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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

I've been playing with the soft power tables and this is my water cooled air card mining cryptonight (hash is 1650-2000H/s). The same tweaks apparently work well for Ethereum too and it's certainly a lot cooler - and uses less watts - than the water block alone. I was trying to work out what's causing the power spikes on Vega and wondered if it was workload related. Doesn't appear to be....

You can check out the guide I used here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/74hjqn/monero_and_vega_the_definitive_guide/

HWINFO Screen here: https://ibb.co/iUJr6w
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essentialblend said:
As of now I set the target at 53 degrees and it's running at about 70% fanspeed to maintain 52 degrees core and 67-69 degrees HBM, and yes that's my main concern, it's all fine mining 9 hours a day and getting 1.6-1.9$ but I dont want my card burning out in a year, and that's my only lingering concern when it comes to mining.
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LOL

That cards having an easy time mate, until a couple of years ago it was very common for mining/folding cards to be kept in the 70s or sometimes even 80s. Hell I ran a HD5870 at 70+ constantly for years back when they were profitable.
 
ubersonic said:
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That cards having an easy time mate, until a couple of years ago it was very common for mining/folding cards to be kept in the 70s or sometimes even 80s. Hell I ran a HD5870 at 70+ constantly for years back when they were profitable.
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Oh, I'm totally aware of that bro, I know these things have quite a high tjmax so to speak, I just read a lot about people saying how running 65 degrees+ hbm and all is detrimental and all that which caused me to get a bit paranoid considering liquid cards don't seem to be manufactured and I don't want to be stuck in RMA hell after a year or something.

So I should just carry on without any other thought? I'm currently making 0.5 UBIQ (2.2~$) mining 9-11 hours when I'm asleep /afk
 
Hey guys, new to the forum. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with installing the Alphacool Eiswolf on my Vega 56. I can't seem to get it to make full contact because the hotspot goes straight to 105 and the gpu and hbm quickly climb to 85 before it downclocks itself.

Any and all help would be appreciated because I have heard of Alphacools track record with customer service. Thanks
 
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essentialblend said:
Oh, I'm totally aware of that bro, I know these things have quite a high tjmax so to speak, I just read a lot about people saying how running 65 degrees+ hbm and all is detrimental and all that which caused me to get a bit paranoid considering liquid cards don't seem to be manufactured and I don't want to be stuck in RMA hell after a year or something.

So I should just carry on without any other thought? I'm currently making 0.5 UBIQ (2.2~$) mining 9-11 hours when I'm asleep /afk
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I wouldn't worry about the silicon. The pump and fan will probably die long before the HBM does :D

The reason I mentioned cryptonight is that like for like it will run the memory cooler and just as profitably/more profitably than ethash. Something like electronium if you want to avoid nicehash would be ok. Experimenting with cryptonight has shown though that it's all very, very flaky. Need to disable/enable the gpu in device manager after every reboot for example (otherwise hash drops by 300H/s). Running HWINFO (or pretty much ANY monitoring software) will drop the hash by 300H/s etc. etc.
 
Paul Campbell said:
I wouldn't worry about the silicon. The pump and fan will probably die long before the HBM does :D

The reason I mentioned cryptonight is that like for like it will run the memory cooler and just as profitably/more profitably than ethash. Something like electronium if you want to avoid nicehash would be ok. Experimenting with cryptonight has shown though that it's all very, very flaky. Need to disable/enable the gpu in device manager after every reboot for example (otherwise hash drops by 300H/s). Running HWINFO (or pretty much ANY monitoring software) will drop the hash by 300H/s etc. etc.
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Thank you very much Paul :) I'm actually quite new to all this, I just used nicehash before when the going was good and since then it had become 2$ a day on my 1080 so I stopped, so this friend of mine set this for me up and he said it will be more profitable than Etherium. My only surface level knowledge would say Cryptonight is another algorithm? Would it give me more than UBIQ?
 
@essentialblend Nicehash is actually a lot better now after the hack ironically. You can withdraw > 0.002 to Coinbase for free if you mine to one of their internal wallets. BTC withdraws via GDAX (Coinbase's trading engine) are then free to an external wallet or you can set up Revolut to get cash (eventually) to a UK bank account (via BTC->EUR on GDAX then EUR->GBP in Revolut). QUite economic for small-scale miners if you're patient.

According to whattomine, cryptonight on a vega64 is currently about $6 (nicehash), ethash(nicehash) $4 so there's definately room to improve. UBIQ earns about $3.50. I'm currently testing on Nicehash (xmr-stak for mining) and getting around 0.0006BTC/Day on my air card (with water block) at around 150-200W (estimated from HWINFO with a large margin for error).

I have a second machine with a few 7950s that were mining equihash fairly well too, although they're off now as the BTC price has dropped too far into not worth it territory again.

To be honest in the past I mined the **** out of new altcoins and held in the hope that some would make it to an exchange and go up in value - quite good fun. Had some big winners but quite a few losers. If you're just looking to just make a few extra quid for the gaming rig fund Nicehash is probably still the easiest, especially with Nicehashminer.
 
Paul Campbell said:
@AmateurExpert did you flash the bios to the AIO version or stick with the stock bios when you installed the block. Am swithering since many report issues after flashing....
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Haven't changed the BIOS at all - so stuck with 1200mV on the core. From what I've seen posted here, I could push the core higher if I did, but I've already spent more than enough time benchmarking and fiddling - I'm more than happy with the performance and so I'm just using it!
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
In fairness you did say "My little 56" not "someone's 56" :p
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I will spank that score, just give me the time to get motivated to roll back to a driver that can actually perform properly instead of these new one.
Games even run much better on the block chain driver than the new "game ready" drivers .. (looking at you 17.12.1- 18.1 drivers)
 
Swerty_84 said:
Hey guys, new to the forum. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with installing the Alphacool Eiswolf on my Vega 56. I can't seem to get it to make full contact because the hotspot goes straight to 105 and the gpu and hbm quickly climb to 85 before it downclocks itself.

Any and all help would be appreciated because I have heard of Alphacools track record with customer service. Thanks
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I know your pain my friend, lets sort this out together, i can help im sure of it. message me in trust like i said.

@AMDMatt How do i talk to a forum mod to sort out why i cant log into my trust option thingy?
 
Swerty_84 said:
Hey guys, new to the forum. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with installing the Alphacool Eiswolf on my Vega 56. I can't seem to get it to make full contact because the hotspot goes straight to 105 and the gpu and hbm quickly climb to 85 before it downclocks itself.

Any and all help would be appreciated because I have heard of Alphacools track record with customer service. Thanks
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Copied your msg and sent to Alphacool but contact is away on holiday till Monday. If members can't help you out on here, there is a rep active on overclock.net (USA forum) on their own thread.

Might be seeing Eiswolf style AIO on future cards .... Interesting times
 
Illuminist said:
No problem, click the trust button on my message here and login as normal, search my name and message me, I will give you all the help you need buddy :)
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First of all thank you for responding. Secondly, when I go to login to trust is says username not found. I use the same username and password as the forum right?
 
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