Building a few rigs and need advice on all this custom GPU bios stuff

Wolf0

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It was only the wind.

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 16, 2017, 08:14:16 AM

you are welcome. and as if it was on que look what happened to this poster

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18209200

he went right to flash never checked if the cards were good at stock and now has a pair of blue bricks.

hopefully he gets them flashed back to stock and working.

I agree you should exercise caution, but not flashing your cards is like burning cash.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

you are welcome. and as if it was on que look what happened to this poster

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18209200

he went right to flash never checked if the cards were good at stock and now has a pair of blue bricks.

hopefully he gets them flashed back to stock and working.

coinbeast

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Quote from: philipma1957 on March 16, 2017, 07:18:25 AM

dont bother with custom bios.

smOS allows settings similar to msi afterburner that will save you money.
you are new get used to mining first.

If you expand try using the same exact card and purchasing a bios from Eliovp
every card needs a different bios.

I don't both with custom bios I use smOS here are my settings for first card.

I save due to the 1 vs 5 or 6 or 7 in the power stage
I set the core at 1100 vs 1242
I left memory stock at 1650
these two cards are ms rx 470 red led gaming model

all my rigs various cards all can do powerstage 1 which saves money
this is all you need to know for now

Cheers mate. Thanks for the advice.

philipma1957

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Activity: 4158

Merit: 8049

'The right to privacy matters'

dont bother with custom bios.

smOS allows settings similar to msi afterburner that will save you money.
you are new get used to mining first.

If you expand try using the same exact card and purchasing a bios from Eliovp
every card needs a different bios.

I don't both with custom bios I use smOS here are my settings for first card.

I save due to the 1 vs 5 or 6 or 7 in the power stage
I set the core at 1100 vs 1242
I left memory stock at 1650
these two cards are ms rx 470 red led gaming model

all my rigs various cards all can do powerstage 1 which saves money
this is all you need to know for now

coinbeast

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Activity: 68

Merit: 10

I am building 3 rigs soon and it's only a matter of time before I want to tweak them to get the best hash rate that I can. I have never built a GPU rig before and all this custom bios stuff is a bit daunting to me.

What is the purpose of a custom bios? What can you do with a custom bios that you can't do in an overclocking tool?

How will this affect my cards when it comes time to re sell them?

How do I find out which type of memory my cards have?

MSI Radeon Armor RX 470 4GB

and

SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon RX 480 4GB

I intend to use SimpleMining OS to run all of my rigs

Thanks everyone

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