Hi everyone, I am just getting back into mining and figured I'd test on my regular home PC running windows 7. I had an old R9 280x and am getting ~13 MH/s with a stock Claymore setup. I saw that the RX 480's get mid 20's and use less power, so I sprung for a ASUS rx480 8gb model. I was only able to get about 14.5 MH/s with the new rx 480. Something was obviously wrong. I tried multiple drivers but no luck. Attached are screenshots BEFORE I blew the poor thing up with a bad bios file. Wondering if anyone can spot what I was doing wrong (before the obvious bios snafu), and also if someone could toss me some breadcrumbs for some safe but more effective bios settings. I suppose in hindsight I should have left the bios alone since 14.5 MH/s was likely a hardware or driver issue. I'll bootstrap-slap the old bios back into the card if I can, which will take a bit so no rush!
I used to mine a few litecoins back in 2014. I recall you needed the SDK and had to properly init the miner using that environment. I couldn't find any reference to this in the FAQs, so is this still a thing?
Thanks in advance!
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Question: On TechPowerUp GPU-Z, is it normal for GPU only power draw to fluctuate wildly from 30W to 130W? I can try to swap PSU tomorrow - think I'm burnt for today
So my current settings are:
-tt 72 (basically will increase fan speed earlier to keep my temp down)
-powlim -10
-dcri 15
-ttli 77 (insurance policy if fan dies or something)
I'm going to keep at it, but hope this helps someone. If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know - I'm just getting back into things and really know next to nothing about the new graphics cards. Last time I mined was with R9 280's on CentOS.
I've been having a hard time finding a successful low power/high hashrate for this particular card. Have you had any luck since?
https://mega.nz/#!M14GXLgS!n03dhVJZeHkTyFff48dpUqFE8hK3Rj0Ek7D8dcB7vMY