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March 02, 2018, 08:16:35 PM
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I’m having fits getting my overclocking settings to load properly on a boot, but that’s for another thread. So yesterday I finally got my rig all dialed in (2 1080ti, 2 1080, 1 1070, 3 1060, 2 580, 1 570) and my power meter says I’m pulling roughly 660 watts from each supply (2 supplies). That got me comfortable enough to order the 12 card today. I check my power meters from time to time as a check to make sure I’m mining. I just checked them and I was pulling 950 Watts per PS! So I remote logged in to the computer and checked the overclock settings. Opened Afterburn from the tray for the nVidias, all checked out fine. Open Sapphire Trixx for the ATIs, all checked fine. Reopened the power monitor and low and behold I’m back down to 660 per PS. The ATIs were the ones causing me power issues, so my hypothesis is that Trixx needs to stay open?
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March 02, 2018, 08:18:45 PM
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I’m having fits getting my overclocking settings to load properly on a boot, but that’s for another thread. So yesterday I finally got my rig all dialed in (2 1080ti, 2 1080, 1 1070, 3 1060, 2 580, 1 570) and my power meter says I’m pulling roughly 660 watts from each supply (2 supplies). That got me comfortable enough to order the 12 card today. I check my power meters from time to time as a check to make sure I’m mining. I just checked them and I was pulling 950 Watts per PS! So I remote logged in to the computer and checked the overclock settings. Opened Afterburn from the tray for the nVidias, all checked out fine. Open Sapphire Trixx for the ATIs, all checked fine. Reopened the power monitor and low and behold I’m back down to 660 per PS. The ATIs were the ones causing me power issues, so my hypothesis is that Trixx needs to stay open?

could you make that rig more complex?

11 cards
amd and nvidia

and at least 6 different models

2 different oc softwares

2 different psu's




 good luck with it .


let me give you a little advice  Msi Afterburner has a monitor page  on it is a sample timer.

Since you have 4 nvidia models and 8 cards it needs to sample 8 x 16 x 60 = 7680 plus for just your nvidia cards.


I get the 60  from the time setting of 1000 micro seconds.  or 1 second or 60 times per minute  you do not need to sample that often.  set to 12000  = 12 seconds


so 8 x 16 x 5 = 640 things a minute.

this will lighten your cpu load a lot.

your idea of trixx needing to be open may also help

if you want a photo or two if the msi setting let me know

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March 02, 2018, 08:40:03 PM
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Believe it or not, it ran pretty well right off the bat (I was prepared to do a lot of troubleshooting). Just needed to dial in the power to each card. I’m planning on building more rigs once the workshop I’m building is finished. I will definitely make them more uniform in the future.

Thank you for the advice! That explains why Afterburner is so laggy.
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March 02, 2018, 08:41:42 PM
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Switch to linux if you want reliable and consistent results when it comes to mining.

Stop buying industrial miners, running them at home, and then complaining about the noise.
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March 02, 2018, 09:42:33 PM
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Use OverdriveNTool for AMD overclocking...

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/overdriventool-tool-for-amd-gpus.416116/
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March 06, 2018, 11:35:49 PM
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I solved the mystery. It is the skein algorithm that drives my power consumption way up.
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