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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Building Cheap Miners : My "Secret"
by
SixLitr
on 17/07/2019, 22:04:29 UTC
The HT Assist was in fact enabled, and C1E was disabled, swapped those.

Result of TurionPowerControl:
Code:
Main processor is Family 15h (Bulldozer/Interlagos/Valencia) Processor
        Family: 0xf             Model: 0x1              Stepping: 0x2
        Extended Family: 0x15   Extended Model: 0x1
        Package Type: 0x3       BrandId: 0x0
Machine has 8 nodes
Processor has 8 cores
Processor has 8 p-states
Processor has 2 boost states

Power States table:
-- Node: 0 Core 0
core 0 pstate 0 (pb0) - En:1 VID:19 FID:16 DID:0.00 Freq:3200 VCore:1.3125
core 0 pstate 1 (pb1) - En:1 VID:33 FID:10 DID:0.00 Freq:2600 VCore:1.1375
core 0 pstate 2 (p0) - En:1 VID:39 FID:7 DID:0.00 Freq:2300 VCore:1.0625
core 0 pstate 3 (p1) - En:1 VID:41 FID:5 DID:0.00 Freq:2100 VCore:1.0375
core 0 pstate 4 (p2) - En:1 VID:44 FID:2 DID:0.00 Freq:1800 VCore:1.0000
core 0 pstate 5 (p3) - En:1 VID:47 FID:0 DID:0.00 Freq:1600 VCore:0.9625
core 0 pstate 6 (p4) - En:1 VID:50 FID:12 DID:1.00 Freq:1400 VCore:0.9250
core 0 pstate 7 (p5) - En:0 VID:0 FID:0 DID:0.00 Freq:1600 VCore:1.5500

I went ahead and changed the power control from 6 to 1 successfully and results for all 4 CPUs are [9073H/s]

Code:
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1318.61 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1313.64 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1313.27 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1314.09 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1312.53 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1303.8 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 604.595 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 596.604 hashes per second

A performance increase to be sure for the first 3 CPUs, however I suspect there may be some issues with that last CPU, or possibly a memory placement/configuration issue.

Running the test again now at psmax 6 results a slightly higher performance overall, simply because that last CPU isn't reporting so low [9266H/s]

Code:
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1188.97 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1184.08 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1183.85 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1184.04 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1183.31 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1178.12 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1088.27 hashes per second
Calculated result: d6660144e9a2e68bf47d7cc8afc206672e72f82dfff69fe0d974531e85f7504f
Performance: 1078.13 hashes per second