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Topic: Phoenix - Efficient, fast, modular miner (Read 760567 times)

newbie
Activity: 2
Merit: 0
October 08, 2018, 05:16:00 AM
Hi,
Sorry if the problem has already been solved, I did not read the entire thread.

I am willing to give this miner a try but it draws far more power than claymore for a similar or little higher hashrate.

I use it with win10 with 6 RX580.
With claymore (11.9), 186Mh/s @ 830W
With Phoenix (3.5d), 187Mh/s @ 1150W!
I tried to use the same values for clocks and voltages (which are set in config.txt) or to let it blank without any effect.
What am I doing wrong?
legendary
Activity: 2730
Merit: 1034
Needs more jiggawatts
September 30, 2012, 04:12:08 PM
A user at my pool is retrying the same wrong password 10 times per second with phoenix/v1.7.5
Is this intentional behavior from phoenix?
420
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
Those download links didn't work for me. :0(

There aren't any more commands in can put into my .bat file to increase Mhash? I'm getting roughly 1024 mhash a second from two 7970's. I know I can do more.  Sad

yeah thats not enough. CGMINER may do better?
full member
Activity: 206
Merit: 100
Those download links didn't work for me. :0(

There aren't any more commands in can put into my .bat file to increase Mhash? I'm getting roughly 1024 mhash a second from two 7970's. I know I can do more.  Sad
420
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
GUIminer with OpenCL or phoenix, and phoenix miner 2 by itself or diablo crashes my display driver with gtx 680 when I close mining

Ufasoft on the other hand doesn't crash my driver when I close, however gets 2-4 less Mhash/s, around 119-121Mhash
full member
Activity: 206
Merit: 100
What would optimal settings be for running two 7970's?

Use DiaKGCN kernel. You can find optimal settings and download link in this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/diakgcn-kernel-for-cgminer-phoenix-2-79xx-78xx-77xx-gcn-2012-05-25-61406

You're the best! THank you so much!!
sr. member
Activity: 262
Merit: 250
can be used with CPU ? i just get [0 khash/s]
hero member
Activity: 575
Merit: 500
PPS pool
What would optimal settings be for running two 7970's?

Use DiaKGCN kernel. You can find optimal settings and download link in this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/diakgcn-kernel-for-cgminer-phoenix-2-79xx-78xx-77xx-gcn-2012-05-25-61406
full member
Activity: 206
Merit: 100
What would optimal settings be for running two 7970's?
full member
Activity: 150
Merit: 100
I'm about to start mining with dual 5870's.  Currenty it is using one single 5870.  How would I change the phoenix command line to detect the second card once installed?  Do I crossfire it or leave it alone?  Do I need to run two phoenix instances or just one?  Thanks for the additional information.

This is my current string (minus my userinfo)... how would I change it for dual 5870's?

Code:
phoenix.exe -u http://[email protected]:[email protected]:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=11


You will use that same command to start another instance of Phoenix, but you will change the device number.  The device number will likely be 1 on the new card, but you'll have to check what device number the new card has been assigned.  You many also want to create a new worker at Deepbit and use that new worker to monitor the second card separately.

I'm not sure about Crossfire.  Running Linux, I know that Crossfire is disabled on my machines.

You should check out Phoenix2.  There are improvements, and the original Phoenix hasn't been in development for quite a while.
full member
Activity: 164
Merit: 100
Look ARROUND!
I'm about to start mining with dual 5870's.  Currenty it is using one single 5870.  How would I change the phoenix command line to detect the second card once installed?  Do I crossfire it or leave it alone?  Do I need to run two phoenix instances or just one?  Thanks for the additional information.

This is my current string (minus my userinfo)... how would I change it for dual 5870's?

Code:
phoenix.exe -u http://[email protected]:[email protected]:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=11
full member
Activity: 219
Merit: 120
Phoenix 2.0.0 has been released as stable:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/phoenix-2-miner-v200-75786

Mods: Please sticky the new thread to replace this one
newbie
Activity: 51
Merit: 0
Hi,
how can I force phoenix to switch from backup to primary pool faster? Now it waits 2-3 hours. But I want to check whether primary pool is alive in interval of 5-10 min.
Backup pool in Beta 2 does not work well for me, therefore I use phoenix 1.7.5., Win7 64 bit.
Restart miners in task scheduler is not an option.

Thanks!
legendary
Activity: 3578
Merit: 1091
Think for yourself
I'm using Phoenix 1.5
That's quite an old version, 1.7.5 is current.
Yep, its an old version.  I believe I had tried a newer version on this system and it didn't work.  But I'll re examine that.

Well I did re-examine that.  1.7.5 does work on this system just fine.
Thanks again,
Sam
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1032
The miner kernel is designed to find difficulty 1 hashes. If you are solo mining, then only 1/1,500,000th of these will meet the full difficulty and be a block solve. It may take many months to find a 50BTC block. If you are using P2PPool, this is normal as they use a higher difficulty than 1.

So, for clarification in my mind.  Are you saying that this is normal operation or that this isn't the proper miner to use for solo mining?

Thanks,
Sam
It is normal. The GPU kernels find difficulty 1 block solves, these are typically what a pool tells the miner it wants, as the low difficulty hashes are "shares", used as proof of work. If the pool software or your local Bitcoin tells Phoenix it will only accept a higher difficulty (if you are solo mining, it is the full difficulty), any lower-difficulty hashes are not sent, they are discarded with this message.
legendary
Activity: 3578
Merit: 1091
Think for yourself
The miner kernel is designed to find difficulty 1 hashes. If you are solo mining, then only 1/1,500,000th of these will meet the full difficulty and be a block solve. It may take many months to find a 50BTC block. If you are using P2PPool, this is normal as they use a higher difficulty than 1.

So, for clarification in my mind.  Are you saying that this is normal operation or that this isn't the proper miner to use for solo mining?

Thanks,
Sam
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1032
I recently started playing around with solo mining.  I'm using Phoenix 1.5 and am getting the following message

"Result didn't meet full difficulty, not sending"

I get this about 2 to 4 times per block.

Is this normal?
Thanks,
Sam
That's quite an old version, 1.7.5 is current.
That message means either that the pool you are mining for has a higher difficulty setting for shares than normal, or more likely your miner kernel is returning bad hashes (too high GPU overclock, etc).

Yep, its an old version.  I believe I had tried a newer version on this system and it didn't work.  But I'll re examine that.

Since this is mining against a local Bitcoin client which has the updated blockchain it should be mining the correct difficulty.  How would I go about verifying that?

This system is being used for other purposes so the GPU is set to factory default clocks with a very low aggression.
Thanks,
Sam
The miner kernel is designed to find difficulty 1 hashes. If you are solo mining, then only 1/1,500,000th of these will meet the full difficulty and be a block solve. It may take many months to find a 50BTC block. If you are using P2PPool, this is normal as they use a higher difficulty than 1.
legendary
Activity: 3578
Merit: 1091
Think for yourself
I recently started playing around with solo mining.  I'm using Phoenix 1.5 and am getting the following message

"Result didn't meet full difficulty, not sending"

I get this about 2 to 4 times per block.

Is this normal?
Thanks,
Sam
That's quite an old version, 1.7.5 is current.
That message means either that the pool you are mining for has a higher difficulty setting for shares than normal, or more likely your miner kernel is returning bad hashes (too high GPU overclock, etc).

Yep, its an old version.  I believe I had tried a newer version on this system and it didn't work.  But I'll re examine that.

Since this is mining against a local Bitcoin client which has the updated blockchain it should be mining the correct difficulty.  How would I go about verifying that?

This system is being used for other purposes so the GPU is set to factory default clocks with a very low aggression.
Thanks,
Sam
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1032
I recently started playing around with solo mining.  I'm using Phoenix 1.5 and am getting the following message

"Result didn't meet full difficulty, not sending"

I get this about 2 to 4 times per block.

Is this normal?
Thanks,
Sam
That's quite an old version, 1.7.5 is current.
That message means either that the pool you are mining for has a higher difficulty setting for shares than normal, or more likely your miner kernel is returning bad hashes (too high GPU overclock, etc).
legendary
Activity: 3578
Merit: 1091
Think for yourself
I recently started playing around with solo mining.  I'm using Phoenix 1.5 and am getting the following message

"Result didn't meet full difficulty, not sending"

I get this about 2 to 4 times per block.

Is this normal?
Thanks,
Sam
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