Claymore 9.7 also works.

About higher power consumption - all folks that are reporting it: please check it "at the wall" with wattmeter. AB is showing higher digits, but at the wall there is no change. So my conclusion is that this is caused by new beta AB.

Unfortunately for me, I didn't manage to make the driver work on WIN8.1, I was able to do it only on WIN10.

Hasherates are up, for sure: Sapphire 570/4 was 27.9 now is 30.0.