The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread - page 8.

hawli

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hey guys, I'm running two 7950s (one is MSI and the other is Club3d). Getting about 280 kh/s per card and but I'm getting many HWs.
Here's my config file, it based on what I found in this topic and edited.

Quote

,
"intensity" : "20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "22400",
"shaders" : "1792",
"gpu-engine" : "1150",
"gpu-memclock" : "1400",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.140",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"no-submit-stale" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",

"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",

"scan-time" : "30",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I saw there were some 7950s running more then 300 kh/s, I'm so far from that result ;/ What would you suggest?
thanks:)

JohnnyDaMitch

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Quote from: m50b25 on March 25, 2014, 01:57:38 PM

Hello everybody

I have 4 Powercolor 280x turboduo.

I cant get the cards over 291 kh/s each. Something very strange about my cards i that i have to set gpu thread 1 instead of the usual gpu thread 2 i use when mining other scrypt coins.

I have GA-F2A85X-UP4, Amd A4-5300 and 4 gb ram.

Any ideas what i should try? I have tried to play around with the gpu core speed. I still dont get over 291 kh/s
...

Using -g 2 with -I 13 should always be possible on a 280x, I think. Your engine clock is possibly way too high for it. Did you try changing the thread concurrency + or - 1 (8191 or 8193)? One other thing that has occasionally been useful for me is to try different Catalyst versions.

You didn't say what kind of error or failure you were getting when attempting -g 2.

edit: oh yeah, try worksize 128 too.

wacko

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m50b25 Probably not enough ram. If you've got another 4 GB lying around, try adding it to this system and see whether hashrate goes up.. you should have 360+ KHash/sec at those clocks. I've got 355K from 7970 @ 1000/1250, so your 1080/1500 should give more.

m50b25

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Hello everybody

I have 4 Powercolor 280x turboduo.

I cant get the cards over 291 kh/s each. Something very strange about my cards is that i have to set gpu thread 1 instead of the usual gpu thread 2 i use when mining other scrypt coins.

I have GA-F2A85X-UP4, Amd A4-5300 and 4 gb ram.

Any ideas what i should try? I have tried to play around with the gpu core speed. I still dont get over 291 kh/s

Here is a picture om verminer and my config file

http://i.imgur.com/FEeBbgC.png

"intensity" : "13,13,13,13",
"worksize" : "256,256,256,256",
"scrypt-vert" : true,
"lookup-gap" : "2,2,2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192,8192,8192,8192",
"gpu-engine" : "1080,1080,1080,1080",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500,1500,1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20,20,20,20",
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "30-100",
"temp-target" : "75,75,75,75",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85,85,85",
"temp-cutoff" : "90,90,90,90",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

litecoinmonster

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Quote from: goatonastick on March 25, 2014, 11:03:28 AM

Quote from: litecoinmonster on March 25, 2014, 07:56:34 AM

8GB of RAM and 100GB pagefile as well.

100GB pagefile Huh

why do you have that?

Just as precaution. It's a mining only computer anyway, so why not? Grin

goatonastick

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Quote from: litecoinmonster on March 25, 2014, 07:56:34 AM

8GB of RAM and 100GB pagefile as well.

100GB pagefile Huh

why do you have that?

litecoinmonster

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Quote from: AcidSplash on March 24, 2014, 01:57:06 PM

Quote from: litecoinmonster on March 24, 2014, 06:34:20 AM

Quote from: whywefight on March 24, 2014, 04:47:12 AM

running 5 sapphire r9 290s with the following settings:

vertminer --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://xxxxxxxxx -u x -p x -g 1 -w 256 -I 20 --thread-concurrency 32765 --gpu-fan 100 --api-listen
gpus fixed to 924mhz, temps around 71-82°. getting ~2.1 mh/s.

played with the memory clocks but iam just able to get more hashes but lower WU, so i decided to keep it this way. the hw error problems does not seem to affect the 290s, so i stick to -I 20, getting 0 HW. WU is arround 95% of current hashrate.

How are you doing that? I can't get it to start with those settings. Vertminer says TC is too high.

Are you sure you have enough RAM?

8GB of RAM and 100GB pagefile as well.

adaseb

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Quote from: Hank Yankell on February 07, 2014, 01:31:45 AM

Great thread so far guys, keep it up!

I'm just getting started with scrypt-adaptive here, feels like scrypt all over again, doesn't it? Grin

Here's my findings so far on a pair of Asus R7 260x's. Bonaire's a pain in the rear as usual. I'll post for my 7870LE's, 6950, 7950's, 7850's, and R9 290's as I figure them all out and optimize them. I thought I'd work on Bonaire first since there's not much info out there.

I'm mining with CGMinerAleks_NR3, as I can't get anything to work on these Bonaire cards with Vertminer 0.5.3.

Here's my .bat:

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o x -u x -p x --failover-only -o x -u x -p x --no-submit-stale --gpu-platform 0 -w 256 -v 1 -I 20 --lookup-gap 4 --gpu-threads 1 --gpu-fan 65 --thread-concurrency 14208 --gpu-engine 1200 --gpu-memclock 1800 --gpu-powertune 20

This nets me around 117khs per card. No HW errors. Strangely I got the best results with one thread and a lookup gap of 4. It looks like these cards can be pretty energy efficient if you have enough of them going, but I wouldn't run out and buy a bunch of them. They only pull about 250khs on normal scrypt.

If this helps anybody, feel free to tipmeh!!! Cheesy

VTC - VaLt5ZKjorSb5mdLfzDvCbiznpxkaFwgWS

only config that works for me

thanks!

goatonastick

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Quote from: Tay on March 24, 2014, 04:33:53 PM

Quote from: goatonastick on March 24, 2014, 03:04:01 PM

HELP!

I've tried using all my dogecoin settings, and even pasting some of the settings here, but have not managed to break more than 11 KH/s with vertminer Sad

My tried-and-true settings for dogecoin on my 7850 usually give me 346 KH/s:
-intensity 12 --gpu-threads 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1200 --shaders 1024 --thread-concurrency 4096 --worksize 256

but even with the thread concurrency in half, I still can't get much higher than 12 KH/s.

what am I doing wrong? gpu has 2GB of memory, and system has 4GB of ram.

After much tweaking I've got my 7850's up to 175+kh/s on vertminer (BAMT)

   "worksize": "64",
   "intensity": "19",
   "thread-concurrency" : "8192",
   "shaders" : "1280",
   "gpu-engine" : "980",
   "gpu-memclock" : "1250",
   "gpu-vddc" : "0",
   "gpu-powertune" : "0",
   "gpu-threads" : "1",
   "lookup-gap" : "2",
   "queue": "0",

MSI HD7850 (single fan) 2GB 7850's, these are currently performing better than my Asus 270's.

Not used to using the vertminer config file, I simply rename vertminer.example.conf to vertminer.conf right? After I edit the URL and Login/Pass of course.

I get these errors:

Fatal JSON error in configuration file
Configuration file could not be used

here's my config file:

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://spa.pool.mn:3370",
		"user" : "goatonastik.01",
		"pass" : "01"
	},
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://spa.pool.mn:3370",
		"user" : "goatonastik.01",
		"pass" : "01"
	}	
]
,
"worksize": "64",
"intensity": "19",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "1280",
"gpu-engine" : "980",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-vddc" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"queue": "0",
}

Sorry for my noobiness but I'm used to using .bat files.

EDIT: good news / bad news. I put the commands into the bat file, and I get 177 KH/s, but I have around 20% hardware errors

EDIT 2: now they're averaging down to less than 10%. I know any HW errors are bad but this is so much better than before, thanks!

Tay

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Quote from: goatonastick on March 24, 2014, 03:04:01 PM

HELP!

I've tried using all my dogecoin settings, and even pasting some of the settings here, but have not managed to break more than 11 KH/s with vertminer Sad

My tried-and-true settings for dogecoin on my 7850 usually give me 346 KH/s:
-intensity 12 --gpu-threads 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1200 --shaders 1024 --thread-concurrency 4096 --worksize 256

but even with the thread concurrency in half, I still can't get much higher than 12 KH/s.

what am I doing wrong? gpu has 2GB of memory, and system has 4GB of ram.

After much tweaking I've got my 7850's up to 175+kh/s on vertminer (BAMT)

   "worksize": "64",
   "intensity": "19",
   "thread-concurrency" : "8192",
   "shaders" : "1280",
   "gpu-engine" : "980",
   "gpu-memclock" : "1250",
   "gpu-vddc" : "0",
   "gpu-powertune" : "0",
   "gpu-threads" : "1",
   "lookup-gap" : "2",
   "queue": "0",

MSI HD7850 (single fan) 2GB 7850's, these are currently performing better than my Asus 270's.

Bluemustang

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Hey guys. I've got a 7970 which gets 780khs on scrypt so i should be getting 390 here but i can barely get 290. I've tried Thekevs, 0.5.2 and 0.5.3. I've tried lots of settings including the usual 8192 and I 13. As well as both batch and conf files.

Thekevs:
"rawintensity" : "16384",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8191",
"temp-cutoff" : "77",
"expiry" : "30",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"device" : "0",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"scrypt-vert" : true
}

0.5.3
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://us.bitcrush.info:3444 -u x -p x -I 13 --auto-gpu --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-threads 2 --shaders 2048 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --temp-cutoff 77

Any advice? Thanks

ReRunRod

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Hello All,

I have:

1x 520 watt PSU
2 PCIE 16x slots on motherboard
2x Sapphire HD6850
4 GB of Ram

In a milk crate.

Running Vertcoin-BAMT 1.5.2 running it Headless

I haven't begun to play with settings, I was looking to know if anyone had good settings to begin with.. I originally mined AUR and BTB. I would like to give VTC a shot.. Thanks to everyone that helps me out!!

goatonastick

newbie

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HELP!

I've tried using all my dogecoin settings, and even pasting some of the settings here, but have not managed to break more than 11 KH/s with vertminer Sad

My tried-and-true settings for dogecoin on my 7850 usually give me 346 KH/s:
-intensity 12 --gpu-threads 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1200 --shaders 1024 --thread-concurrency 4096 --worksize 256

but even with the thread concurrency in half, I still can't get much higher than 12 KH/s.

what am I doing wrong? gpu has 2GB of memory, and system has 4GB of ram.

AcidSplash

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Quote from: litecoinmonster on March 24, 2014, 06:34:20 AM

Quote from: whywefight on March 24, 2014, 04:47:12 AM

running 5 sapphire r9 290s with the following settings:

vertminer --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://xxxxxxxxx -u x -p x -g 1 -w 256 -I 20 --thread-concurrency 32765 --gpu-fan 100 --api-listen
gpus fixed to 924mhz, temps around 71-82°. getting ~2.1 mh/s.

played with the memory clocks but iam just able to get more hashes but lower WU, so i decided to keep it this way. the hw error problems does not seem to affect the 290s, so i stick to -I 20, getting 0 HW. WU is arround 95% of current hashrate.

How are you doing that? I can't get it to start with those settings. Vertminer says TC is too high.

Are you sure you have enough RAM?

Rigimon

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Anyone have settings for Asus r9 270x top cards?

Sinyk7

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I'm not sure what I am doing differently, but I am running vertminer in BAMT 1.4 with three 7950s and now I am only getting 258 kh/s per card instead of about 315 like before. I don't know if it's BAMT or the latest version of vertminer (0.5.4pre2) that is causing the huge loss of hashrate.

EDIT: OK, it's totally the newest version of vertminer that was the problem. I did a git checkout to the last commit of 0.5.3, recompiled it and now my hashrate is back around 310 kh/s per card.

dragonmike

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If it helps anyone, I can run my (watercooled) ASUS DC2T-3GD5 R9 280X @ 1135/1800 and it hashes away happily @ 385 Kh/s.

main settings:

"lookup-gap": "2",
"thread-concurrency": "8192",
"worksize": "256",
"gpu-threads": "2",
"intensity" : "13",

The rest is probably irrelevant.

Accepting donations if it helped Grin

VTC: VkjFSmPWk3nvbU76WkS1tS6gwaXuChh82E

litecoinmonster

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Quote from: whywefight on March 24, 2014, 04:47:12 AM

running 5 sapphire r9 290s with the following settings:

vertminer --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://xxxxxxxxx -u x -p x -g 1 -w 256 -I 20 --thread-concurrency 32765 --gpu-fan 100 --api-listen
gpus fixed to 924mhz, temps around 71-82°. getting ~2.1 mh/s.

played with the memory clocks but iam just able to get more hashes but lower WU, so i decided to keep it this way. the hw error problems does not seem to affect the 290s, so i stick to -I 20, getting 0 HW. WU is arround 95% of current hashrate.

How are you doing that? I can't get it to start with those settings. Vertminer says TC is too high.

whywefight

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running 5 sapphire r9 290s with the following settings:

vertminer --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://xxxxxxxxx -u x -p x -g 1 -w 256 -I 20 --thread-concurrency 32765 --gpu-fan 100 --api-listen
gpus fixed to 924mhz, temps around 71-82°. getting ~2.1 mh/s.

played with the memory clocks but iam just able to get more hashes but lower WU, so i decided to keep it this way. the hw error problems does not seem to affect the 290s, so i stick to -I 20, getting 0 HW. WU is arround 95% of current hashrate.

orcage

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just set gpu-threads 2

if i help VfusECvhsWkBSSc1YWFuGqaPwSFvSUj4bH

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