The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread - page 45.

anonuser777

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Just for shits and giggles I tried mining vertcoins with an old 512MB Radeon HD 4670. Grin

http://www.gpureview.com/radeon-hd-4670-pci-e-card-579.html

Getting just over 20.3 kh/s with Vertcoin-CGMinerAleksNR3, using:

GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
--scrypt --shaders 320 -w 64 -I 14 --thread concurrency 512 -g 2

Was running at 19.7-ish kh/s until I overclocked the GPU at 770, memclock at 1075. Still some room for optimization there, but not worth the effort really. Not too bad for a 5 year old mid-range card!

PS: If anyone in the UK wants to PM me an offer for the card feel free! Max Power Draw: 59 W Grin

goin2mars

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Quote from: wezra on February 01, 2014, 10:03:46 AM

Quote from: goin2mars on February 01, 2014, 09:56:30 AM

Quote from: wezra on January 31, 2014, 07:50:05 AM

Quote from: uartasic on January 30, 2014, 06:57:48 PM

Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

I don't know yet, I am waiting for our power meter to arrive to do some calculations. We are running a 1350W Enermax unit, which supposedly is capable of 4 x 290's (though I've not tried it yet). So by that rationale, we are drawing somewhere between 900-1000w of juice.

When our power meter arrives I will post up the numbers and work out what in real terms our power costs are.

cheers mate

depending on what your numbers are it might help me get to the next level.

watching this with keen eyes

good luck guys/gals

ua

Power meters finally ordered, finding them in stock was a pain. They'll be arriving Monday

Hi,

I'm running 5x 290 non x's, 2 are elpdia on a different comp and 3 are hynix on another comp.

The hynix I've gotten @ 472k# for a few days stable before I switched back to multipool, but the elpdia I keep running into stability problems after a day. The wattage on the hynix's I remember being a little bit lower (NMT 10-15 watts) than I usually run regular cgminer. .which runs at 1110w with no undervolting (hynix cards running at 943k#), 92.5% efficient at that load, and 80w on the wattmeter side used by the system with no cards (cpu, mobo, peripherals). So after converting i'm seeing a usage of about 317.58w per hynix card. Using killawatt to measure wattages btw.

Decided to run vertminer while I was responding, so when running it on my hynix 290 non x rig @473k#, I'm seeing 1100 +/- 6watts . . so about 314.5w/hynix 290 on the dc side of the psu. . .about 1.501 k#/watt

Do you know if the cards you're running were elpdia or hynix? I'd like to switch the elpdia rig over to vertcoin but don't want to be tempted into an hour or two of messing w/ configs again and restarting the rig 20-30 times.

I think the first batch of cards we had must be elpida, because the 2nd batch of three GB 290's (exactly the same model purchased a week apart, on an identically specced rig) are getting 450 kh/s which some say makes them likely to be hynix cards. I've not looked into to much becuase both rigs are running so reliably.

Yeah I keep running into alternating ram here. Every card I seem to buy it switches from Elpdia to Hynix or Hynix to Elpdia. It's like they know.

Anyways. . would you mind checking at least the card you're running? Here is the link for memoryinfo:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2326/asus-radeon-memoryinfo-1-005/

It will give you the memory info for your current display card. To check all mine I just hooked up the monitor to the one I wanted to check and took the power off the other cards. But to just check the one you're using currently all you have to do is run that.

I'm gonna put your config in my Elpdia rig and check it out at least, thanks for posting it!

goin2mars

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Quote from: normandy on February 01, 2014, 09:59:53 AM

Quote from: Mortal_Enema on January 29, 2014, 01:13:07 AM

For some reason I can't push my intensity or thread concurrency over 13 and 8192 respectively without generating a mess of hardware errors and lots of rejects. Running 4x Sapphire R9 290 on Win 8 x64. Get over 820K per card when mining LTC. Any ideas? Currently I am getting around 272K per card mining VTC.

My friend, looks like we are at the same boat.

me using Win7 x64 and Sapphire R9 290, hashing 840K for LTC with TC31992 I-20 now hashing 320K for VTC with TC 8092 I-13. I tried the "optimal" 24450tc and i-20 and rig went freezed then crashed. Now it seems the optimal setting for my 290s is tc8192 and i-13 but it's way below even 350K compare to others hashing 400K.

I am just wondering how to manage the cards to get up for both TC and Intensity.

Thanks

I run win 7 64 also, I shut off windows aero, and windows search, and set the computer to optimize for best performance, and favor programs over background processes. Not sure if any of that would make a difference for you but it's something to try. Also, you need to have more that 8GB mobo ram otherwise you can't go over the 8192 for these cards. I'm guessing you have your gpu threads set to one. Only other thing I can think of short of a fresh OS/driver install is running the bag file allocating your max gpu percentage and sync objects. Do you have all of this covered?

wezra

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Quote from: goin2mars on February 01, 2014, 09:56:30 AM

Quote from: wezra on January 31, 2014, 07:50:05 AM

Quote from: uartasic on January 30, 2014, 06:57:48 PM

Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

I don't know yet, I am waiting for our power meter to arrive to do some calculations. We are running a 1350W Enermax unit, which supposedly is capable of 4 x 290's (though I've not tried it yet). So by that rationale, we are drawing somewhere between 900-1000w of juice.

When our power meter arrives I will post up the numbers and work out what in real terms our power costs are.

cheers mate

depending on what your numbers are it might help me get to the next level.

watching this with keen eyes

good luck guys/gals

ua

Power meters finally ordered, finding them in stock was a pain. They'll be arriving Monday

Hi,

I'm running 5x 290 non x's, 2 are elpdia on a different comp and 3 are hynix on another comp.

The hynix I've gotten @ 472k# for a few days stable before I switched back to multipool, but the elpdia I keep running into stability problems after a day. The wattage on the hynix's I remember being a little bit lower (NMT 10-15 watts) than I usually run regular cgminer. .which runs at 1110w with no undervolting (hynix cards running at 943k#), 92.5% efficient at that load, and 80w on the wattmeter side used by the system with no cards (cpu, mobo, peripherals). So after converting i'm seeing a usage of about 317.58w per hynix card. Using killawatt to measure wattages btw.

Decided to run vertminer while I was responding, so when running it on my hynix 290 non x rig @473k#, I'm seeing 1100 +/- 6watts . . so about 314.5w/hynix 290 on the dc side of the psu. . .about 1.501 k#/watt

Do you know if the cards you're running were elpdia or hynix? I'd like to switch the elpdia rig over to vertcoin but don't want to be tempted into an hour or two of messing w/ configs again and restarting the rig 20-30 times.

I think the first batch of cards we had must be elpida, because the 2nd batch of three GB 290's (exactly the same model purchased a week apart, on an identically specced rig) are getting 450 kh/s which some say makes them likely to be hynix cards. I've not looked into to much becuase both rigs are running so reliably.

normandy

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Quote from: Mortal_Enema on January 29, 2014, 01:13:07 AM

For some reason I can't push my intensity or thread concurrency over 13 and 8192 respectively without generating a mess of hardware errors and lots of rejects. Running 4x Sapphire R9 290 on Win 8 x64. Get over 820K per card when mining LTC. Any ideas? Currently I am getting around 272K per card mining VTC.

My friend, looks like we are at the same boat.

me using Win7 x64 and Sapphire R9 290, hashing 840K for LTC with TC31992 I-20 now hashing 320K for VTC with TC 8092 I-13. I tried the "optimal" 24450tc and i-20 and rig went freezed then crashed. Now it seems the optimal setting for my 290s is tc8192 and i-13 but it's way below even 350K compare to others hashing 400K.

I am just wondering how to manage the cards to get up for both TC and Intensity.

Thanks

goin2mars

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Quote from: wezra on January 31, 2014, 07:50:05 AM

Quote from: uartasic on January 30, 2014, 06:57:48 PM

Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

I don't know yet, I am waiting for our power meter to arrive to do some calculations. We are running a 1350W Enermax unit, which supposedly is capable of 4 x 290's (though I've not tried it yet). So by that rationale, we are drawing somewhere between 900-1000w of juice.

When our power meter arrives I will post up the numbers and work out what in real terms our power costs are.

cheers mate

depending on what your numbers are it might help me get to the next level.

watching this with keen eyes

good luck guys/gals

ua

Power meters finally ordered, finding them in stock was a pain. They'll be arriving Monday

Hi,

I'm running 5x 290 non x's, 2 are elpdia on a different comp and 3 are hynix on another comp.

The hynix I've gotten @ 472k# for a few days stable before I switched back to multipool, but the elpdia I keep running into stability problems after a day. The wattage on the hynix's I remember being a little bit lower (NMT 10-15 watts) than I usually run regular cgminer. .which runs at 1110w with no undervolting (hynix cards running at 943k#), 92.5% efficient at that load, and 80w on the wattmeter side used by the system with no cards (cpu, mobo, peripherals). So after converting i'm seeing a usage of about 317.58w per hynix card. Using killawatt to measure wattages btw.

Decided to run vertminer while I was responding, so when running it on my hynix 290 non x rig @473k#, I'm seeing 1100 +/- 6watts . . so about 314.5w/hynix 290 on the dc side of the psu. . .about 1.501 k#/watt

Do you know if the cards you're running were elpdia or hynix? I'd like to switch the elpdia rig over to vertcoin but don't want to be tempted into an hour or two of messing w/ configs again and restarting the rig 20-30 times.

financial_analyst

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I get this error:

Code:

 [2014-02-01 16:12:46] Started cgminer 3.7.2
 [2014-02-01 16:12:46] Probing for an alive pool
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 32
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] Network diff set to 11
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] Error -4: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] Error -4: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnqueueNDRangeKernel)
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] GPU 0 failure, disabling!
 [2014-02-01 16:12:47] GPU 1 failure, disabling!

with the following code:

Code:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe  --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://s.la.vertcoin.org:3333 -u XXX -p XXX 2>logfile_VERT.txt
-thread-concurrency 7680
-gpu-engine 900-1025
-temp-overheat 95
-temp-target 80
-v 1
-w 256
-Q 1
-G 1
-temp-cutoff 99
-temp-overheat 95
-temp-target 78
-gpu-vddc 1.100
-gpu-fan 45-100
-gpu-powertune 10
-auto-gpu
-auto-fan

Any ideas? I've got 1 280x and 1 7950. System RAM is 4GB, have tried a bunch of different thread concurrency/intensity combinations but I still get this error. I am using the modified cgminer.

psybase64

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Quote from: snogcel on February 01, 2014, 04:05:36 AM

Pulled the latest source from github and saw a ~3% jump in hashrate - just a heads up (https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu/commits/master)

I just copied the latest https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu/blob/master/scrypt140124.cl file from that github link and overwrote the scrypt140121.cl in the vertminer.0.5.2 folder.

Deleted the matching .bin file so the miner compiles a new bin and now getting 367khs now on my R9280xs, up from the 360khs using the scrypt140121.cl that came with Vertminer 0.5.2

Can someone compile a new Windows version from that github so we can use vertminer 0.5.3?

snogcel

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Pulled the latest source from github and saw a ~3% jump in hashrate - just a heads up (https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu/commits/master)

Galgenfrist

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Quote from: wezra on January 27, 2014, 10:06:20 AM

Win 7 64 Rig with 3 x Gigabyte r9 290 (totally failed to get Linux to work, just haven't got the skills

)

Settings for cgminer (so far stable), temps are very stable, have a blower fan just moving the hot air away from the rig, without it they peak at 83c, with the window open (it's a cold day) they peak at 75c

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt -o -u -p -I 19 -g 1 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24550 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 10 -v 1 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 85 --temp-overheat 83 --temp-target 78

Adding another rig tomorrow with the same spec.

Happy mining!

This works fine, thanks a lot! I'm getting 450kh/s on my 290 Tri-X.

mmihai1978

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FINALLY tweaked my 280x issue:

if your card is not working with -g 2 then use setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200 before starting cgminer / vertminer.

now my hashrate is up 10% from 300 to 330.

hvezdasmrti

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Running double Sapphire R290 + Fortron AURUM 750W, both undervolted for 0.062V. Default 947Mhz core 1250Mhz memories, 85 digrees the temp target. Not overclocking to prevent PSU overload and to be able to stay below 85 digrees without extreme noise. GPUs running its default clocks without throttling.

thread concurrency 24550
intensity 20
g 1 v 1

fan, clocks and voltage managed by MSI afterburner

Running fine 430 khash each card. With normal scrypt i have 845 khashes each card.

BUT i have had to upgrade to 8 GB RAM. With 4 GB i had to use 280X settings which were not very efficient at 290 - only 245 khashes every card. Maybe GPU allocate 200 percent would solve it too. With 4 GB RAM i was unable to get over 14000 thread concurrency and intensity over 13 made GPU errors.

ATScuba

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Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 06:09:49 AM

hi,

what power consumption you getting with your rig? how many kw/h etc?

ua

On this 4x 290x rig I am burning about 1200watts at the wall - have a 1300w EVGA single rail supply running this rig with 8 case fans and a lower end AM3 processor on an MSI 990FXA-GD80 board

Scorg

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Quote from: mik_druid on January 31, 2014, 12:01:06 PM

My r9 270 OC settings: -I 12 -w 256 -g 2 -v 1 --thread-concurrency 4448 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1086 --gpu-memclock 1499

Is that with No HW Errors as well?

mik_druid

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My r9 270 OC settings: -I 12 -w 256 -g 2 -v 1 --thread-concurrency 4448 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1086 --gpu-memclock 1499

Scorg

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Has anyone managed to find a setup for the 7850 that will not give HW Errors above -I 10 ?

I've tried a number of the setup's on here for the 7850/r9 270 and they all come out with the same results, anything I 11 or above gives hw errors, i10 and under doesn't, although at i10 it's hash rate is at 70kh, which is 10kh slower then my old 6770!

wezra

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Quote from: uartasic on January 30, 2014, 06:57:48 PM

Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

I don't know yet, I am waiting for our power meter to arrive to do some calculations. We are running a 1350W Enermax unit, which supposedly is capable of 4 x 290's (though I've not tried it yet). So by that rationale, we are drawing somewhere between 900-1000w of juice.

When our power meter arrives I will post up the numbers and work out what in real terms our power costs are.

cheers mate

depending on what your numbers are it might help me get to the next level.

watching this with keen eyes

good luck guys/gals

ua

Power meters finally ordered, finding them in stock was a pain. They'll be arriving Monday

MythicalManMoth

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I'm mining with a Sapphire r9 290x and a Powercolor Radeon HD 7850. Getting 500Kh/s from the r9 and about 100 Kh/s from the 7850. Here are the settings for each:

Sapphire R9 290x
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "40-100",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "95",
"temp-target" : "88",
"intensity" : "20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "24550",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "1000-1000",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "0,20"

Radeon HD 7850
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "40-100",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"intensity" : "11",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "6144",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "1000-1000",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-powertune" : "0"

Still working on the 7850. Will update if I find something better.

uartasic

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Quote from: wezra on January 29, 2014, 12:09:06 PM

I don't know yet, I am waiting for our power meter to arrive to do some calculations. We are running a 1350W Enermax unit, which supposedly is capable of 4 x 290's (though I've not tried it yet). So by that rationale, we are drawing somewhere between 900-1000w of juice.

When our power meter arrives I will post up the numbers and work out what in real terms our power costs are.

cheers mate

depending on what your numbers are it might help me get to the next level.

watching this with keen eyes

good luck guys/gals

ua

Cryptomancer

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Asus Radeon HD 7790 2GB

cgminer --scrypt -o x -u x -p x -I 19 -g 2 -w 49 --thread-concurrency 4000 --shaders 896

I 12 = 87kH - No HW errors, lagless
I 14 = 125kH - Computer bit laggy but can be used for normal tasks, sometimes HW error
I 19 = 140kH - Computer unusable, hashrate peaks up to 150kH, sometimes HW error

- The GPU is set to "Gaming" settings in GPU tweak program from Asus (+20MHz, power target 110%).
- GPU drivers crashes when I start CGMiner at I 19, works normally if I start on lower and then increase to 19.
- While GPU and CPU mining at once, I had to set CGMiner's process priority to high and CPU miner to idle, otherwise drivers crashed after a while.

If anyone knows how to get rid of HW errors and prevent driver crashes, please let me know

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