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A noob looking for a little guidance if you could.

I picked up the ASUS Rx 560 OC Edition and threw it into an old spare PC with intention of learning more about mining and figured it was relatively cheap so if it doesn't work out or I fry the card I am not out too much money. I am using Claymores dual miner and the August edition of the AMD mining drivers on windows 10. Two things that are happening.

1) I run Claymores script and the card spins up to 90°c with the fans at 100% before shutting down about a minute later. I moved the rig to the garage as it's around 0°c and I added an intake case fan blowing directly at it. Card is still averaging 86°c while the interior of the case is hovering around 10°c. This does not seem right and my guess will burn the card out pretty quickly.

2) Daily average from ethermine.org is around 7MH/s which is about half of what is reported heere on this thread.

So does anyone have any tips, tricks or a stable BIOS update that would help either of these issues (perferrably both)? Also given my noobness what are straps and strat referring to? I am sure there are more questions I will need to ask but baby steps.

if I get this figured out then I will start to ramp up with a number of cards and an open air rig.

Thanks for any help you can give.

ChunkySoup

https://mining.help/

Ok...so I did pretty much all of that...there are a few things I had already done, I couldn't do or weren't available anymore but man it still ramps up right to 90° and I am getting just under 10MH/s on average. I tried setting the limit on the temp but overdrive Ntool throttled down the fans so much it crashed. The temp in my garage was -3° so I set the min and max of the fans higher and it seems relatively stable but I can't get it to push any higher or be any cooler....sigh...

Try earlier versions of Claymore, some people report better results with older versions on less powerful cards, or try mining a CryptoNight coin, they use less power:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1612329.0

First off I want to say "Thank you" for your willingness to help. I really do appreciate it. Quick question. As I said beofre this is an old psare machine so this card is running on a PCi-E x16 2.0 slot. Could that be part of the cause? If you use a riser with multiple cards are the 1x slots you are using all PCI-E 3.0 as well?

If that is actually the case then I have to start weighing in the cost of a new rig.

Thanks again.

Load latest AMD drivers and select 'compute' mode, don't know if it's an option for the RX560, but it may be there.

You may need to flash the BIOS to get a better hashrate, have a look here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1882656.0
If you mod the BIOS you may also need to run this "atikmdag-patcher-1.4.6.zip" https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher

The type of PCI-E slot will make no difference to your mining hashrate. I have used a variety of motherboards, from old to new, and not had ~~any~~ many problems with the hashrates.

So unfortunately no Compute option comes up for the card the way that I have seen it come up for others...even with brand new drivers. I tried the 15.12 drivers Claymore suggests but they wouldn't even recognize the card. I download brand new drivers and did what i could with Wattman. I have to admit I am a little nervous flashing the bios with that tool as it keeps coming up as a virus when I download it. Some of the comments say its ok...some not....I am a little on the fence on that one. Before I tried downloading it I backed up the bios on the card and it came up Baffin.rom so even though I bought an RX 560 it sure looks like a bought a rebadged 460 unless you guys know any different?

As for Bios modding....that is a little too far out of my league. I can post mine if someone would be kind enough to help me.