I have now successfully used your miner for a short period and I am now ready to make me and you some more coin
But here is where I stumble. I don't know the first thing about overclocking and I really would love some help from the community.
So when using the miner I am working with a Gigabyte Gaming 1070 Ti and a MSI 960 (I realise this is less than perfect, but we all have to start somewhere).
I am happy using MSI Afterburner, but what should all the settings be? Now, bear in mind I don't know the first thing about OC'ing.
Currently I am using the AORUS software that came with the GPU and have used their preset Overclock setting. I feel it is greatly under powering what the card is capable of. Also, I don't mind if the wattage goes up a little so long the cards stay cool enough for efficiency.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I'm glad that you like the miner. About OC - first, it's a bad idea to use several OC softwares simultaneously. To make life easier, uninstal Aorus software and use MSI Afterburner only. Or vice versa! But I haven't worked with Aorus software, so I won't be able to help you with it.
With Afterburner you should first reset every GPU to its default settings, then set low OC values for test purpose, say 90% PL, +50 Mhz Core clock, +100 Mhz Mem Clock. Don't forget to click Apply every time you change values. Run miner and check hashrate. To speed testing process up, you can use offline benchmark:
hsrminer_neoscrypt_fork_hp --benchmark
Then try to increase OC values in Afterburner, like 90% PL, +100 Mhz Core clock, +200 Mhz Mem Clock. You can set different values for each gpu, for weak gpu like gtx 960 set lower values. Then repeat benchmark. Remember that you can't reduce Power Limit % too much and increase Core/Mem clock at the same time, low Power Limit won't let GPU to reach high core/mem values.
If you really want to get high hashrate values, you should increase PL% to like 100-110% and set high values for core/mem, like +200 Mhz core, +400-600 Mhz mem. Be careful as high OC values will force gpu to eat a lot of power and can lead to gpu's overheat and instability.
After you choose your OC values, test GPU's stability - run miner at least for 24 hours, if there are no crashes/gpu's hangs, etc - OC values are ok. You can then save profile in Afterburner and set option to load profile during Afterburner's start, so you won't need to manually set OC values every time. If some gpu crashed/hanged - you should reduce OC values and repeat stability test.
I personally don't use high OC values as mining is marathon, and it's better to use low/medium OC values to longer GPUs lives and exclude potential crash/instability issues.
