Topic: Vertcoin Settings/Configs (How To Mine VertCoin) - page 6. (Read 81742 times)

What should be the expected hash rate for a 7990?

I'm willing to help, helped several others as well. Hit me up in PM!

On a sidenote.. This topic should be locked, and continued here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-big-vtc-vertcoin-settings-thread-416572

Let me start off by saying I know about as much about setting up miners as your great grandparents. 

I am in need of an extremely trustworthy individual that can be verified somehow to help me set up mining vtc on my rigs.  I have 5 rigs, the majority using 280x cards or 270 cards.  We will use teamviewer to set everything up, each rig will need to be setup. 

This person needs to be extremely well versed with vertcoin and mining it in order to tweak my settings to the absolute best.
Trust will be established via paypal, payment will be 50 bucks per rig or 250USD

Interested parties PM me! 

Thanks

Just an idea but to prevent having two topics for the same thing, how about locking this one and continue in the bigger one?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416572.new#new

^ More activity as well.

Well Im using the same version like you mentioned, and yes I have have also enough ram, 4 gb are accessable with 32 bit of working system.

You're my hero. The settings got my 2x 280x running at 340x each! I have 4gb ram and vertminer 0.5.2

( I compiled 0.5.3 and overwrite the allready built binary (http://vertcoin.org/downloads/vertminer.tgz) Otherwise I didn't get the temps showing. Same probleme that Ewing mentioned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416572.380 )
http://s15.postimg.org/7zfhl1rrf/vertminer.gif

Also, I had pretty good results before but I got few HW's with this:

Now you're config is this which is giving no errors:

I think the only real difference is thread-concurrency. And it was off only off by 2 :S

And for the final note, I have "Asus Radeon R9 280x DirectCU II / 3GB GDDR5 / (R9280X-DC2-3GD5)"

Try adding some extra memory to your system, I believe going from 4GB to 8GB of RAM will solve a lot of - still weird - issues.

I am clueless......

I have 2 x Sapphire Tri-X 290x cards...

I am running the perfectly fine at 988 Khz each on any "normal" scrypt alt coin. Using I 20, 24600 thread conc, 1000 gpu engine. 1500 memory. This gives me NO HW at all.

Now I wanted to transition over to Vect coins... this has ended up in a total fail...

The miner I have currently has 4 gb ram.

Using anything higher then 8192 tc makes the cards go disabled. Using any intensity higher then 13 makes the HW run mad. Going i13 and tc 8192 gives me a hash rate of about 280khz per card which is way less it should be. Using intensity 19-20 gives me around 470khz but then the hardware errors are INSANE. I have tried to adjust the config file so many times and it all ends up with the same results.

I am using vectminer 0.5.3

I am in dire need of your help here!

Thanks in advance!

/T

5xGV-R927XOC-2GD.
.bat file (vertminer-0.5.3):
Results: 177Kh/s first four and 171Kh/s last card.
How can increase hashrate?

Hi,

I followed your steps. My rig with two graphics cards works perfectly. But I have a problem when I'm trying to launch vertcoin mining on 3 and 4 cards graphics rigs (I receive kernel error). Do you know whats going on ? I have 4gb ram on each rig

16gb ram in machine
Running 2 x R9290(sapphire and xfx)(no oc)
One hynix, one Elpida

Settings, 400kh/s each:  
"intensity" : "18,18",
"vectors" : "1,1",
"worksize" : "512,512",
"kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "27000,27000",

8gb ram in machine
Running 1x6950(gigabyte) and 1x5850(asus)(engine 920)
Settings, 124kh/s and 194kh/s
"intensity" : "12,18",
"vectors" : "1,1",
"worksize" : "256,256",
"kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "4096,6000",

Cannot get the 6950 to work with any other settings without giving HW errors.

I have received 2x R9 290 Sapphire Tri-x (hynix). They are both totally different, I disconnected all of the cards and were running just them to fine tune. In gpu-z they have 84% and 76% asic quality, funny is that the lower one behavies better. I’m minning vertcoin which is using different scrypt but on reference cards usually clocks didn’t change for me much. What I find is that probably both cards can’t run on 1500 memory clock.
First card
1025-1040/1475 seems to be ok.
Second cards
Anything higher than 985-990/1450 and I get artifacts/HW errors. With 980/1500 I got HW right away, with 980/1475 left over night, I wake up and found 7HW..I left it now with 980/1450 and will see afternoon if any HW comes..
Both cards doesn’t tolerate undervolting (even -6mv gives artifacts and soon after freeze).
They are hashing nice, around 470 and 455 on Vertcoin which is 50% of scrypt performance.
I don’t understand why they can’t handle 1500Mhz, and one even 1000Mhz on engine if they are reference. My 3 other reference cards go no problem 1020/1500 (elpidia) with -19mv..And those 2 are hynix which supposed to be better.
p.s. Even if I’m able to run stable with 1025/1475 on 1st and 980/1450 on another one, as soon as I stop minning I got computer freeze few seconds/minutes later , which is not the case on reference cards and it indicates that even these clocks are to much for them..What I like in these cards is extreme LACK of noise they run super quiet, around 70 degrees with 60% fan. WOW!!

See the thing is I was skeptical like you. People were saying you need 4gb ram... 4gb ram.. and when I look at how much ram I was using the miner showed no difference. So it seemed like non-sense. So eventually after I tried everything possible I gave in and tried adding more ram (not expecting it to work). I upgraded from 2gb to 8gb. Then everything suddenly worked.... Intesity could go above -I 12, TC at 8193. Even if I look at how much ram Im using right now it says 15% usage (not much right?), so idk why more ram was necessary but it worked.

I dont quiet understand why it worked but I'm just going by what worked and what people said would work. THEY WERE RIGHT

My guess is that the vertcoin algorithm allocates memory differently which is what makes is asic resistant.

I suspect that the problem wasn't the lack of RAM in your machine, but the older cgminer you were running. Vertminer occupies very little RAM if you check it out when it's active.

For 7970/7990, this is the best I managed to come up with to avoid hw errs: --intensity 13 --lookup-gap 2 -g 2 -w 184 --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 6112

seems about right. 270x go from 350-400 Kh/s and vertcoin cuts that in half.

Got my Vertminer (v0.5.3) running stable, but it's far from optimized. Hope to get things running better with some help via this thread.

Currently running 4x Gigabyte 7950 WindForce 3 REV2.0 (Windows 7 x64, 8GB RAM, Catalyst 12.8 ) @ ~270KH/s each, totalling ~1.100KH/s.



My .bat file:

My .conf file:

My Sapphire Trixx settings:
GPU: 1150
MEM: 1250
VDDC: 1090 (1.09v locked)
Power Limit: 20 (= Powertune)

Are you using the VERTMINER version I posted above? Did you just skip to my settings/configs..? Read everything maybe you missed something

Had the same problem with intensities with the older miners. This one seems to work perfectly

I hope you are using the VERTMINER I POSTED ABOVE. It's the latest version. dont use anything else. Also do you have 4gb of ram or more?

I was getting that same message UNTIL I got this version of VERTMINER and added 8gb to my rig. Problem solved