use this way:

Code:

mkxminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool.bsod.pw:1982 -u wallet_address -p c=ORE -I 20 --asm

Watch your intensity for temperature and power draw. One of my 280x is overheating when used with intensity 21, others are working ok.

Pozdrav, mogu li dobiti mkxminer za linux ako imate mozda?

[s0ftcorn]

My ASUS RX580 DUAL 8GB gets "sick" when using asm kernel. I tried lowering intensity, no change. No OC.
Any idea why? Maybe the ETH Bios mod?


EDIT: flashed back the original bios, no change

[nitrobg]

My ASUS RX580 DUAL 8GB gets "sick" when using asm kernel. I tried lowering intensity, no change. No OC.
Any idea why? Maybe the ETH Bios mod?


EDIT: flashed back the original bios, no change

AFAIK compute mode causes the crashes. Switch to graphics or install blockchain driver.

[4ward]

My ASUS RX580 DUAL 8GB gets "sick" when using asm kernel. I tried lowering intensity, no change. No OC.
Any idea why? Maybe the ETH Bios mod?


EDIT: flashed back the original bios, no change

AFAIK compute mode causes the crashes. Switch to graphics or install blockchain driver.

from my experience asm mode works only with blockchain driver from august

[s0ftcorn]

My ASUS RX580 DUAL 8GB gets "sick" when using asm kernel. I tried lowering intensity, no change. No OC.
Any idea why? Maybe the ETH Bios mod?


EDIT: flashed back the original bios, no change

AFAIK compute mode causes the crashes. Switch to graphics or install blockchain driver.

from my experience asm mode works only with blockchain driver from august

thanks. i switched to blockchain driver and it works now.

[400acres]

So MKXMiner is no longer working. My first assumption is due to the devfee server being broken(likely due to xvg fiasco right now), it wont let shares reach the destination pool for any pool I point it to. I have 11 rigs running. Any info about this? I've switched back over to Ethereum/claymore for now.

Working Again

[CDH111]

hello

how to make mkxminer monitoring program?

or Do you want to create a mkx monitoring program?

please

[Maxim9437]

Working Again 

[armyman]

Hi any suggestion to make the miner more stable on Win10?

it runs from a few minutes to a few hours and then I am not sure what happens as there is no log file to check, but when I come back I found my computer rebooted and mkx miner off.

Can this depend on where I mine as well? Is this supposed to still be used only for NiceHash?

I am currently using it on a pool.

I am now trying running with intensity at 22, but don't feel like that's a solution, I am getting several Mh/s less than optimal.

Any help? Thanks

[wowzar]

Is it Suprnova problem or miner or me? I tried all coins (MONA, XVG, VTC...) and i have permanent disconnects/rejected shares. Before 5 days everything was ok, now more than 50% bad shares. Other miners are working ok.

10:28:32 - 0 days 00:02:18] Pool: connection resumed, resubmit...
[10:28:32 - 0 days 00:02:18] REJECTED diff 128 share 5b061acd GPU#0 in 33ms - job not found
[10:28:32 - 0 days 00:02:18] REJECTED diff 128 share 5290a1cc GPU#0 in 79ms - job not found
[10:28:38 - 0 days 00:02:24] Accepted diff 128 share 01a15cbe GPU#0 in 32ms
[10:28:38 - 0 days 00:02:25] Accepted diff 128 share 01925fd5 GPU#0 in 31ms
[10:29:15 - 0 days 00:03:01] Accepted diff 128 share 0156bc13 GPU#0 in 31ms
[10:29:31 - 0 days 00:03:17] Accepted diff 128 share df639205 GPU#0 in 31ms
[10:29:54 - 0 days 00:03:40] Accepted diff 128 share 108f5b6e GPU#0 in 32ms
[10:29:55 - 0 days 00:03:41] Difficulty set to 93.6585
[10:30:30 - 0 days 00:04:16] Devpool: connection interrupted
[10:30:30 - 0 days 00:04:16] Devpool: restarting...
[10:30:30 - 0 days 00:04:16] Disconnecting from stratum

[BeeDeeEff]

Something was changed about this miner's devfee server on the night of May 21rst and it has made it completely unusable.  I'm fine with a fee existing, I knew about it when I chose to use the program, but this miner is borked right now.  Undo whatever was done to it on that night and the following days.

EDIT: 5/30/18 Seems the newest version (3.10) is now working normally again for me. I've not yet run it overnight, will report back with longer term results.

Edit: 6/1/18 The behavior of the v3.1 mkxminer is back to what it was before May 21rst.

[artex2100]

Same here no shares accepted..

[Ladydoge]

Hi any suggestion to make the miner more stable on Win10?

it runs from a few minutes to a few hours and then I am not sure what happens as there is no log file to check, but when I come back I found my computer rebooted and mkx miner off.

Same. On W7