Hello,

I have 3 RX480s that I've been mining (ETH/SC) w/Claymore in my gaming rig, to give me time to learn the ropes before building dedicated mining rigs. They're all still at defaults, but I'd like to:

• lower their power use, and
• see if I can bump their hash rates up.

The cards that I'd like to explore modding the BIOS on are:

• XFX RX 480 RS 8GB 1288M XXX HS BP (RX-480P836BM/RX-480P8L),
• PowerColor RED DRAGON RX 480 8GB GDDR5 (AXRX 480 8GBD5-3DHD), and
• Gigabyte RX 480 WINDFORCE 8GB (GV-RX480WF2-8GD)

I've read through this entire thread. You're welcome to tell me to RTFM again, but I'm not entirely comfortable that I wouldn't brick the cards. I've looked at the default BIOS roms in SRBPolaris, and they're all recognized. Is there a source on these models on what settings ppl have found ideal? Do I just need to experiment, and hopefully not destabilize the rig repeatedly?

Any tips or resources you can point me toward would be greatly appreciated!

Alena ♥




P.S. In case other device, etc. stats matter:

• MSI GTX 1070 X Gaming as my main GPU (gaming),
• SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD 7950 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 mining (b/c I haven't gotten rid of it yet). 
• MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming motherboard,
• i7-4770K (3.5 GHz)
• 32 GB (G.Skill (4 x 8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200 2400MHz TridentX)
• Windows 10 Pro
• SK hynix 500GB SSD
• Barracuda 3TB x6 (RAID5)