[Mining OS] SimpleMining.net - Manage Your GPU farm the easy way! (30 days free) - page 463.

soothaa

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Quote from: Tummler on May 15, 2017, 01:49:30 PM

Quote from: soothaa on May 15, 2017, 01:20:09 PM

Are you using that modified BIOS that's floating around or did you tweak it yourself?

Are you using a 1->3 "splitter" or a M.2 slot adapter?

I am using the latest MSI BIOS. It was my understanding from my research that the "hacked BIOS" was created before MSI introduced the latest BIOS and was thereafter obsolete.

I am using the 1 to 3 PCIe splitter. It comes in a blue box, and it looks like all of the Amazon and eBay vendors are selling the same product.

Awesome, thanks for the info! Already have one of those on the way and I'll be buying two of the M.2 adapters since they're so damn cheap and trying those as well.

Tummler

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Quote from: soothaa on May 15, 2017, 01:20:09 PM

Are you using that modified BIOS that's floating around or did you tweak it yourself?

Are you using a 1->3 "splitter" or a M.2 slot adapter?

I am using the latest MSI BIOS. It was my understanding from my research that the "hacked BIOS" was created before MSI introduced the latest BIOS and was thereafter obsolete. I didn't make any other changes to the BIOS other than selecting the settings noted in both of our posts.

I am using the 1 to 3 PCIe splitter. It comes in a blue box, and it looks like all of the Amazon and eBay vendors are selling the same product.

soothaa

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Quote from: Tummler on May 15, 2017, 12:56:17 PM

Quote from: soothaa on May 15, 2017, 12:40:04 PM

Quote from: Tummler on May 15, 2017, 12:23:12 PM

Also, this board can handle more than 7 cards. Cheesy

Will it work up to 8 or can it go to 9 or 10?

All I can say is that my boards are stable for weeks at a time running 9 RX 470 4GB cards. I haven't tried 10 cards because my rigs have been so damn stable with their current setup, I didn't want to risk introducing new issues, especially with mining difficulty increases as of late, since the prospect of obtaining additional RX 470s at a reasonable price appears to be minimal at best.

I have a vague recollection of Tytanick mentioning that smOS can handle up to ten cards, but he needs to update scripts before it can handle more, though I may be way off base with my recollection.

Are you using that modified BIOS that's floating around or did you tweak it yourself?

Are you using a 1->3 "splitter" or a M.2 slot adapter?

Tummler

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Quote from: soothaa on May 15, 2017, 12:40:04 PM

Quote from: Tummler on May 15, 2017, 12:23:12 PM

Also, this board can handle more than 7 cards. Cheesy

Will it work up to 8 or can it go to 9 or 10?

All I can say is that my boards are stable for weeks at a time running 9 RX 470 4GB cards. I haven't tried 10 cards because my rigs have been so damn stable with their current setup, I didn't want to risk introducing new issues, especially with mining difficulty increases as of late, since the prospect of obtaining additional RX 470s at a reasonable price appears to be minimal at best.

I have a vague recollection of Tytanick mentioning that smOS can handle up to ten cards, but he needs to update scripts before it can handle more, though I may be way off base with my recollection.

Sequoia93

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I am getting very inconsistent hashrates in smos using Claymore. I have 570s that hash at ~29 MH. In Claymore in smos I am getting a very inconsistent readout jumping back and forth from 29MH and 19MH (and sometimes somewhere in between). Anyone else experience this?

Also, I'd like to try sgminer for eth, does smos support that? I only see sgminer for cryptonight, pascal, and nicehash in the beta dashboard.

soothaa

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Quote from: Tummler on May 15, 2017, 12:23:12 PM

Also, this board can handle more than 7 cards. Cheesy

Will it work up to 8 or can it go to 9 or 10?

vacs03

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hi, today i received my m.2 to pci-e adapter and tried them out on two of my cards, when they are pluged in 2 of the 4 remaining cards that are on the regular pci-e slots go nuts, the cooler jumps for a minute to 100% and repeats that every couple of minutes...when i plug all the cards back to the pci-e slots the coolers work like they should..any ideas?

asus prime h270 and 6x 570 elpida

http://www.ebay.com/itm/172584561470?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

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Quote from: soothaa on May 13, 2017, 09:10:58 AM

For those waiting on the info for the MSI Z170A M5 Gaming board and 7x GPU support I finally have it working on both of my boards.

1) Make sure you're running the latest BIOS!
2) Enable 4G
3) Set PCIe support to "Auto" - DO NOT MANUALLY SET TO GEN1. THIS CAUSES MAJOR ISSUES
4) Enable onboard graphics startup as first! I believe this is changing "PEG" to "IGD" or something in the Advanced BIOS
5) Plug your monitor into the ONBOARD graphics
6) Use either simpleminer-RX-v1093-4.11.rc8-16.60-enableexe0ANDips0.imgc or simpleminer-RX-v1093-4.11.rc8-16.60-enablerc60.imgc (sorry, I don't remember which I used!)

My 14x GPUs have been stable all night long!

Glad you were able to get this mobo working with 7 cards. Your instructions are substantively identical to mine from over a month ago (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18423032 and https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18756984). Sorry for not pointing this out earlier, but other commitments (i.e., yard work) have been taking up all of my free time as of late. For whatever reason, there were a handful people who simply couldn't get their mobo to work for 5+ cards, so don't be surprised if people report back that your instructions don't work for them.

Also, this board can handle more than 7 cards. Cheesy

reids

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Quote from: tytanick on May 15, 2017, 11:23:58 AM

Quote from: reids on May 15, 2017, 09:01:26 AM

Dumb question:

I have 2 x MSI 480 8GB X graphics cards, getting around 24 mh/s out the box. Wanting to overclock to get closer to 29 mh/s. I presume I do this via the overclock settings in simple mining rather than on my windows dual boot?

I changed the core on simplemining to 1095 and the memory to 2000 and saw no increase in hash-rate...

You need to save original bios, modifu under polarisbios editor (copy 1500 strap to all above) save, flash, reboot, and then try to overclock memory to 1980-2100 - you will have much more like 28MH.
If you want 29+ then you need custom timing strap for memory (not dummy copying) .

Perfect, cheers.

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Quote from: burakalkap on May 15, 2017, 05:36:54 AM

how can i connect to internet on simplemining os ?
i am using mobile modem or wifi

I dont support any wifi or modems

Only Normal Ethernet cable.

Quote from: reids on May 15, 2017, 09:01:26 AM

Dumb question:

I have 2 x MSI 480 8GB X graphics cards, getting around 24 mh/s out the box. Wanting to overclock to get closer to 29 mh/s. I presume I do this via the overclock settings in simple mining rather than on my windows dual boot?

I changed the core on simplemining to 1095 and the memory to 2000 and saw no increase in hash-rate...

You need to save original bios, modifu under polarisbios editor (copy 1500 strap to all above) save, flash, reboot, and then try to overclock memory to 1980-2100 - you will have much more like 28MH.
If you want 29+ then you need custom timing strap for memory (not dummy copying) .

soothaa

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Quote from: velbet on May 15, 2017, 09:17:15 AM

I have a problem. I have 6 rigs but only 2 of them has trouble.

GPU1 hangs in opencl call says always. what should i do ?

Lower the overclock on that card.

velbet

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I have a problem. I have 6 rigs but only 2 of them has trouble.

GPU1 hangs in opencl call says always. what should i do ?

fittsy

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Quote from: decayinjack on May 15, 2017, 06:45:08 AM

With multiple jobs tugging at my time and a significant adversion to downtime, I just couldn't afford the extra time needed to continue tuning. I had so many GPUs come in that I didn't have a test bench anymore! With 5 z87 boards maxed out at 7 cards each that were super stable, I was just going to see if I could find a few more. Thanks again, you've given me the added problem of having to find a few more gpus in order to max out my z170a boards!

Now, if I could only get risers to stop dying on me. Between some junky new USB risers and the old ones I have from 2013, it seems like anytime I have to move or reboot a system, there's a riser issue. I've been meaning to say something for a bit but I wanted to give a shout out to the guys from Miningparts. I just bought a bunch of new risers from them and they're my go to when a gpu starts acting flakey.

Thanks Decay!

We stand by our gear too if anything goes bad. We're happy to replace defectives.

reids

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Dumb question:

I have 2 x MSI 480 8GB X graphics cards, getting around 24 mh/s out the box. Wanting to overclock to get closer to 29 mh/s. I presume I do this via the overclock settings in simple mining rather than on my windows dual boot?

I changed the core on simplemining to 1095 and the memory to 2000 and saw no increase in hash-rate...

realter

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Quote from: InCryptoWeTrust on May 15, 2017, 07:16:31 AM

If we will pay for your OS, can you add function to change pool, coins for each rig on one mail account?

Tytanick say:

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Rig grouping feature is closer and closer, Now after i implemented new dashboard wit totally rewriten engine i will be able to make grouping.
So hold on. Its next on the list !

InCryptoWeTrust

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If we will pay for your OS, can you add function to change pool, coins for each rig on one mail account?

decayinjack

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Quote from: soothaa on May 14, 2017, 08:41:06 PM

Quote from: decayinjack on May 14, 2017, 01:17:38 PM

Thanks to Soothaa continuing after I gave up. I can now run 7 570s on my 170a boards!

Anyhow, I've been carefully watching my power usage due to having to make sure I'm balancing the load of my machines across circuits. I'm not doing anything with the bios tuning to try and lower my power but I do set all them to power stage 4. With that, a 7 gpu rig runs under 1000w at the wall or just under 9 amps.

I have $7k invested in this, I wasn't about to give up! Tongue

Yeah balancing is a bitch isn't it?

With multiple jobs tugging at my time and a significant adversion to downtime, I just couldn't afford the extra time needed to continue tuning. I had so many GPUs come in that I didn't have a test bench anymore! With 5 z87 boards maxed out at 7 cards each that were super stable, I was just going to see if I could find a few more. Thanks again, you've given me the added problem of having to find a few more gpus in order to max out my z170a boards!

Now, if I could only get risers to stop dying on me. Between some junky new USB risers and the old ones I have from 2013, it seems like anytime I have to move or reboot a system, there's a riser issue. I've been meaning to say something for a bit but I wanted to give a shout out to the guys from Miningparts. I just bought a bunch of new risers from them and they're my go to when a gpu starts acting flakey.

One last thing for all the guys asking about power, I was trying to understand the difference between what the cards were using versus what I measured at the socket(efficiency) when I found this great resource for power supply sizing:

http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/

I've been buying 1200s for my 7 GPU systems but this is saying a 1k should be sufficient. That jives with what I've been measuring at the wall on my maxed out rx470 systems so I'm trialing a couple evga G3 1k power supplies. If that works out, it'll save me about $100 per new build.

burakalkap

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how can i connect to internet on simplemining os ?
i am using mobile modem or wifi

thefixxxer

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Quote from: vacs03 on May 15, 2017, 03:38:26 AM

Quote from: thefixxxer on May 14, 2017, 10:50:50 PM

Does anyone have any input on why core clock would stick at 751 ONLY when dual mining? (it works but hash rate is 2/3 of what it should be for eth and DCR) I have running fine on another rig with different mobo and video cards. The problem board is Asus h170 Pro gaming with rx470 visionteks 4gb ram. It will hash eth just fine solo, and I had it working when I was running win 10, dual mining, however with windows 10 I could only run 4 cards. Even dropping down to four cards with simpleminer I am not able to effectively dual mine, hashes at 13-14 eth and around 400 dcr.

I have tried setting core clock to 1100 in oc tool with 1750 ram, no change. I have used both beta drivers when they were available before update, no change. I currently have pci speed in bios at gen 2, g6 enabled. Cant think of any of bios settings to try but I am totally open to any input, issue is driving me crazy. I suspect it could be a driver issue. I have try powerstate at 7 and 4. I can set core clcok less than 751, but it will not exceed that. When i mine eth solo it will adjust to my settings. My other rig functions perfectly fine, however I can not dual mine effectively with a core clock of 751.

ETH: GPU0 13.151 Mh/s, GPU1 13.027 Mh/s, GPU2 13.126 Mh/s, GPU3 13.129 Mh/s
DCR - Total Speed: 1573.013 Mh/s, Total Shares: 20, Rejected: 0
DCR: GPU0 394.527 Mh/s, GPU1 390.819 Mh/s, GPU2 393.789 Mh/s, GPU3 393.878 Mh/s
ETH: 05/15/17-05:49:10 - New job from eth-eu.dwarfpool.com:8008
ETH - Total Speed: 54.473 Mh/s, Total Shares: 15, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:05

I've been at this for days, any suggestions are very welcome.

bios settings: 4g encoding enabled, DMI/OPI Config & Peg port on auto, disabled audio, integrated gpu as default

I do have 4g encoding enabled, disabled audio, dmi opi auto, and using on board video as default. PEG is set to 2nd gen as I have issues when its on auto/gen 1 or gen 3 but I will play with it more. For now I have registered this rig under different email and solo mine eth as grouping is not implemented yet.

vacs03

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Quote from: thefixxxer on May 14, 2017, 10:50:50 PM

Does anyone have any input on why core clock would stick at 751 ONLY when dual mining? (it works but hash rate is 2/3 of what it should be for eth and DCR) I have running fine on another rig with different mobo and video cards. The problem board is Asus h170 Pro gaming with rx470 visionteks 4gb ram. It will hash eth just fine solo, and I had it working when I was running win 10, dual mining, however with windows 10 I could only run 4 cards. Even dropping down to four cards with simpleminer I am not able to effectively dual mine, hashes at 13-14 eth and around 400 dcr.

I have tried setting core clock to 1100 in oc tool with 1750 ram, no change. I have used both beta drivers when they were available before update, no change. I currently have pci speed in bios at gen 2, g6 enabled. Cant think of any of bios settings to try but I am totally open to any input, issue is driving me crazy. I suspect it could be a driver issue. I have try powerstate at 7 and 4. I can set core clcok less than 751, but it will not exceed that. When i mine eth solo it will adjust to my settings. My other rig functions perfectly fine, however I can not dual mine effectively with a core clock of 751.

ETH: GPU0 13.151 Mh/s, GPU1 13.027 Mh/s, GPU2 13.126 Mh/s, GPU3 13.129 Mh/s
DCR - Total Speed: 1573.013 Mh/s, Total Shares: 20, Rejected: 0
DCR: GPU0 394.527 Mh/s, GPU1 390.819 Mh/s, GPU2 393.789 Mh/s, GPU3 393.878 Mh/s
ETH: 05/15/17-05:49:10 - New job from eth-eu.dwarfpool.com:8008
ETH - Total Speed: 54.473 Mh/s, Total Shares: 15, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:05

I've been at this for days, any suggestions are very welcome.

bios settings: 4g encoding enabled, DMI/OPI Config & Peg port on auto, disabled audio, integrated gpu as default

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