Claymore's CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v11.3

[bitwolf]

@Claymore suprnova has new stratum host and your miner shows ''Stratum -  Cannot connect to xmr.suprnova.cc port 5222'' in DevFee

Yep , that is kind of annoying . Everything is red ... Allpools is "1" so my shares got accepted but fast everything is red and scary.

[Scandalrosi]

Hi together,

First of all, thanks for your help.
it is up and running now:-))).. After a really hard weak of troubleshooting, the new minig rig i working now, with 4 X RX470 Nitro+ 4GB..
What the hell.. Arizer damaged. 2 of 4 GPUs damaged, PSU trouble.. And many many more..
Now, i´m wondering how i can optimize the Hashrate.. But step by step. First thing. My Rig is lagging really hard, when mining over GPU Miner v9.7.
Is that normal, or is this something i can fix, with better settings? Sometimes, after hours, the rig just shut down.
Is there something i can do. I tried out tons of crimson drivers. Most of them doesn´t work for Win7 64 bit and don´t identify my cards. I only got V16.11.1 and 16.11.4 to work. When i run claymore now, with the following command i get 2450 h/s. This are about 610 h/s per card. Is that good, or bad. There are so many comments, with different hasrates.

NsGpuCNMiner -o stratum+tcp://xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560 -u paapolinho@gmx.de -p x -a 3 (i tried A 4 and A 3 also, without changes)

I also tried to flash the rom, but it doesn´t work. ROM can´t be deletes, was the error. Is there a trick, when i have to push the button on the card.
How can i check, if the card is in the right mode to write the rom? When i push the button, the light is changing the coulor frequently. Is this the right mode?Do i have to reboot, after pushing the button. I´ve found someone who has modified the rom, for rx470 cards, so that i can be sure, it works.
Can somebody tell me, what i´m doing wrong?

And hopefully sombody can help me to optimize my cards.

Many Regards,
Scandalrosi

You should be able to reach over 700 h/s with almost any card, after flashing your cards.
Before flashing you need to check what kind of memory you have on your cards (mostly hynix/elpida/samsung), then use a bios corresponding to that memory, or edit your bios by yourself with Polaris Bios editor 1.41 (basically you copy the 1500 MHz memory strap to 1625,1750 and 2000 Mhz mem straps for hynix and elpida, for samsung you copy 1750Mhz strap to 2000MHz)
For flashing the ROMs succesfully, you need to close de miner and open atiflash in admin mode.
Last thing you have to do is using WattTool to overclock memory frequency (check the differents threads about benchmarks to get an idea of the settings you need)


If you pay for electricity, i would recommend you to use -a 2 mode, which works very well on the RX series too.
 "-a 2" low power consumption mode for 290/290x cards. A bit less speed (1%) but less power consumption (10-15%)."

About the lagging, it's hard to tell.
What's your CPU ? Do you use your computer for other purposes than mining?

First, many thanks. But this all doesn´t work with my cards. I have 4 x RX 470 Nitro+. Only 3 of them are showing in the flush tool. It looks like, the 4.th one, is another model. This card has totally different values, compared to the other 3. And it is slower, then the others. OK. The othe 3 Cards all have Samsung memory. What i´ve done. Reboot PC. Start ATIFlush with Adminrights. Choosen the card i wanted to programm. Push the button to search the rom file. Then hit the programm button. Then it began to program and in the half it stpped and showed the error message.
"Unable to delete ROM". What can i do else?

And one more question. Is there no working programm, to mine litecoin with windows. Doesn´t matter wich pool i choose. They all have great instructions how to enter their strings into the bat files, but when i execute them, it always shows --srypt unrecognized option
Is there anywhere a working tutorial how to configure the minig software. The only i got to work is.....tatttaaaa Claymore's CryptoNote GPU Miner v9.7. But only when mining over minergate. I tried out sgminer. Downloaded the programm and the source code. Same error message.--srypt unrecognized option. How do i have to configure the tool. I can start sgminer.exe without errors. It askes for an url then. But as far as i start the bat fill, with the --scryt in it. finish....

Sorry. I hope i could explain what i mean..

Regards, Scandalrosi

[JosNekoKopa]

Which coins (algo) are asic resistant and can be mined with RX 470? I'm lurking in alt announcement for new good opportunity but it is hard to distinguish what has potential and witc wallet have hiden premine or virus? Or shod i stick to proven good coins can be found here :  https://whattomine.com/  , but return is very small notover 2 dollars per day..
In this situation it is much more profitabil to join signature campaing instead burning GPUs ..

[Cubirez]

Hi together,

First of all, thanks for your help.
it is up and running now:-))).. After a really hard weak of troubleshooting, the new minig rig i working now, with 4 X RX470 Nitro+ 4GB..
What the hell.. Arizer damaged. 2 of 4 GPUs damaged, PSU trouble.. And many many more..
Now, i´m wondering how i can optimize the Hashrate.. But step by step. First thing. My Rig is lagging really hard, when mining over GPU Miner v9.7.
Is that normal, or is this something i can fix, with better settings? Sometimes, after hours, the rig just shut down.
Is there something i can do. I tried out tons of crimson drivers. Most of them doesn´t work for Win7 64 bit and don´t identify my cards. I only got V16.11.1 and 16.11.4 to work. When i run claymore now, with the following command i get 2450 h/s. This are about 610 h/s per card. Is that good, or bad. There are so many comments, with different hasrates.

NsGpuCNMiner -o stratum+tcp://xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560 -u paapolinho@gmx.de -p x -a 3 (i tried A 4 and A 3 also, without changes)

I also tried to flash the rom, but it doesn´t work. ROM can´t be deletes, was the error. Is there a trick, when i have to push the button on the card.
How can i check, if the card is in the right mode to write the rom? When i push the button, the light is changing the coulor frequently. Is this the right mode?Do i have to reboot, after pushing the button. I´ve found someone who has modified the rom, for rx470 cards, so that i can be sure, it works.
Can somebody tell me, what i´m doing wrong?

And hopefully sombody can help me to optimize my cards.

Many Regards,
Scandalrosi

You should be able to reach over 700 h/s with almost any card, after flashing your cards.
Before flashing you need to check what kind of memory you have on your cards (mostly hynix/elpida/samsung), then use a bios corresponding to that memory, or edit your bios by yourself with Polaris Bios editor 1.41 (basically you copy the 1500 MHz memory strap to 1625,1750 and 2000 Mhz mem straps for hynix and elpida, for samsung you copy 1750Mhz strap to 2000MHz)
For flashing the ROMs succesfully, you need to close de miner and open atiflash in admin mode.
Last thing you have to do is using WattTool to overclock memory frequency (check the differents threads about benchmarks to get an idea of the settings you need)


If you pay for electricity, i would recommend you to use -a 2 mode, which works very well on the RX series too.
 "-a 2" low power consumption mode for 290/290x cards. A bit less speed (1%) but less power consumption (10-15%)."

About the lagging, it's hard to tell.
What's your CPU ? Do you use your computer for other purposes than mining?

First, many thanks. But this all doesn´t work with my cards. I have 4 x RX 470 Nitro+. Only 3 of them are showing in the flush tool. It looks like, the 4.th one, is another model. This card has totally different values, compared to the other 3. And it is slower, then the others. OK. The othe 3 Cards all have Samsung memory. What i´ve done. Reboot PC. Start ATIFlush with Adminrights. Choosen the card i wanted to programm. Push the button to search the rom file. Then hit the programm button. Then it began to program and in the half it stpped and showed the error message.
"Unable to delete ROM". What can i do else?

And one more question. Is there no working programm, to mine litecoin with windows. Doesn´t matter wich pool i choose. They all have great instructions how to enter their strings into the bat files, but when i execute them, it always shows --srypt unrecognized option
Is there anywhere a working tutorial how to configure the minig software. The only i got to work is.....tatttaaaa Claymore's CryptoNote GPU Miner v9.7. But only when mining over minergate. I tried out sgminer. Downloaded the programm and the source code. Same error message.--srypt unrecognized option. How do i have to configure the tool. I can start sgminer.exe without errors. It askes for an url then. But as far as i start the bat fill, with the --scryt in it. finish....

Sorry. I hope i could explain what i mean..

Regards, Scandalrosi

Forget about mining litecoin with GPUs, LTC has been mined on ASIC since 2014, GPU mining is pointless for these.

As for the bios i'm editing using cmd in windows (admin mode), but never encoutered the problem you are describing.
Make sure you are not using the miner while rewriting the BIOS. Maybe your cards have a dual Bios and one of them is locked (small switch on the top of the GPU, google it to find pictures). Switch of your rig, switch to the other bios, restart and try editing again.

I didn't try Sgminer so i can't help you on this one. If you want to give it a try you should post on the miner's specific topic

[Scandalrosi]

I did the modification on the BIOS. It worked, after i changed to another card. It looks like. the switch for the bios is dameged, from the first card.
After i changed to another card, it worked. I saved my old bios and modded it as shown in many tutorials. Flashing is fine. But after the restart, the flashed card is shown in Sapphire Trixx and in GPU-Z but it doesn´t work anymore. Frequency min and max are set to Zero. When i go back to the old BIOS, everything is working fine. I´ve done this several times now, but always with the same result. I tried a lot, but what i could found out. Doesn´t matter what i do, the standard settings are working the best, without issues. As far as i begin to modify settings, hashrate is going down and card is causing crashes.
Perhaps i´m to dumb for this mining stuff:-(
I leaf it as it is now. I have 92 Mh/s with my 4 cards. Perhaps this only works for 8GB cards, i don´t know..:-(

What i´ve understand now. Litecoinmining seems to be not possible, with gpu. What really suxx, are the tons of tutorials, showing how to mine litecoins with gpu:-(


Frustrated,
Scandalrosi

[rinus]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

[carlo_0000]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

looks good i did 6x 470  758hash/card for 750W

[rinus]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

looks good i did 6x 470 around 758hash/card for 750W

Which timings do u use? I use 1750. What memory and GPU clock , voltage ?

[Scandalrosi]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

looks good i did 6x 470  758hash/card for 750W

Are you all wanne make me criing :-((((

Is nobody willing to help me with my AMD Radeon RX470 Nitro 4GB OC.. I triied everything..Flashing, Wattman, Sapphire Trixx..
Doesn´t matteer what i do, it is always getting worster, then better. I getting 640 Hash per card and one of these cards seems to be anpthe model. Looking a little bit different. Power Supply is on the Top, not on the back and she has other RAM, not Samsung ans is 1236 - 1750 takted. And she is slower. only 580 Hash. Is there something i can do?

RFegards,
Scandalrosi

[Scandalrosi]

What is she mining then? Can´t believe these data...:-(

Regards,
Scandalrosi

[deadsix]

Is nobody willing to help me with my AMD Radeon RX470 Nitro 4GB OC.. I triied everything..Flashing, Wattman, Sapphire Trixx..
Doesn´t matteer what i do, it is always getting worster, then better. I getting 640 Hash per card and one of these cards seems to be anpthe model. Looking a little bit different. Power Supply is on the Top, not on the back and she has other RAM, not Samsung ans is 1236 - 1750 takted. And she is slower. only 580 Hash. Is there something i can do?

RFegards,
Scandalrosi

Rule 1 : Do not flash a BIOS that someone uploaded because more than likely it will not be for your exact card, and it will make things worse not better. So use PBE to mod memory straps on your own bios.
Rule 2 : Do not hardcode clocks into the card untill you have tested the card thoroughly with regular OC to figure out what clocks are stable on it.
Rule 3 : Stability is far more important than peak performance, go for the settings that get you 48+ hours stable over peak perf settings.
Rule 4 : There's a gazillion guides with detail step by step tutorials on how to overclock your card, please search for them before blaming the community, this isnt school, you do not get individual attention anymore.

[Scandalrosi]

I don´t really understand what is going on right know, but OK..

1. I did.. Saved my old bios, modified it as dicriped. Restore it to BIOS. And the card wan´t identified from system anymore. Then i restored the old Bios and all is ok.
2. Why do you think i have done that?
3.That is exactly what i wanne to do.
4. I´ve seen tons of tutorials, how to modify th rx 470. But most of them, all show just to modify 1750 1900 2000 row. And that is the onlny thing i have done, with polaris.

But doesn´t matter. The speed is enough for me and i got the power usage down..Thats OK..

Hmmm, now i´m a little bit in panik, to ask my question:-(
I´ve gotten my 5th RX470 today. I have 2 X 750CM+80 Corsair. OS can´t install the driver for the 5. card. doesn´t matter wich one it is.
Is there might be a limitation in Window 7 proff.? All Cards are working fine, as long as they are not the  last one, installed.

I´m sorry if this is a school question again. It is not my opinion to get any special attention. I´ve read most of this thread and there are a lot of qustions regarding the rx470..I´m sorry for my last post. That was not, to get anybody in stress to help me, really..

Regards,
Scandalrosi

[deadsix]

Hmmm, now i´m a little bit in panik, to ask my question:-(
I´ve gotten my 5th RX470 today. I have 2 X 750CM+80 Corsair. OS can´t install the driver for the 5. card. doesn´t matter wich one it is.
Is there might be a limitation in Window 7 proff.? All Cards are working fine, as long as they are not the  last one, installed.

What motherboard are you using?

[Scandalrosi]

I´m using an Asrock H81M. Both 5V Power Plugs are connected..

Thanks,
Scandalrosi

[deadsix]

I´m using an Asrock H81M. Both 5V Power Plugs are connected..

1) Asrock H81M is a miniATX board, and has only two PCIe slots, so no, that is not the board that you are using. What you have could be the Asrock H81 ProBTC or Asrock H81 ProBTC V2
2) Those arent 5V plugs, they are molex power plugs which can draw upto 12V. And you should not have them plugged in when using RX 470/480 cards.
3) Again, go through the forum threads, every answer you need already exists there. Please have the patience to read through hundreds of pages and try 10's of settings, we all did it.

[carlo_0000]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

looks good i did 6x 470 around 758hash/card for 750W

Which timings do u use? I use 1750. What memory and GPU clock , voltage ?

i posted couple page back, 1425 was the best for me, hynix memory  on sapphire rx470 4G  memory runs at 1920  gpu at 1200 default voltage
i don't care much about power usage i just limited a bit because my psu is 750w and i sow it was a bit over 750 in corsair link

[Scandalrosi]

I´m using an Asrock H81M. Both 5V Power Plugs are connected..

1) Asrock H81M is a miniATX board, and has only two PCIe slots, so no, that is not the board that you are using. What you have could be the Asrock H81 ProBTC or Asrock H81 ProBTC V2
2) Those arent 5V plugs, they are molex power plugs which can draw upto 12V. And you should not have them plugged in when using RX 470/480 cards.
3) Again, go through the forum threads, every answer you need already exists there. Please have the patience to read through hundreds of pages and try 10's of settings, we all did it.

Yes, sure, you are right. H81 BTC Pro 2.0. And in the documentation was a comment, when using more then 3 Video Cards, you have to plugg in at min, one Molex Power connector, but better both. So i thought, i have to.
Please believe me. I´m doing nothing else, then reading. I´m sick at home and i´ve a lot of time.But i also have a lot of qustions..
But you gave me hope, that there is a solution for my issue:-)

Regards,
Rosi

[Cubirez]

i have 6 rx 480 running with modded bios at 770 hash average per card , and i use around 800Watt

is this ok? or can we use even less power ?

looks good i did 6x 470  758hash/card for 750W

Are you all wanne make me criing :-((((

Is nobody willing to help me with my AMD Radeon RX470 Nitro 4GB OC.. I triied everything..Flashing, Wattman, Sapphire Trixx..
Doesn´t matteer what i do, it is always getting worster, then better. I getting 640 Hash per card and one of these cards seems to be anpthe model. Looking a little bit different. Power Supply is on the Top, not on the back and she has other RAM, not Samsung ans is 1236 - 1750 takted. And she is slower. only 580 Hash. Is there something i can do?

RFegards,
Scandalrosi

average of 750 Hash / GPU, 100W power usage / GPU (on the wall) + 50W for the system.
All cards are sapphire nitro 470 (with differents memory).
Using -a 2 parameter, it helps for power consumption.

@Scandalrosi : Don't use other BIOS. I provided you already informations about the best way to mod your bios which is to paste your original BIOS' 1500 timings (elpida, hynix) into 1625, 1750 and 2000 straps.
It is very easy to do and should provide a nice increase already.
If you just flash BIOS' that are not compatible with your GPU, chances are high that it won't work.

[Demarsac]

I´m using an Asrock H81M. Both 5V Power Plugs are connected..

1) Asrock H81M is a miniATX board, and has only two PCIe slots, so no, that is not the board that you are using. What you have could be the Asrock H81 ProBTC or Asrock H81 ProBTC V2
2) Those arent 5V plugs, they are molex power plugs which can draw upto 12V. And you should not have them plugged in when using RX 470/480 cards.
3) Again, go through the forum threads, every answer you need already exists there. Please have the patience to read through hundreds of pages and try 10's of settings, we all did it.

Yes, sure, you are right. H81 BTC Pro 2.0. And in the documentation was a comment, when using more then 3 Video Cards, you have to plugg in at min, one Molex Power connector, but better both. So i thought, i have to.
Please believe me. I´m doing nothing else, then reading. I´m sick at home and i´ve a lot of time.But i also have a lot of qustions..
But you gave me hope, that there is a solution for my issue:-)

Regards,
Rosi

Are u using powered usb risers?
If you are please UNPLUG the 4-pin connector that goes from your PSU to your mobo before u fry anything...

If you are NOT using powered usb risers then ok keep the 4-pin molex in

[Demarsac]

I´m using an Asrock H81M. Both 5V Power Plugs are connected..

1) Asrock H81M is a miniATX board, and has only two PCIe slots, so no, that is not the board that you are using. What you have could be the Asrock H81 ProBTC or Asrock H81 ProBTC V2
2) Those arent 5V plugs, they are molex power plugs which can draw upto 12V. And you should not have them plugged in when using RX 470/480 cards.
3) Again, go through the forum threads, every answer you need already exists there. Please have the patience to read through hundreds of pages and try 10's of settings, we all did it.

Yes, sure, you are right. H81 BTC Pro 2.0. And in the documentation was a comment, when using more then 3 Video Cards, you have to plugg in at min, one Molex Power connector, but better both. So i thought, i have to.
Please believe me. I´m doing nothing else, then reading. I´m sick at home and i´ve a lot of time.But i also have a lot of qustions..
But you gave me hope, that there is a solution for my issue:-)

Regards,
Rosi

Are u using powered usb risers?
If you are please UNPLUG the 4-pin connector that goes from your PSU to your mobo before u fry anything...

If you are NOT using powered usb risers then ok keep the 4-pin molex in

He's not going to - please stop giving bad advice. Powered USB risers are cut - they don't connect the power from the mobo to the GPU.

That's not what i said
I never said he will fry the GPU
But he CAN fry the risers

Using an Asrock h81 pro btc with powered risers PLUS 4-pin molex connectors is an overkill

Giving too much power to the mobo (main mobo cable plus 4-pin molex) when it's not needed is not good