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Re: PhoenixMiner 4.6c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)
by
NCarter84
on 16/09/2019, 14:33:11 UTC

I own now 2x Sapphire 5700XT.

I have used Adrenaline 1.9.2.2 and classic setting posted on this topic; -tt 62  -cclock 1300 -cvddc 800 -mclock 900 -hstats 2 it gives 52,x MH but it fails in minutes.

I have tried lower or bigger -cvvdc between 750 and 900mV, even lower/higher -tt, it fails randomly showing 0.00MH.

I tried also to keep memory stock (875MHz), it fails randomly, same problem and miner stays locked, mouse too, just hard reset works.

When I have removed -hstats 2 command, keeping just  -tt 62  -cclock 1300 -cvddc 800 -mclock 900, it worked fine 12 hours but I just tried last sollution: I have deleted all commands -tt 62  -cclock 1300 -cvddc 800 -mclock 900 -hstats 2 from ,bat file and I have used just Msi Afterburner 4.6.2 beta 2           https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html        wich full controls power limit, voltage and frequency, now I left voltage unattended (1187mV), GPU frequency stock, memory increased at 900MHz and power limit down to -43 or even -44%.

Works flawless.

It looks as the much commands gived to the miner (tt 62  -cclock 1300 -cvddc 800 -mclock 900 -hstats 2), especially -hstats 2,  gives driver error (atimtag.dll) and locks the miner...

So, I keept settings as in picture attached and .bat file as simple, without extra commands ex:  PhoenixMiner.exe -pool ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555 -pool2 ssl://us1.ethermine.org:5555 -wal your wallet adress.rig name, and is rock solid.

https://i.postimg.cc/RhtKXjtg/Best-settings.jpg
  It is important to avoid using both the PhoenixMiner hardware control options and third party programs (e.g. Afterburner) at the same time. While we use the AMD provided API to do most of the hardware control and monitoring, most of these programs use lower-level undocumented access and doing both at the same time can lead to driver lock ups. Note that Afterburner must be completely closed, not only minimized to tray in order to stop interacting with the GPUs. Or, alternatively, you should use only Afterburner (or other third party program) and none of PhoenixMiner hardware control options.



I tried both ways, and still would get hashrate drops to 0 mhs and a miner restart... After sometime, it would just lock the rig up. I was mining Ubiq, so there might be some issues there.... However, I did switch to Nicehash/Claymore for a test and haven't had any miner restarts/rig locks in 18 hours... I'm going to come back to PM after 24 hours and connect to NH and see how it performs.