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Re: Hacked Modified Memory Strap BIOS Database for ZEC MINING!
by
adaseb
on 16/11/2016, 19:29:04 UTC
Some people don't seem to realize that ZEC mining puts very different demands on your card than ETH mining.  ETH mining is 100% memory reads, while ZEC mining, depending on the kernel code, can have more writes than reads.  When you modify BIOS straps for ETH mining, you might be using read-write turnaround timing that will cause write errors.  Then when someone gets errors or GPU hanging on ZEC mining, they blame the software when their BIOS mod is the issue.
A BIOS guru (not me) can create custom straps that tune each relevant timing value to their safe limits.
The following product brief shows a few of the parameters for DDR5 RAM.  For full details see a datasheet.
https://www.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/data-sheet/dram/gddr5/4gb_gddr5_sgram_brief.pdf


I agree with you however I don't know how to modify the actual timings for ZEC mining. These timings aren't even modifed for ETH, they were originally modified for Litecoin mining.

You might want to try @jstefanop  He claims to understand all the timing values included in each strap.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1682003.msg16896582#msg16896582


I sent the guy a message, forwarding him to this thread and see if he can help us out.