Ignore him, he's a douche nozzle. Not worth the effort.

When I specify a coin type in awesome miner, it doesn't save the info. Each time it switches algos I have to reenter the coin type.

Is this normal, or am I doing it wrong?

So I just upgraded my rx480s to 1080 ti, and have some questions.

First; Winminer wont seem to run the Lyra miner. No matter how many time I benchmark, or even manually select that miner, it refuses to use it. Frustrating, as that seems to me the most profitable algo according to Whattomine.

Second: Since it wont use the Lyra miner, Zen seems the next most profitable currently. When comparing the results of Zen in Winminer against Awesome Miner/MPH, Winminer reports $3.90-ish usd per card, while MPH says I'm getting around 5.75-ish usd per card. Hash rates were nearly identical.

Id heard rumors that Winminer wasn't reporting the full production, and really hoped that wasn't the case.

These results, although anecdotal, are not reassuring.

So why are you reading/posting in a altcoin mining forum?

Please. Offer something constructive to the subject of the thread, or find another thread to post in.

Thanks for the quick replies. I see the same 1070 and 1070ti are fairly close in price. Is the ti price premium justified?

With the recent price spike up to 19k, I was lucky enough to be sitting in front of my PC at the right time and cashed out part my initial investment into crypto. I'm now looking to diversify by putting that capital back into mining equipment.

Vega? 1080 ti? ASIC? Wait for the next best GPU?

Ive got 4 rx480s running now for the least few months, so I have a base of mining knowledge. Just not sure in which direction to take the next step.

Thanks in advance!

link?

Good info! Thank you.

Would the Dagger pools fall under ETC mining?  Im using Nicehash and it doesn't often have me mining in those pools. My 480s almost never mine on Dagger pools, and my 570 only occasionally.

That's what I'm doing now, but the blockchain driver is inadequate for significant gaming loads. AMD makes reference to this in their release notes, and after testing last night I can confirm. Not the same experience as with current driver offerings. Tonight I'll install current drivers and retest my hash rates. Then I'll be better informed about where I'm going to compromise.

Not a big deal really. My goal with this rig was a hybrid mining/gaming/homeoffice build and its been great in that regard. Now I'm just trying to find the balance between reliability and the last 2-3% of performance.

Correct 

Ive got 3 cards in my mining rig. Ideally I would run my 2 rx480 as dedicated miners on the AMD blockchain driver, and my rx570 on the most recent AMD driver. This would allow my to dual purpose the 570 for mining when idle, but leave me an option for gaming when desired.

Am I asking for too much?

OK, I got all the cards up and running and are currently mining as we speak. I ended up haveing to clear my cmos and everything started working as needed. I have overclocked my system with the two cards installed, things went bad when I tried to install the 3rd. All good now.

A follow up questions though:

You had linked to the mining drivers from AMD. Is there a way to point the two dedicated mining cards to use the mining drivers, and run my 3rd card on a standard driver? In a perfect world I would be able to game on one card while the other two are dedicated to mining. I tried doing this via windows device manager, but Windows wont let me and tells me I already have the best driver installed.

Am I asking for too much?

Thanks again!

Thank you very much for your help with this, I really appreciate it.

I will try your suggestions tomorrow and follow up.

Correct: the 570 does not show up in the device manager.

I can either have all three cards visible in the device manager with the infamous yellow triangle indicating they are not working properly, or I can have the 2 480s working fine and the 570 not showing up in the device manager at all.

Here is a more direct question:

Can a person run two different rx series cards on the same driver?

If yes, does it matter if 2 of the three cards are using a modded bios?

I have plenty of PSU for my task according to any of the calculators I can find online. Its a Corsair 750w.

Edited my post. I meant to say 570 instead of 50.

I have tried the pixel patcher and that gets my 480s working again in nicehash, but then I cant see the 570 in the device manager.

Greetings,

New to the msg board and crypto mining, not new to bitcoin.

I currently have the following hardware mining successfully on nicehash:

i7 5820k
MSI x99s Plus motherboard
4x4gb ddr4
RX480 x 2

I have the 2 480s bios modded and clocked/volted with afterburner. Working great, very stable. On the latest AMD drivers released 11/2/17.

I wanted to add a 3rd card with bone stock settings (asus strix rx570) that I would use to display/game while the 2 480s churned in the background. When the PC was sitting idle I would begin mining with the 570 as well. That was my plan at least.

When I install the 570 it all goes to crap. The 570 will work initially, then the display goes black. If I switch the hdmi to a 480 for display, I can no longer see the 570 in windows device manager. Would there be some driver conflict because the 480s have modded bios and the 570 is stock?

Im stumped. Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas for me...