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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.0 (Windows/Linux)
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thilan29
on 16/01/2017, 21:31:26 UTC
Has anyone found a reliable bios mod for the Sapphire rx 480 8g cards that reduces power but keeps the h/s rate respectable?  Most of what I have found on forums have been unstable.  I have 4 rigs with 6x Sapphire 8g 480's that each run at around 1200w (and I have a 1300w psu) and 11.5A  and deliver 260 H/s on each card with the stock bios and I am having to reduce their intensity each time the mining software speeds the mining up or the whole platform shuts down due to exceeding power limits.  I have played with different power tools such as Watttool (Wattman is useless for multiple cards and settings in Claymore just freeze my systems) but I am a bit of an inexperienced computer user so I am not sure what to try and I don't want to damage my systems.  I have read every page of this forum as I have worked through all the same issues with Open CL and cards not being recognized, and I appreciate the degree this forum supplies ideas and methods to help others work through their issues.  So I am asking my first question around suggested settings in Watt tool or perhaps even a stable and capable bios mod that keeps power down while not giving up on the current performance, if possible.  Any help is appreciated.

Wow, 1200w for 6x480?!  That's way too power much I think.  Is that at the wall?
I have a reference 480 (stock BIOS) that runs at 1100/2000 0.85v, hashing at 230S/s and using about 100w.  You should be able to get your 480s down to MAX ~150w each while keeping stock clocks at least.

I am using Watttool to underclock/undervolt it.