Those custom intensities introduced for Alexis in 1.7.6 did wonders for one of my 1060 cards that was constantly refusing to work with previous version.
What is the default intensity for Alexis anyway?
I read somewhere that its default intensities are optimized for 1070. True that?
Since only this one problematic 1060 needs custom intensities, would it be advisable to continue using default intensities on other 1060s that work fine on 1.7.5. and use 1.7.6 only on this problematic 1060?
I guess running them on default intensities instead on lower ones would improve hashrate?
Or did your benchmarks prove that the new custom intensities do not affect hashrate much, and also provide more stability?
And thanks again for your work and good luck buying that Asus you linked earlier, but at half the price
changing the intensity is a band-aid approach at getting it to run on your computer i think, i actually use this still as i learn to adjust my settings better... but in my research and testing on multiple mining rigs, intensity is really really dependent on your CPU to GPU combo it seems.. because as you increase the intensity level, the CPU is taking larger blocks of data from the pool server you mine from to compute and passing it to the GPU, sometimes the block size overwhelms the GPU causing delays and rejects to occur or hard crash... each algo has a default intensity and different block sizes, thus why one intensity number doesnt work on all algo's....
For me my Ryzen 7 rig can nearly max out all algo intensity levels, but my dell workstation mining rig with 2.0gh xeon cpu has to use much lower intensity levels to not crash the system on the same brand GTX1080ti's... It very well could not be totally up to the CPU and maybe has something to do with the bandwidth size between the 2, but in my testings, it seems to matter the most... and more so the more GPU's you run in the system... so settings that barely ran stable at 1 single GPU, i couldnt for the life of me getting working on 2 or more.. changing the intensity as little as 0.10 would bring the miner back into stability with 2 GPU's on a certain algo
If others can add to this, maybe i can learn more from it all as well... im just going off of things i have witnessed in my testings...