Re: WinMiner v1.104a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization

Happy Thursday everyone!

We have a new WinMiner version - v1.104a with some great news and features you have asked for:

(1)   GPU mixup is history! GPUs are now correctly identified and the correct performance is shown next to the correct GPU

   While this is great, the real importance is that it now paves the way to additional per GPU features that many of you have requested.

(2)   GPU metrics now at your fingertips:

   - GPU fan speed
   - GPU temp
   - GPU power consumption (in Watts)
   - More coming...

(3)   Updated Dashboard to reflect all those goodies

(4) We have also added social media links for easy access.

Enjoy! And may the mining force be with you!

This update broke our mixed GPU miners, see attached screenshot.

https://labtech.purecomputersonline.com/labtech/transfer/tools/ss/winminer-1.png

thanks for that pic. How do you manage to get more than 8 GPUs working on Windows at the same time? Would it work if you had 8 RX 580 and 8 GTX 1060? I wonder... Also, which remote management program do you use?

On a different note, I wonder if there is a bug with WinMiner when it comes to the wattage metrics. I love that feature, but there is something wrong with it when I test it on a Vega 64 rig. It shows 0W power consumption when you are not mining, and when you start mining everything seems fine at first, when the cards begin to work the wattage meter slowly and steadily increases, but... I am pretty sure there is a bug with it, because the metrics never go above 100W.

It stays at 100W for extended periods of time, sometimes it drops to 99W and the like, but it never ever goes above 100W. I am pretty sure that can't be the case 'cos I measured the power consumption off the wall, and each card is on the 140-150W range.

First, the RMM program we use is ConnectWise Control. My company is an MSP provider in Central Arkansas that also hosts a mining co-location facility.

We spent lots of R&D time for our mining rigs to get 12-GPUs running but essentially you are limited to 8 AMD GPUS using the blockchain driver and 8 NVIDIA using their drivers. That means you can have at most 16 cards with those driver sets. If you were to use the latest AMD drivers you could use up to 12 AMD cards in a system followed by 8 NVIDIA cards. We use a mix of Biostart TB250-BTC Pro and ASUS B250 Mining Expert Boards with 12/19 PCI-e slots respectively. Power connectors is the limiting factor TBH since EVGA and a select others have PSUs with connector counts for more than 4 GPUS on a single PSU. Each rig has a 1300 EVGA G2 series powering the AMD cards pulling 1050W max power when dual mining and a 1000w EVGA G2 powering the NVIDIA cards pulling 855w when dual mining. Everything is housed in a custom build 12-slot chassis we have manufactured by a local company.

As for your question about a bug the power WinMiner is reading is the GPU only power draw which is not the total power of the graphics card as well as the system. A reading of 100w GPU only power should see a reading at the wall of approx 130-140w depending on what's being mined so I'd say everything is working normal.

that's very, very interesting... Nice, now I know my Vega 64 cards rig is finely tuned. What stills puzzles me is the fact that the numbers are "too precise". I mean, they are always either 99W or 100W...

Although I kinda knew the rig was well tuned after measuring the power draw at the wall, that also confirms it. I am going to check the reported power draw of WinMiner on my Vega 56, 'cos I now know it's not a bug.

In regards to the 8 cards limit, I commented on that, and someone told me this "Windows HAD an 8 GPU limitation, the fall creators update and subsequent AMD/Nvidia drivers fixed it. Now we do not know if any OS or Driver limit exists anymore (max ive read people being able to do is 22 GPU's using mining cards and splitters etc).".

So maybe you can actually try more cards! Best regards.