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sr. member
Activity: 249
Merit: 250
March 20, 2014, 08:55:31 PM
I'm using sgminer with nfactor support.
http://www.sgminerwindows.com/sgminer-nfactor.php
Sapphire Tri-X R9-290 (not X). There is another card in my system (HD6450) just to render my desktop, disabled in sgminer by using -d.

Config (use your own settings for pools):
---
{
"pools" : [
    {
        "url" : ,
        "user" : ,
        "pass" :
    }
],

"nfactor" : "11",

"expiry" : "10",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
---

sgminer launch (the first figures in TC, gpu-engine, and so on, are for the disabled HD6450):
---
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
sgminer.exe -X 1,256 --gpu-engine 650,947-1010 --gpu-memclock 600,1475 --thread-concurrency 640,20479 --gpu-powertune 0,40 -d 1 --lookup-gap 2 --worksize 512 -g 1,1 --gpu-vddc 0,1.175 --auto-gpu --auto-fan --gpu-fan 35-80,40-60 --temp-target 75,85 --temp-overheat 80,90 --temp-cutoff 85,95 --failover-only -k zuikkis
---

Stable 455 kH/s.

The Nfactor for rotocoin is:
minNfactor = 10
maxNfactor = 30
Which value is better to put taking your config as basis? 11, 10, 30?
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
March 20, 2014, 05:03:24 AM
I'm using sgminer with nfactor support.
http://www.sgminerwindows.com/sgminer-nfactor.php
Sapphire Tri-X R9-290 (not X). There is another card in my system (HD6450) just to render my desktop, disabled in sgminer by using -d.

Config (use your own settings for pools):
---
{
"pools" : [
    {
        "url" : ,
        "user" : ,
        "pass" :
    }
],

"nfactor" : "11",

"expiry" : "10",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
---

sgminer launch (the first figures in TC, gpu-engine, and so on, are for the disabled HD6450):
---
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
sgminer.exe -X 1,256 --gpu-engine 650,947-1010 --gpu-memclock 600,1475 --thread-concurrency 640,20479 --gpu-powertune 0,40 -d 1 --lookup-gap 2 --worksize 512 -g 1,1 --gpu-vddc 0,1.175 --auto-gpu --auto-fan --gpu-fan 35-80,40-60 --temp-target 75,85 --temp-overheat 80,90 --temp-cutoff 85,95 --failover-only -k zuikkis
---

Stable 455 kH/s.
can you post that sg miner with nfactor link again?Its dead thx
newbie
Activity: 48
Merit: 0
March 20, 2014, 02:53:09 AM
I'm using asus r9 290. This far these are only good settings I've managed to figure out.  Still little bit of work.
Giving steady 410khash with 0 hw errors and rejects.

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "",
      "user" : "",
      "pass" : ""
   }
   
]
,
"intensity" : "18",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"thread-concurrency" : "24000",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"scrypt-vert" : true,
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
March 20, 2014, 02:05:05 AM
Does anyone have any reliable settings for an r9 270? I have two HIS r9 270 IceQx2 2GB cards that I'm trying to get configured and I'm at a loss. I usually get 470 - 480 kh/s with normal scrypt mining. http://imgur.com/fyvQUjm
newbie
Activity: 12
Merit: 0
March 19, 2014, 10:13:32 AM
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
March 19, 2014, 07:29:25 AM
New version from same guy:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BAMT/comments/207rdz/release_bamt_v160_scrypt_scryptn_darkcoin/

Download:

http://mgnet.me/.bamtv160

It has several miners and looks good, I downloaded it but have no time to test it, yet...

thanks, testet for cgminer and vertminer - all fine
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
March 18, 2014, 06:10:45 AM
New version from same guy:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BAMT/comments/207rdz/release_bamt_v160_scrypt_scryptn_darkcoin/

Download:

http://mgnet.me/.bamtv160

It has several miners and looks good, I downloaded it but have no time to test it, yet...
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
March 17, 2014, 06:30:01 AM
BAMT makes coldreboots erery 3 hours and I have no idea where to look data of longer period...

Is there a BMAT version supporting VERT

Edit: ok, if found out it is.

http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/1x9fd1/vertcoin_bamt_v150_aka_someone_had_to_do_it/

Download link is no longer working.

Can somebody please post a downlod Link ?

Thanks
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
March 17, 2014, 03:10:44 AM
BAMT makes coldreboots erery 3 hours and I have no idea where to look data of longer period...
newbie
Activity: 43
Merit: 0
March 16, 2014, 02:13:42 PM
That core 1060 and mem 1250 setting saves about 8 W but WU dropped... why, don't know...
1000/1400 is so far optimal for my Gigabites...

I pushed for fun my cards to 1100/1500

but 400W and more noise is probably not worth it  Undecided

Undervolting seems promising, but how to do that in BAMT without any HDD, sounds like a lot of headache... or not??


You have to measure WU with pierods higher than 24h.
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
March 16, 2014, 12:24:04 PM
That core 1060 and mem 1250 setting saves about 8 W but WU dropped... why, don't know...
1000/1400 is so far optimal for my Gigabites...

I pushed for fun my cards to 1100/1500

but 400W and more noise is probably not worth it  Undecided

Undervolting seems promising, but how to do that in BAMT without any HDD, sounds like a lot of headache... or not??
newbie
Activity: 43
Merit: 0
March 16, 2014, 07:43:57 AM
full member
Activity: 152
Merit: 100
March 16, 2014, 07:22:50 AM
I finally have 2 x  Gigabyte R9 270x  WindForce 3X OC 4 GB working rig, yay!!!
Vertminer 0.5.2 Vertcoin BAMT 1.5.2  http://www.reddit.com/r/BAMT/comments/1ylhhy/release_vertcoin_bamt/
460 Kh/s and WU 390-440 no HW errors and less then 1% rejects, energy consumption 380 W

Code:
{
    "pools": [
        {
            "url" : "stratum+tcp://eu2.bitcrush.info:3444",
            "user": "XXX.xxx",
            "pass": "XxxX"
        },
        {
            "url" : "stratum+tcp://vtc.crypto-pool.fr:4001",
            "user": "XXX.xxx",
            "pass": "XxxX"
        },
        {
            "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.vtcpool.co.uk:3333",
            "user": "XXX.xxx",
            "pass": "XxxX"
        }
    ],
    "gpu-reorder": true,
    "auto-fan": true,
    "gpu-fan": "40-80,50-80",
    "temp-cutoff": "95",
    "temp-overheat": "85",
    "temp-target": "75",
    "rawintensity": "5120",
    "vectors": "1",
    "worksize": "256",
    "lookup-gap": "0",
    "thread-concurrency": "6336",
    "shaders": "1280",
    "api-listen": true,
    "api-port": "4028",
    "gpu-dyninterval": "7",
    "gpu-platform": "0",
    "gpu-threads": "2",
    "gpu-engine": "1000",
    "gpu-memclock": "1400",
    "gpu-powertune": "-10",
    "log": "5",
    "no-pool-disable": true,
    "no-submit-stale": true,
    "queue": "0",
    "scan-time": "1",
    "expiry": "30",
    "scrypt": true,
    "shares": "0",
    "kernel-path": "/usr/local/bin"
}

NB:
This conf will work with 1280 shaders cards!
See tech data of your card here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b2687/gigabyte-r9-270x-windforce-3x-oc-4-gb.html
(scroll down and you find list of cards from different manufacturers)

Set temperatures and clocks according to your needs!!

If this was helpful - VTC:
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Thanks  Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1014
March 16, 2014, 04:29:11 AM
I used to think that 4GB of RAM is just not enough for vertminer (for some really weird reason, since when it's running it only uses a couple of hundred MB at most), and was putting 8GB in all of my rigs, but then there's one rig that I just can't put more ram into (some old computer) running Ubuntu... I tried mining scrypt-n with it yesterday, it has 4GB and 2*7970 cards, and apparently vertminer works just fine with TC 8192, g2 and -I 13, hashing at full speed with no HW errors. Yet none of my Windows machines work with 4GB, vertminer either doesn't start at all, or starts hashing at really low speeds, and only adding more memory makes them happy.

So the question is how come 4GB is enough for Linux, but not enough for Windows? Is there any way to mine at full speed on windows machines with 4GB of RAM?
newbie
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Merit: 0
full member
Activity: 170
Merit: 100
March 15, 2014, 05:42:39 PM
Anyone mining with a HIS 280X and getting decent rates?

I have an ASUS and HIS 280X in the same machine. The ASUS has default clocks of 1070/1600 while the HIS is default 1050/1500.

If I run vertminer with the default clocks both cards get around 240 kh/s.

If I run vertminer with clock 1000/1500 then the ASUS jumps to 360 kh/s but the HIS card does not change, still stuck at 240 kh/s.  Weird, something to do with it using 1500 as its default mem clock? I don't get it.
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
March 14, 2014, 05:00:15 PM
Hello Everyone!

Can someone please help me with the settings for a DUAL-X Sapphire 7970? I get 725 stable on Scrypt. On VTC I have not been able to go over 290. I suppose I should be able ot get at least 350kh/s right?


BTW, I also have a 6970 MSI Afterburner which gets a nice 500kh/s on Scrypt but only 30~40 on VTC is that because of the 2GB memory instead of 3GB?

One last question, have the gridseed devices been able to hash NScrypt yet? It seems like they have proliferated the regular Scrypt pushing the profitability to almost zero when electricity is considered so I am thinking about switching to NSCrypt. Hopefully there will be more coins out there soon.

Thanks!
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
March 14, 2014, 10:37:02 AM
Hi all, I was, like some unlucky others here on this forum, struggling to get my R9 280X running above 300 Kh/s. I've tried the usual recommended I 13 and TC 8192 but no matter what else I tinkered with, it simply did not go above 300 Kh/s. First I thought it was coz I had 3 different GPUS. Then maybe coz I had only 2Gb RAM. I upped that to a total of 6Gb Ram and that made a little difference. But the real differences were in overclocking my R9 and setting a temp target. The latter coz I noticed each time the card reached 300 it suddenly dropped to like 250-260 Kh/s along with the temp dropping from 80 degrees to 76 degrees, as if there was a temp limit that maxed my hash rate too.

The overclock tip I got from this cgminer manual, which gives exellent tweaking pointers! https://raw.github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/v3.7.2/SCRYPT-README
A quote:
"Then start overclocking the eyeballs off your memory, as 7970s [edit: R9 280x is a rebranded 7970]  are exquisitely sensitive to memory speed and amazingly overclockable but please make sure it
keeps adequately cooled"

Here are the details:

Stable at 780 Kh/s on average  Grin
Club 3D 7850 172 Kh/s
Club 3D 7950 310 Kh/s
MSI R9 280X 290-320 Kh/s

export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=200
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
cd /home/c/vertminer-gpu
./vertminer --nscrypt -I 17,20,13 --thread-concurrency 8192,21712,8192 -o stratum+tcp://vtc.poolz.net:3333 -u xxxxx -p x --gpu-engine 1000,1070,1200 --gpu-memclock 1250,1500,1800 --shaders 1024,1792,2048 -w 256,256,256 --temp-target 66,84,83

So far, I've not succeeded in getting it at like 350 Kh/s, perhaps someday. Also, I'm not sure if overclocking is good for the R9 in the long run. But hey, I'm happy now, and hopefully this post is helpful to others!
member
Activity: 135
Merit: 10
March 13, 2014, 08:44:24 PM
That's nicely done, DMaster. I'm curious: how much does it drop if you do -g 2, -I 13 or 14 and --xintensity 4 with --thread-concurrency 10241? Oh, and one more: -k psw. Maybe reoptimize your engine clock. From what I'm seeing, hashrate will drop a little but the WU ratio notches up, and a lot fewer stale shares in the long run (especially with p2pool) may make up the difference. Especially with a little kick from the psw kernel, which in my experience does its stuff for cards running at low intensity.
member
Activity: 66
Merit: 10
March 13, 2014, 07:21:32 PM
I'm using sgminer with nfactor support.
http://www.sgminerwindows.com/sgminer-nfactor.php
Sapphire Tri-X R9-290 (not X). There is another card in my system (HD6450) just to render my desktop, disabled in sgminer by using -d.

Config (use your own settings for pools):
---
{
"pools" : [
    {
        "url" : ,
        "user" : ,
        "pass" :
    }
],

"nfactor" : "11",

"expiry" : "10",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
---

sgminer launch (the first figures in TC, gpu-engine, and so on, are for the disabled HD6450):
---
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
sgminer.exe -X 1,256 --gpu-engine 650,947-1010 --gpu-memclock 600,1475 --thread-concurrency 640,20479 --gpu-powertune 0,40 -d 1 --lookup-gap 2 --worksize 512 -g 1,1 --gpu-vddc 0,1.175 --auto-gpu --auto-fan --gpu-fan 35-80,40-60 --temp-target 75,85 --temp-overheat 80,90 --temp-cutoff 85,95 --failover-only -k zuikkis
---

Stable 455 kH/s.
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