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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred/Siacoin GPU Miner v5.3 (Windows/Linux)
by
scryptr
on 09/08/2016, 12:04:51 UTC
Hi Claymore,

i get with R9 280x 15.5Mh only not 20Mh
How can i improve it  ?

Its normal for 280x.


DEPENDING HOW HOT YOUR ROOM IS--

280X cards run hot and eat power.  If your cards are overheating, you may need to downclock, and earn 15-16MH/s per card.   If you set "-dcri 15" in your config, you will reduce the intensty of your secondary coin by 1/2  and give your 280X cards more room to breathe; they will run faster  and at lower temperature.  If you set "-cclock 1100", you will overclock your card, increase the hash rate, and increase the temperature of the card.  A core clock of 1100 may not be stable for your card/rig, you have to check postings by other miners regarding overclocking.  If you set "-tt 87", your card will self regulate, attempting to keep the temperature at or below 87 deg F.  If you are in a hot room, your hash may be 15-16MH/s because of temperature throttling.  My 280X cards made 22MH/s last winter, when the room was cooler, and the difficulty lower, and the DAG smaller.

All of this and more is in the README!!!.txt file, you should study it.       --scryptr

scryptr - will the Stilt BIOS help maximize 280/280x for ETH mining? Thanks

THE LEGENDARY STILT BIOS MODS--

Stilt BIOS mods are from the days of LiteCoin (LTC) and its meteoric rise prior to the Mt. Gox hack  There is a thread for those still interested.:  https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/5937/gpu-optimized-stilt-bios-anyone-have-them] .  Some users of the modded BIOS are able to point to the  location of these legendary files, other users are downloading the entire archive to preserve the treasured data.

I have never flashed my recently ROI'd 280X cards.  It can affect the resale value of your cards if detected.  From what I read in the above Stilt BIOS thread, there is no guaranteed hashrate improvement, even if you flash your card.  The thread is still short, and a good read.  It points to the old, archived, 100+ page Stilt BIOS thread where I may find myself reading about the Black VooDoo of BIOS modding.

Bottom line, a BIOS mod is not a sure thing, and you need to save a copy of your original manufacturer's BIOS in order to set things back to default.       --scryptr