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Re: [ANN] TeamRedMiner 0.9.1 - Ethash/FiroPow/Kawpow/Etchash/Autolykos2 and More

dastardlyman12

on 11/03/2022, 18:09:42 UTC

very impressed with this miner
i manage a LOT of polaris - see the dastardlyman youtube channel recent video.

first the eth plus ton has ran great - some cards you turn intensity down a bit but its all good.
the second bit is we have a lot of old cards that are lets face it shagged. worn out.
they wont run stable on phoenix. but used with trm in pure eth mode or eth plus zero ton
they are stable and mine just fine.

for instance ive got a shagged 5600xt here at home
it wont run stable at any speed on phoenix.
but its doing stable 37 m hash on trm
if i slide the memclock up beyond 1750 trm doesnt crash but it goes weird
basically stops mining but then when i slide the mem back to 1750
it mines away like a trooper and forgets that i oversped the ram too much
ive never seen software do that - amazing - not crash!

i like the trm honest hashrate counter
best wishes from manchester uk

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Re: SRBMiner-MULTI AMD & CPU Miner 0.8.9

dastardlyman12

on 04/02/2022, 22:42:13 UTC

not a newbie.had this conversation before. manage a crap ton of rigs (60 plus now??)
£30,000 of crypto nicked - could put that story on youtube
this place would still say im a newbie
when the crypto is nicked - you grow up.

srb with cosanta looks INTERESTING

hello doctor83
thank you doctor - your software rocks- its not messing with the ethereum minings

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Re: SRBMiner-MULTI AMD & CPU Miner 0.8.9

dastardlyman12

on 04/02/2022, 22:30:44 UTC

hello doctor83.
this cosanta thing is very interesting
i have intel cpu (about 40 haswel xeons) and amd cpu (eight ryzens like 3600, 3900 and 3950).
im not getting any hashrate boost on amd cpu with msr on cosanta
i try msr preset and msr tweak separate and together

i think this is because your software auto load best amd ryzen msr settings.
so there is nothing i can do with amd to increase hash (these cpus already hot and sweaty like a gym person)

so for amd i need faster clock ? yes?
the sweaty smell is too much though i need a bigger gym with more windows or close the gym and buy
big meat freezer. ah yes cold and no sweaties.
thank you from manchester where we mine like sweaty gymsters

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.7b: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 26/09/2021, 13:50:58 UTC

this is the config.txt from one of our rigs

-pool eu1.ethermine.org:4444
-wal 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.chippy
-proto 3
-eworker chippy
-lidag 1
-gser 1
-acm
-tt -90
-amd
-dbg -1
-hstats 2
-cdm 0
-rmode 2
-ttli 65
-dagrestart 1
-gpus 12345

-mclock 1760,1760,1750,1760,2040
-cclock 1200,1200,920,940,1120
-cvddc 830,830,830,830,875
-mvddc 800,815,815,830,875
-mi 12,12,11,11,11

the rig is rx5700, rx5600, rx5500 and rx570
everything in the config.txt does something useful
the readme.txt provided with phoenix miner will tell you what all the things in the config.txt do.
anybody who doesn't understand should read the readme.txt
once you understand you can look at my config.txt and decide what is right for your amd rig

we have a lot of rigs .our main issue this summer has been heat -ttli have saved us from a lot of headaches
everything we have is bios modded and was dialed back at the start of summer so for instance this rig can run with vram faster
during the winter.
we use windows 10 ghost spectre on every rig. no updates no bloat no telemetry.
we use dwagent for remote access
and yes every rig is also on raptoreum or turtle or monero ocean
you can cpu mine without affecting ethereum hashrate at all.
do some tests find out what works. ive found that cpus with onboard graphics
like xeon e3-1245-v3 or i5 4440 can have all threads on raptoreum at cpu priority 1 without affecting eth hash .
cpus without onboard graphics like ryzen 3600 - you need to mine on 11 threads - keep one for phoenixminer.

read the readme.txt get knowledge
best wishes to the community
im dastardlyman on youtube and the same on discord.
my videos are out of date

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.6d: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 14/08/2021, 21:14:46 UTC

thanks for letting me know why its says im a "newbie"
was at the eth farm today replaced two risers and found that we have at least 5 failed gpu fans
turtlecoin is pumping - stop mining it so i can get some ;-)
best wishes to the durrty miners
gpu prices in the uk are a little lower and my partners have started buying them again
buy them summer 2022 thats what i say nobody listens to me until its too late

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.6d: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 11/08/2021, 10:59:12 UTC

why the hell does it say "newbie"
i manage 30 rigs have been mining since december 2016
have sanded my radeon 7 heatsink flat it gets 90 megahash on air, broke another radeon 7 (cried),
tuned the hell out of over 250 gpus from rx460s through the whole range . bios modded everything that can be
got a vega fe to run at 45 megahash (it still is) . . . . im not a newbie for gods sake
all our rigs are on turtle, monero or raptoreum in addition to eth. totally stable mostly
in fact most of our problems are pci risers - not gpus or software
ha ha .
bestwishes to the durrty miners

dwagent is great for remote access on windows and its free

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.6d: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 11/08/2021, 10:48:30 UTC

we have about 30 rigs- all amd -all windows 10 ghost spectre (no updates no bloat no telemetry)
been trying 5.7b with the -clkernel 3 option

all the rigs that are "on the ragged edge" showed no improvement.
eg a nice rx580 rig thats fully tuned and gets 185 megahash for over a year now - no improvement
all the shagged old gpus that are core 950 and mem 1800 wont take clkernel 3 at all

but the polaris gpus we have that are not on the ragged edge show a very slight improvement with clkernel 3

if you dont want to break a gpu set -ttli70 (or even lower) - we ran through the recent uk heatwave with no breakages

if you have reboot.bat and -rmode 2 your rig will reboot if a gpu hangs - very useful
if you watch you can see which gpus fail with clkernel 3 and set them to clkernel 1
so if gpus 1 and 6 don't like it you set
-clkernel 1,3,3,3,3,1
also if your gpu is running a screen its more likely to not like clkernel 3

hope this helps someone
ps fave gpu is still sapphire nitro rx470 all ours get 30 megahash but only require one 6 pin power cable

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.6d: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 30/06/2021, 09:33:43 UTC

Hello folks.
i recommend windows 10 ghost spectre
no bloat no updates no telemetry.
This is how all are rigs are done:

Setup a usb stick done with rufus and "MBR" with the ghost spectre iso.

get your rig with ssd - do a fresh (wipe the ssd) install of windows ghost spectre using the stick you have just prepared
take the ethernet out BEFORE you start.
make sure you have a copy of the amd driver - eg 20.9.1 or 21.3.1 and install it on the rig
when amd driver installed then plug the internet in.
thats it. you still need to do stuff like pixel patcher and compute mode and virtual memory but you only do it once
windows will not screw anything up afterwards.

we have 30 odd rigs none of them have updated or done anything at all to screw mining up.

do a test install of ghost spectre you will be amazed.

the only reason i unplug the internet is so can customise windows and make sure i get the right amd driver on there.
spectre will try and get the amd driver itself if you dont do it first. but spectre wont update after you have the base system
done.
we use phoenix cos of the -ttli feature and we have dwagent on each rig for remote access
no need for hiveos

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Re: [ANN] TeamRedMiner 0.8.3 - Ethash/Kawpow/Etchash/Autolykos2 and More

dastardlyman12

on 27/06/2021, 15:40:00 UTC

strange request

I have access to a vega frontier edition water cooled
it has 16gb of hbm2
the card looks great - but thats about it. LOL.

to get it to mine i have to use the amd driver 19.7.1 and do the "is gaming mode driver" registry hack.
then apply some trick timings using amdmemtweakxl ive got it to 45 megahash
with core at 1050 and mem at 1060

but B mode will not enable
the 45 megahash is using A mode or the competition's miner

you cannot use a modern driver with this card because it forces professional creator mode and you lose ALL
control of clocks etc. it defaults to high core clock and low hbm clock exactly what you DONT want for mining

ive not tried linux but i dont think its any better

can i force B mode on amd driver 19.7.1 or is it a lost cause??
many thanks

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Re: [ANN] TeamRedMiner 0.8.3 - Ethash/Kawpow/Etchash/Autolykos2 and More

dastardlyman12

on 16/06/2021, 21:45:58 UTC

I manage about 30 amd rigs in the birmingham area of the uk.

really like your miner - it does all you claim and is slightly better than the competition.
its especially good on radeon VII and rx5700 .

at present the rigs all have the following set in the config.txt file
core clock
mem clock
core volts
mem volts
fixed fan speed
max temp before gpu throttles (this is vital)

theres other stuff but those 6 things are the main ones.

if your miner could set those 6 things within its config - i would dump the competition and use your miner on all rigs.
yes i know about overdriventool and msi afterburner but in my experience on rigs with 470, 570,480,580,5500, 5700, radeon vii -
those tools are hit and miss and too much trubble .
we use windows 10 ghost spectre (no updates, bloat or telemetry) and mostly amd driver 20.9.1
the one rig that isnt 20.9.1 - has a vega frontier edition 16gb water cooled - i should do a video on
that rig - what a palaver to get that card mining. but we did it with driver 19.7.1 and the registry hack

ghost spectre rocks - you will be amazed. no updates . rock solid . tiny ram usage . tiny disk usage.
best wishes from manchester uk

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.6d: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 01/06/2021, 19:36:52 UTC

We have a lot of amd based rigs in the midlands area of the uk.
the -ttli feature is very very useful
its been VERY hot today and yesterday
set -ttli 70 on the config file of each rig about three weeks ago

nothing overheated over these last few days.
everything throttled back in the heat of afternoon . very nice.
and they speed up again at night.

we use ghost spectre windows 10 - no updates no bloat and no telemetery.
mix of rx5700 , 580s, 5600s 470s 480s all sorts. amd driver 20.9.1 or later

a lot of folk dont read the readme file that comes with phoenix
you should - the feature you need is probably described in the readme.

so top tip - set -ttli 70 and maybe even -mi 8 in the summer heat
prevent damage to your cards and rigs

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Re: AMD Mem Tweak XL - Read/modify timings/pp/straps on the fly

dastardlyman12

on 21/12/2020, 19:57:33 UTC

RX5600XT top tip.
the bios that famous mining youtubers have made available for rx5600xt
just wont install on rx5600xt using the recommended amdflash 3.04 (ssid mismatch)
you can force it on using amdflash 2.93 even though this is not meant to work - it does.
treat 5600 as 5700 for forcing bios on.
after doing this i got 43 megahash but my vram was getting hot.
i adjusted the fan turn on and off points downward using morepower tool
and flashed that on. all good now. ho ho ho happy xmas

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Re: AMD Mem Tweak XL - Read/modify timings/pp/straps on the fly

dastardlyman12

on 21/12/2020, 19:47:15 UTC

Vega frontier edition water cooled.
just to confirm you can get this to mine on latest windows 10 on latest phoenix miner 5.4c.
the pro drivers are no use cos they lock core at 1600 and hbm at 945 using huge power .
you have zero control with pro drivers and hash arty stuck at 36 mhash.

so do amdcleanup in safe mode then install driver 19.7.1
then you add registry dword KMD_IsGamingDriver
set it's value to 1
reboot
you put it with all the other dword that start with KMD - so search for KMD
we found them in a different subfolder from the one mentioned in other guides

once you reboot the driver will be red (rather than pro blue) and you can control everything with the phoenix config.txt
just like every other rx card.
we went up to 41 mhash and dropped a MASSIVE 100watts at the wall !
our approx config was
core 1040
mem 1060 (this determines hashrate so its up 12% from stock )
core volts 900mv
mem volts 1000 mv
fan
-tt -60 (fixed fan at 60%)
did not wanna push the mem any higher and with this config everything seems fine and dandy
will reduce volts if its stable .

why would you get a vega fe and mine with it?
thats a whole other question.
but it looks amazing its the "golden" child of gpu minings.
rx5600xt draws about half the power of vega fe for same hashrate approx

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.3b: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 12/12/2020, 12:40:55 UTC

many thanks mister phoenix
put latest phoenix (5.4) and amd driver 20.5.1 on the two radeon VII rigs
hashrate restored! back up to 83 meghash from 80.
gt value has changed but all good

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.3b: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 06/12/2020, 13:13:22 UTC

lost radeon VII hashrate when we hit dag 379
amd driver 20.3.1
something peculier has just happened.
this may help vega and radeon vii owners
i updated my radeonvii rig to latest windows 10 called 20H2
then went back into updates and did the 20h2 optional update thingy.
it takes a few minutes and two reboots required
started miner - got 80 mhash per card - the expected reduced rate.
waited three hours and -
just now the rig stopped itself.
i restarted it and phoenix saying "unknown opencl version" but ive got my missing hashes back.
windows has updated something to do with opencl and the hashes are back. 83mhash per card
hmm
cant say i undertstand this at all.
am getting shares - seems to be ok - no problems

i didnt update opencl - windows did itself.

dag 380 due in two hours wonder what will happen then?

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.3b: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 02/12/2020, 16:12:44 UTC

windows 10 version 2004
amd driver 20.3.1
two rigs both with 2 radeon VIIs

at dag switch to 379 both rigs went from 83 mHash per card to 75 mhash per card
the gt value was 50 on all cards
so re-ran phoenix and got new gt value of 6
but cards only recovered to 80.5 mhash

so the radeon VIIs have lost a little hash.
there was defintely some weirdness at dag switch over.
would love to get those missing hashes back. is driver 20.3.1 the problem??
great work phoenix . thank you for your time sorting these issues for us all.

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.1c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 31/10/2020, 18:13:39 UTC

i tried installing the very latest windows 10
(version 2009)
phoenix crashes out straight away (so does claymore)
so ive wound back to version 2004 and its all fine.
i did do a proper DDU on version 2009 but that didnt help
best wishes to all the crazy miners

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Re: PhoenixMiner 5.1c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

dastardlyman12

on 29/08/2020, 19:19:50 UTC

Quote from: Binary100100 on Today at 10:33:48 AM

Quote from: UnclWish on Today at 01:55:05 AM

Quote from: Binary100100 on Today at 12:12:35 AM

So...
here's what issue I've been running into.
First... my rig:
Gigabyte GA-B250-FinTech LGA1151 Intel ATX Cryptocurrency Mining 12PCIe 3.0 DDR4 Motherboard
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07988FLFW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
100GB of virtual memory on a 500GB SSD.

I have 10 RX 5700XT cards.
(3 XFX Reference and 7 Sapphire Pulse cards dual bios cards)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TB5FBV6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WC7683C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
All ten have the 1500 strap bios mod.
Windows 10 ver 2004

Currently with PM 5.1c and Adrenaline 19.9.1

Now... for some reason my clock speeds are:
Core: 1400
Memory: 880
cvddc: 880

If I upgrade the driver (to say 20.4.2)... a random card will crash. Guaranteed. Never the same one. If I remove one I have a pretty good chance of it being stable BUT not at those clock speeds. I have to change the memory to 1750. Any higher and I get a crash. (blue screen)
Temperatures seem fine.
Command: -mi 14 -hstats 2 -mt 2 -tstart 60 -tstop 85 -wdog 1 -tt 60 -ttli 90 and I'm averaging 546.6 for all ten so that's almost 55MH/s. I can't really tell how much from the wall because I have it on a 220v circuit with two other machines but it looks as though each card is running between 104w to 110w.

So my questions:
Why is my current driver (19.9.1) displaying 880 for memory but as soon as I change driver I have to double the memory to make it work?
Why would my rig crash (BSOD) with the latest driver that everyone seems to say is "stable"?

It seems to run fine as is... but it sucks that I can never seem to update my driver. I've tried DDU and that doesn't help. I've tried MPT. I've done the bios mod... went back to stock bios (for each card that I individually saved but later found out that GPU-Z corrupts some of the saved bios files. I'm *thinking* that the GPU-Z backup was corrupted, modded with RedBiosEditor and since I flashed it to the cards I could have *possibly* messed something up... but then why would it run fine with 19.9.1 driver? Now I'm hearing from RedPanda that some manufacturers aren't even letting customers RMA their cards if they've been bios modded because of the PID mismatch so even if I acquired a fresh bios somewhere online the PID wouldn't match up.

So... I'm thinking that my best option is to find the original bios for
Sapphire 11293-01-20G Radeon PULSE RX 5700 Xt and XFX RX-57XT8MFD6 cards.
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/214054/sapphire-rx5700xt-8192-190812
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/212289/xfx-rx5700xt-8192-190616
Red Bios Edit the straps to those. Flash them individually, then with just ONE card installed flash the latest Adrenaline driver... then plug in each one separately and hope that it works.

Unless... someone else has any other suggestions.

Personally... it's working fine for me other than the fact that I can't update the drivers so I'm not in any hurry... but I am open to suggestions if anyone has them.

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Funny.
I'm actually asking for some feedback and helpful suggestions. I'm also putting it out there to see if anyone else has experienced something similar.
Everyone says that 20.4.2 is stable. That hasn't been my experience at all. Most stable for me are drivers that were released over a year ago. I'd say that almost everyone would agree that it's unusual.

have four blower 5700s i get measurably highest hashrate with amd driver 20.3.1 on windows 10 . i think serepentxsf on youtube found this out first. no point in using any other driver until 20.3.1 is beaten. my 5700 all get 56megahash with tref at 12,000 and 1500 straps . they run at 57 megahash but are not stable there. core 1250 mem 1790 core volts 785 and mvvd set at 1280 in mem tweak xl. they are rock solid for weeks now. these numbers can be beaten but blower 5700s not stable. im dastardlyman on youtube but my mining vids are out of date now

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Re: AMD Mem Tweak XL - Read/modify timings/pp/straps on the fly

dastardlyman12

on 03/07/2020, 23:02:04 UTC

ronnieb

60 megahash is the limit for now - or is it?? - see red pandas latest video on hugh tube
the core can easily go way above 1400 - so it all about ram speed and ram timings.
i have four crappy blower 5700s they all do 56.5 megahash reliably(over weeks of mining - beware of 5700s that lose RAM stability over a hot summer)
with the core at 1300 ish mem at 1800 ish
ive done the 1500 straps and modded tref to 12000.

the main trubble with 5700s is hardly anyone uses them for mining (compared with polaris)
so folk like claymore are not incentivised to sit down and do straps like polaris.

i really like 5700s they are way better than polaris.
- but if there is another mining boom the 5700s may be swept away with what is coming this winter from amd
or maybe not . . who knows. it may all be proof of steak - yum yum

WHAT WE REALLY WANT IS A DEFINITIVE BOOK ON DDR5 AND DDR6 AS USED IN PCS AND GPUS
so we can work it all out for ourselves.

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Re: [ANN] TeamRedMiner 0.7.4 - Kawpow/Ethash/Cryptonight/Chukwa Thread

dastardlyman12

on 05/06/2020, 22:23:00 UTC

I dont post very often.
last time was to say very well done to claymore for the straps and rxboost stuff.
just here to say VERY impressed with teamredminer on kawpow
ive got radeon VII and a couple of bios hacked rx 5700 blower cards.
they are getting WAY better than NBminer and nanominer on kawpow.
way better.
seem to be getting 25 on the rx5700s and 40 on the radeon Vii.

windows 10 version 2004 and amd driver 20.3.1
radeon Vii is at 1450 ish and the rx 5700s are at 1600 ish
memory at minimum speed

used amd driver to set clocks

the only thing i would like is to be able to set clocks in the config file of teamredminer.
best wishes to the devs.

ps - everyone put a limit on the clocks in the amd settings or you will melt your cards and psu
thats not a comment on teamredminer - i nearly blew my radeon VII doing kawpow on nanominer a few weeks back
pps get a killawatt