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on 25/01/2020, 02:39:00 UTC
R390s are reputed to be best for high resolution gaming modes, versus the Nvidia equivalent GTX-970 which is another badass card for mining - so there
are active fans, VRAM up to 8GB etc to consider, etc... all these will require more wattage.
A fury is much better at 4K plus.  It is also more efficient. 

There is a altcoins mining thread.  Keep that in mind.

king_pin has contributed a lot to this thread.  You should look and read through the tread if you don't recognize him (assuming he could be wrong).  I interpret his post as a warning to new miners, based on his experience.  I can tell you from my own that mining in the summer, or running many rigs in the same room drastically changes how your rig will run.

For pure cost effectiveness a 380 is the best new card to buy.  Adding a single configuration setting will allow it to mine ETH at 20mh with stock freqs and the card costs ~$200. At stock freqs a single 380 should use ~170 watts.  This is much more efficient than OC'ed 390's. 

My 2 380s run at about 20-20.5, but oc.  at stock (XFX 4gb) they run closer to 18.  what config are you talking about ?  I have the usual --cl-local-work 128 --cl-global-work 16384 --cl-extragpu-mem 0 and farm recheck 200.  For some reason I cant input cl local work 256, maybe someone can tell me why, that would be nice.  mining off stratum proxy - ethminer.

As for the eth rig pics, are you using non powered risers for 6 cards ?  idk I'd be worried.  I think the usb risers are worth it.

First ensure that you are using the 15.12 AMD driver and reset to stock clocks.  Then try using only:

 --cl-global-work 16384 --cl-local-work 256

Also; IMO Sapphire is the best brand.