why do you guys use SRB miner instead of CAST?
SRB does not offer any performance advantage, it is more complicate to set up and actually performance is very erratical, since any time you restart it, you may get a different hash rate, at least for me.
I have been using it for a couple of days on 2 rigs one with Vegas and the other with RX580 and I could not find any plus VS Cast.
Just wondering if I am missing something.
I have never experienced a more stable miner for Ellesmere and Vega. Besides SRB has a 0.85% fee,
Cast has a 1.5% fee. Do I need a better reason? Perhaps it's just you.
Is funny ho people get touchy on this matters.
0.7% dev difference fees is nothing, especially with all the up and down you get during a mining session days long.
Cast has improved its performance of over 10% over the past 6 months, so for me the 1.5% dev fee is just nothing.
As for stability I was able to run cast for 7 days in a row without a rate drop, although I do not need that very often since I switch coin/wallets more often than that.
I don't mean you personally, I mean your setup. My RX470 8GB are doing 1070h/s with heavy and I never have to touch them for anything.
The same goes for the Vega56s with C7, although I am running them at 880mv now for cooling reasons. Regardless, best for whatever works for you.
Maybe your RX470 have Samsung memory which allow for Hs rates above 1000 without many tricks. My RX580, they have hynix memory, which works well for Ethereum mining but not as well for Cryptonight mining.
Anyway I am not giving up on SRB, it is just that it seems it needs more parameters than Cast and that it is a long learning curve.
Cheers.
Is your RX 580 a 4GB version ? Only the 8GB Polaris can get above 1000H/s on heavy.
I have a few Gigabyte RX580 8GB Gaming with modded BIOS, but with Cast on Heavy, they normally do not go more 890/920hs, sometime they spike above 1000hs for a few seconds but that is all.
Yesterday while I was testing SRB (with intensity 59) they went at 970/80 for a couple of hours and stable. Then when I did further tests, even with the exact same settings, they never went more than 870/890hs with SRB. I normally use GPU 1300,1050 and Memory 2150,850 with OverDrive Tool.
Then I have a rig with few Vegas 64/56 reference cards, with Samsung memory, but so far I get better results with Cast rather than SRB. Both CAST and SRB are stable, although I have 7 months of experience with Cast and I can have it running for consecutive days with not HS drop or crashes. I heard that SBR is also very stable but I have not run it more than a day.
