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Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
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Walrusbonzo
on 21/04/2021, 19:51:45 UTC
Any of you guys have a 8-10% difference between effective current hashrate and current hashrate ?

I’m using pheonixminer on ethermine .

Yes, I had a lot of stale shares with pheonixminer. So I switched to Trex and the problem disappeared. I'm using Nanopool.

But its odd cause my 1070 rig reports the same on all counts . The 3080’s are the ones with issues

Same problem here, my 2080Ti, 3060Ti and 1660 were all fine with PhoenixMiner, only the 3080s had stale shares
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 10/04/2021, 09:03:11 UTC
Any of you guys have a 8-10% difference between effective current hashrate and current hashrate ?

I’m using pheonixminer on ethermine .

Yes, I had a lot of stale shares with pheonixminer. So I switched to Trex and the problem disappeared. I'm using Nanopool.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 31/03/2021, 19:26:58 UTC
My cards have been mining fine for almost 50 days non stop, 3080s are the way

image:
https://ibb.co/h1Db7JZ

card #3 crazy efficiency, almost like my best 3060 ti

170w! That's insane. I'm wondering if it's a misreading it's so good.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: XMR RandomX mining with Ryzen 3900x
by
Walrusbonzo
on 29/03/2021, 20:51:04 UTC
I wasn't 100% sure what you meant by next line prefetch. Did you mean disabling hardware prefetch in the BIOS or setting scratchpad prefetch mode in the XMRig config.json file to 0 from 1?

Thanks, RAM timing did better than I expected, however, one has to know what one is doing to get it right.

Next line prefetch is when the CPU speculatively prefetches the next cache line to optimize sequential memory access.
It's no good for random access. It's reported as "MSR MOD" by xmrig, need to run as admin.

Xmrig is smart enough to optimize the number of threads, are you sure you were using all 32?

The best performance is usually 1 thread for every 2MB of cache. This matches up with the number
of physical cores on most mainstream CPUs, meaning hyperthreading isn't necessary or helpful.

You know what, I realised I've made a big mistake  Roll Eyes.... I've confused the MSR Mod and huge page options! I'll edit my existing post and test with huge pages off tomorrow.

I'm definitely using all 32, same with my 3950x. As you suggest though, this isn't optimal for all CPUs, my 9900k definitely performs better using 8 threads(as opposed to 16) preferably with affinity set to 1 per physical core.

It seems to be a Ryzen thing where performance is better with all threads used.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: XMR RandomX mining with Ryzen 3900x
by
Walrusbonzo
on 29/03/2021, 19:21:46 UTC
I've found noticeable uplifts in performance from tuning RAM timings on my 9900K, 3950X and 5950X systems.

I'll fish out some exact numbers later from the 5950X system. I'm not sure it's 25%, but it's quite a hefty bump, I'm sure it's over 10%.

A breakdown would be interesting to measure the effects of enabling huge pages, disabling next line prefetch,
and adjusting DRAM timing.

For 24/7 running of XMRig I set a fixed CPU Vcore of 0.975v. This allows fixed clocks of 4.2GHz on the first 8 cores and 3.85GHz on the last 8 cores and a relatively low CPU package power reading of 133w in HWINFO64. RAM frequency is 1866MHz(3733mt/s) and IF is set to 1:1 with RAM frequency. There shouldn't be any random core boost behaviour affecting these results.

I'm using XMRig 6.10.0 with all 32 threads activated as this provides the best performance.

My 24/7 settings, tuned RAM timings + huge pages ON - 19,830 h/s

Tuned RAM Timings + Huge Pages OFF - 18,350 h/s.

Stock RAM timings + Huge Pages On - 17,480 h/s.

Stock RAM timings + Huge Pages OFF -  14,275 h/s.

Ordering the performance uplift from each change combination
Huge pages off to on for Tuned RAM timings gives a 1480h/s uplift, 8%
Stock RAM timings to Tuned RAM timings with Huge Pages on gives a 2350h/s uplift, 13.4%
Huge pages off to on for Stock RAM timings gives a 3205h/s uplift, 22.5%
Stock RAM timings to Tuned RAM timings with Huge Pages off gives a 4075h/s uplift, 28.5%

It seems for me, tuned RAM timings provide a bigger performance uplift than using huge pages. Turning huge pages on gives a bigger benefit where stock/poor RAM timings are used.

You're probably wondering what RAM timings I've tuned. I change nearly all primaries and secondaries, some tertiaries too. Command Rate is 1t and GDM is on in both cases.

Stock primaries are 18,20,20,44,92(RC). Tuned I'm running 14,14,14,30,44.

I can't remember stock for the following, but I tune tRRDS 4, tRRDL 6, tWTRS 4, tWTRL 12, tWR 12, tCWL 14, tFAW 16, tRTP 8

You've probably guessed I'm running RAM sticks with Samsung B-die Wink I'm running 4 sticks as well so Rank interleaving is enabled also. Not sure how much that is helping me.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: XMR RandomX mining with Ryzen 3900x
by
Walrusbonzo
on 29/03/2021, 16:26:20 UTC
I don't know MSI either but RandomX isn't dependant on DRAM speed so it's a waste of time to tweak it.
Don't spread lies. It is dependant on RAM speed and latency, we're talking about the difference between 12 kh/s and 15 kh/s on 3900X.

Randomx is dependant on latency which is why cache performance is more important than DRAM speed. There's no way
increasing DRAM performance, even by 25%, will increase the hashrate by the same amount. Huge pages, on the other
hand, can have that much of an effect by reducing effective memory latency with fewer TLB lookups.

I stand by my advice. There's nothing wrong with faster DRAM, it's just low on the priority list in this case.

I've found noticeable uplifts in performance from tuning RAM timings on my 9900K, 3950X and 5950X systems.

I'll fish out some exact numbers later from the 5950X system. I'm not sure it's 25%, but it's quite a hefty bump, I'm sure it's over 10%.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 29/03/2021, 16:01:23 UTC
https://github.com/Kerney666/trm-ethash-miner-tester
Phoenix miner inflates hashrate by about 3%.


So 3080’s don’t actually do 100mhs ?

If pheonix miners inflated the hashrate wouldnt it be reported 3% lower on the pool side ?

3080s can still do 100mh/s+ without using Phoenix, it's a bit of a silicon lottery.

I use Trex miner. 5 x 3080s. 2 do 102.8mh/s, 1 x 100.9mh/s, 1 x 98.8mh/s, 1 x 96mh/s

In fact, I had to stop using Phoenix miner for my 3080 rig as I got way too many stale shares.
All these figures are a bit pointless without mentioning power level/draw etc. I'm sure even my Shitabyte Gaming OC can do these figures if I increase power.


Hopefully this suits your needs.  Included the memory temps for the Shitabyte Gaming OC cards Wink The "hot" one is the MSI Suprim.

https://imgur.com/a/Bjua0cL

Can you share your settings? 73/76c junction temp is really impressive. environment temp?
Gigabyte version?

Ambient temp is 22c. All the Gigabyte cards are modified with new thermal pads front and rear(between the PCB and backplate).

Three of the Gigabyte cards are Gaming OC, One is a Vision. No power limit set, all have vcore locked at 725mv and using the stock core frequency "curve" for the card. I.E. there is no core frequency offset. They all vary on core clock due to silicon lottery.

The Gaming OC cards, 1 does +1175mhz memory offset(One of the 222w cards in the image), 1 does +800(226w, this card lost silicon lottery, it's really inefficient compared to the other cards I have), the last does +550 on the memory, 209w card, seems it has a power efficient core but the memory sucks. The Vision card also does +1175(222w card)

The Suprim is the most energy efficient card. I haven't modified it like the Gigabyte cards, so the memory temps are much higher and therefore I think what is holding back my memory overclock of +1000mhz.

I have 4 suprim X and one trio X on suprim fw.

Today one of the suprim X hit 110 junction temp and is now throttled at 94-96 mh. The others are all running at 99 with junction temps between 98 and 104 .

I’m surprised my trio X did not hit throttle before one suprim X .

Is my only option now to remove the backplate and change the thermal pads ?

Would msi know i opened the back plate ?

To stop thermal throttling you would need to change pads, yes... MSI would find out when they take it apart unless you put back all the original pads. Then you might get away with it.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 29/03/2021, 15:59:59 UTC

Ambient temp is 22c. All the Gigabyte cards are modified with new thermal pads front and rear(between the PCB and backplate).


Brand used? 2mm, 3mm or a mix?



I bought a sheet of this and cut it up accordingly. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/thermal-pads/1745712/
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Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 28/03/2021, 17:49:18 UTC
https://github.com/Kerney666/trm-ethash-miner-tester
Phoenix miner inflates hashrate by about 3%.


So 3080’s don’t actually do 100mhs ?

If pheonix miners inflated the hashrate wouldnt it be reported 3% lower on the pool side ?

3080s can still do 100mh/s+ without using Phoenix, it's a bit of a silicon lottery.

I use Trex miner. 5 x 3080s. 2 do 102.8mh/s, 1 x 100.9mh/s, 1 x 98.8mh/s, 1 x 96mh/s

In fact, I had to stop using Phoenix miner for my 3080 rig as I got way too many stale shares.
All these figures are a bit pointless without mentioning power level/draw etc. I'm sure even my Shitabyte Gaming OC can do these figures if I increase power.


Hopefully this suits your needs.  Included the memory temps for the Shitabyte Gaming OC cards Wink The "hot" one is the MSI Suprim.

https://imgur.com/a/Bjua0cL

Can you share your settings? 73/76c junction temp is really impressive. environment temp?
Gigabyte version?

Ambient temp is 22c.

Three of the Gigabyte cards are Gaming OC, One is a Vision. No power limit set, all have vcore locked at 725mv and using the stock core frequency "curve" for the card. They all vary on core clock due to silicon lottery.

The Gaming OC cards, 1 does +1175mhz memory offset(One of the 222w cards in the image), 1 does +800(226w, this card lost silicon lottery, it's really inefficient compared to the other cards I have), the last does +550 on the memory, 209w card. The Vision card also does +1175(222w card)

The Suprim is the most energy efficient card. I haven't modified it like the Gigabyte cards, so the memory temps are much higher and therefore I think what is holding back my memory overclock of +1000mhz.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 28/03/2021, 10:27:44 UTC
https://github.com/Kerney666/trm-ethash-miner-tester
Phoenix miner inflates hashrate by about 3%.


So 3080’s don’t actually do 100mhs ?

If pheonix miners inflated the hashrate wouldnt it be reported 3% lower on the pool side ?

3080s can still do 100mh/s+ without using Phoenix, it's a bit of a silicon lottery.

I use Trex miner. 5 x 3080s. 2 do 102.8mh/s, 1 x 100.9mh/s, 1 x 98.8mh/s, 1 x 96mh/s

In fact, I had to stop using Phoenix miner for my 3080 rig as I got way too many stale shares.
All these figures are a bit pointless without mentioning power level/draw etc. I'm sure even my Shitabyte Gaming OC can do these figures if I increase power.


Hopefully this suits your needs.

https://imgur.com/a/Bjua0cL
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: AMD Mem Tweak XL - Read/modify timings/pp/straps on the fly
by
Walrusbonzo
on 25/03/2021, 09:55:07 UTC
is there anything like this for RX 6800 series?

As far as I'm aware, not yet Sad
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: RTX 3080 hashrate drop list
by
Walrusbonzo
on 25/03/2021, 09:26:03 UTC
https://github.com/Kerney666/trm-ethash-miner-tester
Phoenix miner inflates hashrate by about 3%.


So 3080’s don’t actually do 100mhs ?

If pheonix miners inflated the hashrate wouldnt it be reported 3% lower on the pool side ?

3080s can still do 100mh/s+ without using Phoenix, it's a bit of a silicon lottery.

I use Trex miner. 5 x 3080s. 2 do 102.8mh/s, 1 x 100.9mh/s, 1 x 98.8mh/s, 1 x 96mh/s
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA kernels.
by
Walrusbonzo
on 19/03/2021, 21:06:23 UTC
Ok then. let's see if SP can surprise us this time.

Goals of my ethereum miner.

1. Hash at full speed on 3060 rigs
2. Create the best runtime strap mods of the memory timings. GDDR6 support.  No bios flashing needed (Nvidia/AMD supported)
3. Try to remove the decline of hashrate on older cards like the 1080ti.
4. Linux support

Create a stable and new stratum implementation from scratch with improved fee code inside. (This work is currently in progress by a friend of mine)

I will probobly not add api and monitoring.

Good luck one point 2. If you could add GDDR6X to that list that would be awesome too  Grin
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Re: [ANN] Ħ [HODL] No Staking, 1% Standard Interest per Day, 750% APR For HOdlers
by
Walrusbonzo
on 19/03/2021, 20:44:44 UTC
Is HODL going to be one of those waking up?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/zero-to-6-000-in-seven-days-dormant-altcoins-are-coming-back-to-life
Quote
A rising tide lifts all boats — even those previously thought to be shipwrecked. At least that’s how it looked on Wednesday when some previously dormant altcoins erupted back to life, experiencing spikes ranging between 3,000% and 6,500% for the week.

Would be good if it did!
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Re: [ANN] [PoW] [PoS] VEIL - Privacy without compromise
by
Walrusbonzo
on 08/10/2020, 07:48:47 UTC
Dead coin. Big shame.

The project is still alive. There is a defunct Veil that was a prediction market and derivatives platform.

Veil privacy coin will be making a major development update soon so stay tuned!

Maybe he was talking about this particular coin, since he/she maybe don't like that the price went under the water. I remember Veil when it was like $0.20 and now... we all know how much is it.

You're right, I was talking about this coin. Almost no activity for over half a year now. All talk and nothing to show for it. I haven't had a stake in over 6 months either, yet prior to that I was getting 2 or 3 a month, every month.

In that time, the price has crashed, not surprising really.
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Re: [ANN] [PoW] [PoS] VEIL - Privacy without compromise
by
Walrusbonzo
on 15/09/2020, 21:18:06 UTC
Dead coin. Big shame.
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Re: [ANN][ELI] Elicoin (CPU mining only) EXCHANGE AVAILABLE!
by
Walrusbonzo
on 27/08/2020, 15:17:34 UTC
Dead coin!
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: AMD Memory Tweak - Read and modify memory timings on the fly - [Vega Friendly]
by
Walrusbonzo
on 25/03/2019, 19:22:34 UTC
I don't have any AMD cards anymore, but I remember you from way back when I did and I was modding my own BIOSes. Full credit to you for sharing this phenomenal piece of work.
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Re: [ANN][ELI] Elicoin (CPU mining only) EXCHANGE AVAILABLE!
by
Walrusbonzo
on 24/03/2019, 16:41:04 UTC
In case someone need it , here is the jareso experimental miner.

It is NVIDIA miner for algo yescrypR16 only .

It is well known that there is a GPU miner for that algo by KlausT ... but this one is about 80 - 90 % faster !

When you run it it mine 10 minute for the dev ...and then for you. I checked it and it isnt any virus / trojan etc...

So if someone wants to try it here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V0OJmSlSM8xGiSICDhgB7kGraqulzZfW


Thanks for sharing, unfortunately the link is now dead.

I've tried finding it elsewhere but so far have come up with nothing Sad

Are you able to re-share it somewhere?

Yes ... It was on google drive and they deleted it.
I uploaded it here (link for 30 days):

https://ufile.io/hd0xi

Please report your hashrate .


Thanks. I found out who the developer was and contacted him directly and he provided me with a few newer binaries as I was testing on a 2080Ti, something he didn't have to test with.

I can get around 9.5kh/s on a single 2080Ti at 100% power limit. 70% sees me drop to 9kh/s, 50% takes me down to just under 8kh/s.
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Re: [ANN][ELI] Elicoin (CPU mining only) EXCHANGE AVAILABLE!
by
Walrusbonzo
on 17/03/2019, 06:24:09 UTC
In case someone need it , here is the jareso experimental miner.

It is NVIDIA miner for algo yescrypR16 only .

It is well known that there is a GPU miner for that algo by KlausT ... but this one is about 80 - 90 % faster !

When you run it it mine 10 minute for the dev ...and then for you. I checked it and it isnt any virus / trojan etc...

So if someone wants to try it here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V0OJmSlSM8xGiSICDhgB7kGraqulzZfW


Thanks for sharing, unfortunately the link is now dead.

I've tried finding it elsewhere but so far have come up with nothing Sad

Are you able to re-share it somewhere?