They work great on hd 7970r9 280x and earlier systems, though, and last night i managed to increase my hd 7950 test system by 20khashsec per gpu. Any veteran can tell you that there is more to mining than just creating a batch file and hitting go. To get your miner to run stable with no hardware errors, you may need to tweak the thread concurrency and. Their output and set up are very similar, and well show in the next step how to set up either. Release notes radeon software crimson relive edition 17. Sign in register latest gpu drivers nvidia geforce 445. This is from running ultratune in the modded cgminer 3. The radeon hd 7950 was an awesome card for mining litecoin, but if youre looking for the new hotness, its all about the r9 290 and r9 290x. Mining bitcoins in esxi using an xfx 7970 zsprawls zapps. Once you have decided to venture into cryptocurrency mining and have set up a mining rig, it takes time to fine tune your machine in order to have a better hashrate. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. Get to your download directory and copy them somewhere safe like. Very low overhead free c code for linux and windows with very low nonmining cpu and ram usage stratum and gbt pooled mining protocol support, including ultra low overhead solo mining scaleable networking scheduler designed to scale to any size hashrate without networking delays.
Bitcoin miner software with multithreaded multipool mining support. Our first test with amd radeon r9 280x without overclocking showed the performance of 140 khs, which means that the increase is 50% comparing to the previous versions. Two gpus but only one will mine in cgminer bitcoin stack. If you dont mind the noise or price get this card, if you do, the 280x is an excellent card. Powercolor r9 280x 3 gb bios axr9 280x 3gbd5dhe vbios info. Very low overhead free c code for linux and windows with very low nonmining cpu and ram usage stratum and gbt pooled mining protocol support, including ultra low overhead solo mining scaleable networking scheduler designed to scale to any size hashrate without networking.
Completely stable, running at 74c, and consuming 345w of power. News, the bitcoin community, innovations, the general environment, etc. Coins may be issued by everyone, one just needs considerable compute. Buy powercolor amd radeon r9 280x oc 3gb gddr5 dvihdmi2mini displayport pciexpress graphics card axr9 280x 3gbd5t2dheoc. The program lies within business tools, more precisely finances. So if i were using 1 280x and 1x 270x second cardit would look like this in cgminer. There are a few things to keep in mind when setting up a rig with the r9 cards. Power draw went down from 450w full load on 280x to 400w full load with this card, btw this is on a corsair 550d with a 3820, 5 case fans, 1 vga fan, and the kraken x40. R9 280x mining tweaks pierre3400s problem got me thinking that it might be a good idea to have a 280x specific thread for. Configuring the r9 280x for litecoin mining with cgminer. The temperature doesnt appear for either of the gpus. Radeon r9 280x litecoin mining and sweet spot for 700khash.
We have compiled the source code of the new cgminer 3. Radeon r9 280x litecoin mining and sweet spot for 700khashsec part 1. Personally, it took me days to configure my case cooling, work out stability issues, learn the cgminer commands, test them, and pouring through forums for additional advice or an edge, calculations, etc it really is a lot to take in if you are new to the scene, and the clock is ticking. Litecoin mining powercolor radeon r9 280x sweet spot for 760khashsec. If you have read about my early testings on the powercolor r9 280x for litecoin mining, you would have noticed that i shared my cgminer. Before installing sdk i fired up cgminer in scrypt mode to check power consumption, and 1260w, with engine 1065. Sep 22, 2014 download mining software the choice of mining software to use is up to you. Show only op page 1 of 2 1 2 next feb 12, 2014 at 1. This configuration gets me around 700khashsec on both the msi and powercolor card with a low reject ratio. Product name chipset catalyst version os update download links. Powercolor turboduo r9 280x speed ethereum community.
Bitcoin discussion general discussion about the bitcoin ecosystem that doesnt fit better elsewhere. This latest technology ensures that all new games will run on radeon rx 580. The actual developer of the software is con kolivas. My asus 280x is factory overclocked to 1070, and while increasing this value to 1100 would give my up to 760 khs, it would typically for whatever reason end up averaging out at my usual 740 khs value anyways. Multithreaded multipool gpu, fpga and asic miner for bitcoin and derivative coins. Discussion of specific bitcoinrelated services usually belongs in other sections. You can check out the tutorial on how to build your own litecoin mining rig with radeon r9 280x if you are interested. But unlike with radeon r9 280x, the r9 290290x cards have more specifics and could. Opencl gpubased mining software most suitable for amd gpus. The unofficial how do i mine neoscrypt with cgminer 3. Msi afterburner is a system utility to boost msi graphics cards. Cgminer configuration and parameters for mining with. Litecoin mining powercolor radeon r9 280x sweet spot for.
Thank you very much lanky i have just built a mining rig for a friend with three 270x powercolor devils triple fan i get a stable 3 480 khash with your config. Depends on the series, but in theory itll install using the same driver providing youre using cats from the amd site as the first card if you start flashing your cards then be careful, i hit a problem with flashing two cards without pulling 1 first roady flashed wrong bios to wrong card twice. Cgminer and bfgminer are two of the most popular choices. Radeon settings is the new, streamlined user interface, engineered to bring out the best of amd graphics hardware. Im also using a 280x optimized scrypt kernal in cgminer. After a ton of command line tweaking, i was able to get into the 530 khs area with. Powercolor turboduo r9 280x speed ethereum community forum. Unless otherwise stated, clock, core and memory are in mhz. In this tutorial im gonna show you how to use cgminer for scrypt or sha 256 mining. The source code of older versions are available to compile, therefore it can still be used for linuxbased gpu.
To be fair the comma thing might be simpler, its just that i read you cant use g 1 and g 2 in the same. It was the recommended software for mining cryptocoins such as bitcoin and litecoin, though the developer dropped support for scrypt and gpu mining, and it is no longer recommended for anything other than bitcoin mining. Discussion in proofofwork mining started by tacotime, jan 27, 2016. Nov 28, 20 the radeon hd 7950 was an awesome card for mining litecoin, but if youre looking for the new hotness, its all about the r9 290 and r9 290x.
Now go ahead and set up cgminer, instructions are here. Gpu mining is strongly discouraged at this point see here, as it is both unprofitable and hard to set up correctly. Right now im currently hitting 740 khs with my asus r9 280x. Two gpus but only one will mine in cgminer bitcoin. Then, i will post the cgminer configurations for each and every r9 280x card.
Mining setup on debian with radeon r9 280x short guide. When i run the cgminer both gpus appear and both are enabled but only the r9 280x is mining. Previously, i have mentioned that cgminer version 3. I cant find any help on the internet for this problem. Cgminer download for linux deb, rpm, xz download cgminer linux packages for arch linux, centos, debian, ubuntu. Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the polaris 20 graphics processor, in its polaris 20 xtx variant, the card supports directx 12. Cgminer is an open source asicfpgagpu miner written in c, cross platform for linux, windows and os x, and including support and binaries for rpi, openwrt routers and others license. So for example with a radeon r9 280x you can expect to get a hashrate of about 22. The 280x package is intended for a single radeon r9 280x card, though you could use it for others amd gpus as well or more cards what you may need to reflect however in the config file is the total hashrate and power usage as well as maybe some of the startup settings for the different algorithms as the default ones are optimized for 280x. Weve recently built a scrypt mining rig consisting of four amd radeon r9 290 by xfx for a friend and since this was actually our first rig with radeon r9 290 cards weve had some interesting findings that we decided to share with you, so if you have some of these troubles we might be able to help. Example run for amd radeon r9 280x for scryptjaneleo. I would assume that you have known the basics of litecoin mining to be reading this, so i will not waste much of your time on.
Radeon additional settings has been retired and its previously supported controls for switchable graphics, color depth and pixel format have all been moved into radeon settings. Contribute to ckolivascgminer development by creating an account on github. Install opencl and drivers for radeon r9 280x on ubuntu. Security vulnerabilities, exploits, vulnerability statistics, cvss scores and references e. The radeon rx 580 is a performancesegment graphics card by amd, launched in april 2017. The combined cpu, gpu, fpga, and asic miner for bitcoin, and litecoin. Ive found sgminer more unstable than cgminer and i actually get a bit higher hashrate using. Mar 15, 2019 msi afterburner is a system utility to boost msi graphics cards.
It contains precompiled universal binaries for mac os x 10. Note that the radeon r9 290 cards are not considered to be the best option for scrypt mining, however with r9 280x cards harder to find some people decide to go for the more easily found 290 or 290x models. The file size of the latest installer available for download is 2. Cgminer configuration for powercolor r9 280x g 2 w 256 i 18 lookupgap 2 threadconcurrency 22272 gpuengine 1045 gpumemclock 1725. This page will provide you with a script to get you started with litecoin mining.
Prepare your hardwareif you have not already, prepare a space for your mining hardware. Bamt with the latest drivers installed and release it for download. Download the above script and put it in the same folder as your miners executable, then run it the script you just downloaded, not the miners executable from there. Boost performance and monitor critical info in realtime.
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