R9 280x config cgminer for mac

This page hosts unofficial universal binaries of sgminer for mac os x 10. Two gpus but only one will mine in cgminer bitcoin stack. This is a great result for a lowerend gpu, but things really kick off with the r9 280x, which sees 590mhps. 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. Optimal mining configurations archived vericoin forums. In this episode, i improve the graphics capability of my aging but muchloved 2010 mac pro, by installing a radeon r9 280x graphics card. Contribute to max coincgminer development by creating an account on github. D d9mgoqshfskren44cdjyikyoywfnxmybts donate some litecoin lkuhyuzviqpycczveedrhybq9hnxvb6s87 ati. Installing and setting up cgminer or cudaminer youtube. This shows the location of the cgminer config file on a bitmain antminer s1.

Litecoin mining sapphire radeon r9 280x sweet spot for 760khashsec keeping up with the r9 280x cards, this time i will share my configurations for the sapphire r9 280x card. Continuing from my previous post, ive now created a batch file to help find the optimal thread concurrency setting for r9 290290x systems. I have 3 x asus r9 390x, using qtminer with no extra options and get varying speeds. Mining decred on ubuntu with cgminer reynoldtech blog. 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. This configuration gets me around 700khashsec on both the msi and powercolor card with a low reject ratio. We have compiled the source code of the new cgminer 3. Get the most out of your bitcoin and litecoin mining rigs. Thanks to the efforts of kr105, blakecoin has been ported to cgminer with fixes for stratum on blakecoin. Lately, i have been pretty busy with litecoin mining, and spent most of the time looking for gpus as i intend to try out most. Cgminer configuration and parameters for mining with.

Cgminer is an open source asicfpga bitcoin miner developed for a range of platforms, including windows, linux and osx. Flashing r9 280x for boot screenspci system information. Sgminergm is a revitalization of the sgminer project, brought to you by genesis mining the leading hash power provider. Gpu mining is strongly discouraged at this point see here, as it is both unprofitable and hard to set up correctly. I have asus 280x and it working without any problem.

But unlike with radeon r9 280x, the r9 290290x cards have more specifics and could cause you some extra headaches until you finally make them work as they. This page is about mac os x compatible distributions of cgminer. I cant find any help on the internet for this problem. Well, i got down to the extra libraries and ran into a bit of trouble. Reading about the msi r9 280 nonx it seems like a compelling deal, only about 714% slower than the msi r9 280x but fully 30% less expensive. It consists of sophisticated algorithms which are developed with c programming language to utilize the maximum hardware performance to yield a profitable amount of bitcoin with ease depending on the machines performance. This is an msi r9 280x oc edition, so its better to play with values yourselves and see what is stable for your specific model and. This page will provide you with a script to get you started with litecoin mining.

Two gpus but only one will mine in cgminer bitcoin. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file anyone who starts out mining decred if you want to get the best mhashs from your gpu or gpus. Hopefully i can save you a bit of time and quickly cover the basics. Optimized scrypt and scryptn ubuntu image for litecoin. Since 20, cryptocurrencytalk has been a top cryptocurrency source for the latest news, information, and opinions about cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, tokens, and finance. It is based on cgminer by con kolivas cgminer for mac os x is here, which is in turn based on cpuminer by jeff garzik. This is the r9 280x when i run the cgminer both gpus appear and both are enabled but only the r9 280x is mining. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file decred forum. I have got my hands on quite a number of it, and have been tweaking with cgminer configuration for sapphire, msi, gigabyte, powercolor. When i run the cgminer both gpus appear and both are enabled but only the r9 280x is mining. Radeon r9 280x litecoin mining and sweet spot for 700khash.

Cgminer has noted that most cards crash at values over 4, and each increase in value only increases khs results slightly. Are there better miners than cgminer then as well i presume, i set this all up at christmas time and just kinda left it to do its own thing im on multipool which puts you on a most profitable coin so would rather stay in one place if possible, cba to sign up all over the place lol. 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. Ill spin up a ubuntu vm and see what i can do to make it run reliably, sorry for the inconvenience. You can also use dd with linuxmac but thats outside the scope of this. So, seems like a decent chance that this msi r9 280 nonx will work similarly to the msi r9 280x in a 20062012 mac pro, albeit with slightly different firmware. Configuring the r9 280x for litecoin mining with cgminer. X11 algo sgminer with separate kernels greater hashrate.

The coin was designed to be a cryptocurrency that is asic resistant. Sgminergm is a revitalization of the sgminer project, brought to you by genesis mining. First i just want to give a huge thank you to this subreddit and especially to spike98920 and hateexchange for helping try to get my video card to mine in windows. 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.

Scryptn gets around 4045% of hashrate compared to scrypt ive also included my. Open sourced no hidden minings version of x11 algo sgminer with separate kernels. My aim here is to explain all of the cgminer commands i tested, along with some of my recommendations based on my experience over the past several days obsessing with these numbers and commands. 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. Asics are specialized hardware that can mine a specific algorithm way faster than gpu mining, and are much more efficient as well. The temperature doesnt appear for either of the gpus. My guess is that when netkas wrote the script he named it that way. Right now im currently hitting 740 khs with my asus r9 280x.

Apr 11, 2018 raven coin is a new coin that uses the x16r algorithm. Aug 26, 2019 cgminer contains unofficial mac binaries of cgminer, a commandline bitcoin mining tool. After flashing my 280x, system profiler reported it as 7950. With the cgminer for mnr mining we are getting a bit over 16 mhs mining on a single radeon r9 280x video card. Litecoin mining sapphire radeon r9 280x sweet spot for. Cgminer configuration for powercolor r9 280xg 2 w 256 i 18 lookupgap 2 threadconcurrency 22272 gpuengine 1045 gpumemclock 1725. Do note that nvidia is still faster in mining hefty1based crypto coins such as mjollnircoin mnr. Previously, i have mentioned that cgminer version 3.

This being said its not that difficult to get it running and optimizing it for your graphics card. Welcome to the latest update of sgminergm sgminer5. May 12, 2014 cgminer is a combined fpga and asic bitcoin miner written in c, cross platform for windows, linux, and mac os x, with stratum support, remote interface capabilities, support for multiple simultaneous mining devices, and advanced caching and detection algorithms that maximize cryptocoin mining efficiency. You can get an r9 280x with the hynix afr memory to 500khs easily with a little overclocking. This shows the location of the cgminer config file on a. I dug around with a hex editor looking for a text string of 7950 in all of the files in the bundle folder i downloaded. Unless otherwise stated, clock, core and memory are in mhz. Lately, i have been pretty busy with litecoin mining, and spent most of the time looking for gpus as i intend to try out most of the brands out there, for the r9 280x model anyway. Optimized scrypt and scryptn ubuntu image for litecoin, dogecoin. I know many of you have asked me for vertcoin and since you do need some knowledge of linux and compiling, i thought it would be easier if you can just download my optimized usb ubuntu image that contains a compiled vertcoin with optimized settings for r9 280x, doing 700khs for scrypt and 327khs for scryptn.

Completely stable, running at 74c, and consuming 345w of power. The difficulty with doing this stems from the fact that normally exiting cgminer on windows with the new gpus will cause a bsod on most all. Im trying to run sgminer with an amd radeon r9 280x gpu under linux. 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. I would really like to overclock or even be able to manage fan speeds, but so far both gpu tweak ii and msi afterburner wont let me control anything. Starting with the radeon r7 260x, which pushes out just 220mhps, with the next gpu in the lineup, the radeon r9 270x which increases the mining ability to 400mhps.