I get that without using risers. Driver bug I guess.
I'm not sure what this table shows:
Page 1-15 in Users manual.
Doesn't it mean x1 slots are independent and olny x16 are shared and reduce speed if both used?
Also, there is a report of running 4GPUs:
http://www.coinminingrigs.com/budget-mining-rig/
Will have. Should be here today.Sorry, I'm not sure what the IRQ assignments mean... do you have spare risers to test?
One more question, I am gonna be picking up another cheap 280x next month, would it be a good idea to buy a new modern CPU/Motherboard, or would it be alright to use a Gigabyte k8n-pro-sli board?
Yes, just the two cards. A K8N-Pro-SLI with an AMD X2 3800 would be sufficient for mining with two cards?How many cards are you running? Just two? Pretty much any old board will do for a setup like that.
^I always had that problem when I had a dedicated mining comp...but I only had to remote in rarely, so the 640x480 didn't bother me.
I've been using D-Link DSP-W215 smart plugs. As long as the wi-fi is stable where the rig is set up (I keep my modem and router connected to a UPS), these things are nice for quickly checking on the total power consumption coming through the plug and turning the power on and off remotely. It also lets you monitor the total power consumed in your monthly billing cycle and put in your power cost to show the actual cost of the power consumed. There are other features like being able to schedule when it turns on and off, and temperature monitoring so it automatically powers down if the power socket overheats (you can define the power off temp). I've found it to be quite handy with a rig that likes to crash from time to time when I'm not around.
I don't have a kill-a-watt to compare to, but it seems to be quite accurate for measuring power draw from the wall. Monthly totals are right in line with where it should be compared to my electric bill.How's the energy monitoring on the dlink - is it accurate?
I'm running 6 Hawaii cards and they're going just as fast as ever. I switched from nanopool to alpereum some time ago though.Hey anyone here still running Hawaii cards in any significant quantity? I'm having weird calculated hashrate problems with nanopool on all my rigs, and I'm curious as to whether anyone else is having the same problem. It seems like I'm getting a lot of rejected shares now.
I know you're probably pretty busy Madpacket, but any info on what you and your friend have discovered with the throttling issue would be very useful for the forum.
I'm running 6 Hawaii cards and they're going just as fast as ever. I switched from nanopool to alpereum some time ago though.
I believe Nanopool was (maybe still is) under DDoS attack.
My card had lost 100mhz somewhere - had been stuck at 970mhz. Rebooted the machine, started mining, driver crashed. Had set the clock to almost 1.3ghz, oops! Defaulted the clock, rebooted again, and was doing 17.8Mh/s. Overclocked my 100mhz to 1170 and picked up 1 Mh/s. Doing 18.6 now.
Hey guys. My apologies. Still busy but I'll try to summarize.
The following is for 26.5Mh per card, you can go higher but in my experience the tradeoff during this heat isn't worth it. This will get you close to 160Mh stable per rig pulling 770 - 810W (+- 40W depending on ASIC rating) from the wall.
In Wattman for each card:
GPU, setting #7 change the following:
- set speed to 1000Mhz
- set GPU VDDC to 880mv
Mem:
Set to 2190Mhz @ 900mv
Fan settings:
Manually set max RPM to 3500
Manually set Min to 60 and Max to 80 for target temp.
Provide adequate airflow over crate. Keep highest ASIC rated cards at the ends of the crate for best air flow, lowest in middle.
With these settings you shouldn't throttle using Claymore 5.3 or higher. Tested over five crates.
Let me know if you still do. Good luck!
Thanks! After 5min it's working well so far. 5 of my GPUs are mining at 26.3MH/s and one is at 24.7MH/s for some reason. I'll watch the mining rig over a few hours to see if the throttling is gone.
I picked up an 8gb Sapphire Nitro 470 and got it up and running at 25.1 MH with clocks of 1150/2100. The ASIC rating is 85.8% which is the highest of any card I've ever owned - are such high ratings common with Polaris cards? I might be able to reduce the core clocks a little but those settings are 90% saturating the memory controller so I figured it's good enough for the time being. Wattman is capped at 2100 for the memory, and the Asus GPU Tweak II tool flat out won't launch with the card connected so I can't go that route to try raising the limit.
This card replaced a Sapphire Tri-X 290x in the rig that was always overheating and has a dying fan that rattles a lot. I was running that 290x underclocked and getting about 27 MH with it. Now for the minor loss of 2 MH the rig is drawing 140 fewer watts from the wall and is a lot less noisy. Seems like a good tradeoff.
Thanks! I used your guide from a few pages back to set it up and it worked like a breeze. The only thing I really did different was set the core clock a bit higher since the 470 is a bit cut down from the 480. FYI, the default idle voltage was 0.825 and 1.0875 at load according to GPUZ. All your suggested voltage changes worked fine, even for the core at 1150 MHz. It runs super cool and quiet even under load, with no throttling seen in the first 24 hours.Ni
Nice upgrade for mining.
Not sure about aftermarket cards but with reference models the higher rated ASIC cards generally perform worse than the lower rated ones.
By default the higher ASIC rated cards tend to have more conservative default VDDC set on the GPU core. Since they "leak" less they run a bit hotter and for some reason consume a tad more energy.
I don't know if they overclock better with less voltage applied (probably because of less leakage?) or really what advantages higher rated ASICS are supposed to have, but for mining you want lower rated cards in my experience.
Hopefully you find a way to get the memory to overclock, that's where you'll get the biggest gains. 25Mh isn't bad though and totally worth the tradeoff over your 290X.