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Topic: Claymore's ZCash/BTG AMD GPU Miner v12.6 (Windows/Linux) - page 243. (Read 3839204 times)

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Since my cards are undervolted I forced a constant fan speed at 50%. At that speed the rig is not too noisy. Of course it is not completely silent but I can live with that. As I said outside is very cold and snowy, so the moist from outside compensates the dry air from the fans. When the temps get normal - about and above 0 C,  I will move my rigs in one room. They are on specially designed tables with wheels (which have breaks to be stable) so I can move them easily around Smiley My only concern is the summer... Even in one room with AC they generate heat above 35 C so that a second AC in the next room is not capable of stopping the hot air. Huh


I have a similar problem with my place and the heat. Right now, my miners are heating the whole house just off the heat they are producing. I have a 6" inline fan that sucks the air out of the makeshift room and blows it into the ducked works of the house. FYI is -20+C outside. I also have a 5" intake fan that sucks cold air from outside and puts it in the small room. The house is a comfy 22C.
In the summer I was running a DC furnace fan and blowing all the air out my furnace stack and dryer vent. Even doing that the house had most of the windows open and it was +24C.

Basically what I'm trying to get at it that is this; most GPU's run at 60+C so as long as the air entering the room is less than that their will be fine. BUT the key point here is you need to get the hotter air out. You might be best to put the miners in a separate room and exhaust all the air out of the window in the room with high volume fans. Make some sort of screen for the door of the room so you have intake air. I've tried to add an AC unit but even 1300btu unit didn't even help that much and it was using 1350Watts.
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The PSU is never hot. It is only for the mobo. It's fan makes a faint cool air flow, which can't harm, only help the circulation. Other PSU's are not visible in this pic. They are separate to have room for the cables.

Don't plug the pci-e risers and the mobo in different PSUs. You risk to fry your gear because of different voltages.
legendary
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All good things to those who wait
Damn, the increase speed is awesome but my rig is getting more and more heat and its summer here lol. Anyone did a comparison between mining zec and eth too see which one consume more energy?
I think both are nearly the same. It depends how much undervolting can take each algorithm. For me zcash is by a tiny bit less power consuming.
Currently here is a winter with -20 C outside. Inside it is +25 C because I have rigs in each room  Roll Eyes. Excellent solution for heating the appartment  Grin. But for the summer it is a hell. Two AC 1200 are not enough. I will need a third AC or have to figure out some way of channelling  the heat outside. Huh

how do you fight dry air if its + 25 inside? I was thinking to use these for heating.... but it would be just too dry inside.

 Humidifier(s) or an evaporative cooler (which is basically a large-scale humidifier designed to take advantage of the cooling effect of water vaporising)

true true... but i still doubt its healthy to breathe the air which is coming from computer... theirs plastic stuff in GPU and so on. + i Have 2 kids Smiley if you live alone in the woods then maybe Smiley

Unless you are running your gpus hot enough to BURN them, no toxic vapors will be coming off them.  Computers are extremely clean, nothing to worry about.

With the electrical heating devices there is always an unpleasent smell from the electrical wire burning the dust. Also they dry the air and irritate the eyes. If you clean the dust from gpu's I don't see what can be a problem. This is the usual heat that is generated by cpu's and gpu's which can't burn anything.
legendary
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All good things to those who wait

Since my cards are undervolted I forced a constant fan speed at 50%. At that speed the rig is not too noisy. Of course it is not completely silent but I can live with that. As I said outside is very cold and snowy, so the moist from outside compensates the dry air from the fans. When the temps get normal - about and above 0 C,  I will move my rigs in one room. They are on specially designed tables with wheels (which have breaks to be stable) so I can move them easily around Smiley My only concern is the summer... Even in one room with AC they generate heat above 35 C so that a second AC in the next room is not capable of stopping the hot air. Huh



Do you purposefully have your PSU mounted so that the heat is blown straight up into two of your GPU? Smiley

Maybe there is enough space between them but I wouldn't put my PSU under my GPUs. On the rigs I build I put them either offset to the side or behind the GPU.

The PSU is never hot. It is only for the mobo. Its fan makes a faint cool air flow, which can't harm, only help the circulation. Other PSU's are not visible in this pic. They are separate to have room for the cables.
sr. member
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zec is dead, already back to ETH for all my RX, nano stil on zec
lol, cm need big jump on new card, lets the old put on the rest

Both ETH and XMR are currently more profitable to mine with RX 480s.

I fired up nicehash miner (with claymore installed) earlier and found that ETH was the most profitable for me to mine even using my R9 280
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zec is dead, already back to ETH for all my RX, nano stil on zec
lol, cm need big jump on new card, lets the old put on the rest

Both ETH and XMR are currently more profitable to mine with RX 480s.
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Damn, the increase speed is awesome but my rig is getting more and more heat and its summer here lol. Anyone did a comparison between mining zec and eth too see which one consume more energy?
I think both are nearly the same. It depends how much undervolting can take each algorithm. For me zcash is by a tiny bit less power consuming.
Currently here is a winter with -20 C outside. Inside it is +25 C because I have rigs in each room  Roll Eyes. Excellent solution for heating the appartment  Grin. But for the summer it is a hell. Two AC 1200 are not enough. I will need a third AC or have to figure out some way of channelling  the heat outside. Huh

how do you fight dry air if its + 25 inside? I was thinking to use these for heating.... but it would be just too dry inside.

 Humidifier(s) or an evaporative cooler (which is basically a large-scale humidifier designed to take advantage of the cooling effect of water vaporising)

true true... but i still doubt its healthy to breathe the air which is coming from computer... theirs plastic stuff in GPU and so on. + i Have 2 kids Smiley if you live alone in the woods then maybe Smiley

Unless you are running your gpus hot enough to BURN them, no toxic vapors will be coming off them.  Computers are extremely clean, nothing to worry about.
legendary
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zec is dead, already back to ETH for all my RX, nano stil on zec
lol, cm need big jump on new card, lets the old put on the rest
newbie
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Damn, the increase speed is awesome but my rig is getting more and more heat and its summer here lol. Anyone did a comparison between mining zec and eth too see which one consume more energy?
I think both are nearly the same. It depends how much undervolting can take each algorithm. For me zcash is by a tiny bit less power consuming.
Currently here is a winter with -20 C outside. Inside it is +25 C because I have rigs in each room  Roll Eyes. Excellent solution for heating the appartment  Grin. But for the summer it is a hell. Two AC 1200 are not enough. I will need a third AC or have to figure out some way of channelling  the heat outside. Huh

how do you fight dry air if its + 25 inside? I was thinking to use these for heating.... but it would be just too dry inside.

 Humidifier(s) or an evaporative cooler (which is basically a large-scale humidifier designed to take advantage of the cooling effect of water vaporising)

true true... but i still doubt its healthy to breathe the air which is coming from computer... theirs plastic stuff in GPU and so on. + i Have 2 kids Smiley if you live alone in the woods then maybe Smiley
newbie
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Need Help!!!

I have an issue connecting 1x PCI raiser to my rig.  I have total 4 GPUs connected to the rig, (3 connected using 16x PCI, 1 connected using 1x PCI raiser) it recognize when 3 16x pci connected, but when 1x pci connected, No display screen comes up. I tried this when Display HDMI connected to first (closest to cpu) pci raiser.

Am I missing some thing???

I even tried replacing the 1x PCI raiser. still not recognizing, and also tried swapping GPU (to ensure GPU or Raiser is not broken).

Please help.
Go to mining treads. Mobo can not supply 4 slots . 2 is safe maximum. other 2 cards must have powered risers. Also some mobos can not use all pcee at the same time. Search about your mobo

Thank you so much for your response AzzAz. Appreciate it.

I have Z97 Gaming 5 Mobo with 1300wat PSU. i will try with pci raisers. Thanks again.
sr. member
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Since my cards are undervolted I forced a constant fan speed at 50%. At that speed the rig is not too noisy. Of course it is not completely silent but I can live with that. As I said outside is very cold and snowy, so the moist from outside compensates the dry air from the fans. When the temps get normal - about and above 0 C,  I will move my rigs in one room. They are on specially designed tables with wheels (which have breaks to be stable) so I can move them easily around Smiley My only concern is the summer... Even in one room with AC they generate heat above 35 C so that a second AC in the next room is not capable of stopping the hot air. Huh



Do you purposefully have your PSU mounted so that the heat is blown straight up into two of your GPU? Smiley

Maybe there is enough space between them but I wouldn't put my PSU under my GPUs. On the rigs I build I put them either offset to the side or behind the GPU.
legendary
Activity: 1030
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Need Help!!!

I have an issue connecting 1x PCI raiser to my rig.  I have total 4 GPUs connected to the rig, (3 connected using 16x PCI, 1 connected using 1x PCI raiser) it recognize when 3 16x pci connected, but when 1x pci connected, No display screen comes up. I tried this when Display HDMI connected to first (closest to cpu) pci raiser.

Am I missing some thing???

I even tried replacing the 1x PCI raiser. still not recognizing, and also tried swapping GPU (to ensure GPU or Raiser is not broken).

Please help.
Go to mining treads. Mobo can not supply 4 slots . 2 is safe maximum. other 2 cards must have powered risers. Also some mobos can not use all pcee at the same time. Search about your mobo
newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
Need Help!!!

I have an issue connecting 1x PCI raiser to my rig.  I have total 4 GPUs connected to the rig, (3 connected using 16x PCI, 1 connected using 1x PCI raiser) it recognize when 3 16x pci connected, but when 1x pci connected, No display screen comes up. I tried this when Display HDMI connected to first (closest to cpu) pci raiser.

Am I missing some thing???

I even tried replacing the 1x PCI raiser. still not recognizing, and also tried swapping GPU (to ensure GPU or Raiser is not broken).

Please help.
newbie
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Hello !

Is is normal speed for Windows 7 64 / Clymore's 10.0 V   ?

3X R9 280X XFX



 (1) let it run for a while to get stable and full count for stats.
 (2) 215-220 ballpark is reasonable for a R9 280x from what I've seen.
 

Thank you !
It's about 30 hours working but a same speed. total 650-660. Same speed was on Clymore's 9.3 ..... why ?

P.s
Crimson driver 16.12.2
Bios Version: 280XTB16
OS: 7 64x SP1

 Try 15.12 drivers on those cards, or 16.10.1 if you have to have newer for some reason. I've not tested 16.12.2 specifically but 16.12.1 was 5-10% slower on ALL of my testing vs the other 2 versions (16.9.2 was same speed as 16.10.1 but I prefer WQHL qualified versions when possible).




Roll Back to 16.11.3 Crimson.  Total Result: 680 h/s
is it limit ?

thank you
legendary
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Hello !

Is is normal speed for Windows 7 64 / Clymore's 10.0 V   ?

3X R9 280X XFX



 (1) let it run for a while to get stable and full count for stats.
 (2) 215-220 ballpark is reasonable for a R9 280x from what I've seen.
 

Thank you !
It's about 30 hours working but a same speed. total 650-660. Same speed was on Clymore's 9.3 ..... why ?

P.s
Crimson driver 16.12.2
Bios Version: 280XTB16
OS: 7 64x SP1

 Try 15.12 drivers on those cards, or 16.10.1 if you have to have newer for some reason. I've not tested 16.12.2 specifically but 16.12.1 was 5-10% slower on ALL of my testing vs the other 2 versions (16.9.2 was same speed as 16.10.1 but I prefer WQHL qualified versions when possible).

newbie
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Strange situation.

Farm on the motherboard ASUS H81M-PLUS.
Two 480-8Gb and two 480-4Gb.
Win7-64.
Crimson relive 16.12.1

Only on ZCash (10.0):
GPU0 (one of 480-4, connected to the last PCIEx1) behaves strangely:
on an algorithm 0 - small hashrate (89)
on an algorithm 1 or 2 - hashrate 600, but 100 rejects on this GPU.


On monero (Claymore CryptoNote GPU Miner v9.6 Beta) or sgminer (sibcoin-mod) - everything is fine.
sr. member
Activity: 410
Merit: 250
Hello !

Is is normal speed for Windows 7 64 / Clymore's 10.0 V   ?

3X R9 280X XFX



 (1) let it run for a while to get stable and full count for stats.
 (2) 215-220 ballpark is reasonable for a R9 280x from what I've seen.
 

Thank you !
It's about 30 hours working but a same speed. total 650-660. Same speed was on Clymore's 9.3 ..... why ?

P.s
Crimson driver 16.12.2
Bios Version: 280XTB16
OS: 7 64x SP1

people have said 16.12.x drivers seem to give lower hashrate by about 5%, try rolling back to the 16.11.3 drivers and see if you get a speed up as those are the drivers Claymore has stated they use for testing
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
Hello !

Is is normal speed for Windows 7 64 / Clymore's 10.0 V   ?

3X R9 280X XFX



 (1) let it run for a while to get stable and full count for stats.
 (2) 215-220 ballpark is reasonable for a R9 280x from what I've seen.
 

Thank you !
It's about 30 hours working but a same speed. total 650-660. Same speed was on Clymore's 9.3 ..... why ?

P.s
Crimson driver 16.12.2
Bios Version: 280XTB16
OS: 7 64x SP1
sr. member
Activity: 410
Merit: 250
Report here! Grin how many of you are using v10!!!??? stable or not??

V10 nice and stable for me, only rejects is when the pool sends new work.
newbie
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5x470 v9.3 1066H/s >>v10.0 1130H/s. 20 hour stable work. rejected shares 0.11%

on my "test rig" with one 280x (-a 2 -i 7) 220H/s but after 30-40 min hashrate up to 260H/s and many many rejects. pool is nanopool. 8 hour of work approx 25% of rejected shares. revert to 9.2 
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