Claymore XPM GPU Miner discussion

[mafostedu]

Please look at the screen, I have 4 rigs of 4x 290 cards each & all of them have same GPU throttling all the time !
What could be the reason behind this ?

My setup for all 4 rigs is as follows,


Mother Board : Intel DZ87KLT-75K
Processor : i5 4670 (non-K)
RAM : Corsair 1x 8 GB 1600 MHz
Miner : Claymore XPM Miner v 10.1
GPUs : 4x 290 (Non-X) Sapphire Tri-x OC (1000/1250) with AMD Catalyst 13.12 installed on Win 8.1 Pro./Win 7 Pro.
PSU : 1x Cooler Master 1500 W (Silent Pro Gold)

All GPUs are running at less than 70 degrees Celsius with A.C. on in a server room.

Looking at the mining performance it seems pretty much alright the only concern is that throttling.
I experienced this after version 4 or 5 (Don't remember exactly)

[urubu]

try to increase power limit % in afterburner.

[mafostedu]

try to increase power limit % in afterburner.

I tested it with increment of 5 till 20% but the picture remains the same !

[kev7112001]

try to increase power limit % in afterburner.

I tested it with increment of 5 till 20% but the picture remains the same !

try reinstalling the drivers if it still happens try 14.4 drivers  but first use the amd uninstall utility to wipe the old

[urubu]

try to increase power limit % in afterburner.

I tested it with increment of 5 till 20% but the picture remains the same !

Raise it up higher.  It doesn't increase voltage.  It allows more power draw under load. You could raise it all the way up for a short time and it will not do any harm if your voltages and clocks are not extreme.

[kev7112001]

try to increase power limit % in afterburner.

I tested it with increment of 5 till 20% but the picture remains the same !

Raise it up higher.  It doesn't increase voltage.  It allows more power draw under load. You could raise it all the way up for a short time and it will not do any harm if your voltages and clocks are not extreme.

changing that will have no effect on his problem

[urubu]

I had one card that was low output and throttling that was helped by that.  It is why I suggested it.

[mafostedu]

try reinstalling the drivers if it still happens try 14.4 drivers  but first use the amd uninstall utility to wipe the old

I did the same thing 2 weeks back & upgraded 2 of my rigs OS to fresh Win 8.1 Pro from Win 7 Pro
I first installed the catalyst 14.4 driver to test some other miners (different algo) but then switched back to Claymore's XPM Miner.
I experienced the same throttling with that & about 10-15% drop in mining so I used that AMD uninstall utility & installed 13.12.

Today I tested something else, I removed all my GPUs from one rig first,
Then switched on the mining with only one card directly attached to M.B. 16x slot & it was running very smooth for more than 6 hours (look at the screen shot)
Then I attached one more card to the M.B. another 16x slot & both cards started throttling again ! (I forgot to take screen shot at that time)
Now all 4 cards are mining but with the same throttling.



May be the above scenario indicates that it has something to do with multiple cards mining at the same time !
Claymore can you check this out or give some solution ?


 

[zikomoto]

Please look at the screen, I have 4 rigs of 4x 290 cards each & all of them have same GPU throttling all the time !
What could be the reason behind this ?

My setup for all 4 rigs is as follows,


Mother Board : Intel DZ87KLT-75K
Processor : i5 4670 (non-K)
RAM : Corsair 1x 8 GB 1600 MHz
Miner : Claymore XPM Miner v 10.1
GPUs : 4x 290 (Non-X) Sapphire Tri-x OC (1000/1250) with AMD Catalyst 13.12 installed on Win 8.1 Pro./Win 7 Pro.
PSU : 1x Cooler Master 1500 W (Silent Pro Gold)

All GPUs are running at less than 70 degrees Celsius with A.C. on in a server room.

Looking at the mining performance it seems pretty much alright the only concern is that throttling.
I experienced this after version 4 or 5 (Don't remember exactly)

I was having this problem , try with -ss 2 or -ss 3

apart from that i have a problem too
i started mining solo yesterday and i have total/valid 4/4 but the wallet is showing only 3 blocks mined what that mean ??

[kev7112001]

try reinstalling the drivers if it still happens try 14.4 drivers  but first use the amd uninstall utility to wipe the old

I did the same thing 2 weeks back & upgraded 2 of my rigs OS to fresh Win 8.1 Pro from Win 7 Pro
I first installed the catalyst 14.4 driver to test some other miners (different algo) but then switched back to Claymore's XPM Miner.
I experienced the same throttling with that & about 10-15% drop in mining so I used that AMD uninstall utility & installed 13.12.

Today I tested something else, I removed all my GPUs from one rig first,
Then switched on the mining with only one card directly attached to M.B. 16x slot & it was running very smooth for more than 6 hours (look at the screen shot)
Then I attached one more card to the M.B. another 16x slot & both cards started throttling again ! (I forgot to take screen shot at that time)
Now all 4 cards are mining but with the same throttling.



May be the above scenario indicates that it has something to do with multiple cards mining at the same time !
Claymore can you check this out or give some solution ?


 

yeah might be your cpu

[Claymore]

May be the above scenario indicates that it has something to do with multiple cards mining at the same time !
Claymore can you check this out or give some solution ?
  

One of my rigs has i5 4430 and 4 290X, for best performance I use "-ss 2" for this rig, try it. Anyway, you have 8.8 CPD per 290 card, it's ok.

[bacon strips]

@mafostedu I had the same problem with the Sapphire R9 290 280 (Non-X) throttling.  I had to mod the bios and increase the power limit to 50%.  Look at your reported core clock and I bet it is not holding your specified value.  I have three R9 290 280 (Non-X) running at +50% power limit and core of 1150 MHz with no problems for a few weeks now.  

[mafostedu]

@mafostedu I had the same problem with the Sapphire R9 290 (Non-X) throttling.  I had to mod the bios and increase the power limit to 50%.  Look at your reported core clock and I bet it is not holding your specified value.  I have three R9 290 (Non-X) running at +50% power limit and core of 1150 MHz with no problems for a few weeks now. 

With which version of BIOS ? What's your Estimated CPD with 1150 core ?

[csa1234]

WTF is going on? I found two blocks, they were valid, and on my primecoin wallet there is no XPM...

I was monitoring my screen, saw the Primecoin qt wallet showing the "Primecoin MINE received", the XPM were credited to my wallet and 5 seconds later the whole transacction including ID dissapeared... on CLAYMORE miner is showing 2 valid/ total block found


WTF???

My Primecoin wallet have 8 connections.... i have the port 9911 (Primecoin port) opened and forwarded on my router and on windows firewall, still i cant get more connections....

Is the low incoming connection to my Primecoin wallet client the problem? Are this orphaned blocks or what?

[ozzy1926]

WTF is going on? I found two blocks, they were valid, and on my primecoin wallet there is no XPM...

I was monitoring my screen, saw the Primecoin qt wallet showing the "Primecoin MINE received", the XPM were credited to my wallet and 5 seconds later the whole transacction including ID dissapeared... on CLAYMORE miner is showing 2 valid/ total block found


WTF???

My Primecoin wallet have 8 connections.... i have the port 9911 (Primecoin port) opened and forwarded on my router and on windows firewall, still i cant get more connections....

Is the low incoming connection to my Primecoin wallet client the problem? Are this orphaned blocks or what?

orphaned by ypool

[csa1234]

im SOLOMINING, not ypooling

[ozzy1926]

im SOLOMINING, not ypooling

do you know whats orphan means?

[csa1234]

im SOLOMINING, not ypooling

do you know whats orphan means?

a child that grow up without fathers?

[ozzy1926]

im SOLOMINING, not ypooling

do you know whats orphan means?

a child that grow up without fathers?

lol kid!you dont even know what is the meaning of orphan .Let me tell you what happened there:you found a block when trying to solo at the same time or 5-10sec later a huge farm of pool find the same block and guess what your coins are transfered to them and you have 0 coins.Having 16-19 connections wont help you its pure luck cappish kido?Now go and cry@ypool not here

[zikomoto]

im SOLOMINING, not ypooling

do you know whats orphan means?

a child that grow up without fathers?

hahaha smart