[ANN] sgminer v5 - optimized X11/X13/NeoScrypt/Lyra2RE/etc. kernel-switch miner

[restless]

I made, and released, miners that were several times faster than the best public one for XMR. I barely got anything in donations. Making the same mistake twice is called stupidity.

The trouble with selling the miner is that there is no way to protect the kernels from the person who buys it turning right around and giving them away

Why not doing it  Claymore-way?

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[semajjames]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

[pallas]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

[semajjames]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

My GPU temps are 78 stable do i need to have lower temp to reach like 1040 GPU engin clock ?

[pallas]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

My GPU temps are 78 stable do i need to have lower temp to reach like 1040 GPU engin clock ?

not in general, but the gpu may throttle because the fan if already at max speed.
did you check the actual gpu clock to be what you set (> 1020)?

[ebliever]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

My GPU temps are 78 stable do i need to have lower temp to reach like 1040 GPU engin clock ?

I also max out my 290X's at 1020 (and 1375 on memory) with X11 and X15. I run at 88C (I seem to recall reading that they run better when hotter; at any rate they are rated up to 95C). I have my 290X's sitting outside the rig and the fans on them run around 60% holding at 88C, so I doubt if fans/temps are the controlling issue here. It doesn't make any difference whether I have my box fan running on them or not, at any rate.

My 290X's are Sapphire BF4 edition from Jan/Feb. of this year. Perhaps later builds of the 290X are more robust?

[badman74]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

My GPU temps are 78 stable do i need to have lower temp to reach like 1040 GPU engin clock ?

I also max out my 290X's at 1020 (and 1375 on memory) with X11 and X15. I run at 88C (I seem to recall reading that they run better when hotter; at any rate they are rated up to 95C). I have my 290X's sitting outside the rig and the fans on them run around 60% holding at 88C, so I doubt if fans/temps are the controlling issue here. It doesn't make any difference whether I have my box fan running on them or not, at any rate.

My 290X's are Sapphire BF4 edition from Jan/Feb. of this year. Perhaps later builds of the 290X are more robust?

You may need to over volt the cards a little to get above 1020 engine stable
I run mine at +25

[semajjames]

Guys

 the mh/s and the GPU clocks you are getting on R9 290x's ,,,,,,

do your card;s have standard cooling fans

I ask because i cant get any where near some of those high GPU clocks, the very max i can get with stock cooler's is 1020 so how am i seeing some ppl get clocks as high as  1050;s +

cheers

What's your room temperature? is the case well cooled?
I use a big fan blowing from the front of the case thru the cards. And all as open as possible.

My GPU temps are 78 stable do i need to have lower temp to reach like 1040 GPU engin clock ?

I also max out my 290X's at 1020 (and 1375 on memory) with X11 and X15. I run at 88C (I seem to recall reading that they run better when hotter; at any rate they are rated up to 95C). I have my 290X's sitting outside the rig and the fans on them run around 60% holding at 88C, so I doubt if fans/temps are the controlling issue here. It doesn't make any difference whether I have my box fan running on them or not, at any rate.

My 290X's are Sapphire BF4 edition from Jan/Feb. of this year. Perhaps later builds of the 290X are more robust?

You may need to over volt the cards a little to get above 1020 engine stable
I run mine at +25

I thought something like that might be the case ,,,+25 what ?    ,,,,,, +25% the VDDC voltage as recorded with GPUZ ?

[bullus]

+25mV

[pallas]

Or +25 powertune :-)

[semajjames]

+25mV

thanks ,,, I am not sure i am able to do this voltage raise when i try to do it with sgminer it says "voltage not changed" ,,,Maybe because these cards are Asus R9 290 (nonx) but "unlocked",, brought very early from OCUK
because they were "unlocked" from new I was able to flash them with a R9 290x bios made by the "stilt" this enabled me to get hash rates of a R9 290x as opposed to a non x

[bullus]

My Asus DCII 290X is running between 1.133-1.172V @ 1050/1350 (stock)

U can try MSI afterburner to OC/overvolt your card.

[ebliever]

Or +25 powertune :-)

I've had +25 (or +20 in older trials) set for Powertune, it hasn't made any difference in my experience.

[platinum4]

I'm with Wolf0 on this one; as far as not wanting to share.

badman74, Elun, lasybear, bullus; all of us here basically, have spent months now spending time optimizing, sharing configs, wrapping personalized binaries, sharing kernel mods and bins and...

I'm willing to bet not a single fucking donation has ever been posted to any one of us.

I can confirm on my side I've received absolutely nothing.

It's been a fun hobby and everything but the last 4 months I've been losing to electricity costs with my 290Xs.

It's been depressing as fuck.

[platinum4]

Running 8x R9 290X is going to cost $300/month in electricity to make maybe .5 BTC at most; and now that BTC is in the shitter at $420/USD we're losing nearly 30% by mining alone.

It'd be nice for some of the dedicated and die-hard supporters of the thread to band together and see what we can do about it, but you're right, by more people having a higher hashrate - everybody loses.

What a conundrum.

[qwep]

Running 8x R9 290X is going to cost $300/month in electricity to make maybe .5 BTC at most; and now that BTC is in the shitter at $420/USD we're losing nearly 30% by mining alone.

It'd be nice for some of the dedicated and die-hard supporters of the thread to band together and see what we can do about it, but you're right, by more people having a higher hashrate - everybody loses.

What a conundrum.

miner should be those who have less GPU, I suppose one farm with 4 cards

[sp_]

Do you want donations? Sell your shotcoins and buy darkcoin. Santa might be early this year:)

[daeminium]

I made, and released, miners that were several times faster than the best public one for XMR. I barely got anything in donations. Making the same mistake twice is called stupidity.

Use claymore strategy, auto fee for dev

[daeminium]

I made, and released, miners that were several times faster than the best public one for XMR. I barely got anything in donations. Making the same mistake twice is called stupidity.

Use claymore strategy, auto fee for dev

Again, remember girino?

claymore dev is happy with auto fee 

[bullus]

Running 8x R9 290X is going to cost $300/month in electricity to make maybe .5 BTC at most; and now that BTC is in the shitter at $420/USD we're losing nearly 30% by mining alone.

It'd be nice for some of the dedicated and die-hard supporters of the thread to band together and see what we can do about it, but you're right, by more people having a higher hashrate - everybody loses.

What a conundrum.

Maybe time to go for the new maxwell 9xx series with their low powerconsumption( gtx 970 vs 290x =100watt less)
About their hashrates we have to see yet.