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

[JuanHungLo]

Which algo is the most (top 3) user friendly to mine (lowest GPU temp, lowest power consuption)?

Definitely Fresh

QUBIT

FRESH? What's that? Never heard of this algo...Which coin(s) are FRESH?

What about Qubit - top 3 qubit coins?

That's not your question.  The question was "Which algo is the most (top 3) user friendly to mine (lowest GPU temp, lowest power consuption)?"

You didn't ask about familiarity.

[oncloud9]

please could someone tell me where I am going wrong,

I have downloaded sgminer v5 and I am trying to mine Myr with one XFX R9 290X 4GB  but I am having trouble since I am a noob and last time I mined someone set it all up for me
this is what my batch file is like but the problem is sgminer closes on me

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe --k -o stratum+tcp://europe1.myriadcoin-groestl.miningpoolhub.com:20479 -u xxxxxx.xxxxxx -p x -I 16 -g 2 -w 64 --no-submit-stale --failover-only --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 0

[z0n0]

please could someone tell me where I am going wrong,

I have downloaded sgminer v5 and I am trying to mine Myr with one XFX R9 290X 4GB  but I am having trouble since I am a noob and last time I mined someone set it all up for me
this is what my batch file is like but the problem is sgminer closes on me

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe --k -o stratum+tcp://europe1.myriadcoin-groestl.miningpoolhub.com:20479 -u xxxxxx.xxxxxx -p x -I 16 -g 2 -w 64 --no-submit-stale --failover-only --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 0

kernel is missing

[oncloud9]

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc271/baz80/Untitled_zpsffpiskx4.jpg

 ok sgminer works but now I get lots of HW and everything just rejects and look how low my hashrate is for a XFX R9 290X 

[oncloud9]

 ok sgminer works but now I get lots of HW and everything just rejects and look how low my hashrate is for a XFX R9 290X  

sgminer --help
"
--algorithm|--kernel|-k <arg> Set mining algorithm and most common defaults, default: scrypt
"

Thanks for the help, so do I put --help in the batch file?

[oncloud9]

 ok sgminer works but now I get lots of HW and everything just rejects and look how low my hashrate is for a XFX R9 290X  

sgminer --help
"
--algorithm|--kernel|-k <arg> Set mining algorithm and most common defaults, default: scrypt
"

Thanks for the help, so do I put --help in the batch file?

OMG, NOPE
i mean use help
help says -k, not --k

Sorry I did say I am a noob lol ok I will try now
EDIT ok that worked now I just need temps down and I think I will be mining I am grateful for the help no HW this time   http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc271/baz80/Capture_zpsit68n8fi.jpg

[Atomicat]

EDIT ok that worked now I just need temps down and I think I will be mining I am grateful for the help no HW this time  

OUCH!  Yeah, I'd say that's running a bit hot.  You gonna be ok with that or could you use a hand?

[oncloud9]

EDIT ok that worked now I just need temps down and I think I will be mining I am grateful for the help no HW this time  http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc271/baz80/Capture_zpsit68n8fi.jpg

OUCH!  Yeah, I'd say that's running a bit hot.  You gonna be ok with that or could you use a hand?

I looked through the forum and seen members talking about afterburner so got that and I am getting 22Mhz at 70c if i could get it cooler that would be great but I think 70c is about what I was getting gaming so I dont think its that bad

Edit so not to double post...

for some reason the speed has dropped right down  today when I go to mine  

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe -k myriadcoin-groestl -o stratum+tcp://europe1.myriadcoin-groestl.miningpoolhub.com:20479 -u *****.11****9 -p x -I 16 -g 2 -w 64 --no-submit-stale --failover-only --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 0

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc271/baz80/Capture_zps936sjizn.jpg

[z0n0]

EDIT ok that worked now I just need temps down and I think I will be mining I am grateful for the help no HW this time  

OUCH!  Yeah, I'd say that's running a bit hot.  You gonna be ok with that or could you use a hand?

I looked through the forum and seen members talking about afterburner so got that and I am getting 22Mhz at 70c if i could get it cooler that would be great but I think 70c is about what I was getting gaming so I dont think its that bad

I also have problems on 280x with high temps.
Can someone tell me how can this afterburner help to run my GPUs cooler? What can it do that I cannot with miner config or AMD Catalyst (--gpu-fan, --gpu-engine...)?

[Atomicat]

I looked through the forum and seen members talking about afterburner so got that and I am getting 22Mhz at 70c if i could get it cooler that would be great but I think 70c is about what I was getting gaming so I dont think its that bad

I also have problems on 280x with high temps.
Can someone tell me how can this afterburner help to run my GPUs cooler? What can it do that I cannot with miner config or AMD Catalyst (--gpu-fan, --gpu-engine...)?

I'll move this to the PM side so as not to flood this thread.  For the record, just remounted a fan and added a few heat-sinks which took care of a few degrees.  Here's my 290 hashing Ziftr at 4.83 Mh/s, 1170/1350.  Check the temps.



Boo-Ya!  Getting 26Mh/s with M-G as well.

[z0n0]

I also have problems on 280x with high temps.
Can someone tell me how can this afterburner help to run my GPUs cooler? What can it do that I cannot with miner config or AMD Catalyst (--gpu-fan, --gpu-engine...)?

and what can you do with miner config actually ?
on my 280x, miner config can't set clocks lower, only higher,
but afterburner can, that trouble started with 14.6 drivers.
gpu-z will show you everything

why would I lower my clocks anyway?!

[pallas]

I also have problems on 280x with high temps.
Can someone tell me how can this afterburner help to run my GPUs cooler? What can it do that I cannot with miner config or AMD Catalyst (--gpu-fan, --gpu-engine...)?

and what can you do with miner config actually ?
on my 280x, miner config can't set clocks lower, only higher,
but afterburner can, that trouble started with 14.6 drivers.
gpu-z will show you everything

why would I lower my clocks anyway?!

to lower the temperature?
lower clocks might give more hashes per watt in some cases.
for example when the bottleneck is the memory, or when higher clocks means higher voltage + higher temperature which means higher fan rotation speed which in turn means higher power draw. Some fans can take 10 or even 20 watts. That's why you should always use a power meter on your rigs.

[Atomicat]

 I looked through the forum and seen members talking about afterburner so got that and I am getting 22Mhz at 70c if i could get it cooler that would be great but I think 70c is about what I was getting gaming so I dont think its that bad

for some reason the speed has dropped right down  today when I go to mine  

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe -k myriadcoin-groestl -o stratum+tcp://europe1.myriadcoin-groestl.miningpoolhub.com:20479 -u *****.11****9 -p x -I 16 -g 2 -w 64 --no-submit-stale --failover-only --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 0

Ok, looks like a few people here so I'll keep it public.  Hopefully learn something myself and get a tip or three on bioses for this card.  So here's what's happened with your hash rate.... but first... you'll need an important tool, best damn info tool I've seen in decades.  AIDA64.

http://www.aida64.com/

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/aida64-download.html

Get that and get real familiar with what's behind the first tab, Computer, Sensor.  You'll see a lot there that you'll need to know.  Specifically, there is not just one temperature on your GPU, there are three listed for these cards.  There's your shader, the chip, and then there are the all-important and harder to cool VRM's, Voltage Regulator Modules.  Here's a picture of the layout of the R9-290 via Overclock.net.  GO THERE!  Haunt it!  Live there!

https://i.imgur.com/hb27Pge.jpg

http://www.overclock.net/f/72/ati-cooling

So here's what's happening when your hash rate drops.  Basically you're running up against a power limit, threshold, and it's throttling back.  You can see how many watts your card is pushing in that sensor log, right at the bottom along with all the voltages for your card.  We used to just "push it till it moves" but that's changed with the R9 series.  To get my stable 1170/1350 I used Afterburner to set Core Voltage at just +75.  Then I nudged it back to it's next slot at +69.  I'm pretty sure that the next notch is crashola.  Try this... Set your Core Voltage at +100 and your core clock up to say 1175, whatever you know it'll take.  Hit Detach on the top right panel, now you can see all the gauges.  Start up Heaven 4.0, windowed, and let it rip on Extreme.  You should see it go for that clock, then throttle back.  Check your wattage on Aida64, there's your power limit.  As you drop that core voltage you'll see it throttle less and less.  Now you should have enough to find your highest clocks for mining whatever.  Just start up SGminer, find the balance.  I'm going to have to be a bit abrupt here because I'm totally exhausted, three days up, and crashing hard.  This should give you a good start though and essential tools.  By the way, the way I get my cards to run as cool as Miles Davis is by fitting a CPU water-cooler on them, and there are some real cheap ones like the Cooler Master Seidon series which have mounts that are absolutely perfect for this.  Check the spacing on these screw holes...

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2013/01/cooler-master-seidon-120m-review/seidon120m-2b.jpg

Dunno why this went UP in price, because it was the first and cheapest liquid cooler I bought years ago, for sixty bucks Canadian.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX42382

Keep an eye out for a used one you can snap up cheap.   Cheap... I TOTALLY lucked out a couple of years back and scored not one but TWO Thermaltake 2.0 (or 3.0, can't tell) units for $22 Each!  Mounts for them are also very easy, couldn't find a picture though, sorry.  Why so cheap?  Oh, they had the wrong firmware on them.  Oh snap, what a... nothing really.  Really gotta update these pictures, show the mounts and all, later, after sleep.

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BadGirl02.jpg

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BG_Detail01.jpg

7950 @ 1200/1600, and never over 50C.  G'night!

[z0n0]

I also have problems on 280x with high temps.
Can someone tell me how can this afterburner help to run my GPUs cooler? What can it do that I cannot with miner config or AMD Catalyst (--gpu-fan, --gpu-engine...)?

and what can you do with miner config actually ?
on my 280x, miner config can't set clocks lower, only higher,
but afterburner can, that trouble started with 14.6 drivers.
gpu-z will show you everything

why would I lower my clocks anyway?!

to lower the temperature?
lower clocks might give more hashes per watt in some cases.
for example when the bottleneck is the memory, or when higher clocks means higher voltage + higher temperature which means higher fan rotation speed which in turn means higher power draw. Some fans can take 10 or even 20 watts. That's why you should always use a power meter on your rigs.

If I use default its a big difference, dont want to lose hashrate
on default clock 1030 I get cca 6,15 mh/s with temp ~75, on 1155 clock I hit 6,82 mh/s but temp is 88...dont know what should I do... 

[oncloud9]

 I looked through the forum and seen members talking about afterburner so got that and I am getting 22Mhz at 70c if i could get it cooler that would be great but I think 70c is about what I was getting gaming so I dont think its that bad

for some reason the speed has dropped right down  today when I go to mine  

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer.exe -k myriadcoin-groestl -o stratum+tcp://europe1.myriadcoin-groestl.miningpoolhub.com:20479 -u *****.11****9 -p x -I 16 -g 2 -w 64 --no-submit-stale --failover-only --gpu-engine 1025 --gpu-memclock 1250 --gpu-powertune 0

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc271/baz80/Capture_zps936sjizn.jpg

Ok, looks like a few people here so I'll keep it public.  Hopefully learn something myself and get a tip or three on bioses for this card.  So here's what's happened with your hash rate.... but first... you'll need an important tool, best damn info tool I've seen in decades.  AIDA64.

http://www.aida64.com/

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/aida64-download.html

Get that and get real familiar with what's behind the first tab, Computer, Sensor.  You'll see a lot there that you'll need to know.  Specifically, there is not just one temperature on your GPU, there are three listed for these cards.  There's your shader, the chip, and then there are the all-important and harder to cool VRM's, Voltage Regulator Modules.  Here's a picture of the layout of the R9-290 via Overclock.net.  GO THERE!  Haunt it!  Live there!

https://i.imgur.com/hb27Pge.jpg

http://www.overclock.net/f/72/ati-cooling

So here's what's happening when your hash rate drops.  Basically you're running up against a power limit, threshold, and it's throttling back.  You can see how many watts your card is pushing in that sensor log, right at the bottom along with all the voltages for your card.  We used to just "push it till it moves" but that's changed with the R9 series.  To get my stable 1170/1350 I used Afterburner to set Core Voltage at just +75.  Then I nudged it back to it's next slot at +69.  I'm pretty sure that the next notch is crashola.  Try this... Set your Core Voltage at +100 and your core clock up to say 1175, whatever you know it'll take.  Hit Detach on the top right panel, now you can see all the gauges.  Start up Heaven 4.0, windowed, and let it rip on Extreme.  You should see it go for that clock, then throttle back.  Check your wattage on Aida64, there's your power limit.  As you drop that core voltage you'll see it throttle less and less.  Now you should have enough to find your highest clocks for mining whatever.  Just start up SGminer, find the balance.  I'm going to have to be a bit abrupt here because I'm totally exhausted, three days up, and crashing hard.  This should give you a good start though and essential tools.  By the way, the way I get my cards to run as cool as Miles Davis is by fitting a CPU water-cooler on them, and there are some real cheap ones like the Cooler Master Seidon series which have mounts that are absolutely perfect for this.  Check the spacing on these screw holes...

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2013/01/cooler-master-seidon-120m-review/seidon120m-2b.jpg

Dunno why this went UP in price, because it was the first and cheapest liquid cooler I bought years ago, for sixty bucks Canadian.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX42382

Keep an eye out for a used one you can snap up cheap.   Cheap... I TOTALLY lucked out a couple of years back and scored not one but TWO Thermaltake 2.0 (or 3.0, can't tell) units for $22 Each!  Mounts for them are also very easy, couldn't find a picture though, sorry.  Why so cheap?  Oh, they had the wrong firmware on them.  Oh snap, what a... nothing really.  Really gotta update these pictures, show the mounts and all, later, after sleep.

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BadGirl02.jpg

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/acatphoto/Tech/BG_Detail01.jpg

7950 @ 1200/1600, and never over 50C.  G'night!

+1 Atomicat Thank you I already have my CPU custom water cooled and I have got a 360 rad waiting to go on the GPU when I have the money to buy the waterblock and backplate so hopefully that will help Is my batch file correct? I copied it off different post in this section

[z0n0]

If I use default its a big difference, dont want to lose hashrate
on default clock 1030 I get cca 6,15 mh/s with temp ~75, on 1155 clock I hit 6,82 mh/s but temp is 88...dont know what should I do...  

if you have free electricity - stay within 85C.
if not - measure your rig's watt/mh, at the wall

thanks for the info, this is what I was looking for, since I have free electricity
so above 85C is a no-no option?

[confudido]

Mining x11, gpu0 hashes but no submitted shares and no hardware errors, gpu1 is ok.
Tried switching the two gpus but still gpu0 doesn't work (i.e. the gpu in the top pci slot).
I'm using wolf0's binaries.
Mining other algos works fine.
Also tried older sgminer versions but no change.
Any clues?

I'd say the problem is between Wolf's x11 bins and new AMD drivers (14.12 and 15.3beta).
Standard x11 kernel works with any driver version. Sgminer version is irrelevant here.

Wolf, do you have any explanation?

I can add the information that I had this problem with pregenerated bins: if I compile them myself, they work.
Maybe it's a 32/64 bit issue?

I am mining on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux, AMD 14.7 drivers, 6x 280X, and the slot 0 card fails in less than 10 minutes.  AMD 14.7 drivers for Linux were reputed to be the best and fastest.  I replaced the card with a new one and had the same result.

The last time I had a stable sgminer build was pre-November '14 and the accompanying Neoscrypt craze.  The latest Linux sgminer binaries give the same results; card 0 dies.       --scryptr

Same problem here, slot 0 doesn't hash with 14.12 drivers. It does hash with 14.9 or lower..

If anyone is familiar with the correct driver combinations for 64 bit Linux, I would be appreciative.  Specifically, I need to know which versions of ADL_SDK, APP-SDK, and Catalyst would work best to get up and running with the Wolf bins (or if I even need all those anymore)?  It has been fun to mine X11 for the last year and get increased hashrate with each new change or tweak to the kernel, etc.  I have 290x's and they are slow (4.8Mh/s) compared to other's postings.  I have been stuck trying to get this last speed boost and I don't have a lot of time to try uninstalling and reinstalling and recompiling all the wrong versions.  Cheers!

[socal]

This issue has probably been addressed already but theres too many pages to dig through, can anyone help me I am using sgminer v5 with my laptop integrated GPU (yes yes I know probably THE worst thing besides CPU mining) anyway the coin I am solo mining is X15 "bitblock" algo and I am finding blocks and such but I am getting alot of share above target errors. Is this normal or do I need to change something in my .conf file?

Specs:

Windows 8.1

Intel HD Graphics 4600

.conf file

{
  "pools": [
    {
      "url": "localhost",
      "user": "USERNAME",
      "pass": "PASSWORD"
    }
  ],
  "profiles": [],
  "failover-only": true,
  "algorithm": "bitblock",
  "devices": "all",
  "lookup-gap": "2",
  "intensity": "18",
  "shaders": "2048",
  "thread-concurrency": "8192",
  "worksize": "256",
  "gpu-engine": "0-0",
  "gpu-memclock": "0",
  "gpu-threads": "2",
  "gpu-fan": "0-0",
  "gpu-powertune": "0",
  "gpu-vddc": "0.000",
  "temp-cutoff": "95",
  "temp-overheat": "85",
  "temp-target": "75",
  "gpu-memdiff": "0",
  "shares": "0",
  "kernel-path": "/usr/local/bin",
  "api-mcast-port": "4028",
  "api-port": "4028",
  "expiry": "120",
  "failover-switch-delay": "60",
  "gpu-dyninterval": "7",
  "gpu-platform": "0",
  "hamsi-expand-big": "4",
  "log": "5",
  "no-pool-disable": true,
  "no-client-reconnect": true,
  "queue": "90",
  "scan-time": "30",
  "tcp-keepalive": "30",
  "temp-hysteresis": "3",
  "verbose": true
}

any help would be VERY appreciated, thanks in advance

[qwep1]

This issue has probably been addressed already but theres too many pages to dig through, can anyone help me I am using sgminer v5 with my laptop integrated GPU (yes yes I know probably THE worst thing besides CPU mining) anyway the coin I am solo mining is X15 "bitblock" algo and I am finding blocks and such but I am getting alot of share above target errors. Is this normal or do I need to change something in my .conf file?

Specs:

Windows 8.1

Intel HD Graphics 4600

.conf file

{
  "pools": [
    {
      "url": "localhost",
      "user": "USERNAME",
      "pass": "PASSWORD"
    }
  ],
  "profiles": [],
  "failover-only": true,
  "algorithm": "bitblock",
  "devices": "all",
  "lookup-gap": "2",
  "intensity": "18",
  "shaders": "2048",
  "thread-concurrency": "8192",
  "worksize": "256",
  "gpu-engine": "0-0",
  "gpu-memclock": "0",
  "gpu-threads": "2",
  "gpu-fan": "0-0",
  "gpu-powertune": "0",
  "gpu-vddc": "0.000",
  "temp-cutoff": "95",
  "temp-overheat": "85",
  "temp-target": "75",
  "gpu-memdiff": "0",
  "shares": "0",
  "kernel-path": "/usr/local/bin",
  "api-mcast-port": "4028",
  "api-port": "4028",
  "expiry": "120",
  "failover-switch-delay": "60",
  "gpu-dyninterval": "7",
  "gpu-platform": "0",
  "hamsi-expand-big": "4",
  "log": "5",
  "no-pool-disable": true,
  "no-client-reconnect": true,
  "queue": "90",
  "scan-time": "30",
  "tcp-keepalive": "30",
  "temp-hysteresis": "3",
  "verbose": true
}

any help would be VERY appreciated, thanks in advance

Mining Intel HD Graphics 4600 is not supported on the

[socal]

well thats funny cause it is totally hashing away and like I stated I am solving blocks and receiving my coins just get bouts of large amounts of share above target errors