Mining BIOS repository

[Ryan Atfield]

Can you post your original bios and the modded one?



Post the original and I'll mod it for you. You can save it in a zip file and upload it straight to this thread

Was that file ok I uploaded Mate

 

[cdawall]

Was that file ok I uploaded Mate

Yes no issues I have attached a high and a low power version of my BIOS. Both are set to 2200mhz for the memory sometimes that is unstable please let me know if it needs an additional adjustment.

I think my RX 580s 4GB/8GB with 256kb rom are drawing a bit too much power. I have been running them on Anorak's PowerSave roms, but they still are drawing a bit much and they are sometimes unstable above 2000/2100 RAM / 1125/1150 GPU / - 96mv in MSI AB. Any help much appreciated

Edit: added the modded bioses I have been experimenting with (from Anorak.tech)

I have attached both modded BIOS's there are two for the elpida based 4GB cards one uses a normal strap shift the other uses hynix timings. Not every card is stable with the hynix timings, but they are better performers.

For the 8GB card it is just my standard low power BIOS I just finished it for another member.

EDIT UPDATED REV 2 of the 580 8GB hynix BIOS added

 

[Tornador]

Thanks so much man, I am excited to test it out!

 

[Ryan Atfield]

Yes no issues I have attached a high and a low power version of my BIOS. Both are set to 2200mhz for the memory sometimes that is unstable please let me know if it needs an additional adjustment.



I have attached both modded BIOS's there are two for the elpida based 4GB cards one uses a normal strap shift the other uses hynix timings. Not every card is stable with the hynix timings, but they are better performers.

For the 8GB card it is just my standard low power BIOS I just finished it for another member.

Thanks really appreciate your time and effort, Just tried both of them and had play around with over clocks with them on ethos. i can't get it past 29!!!!! annoying me so much!

over clock on ethos are:

mem - 2200
core 1200
vlt 850 (even tried it up to 1000)
pwr 3

any tips for me

thanks again pal

However u have reduced the watts down from 960w to 850w which is a bonus

 

[cdawall]

Thanks really appreciate your time and effort, Just tried both of them and had play around with over clocks with them on ethos. i can't get it past 29!!!!! annoying me so much!

over clock on ethos are:

mem - 2200
core 1200
vlt 850 (even tried it up to 1000)
pwr 3

any tips for me

thanks again pal

ethos is always a pain for hashrate. Let me see what else I can do with it, I can normally get them up to 30 no problem, those are the same timings and settings I use for my personal cards, it is curious that it didn't break 29. Me and MSI don't get along

 

[DoctorDoctor]

Hi!

Looking for Gigabyte AMD RX 570 4GB (Samsung).

 

[Oowi]

Hi guys, looks like a perfect topic to my issues..

I have 8 x RX580 Armor OC 8Go. (Hynix)

I download "Apolyon's " custo rom from Anorak and went from 20Mh/s to 22.5 Mh/s and download the AMD Blockchain drivers and went to 28.3Mh/s.

I know a lot of users getting better results but I would be satisfied with thoses if everything was stable...

BUT .. I had a lot of freez (random.. something after 5 minutes, sometimes 5 hours..), so I had a look on HWinfo and two card were making errors.

As the "Armor OC" version, Overclock a little the CPU, I decided to underclock it again to "1200Mhz" instead of "1366Mhz" out of the box.

Three Options to underclock :
- Msi Afterburner : Must of the time just freez the graphic card.. I also ready that AMD block the possibility for external software to underclock GPU, only Overclock is allowed..
- Claymore parameters : As I am using Claymore to mine, we can set parameters to set gpu setting like -cclock 1200 . But Again not working..
- Radeon setting Wattman : This solution is working fine !! but after few minutes/hours I have "Watchdog GPU xx Hangs in OpenCL" in claymore (which restarted), but then Wattman reset the GPU clock speed to default.. and lead to freez the computer avec minutes/hours..

I am very upset as : The settings "out of the box" are not stable to mine. And Radeon Wattman is not stable with multi GPU. This is written by ATI in the "know issues" of the drivers...

So does somebody have a solution to make this RX580 Armor OC 8Go stable ? Rom / drivers / OC appreciate.

Once again, i'm not even trying to Overclock.. but just downclock to make it stable..

 

[phill]

Had a load of testing over the weekend and the only reason I found that the Blockchain drivers managed a higher hash was they where running at stock speeds and voltages and taking a massive amount more power for not a lot of gain..

My Asus Strix 480's where flashed to 580's with a 1750 strap on the ram and they have been nothing but rock solid.. I've downclocked my GPU core to about 1140 (1146+ goes into another power band and uses more juice for not a lot in return) but overclocked the ram to about the 2150 speed.. The only down side I've noticed is that the hashrate is, well, not so great... But then when trying the blockchain drivers I couldn't get the hashrate past 24mH/s and it stopped me from using core volts, core speed, ram speed and such, it took all that away..

I'll see if I can get some screen shots uploaded later on but I've just gone back to 15.7.1 drivers and using Nicehash.. Even with an overclock on the GPU's, there's no real gain for me in performance/hashrate at all... I just use a boatload more power and I get nothing much from it...

 

[Ryan Atfield]

ethos is always a pain for hashrate. Let me see what else I can do with it, I can normally get them up to 30 no problem, those are the same timings and settings I use for my personal cards, it is curious that it didn't break 29. Me and MSI don't get along

thanks for trying, did you have any joy editing it

 

[cdawall]

thanks for trying, did you have any joy editing it

Working on the same card (but in armor version right now) will let you know how it goes. Hopefully I have a 30+ BIOS out of this

 

[cdawall]

thanks for trying, did you have any joy editing it

Ok give this a try these settings worked with a test card, it is not quite as efficient, but managed 31.5mh/s in windows.

 

[phill]

cdawall - what sort of core and memory timings do you have to set to achieve 31.5mH/s?

 

[cdawall]

cdawall - what sort of core and memory timings do you have to set to achieve 31.5mH/s?

1206 core @950mV, 105w TDP, 2225 memory with strap 777000000000000022AA1C00B56A6D46C0551017BE8E060C006AE6000C081420EA8900AB030000001B162C31C0313F17

I am hoping that stays stable in linux, it is quite fast in windows.

 

[phill]

Very good speeds I think for such a low wattage? I find ETH and ETC uses more power than most others unless it's dual mining and then it's through the roof...

Just out of curiousity, what drivers do you use?

 

[cdawall]

Very good speeds I think for such a low wattage? I find ETH and ETC uses more power than most others unless it's dual mining and then it's through the roof...

Just out of curiousity, what drivers do you use?

The older beta blockchain drivers. I will eventually bump them all over to the new one.

 

[phill]

I just downloaded the ones from AMD when I tried it, I think it came up as Beta according to MSI.. I don't recall a version number

 

[cdawall]

I just downloaded the ones from AMD when I tried it, I think it came up as Beta according to MSI.. I don't recall a version number

this one specifically

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...eta-for-Blockchain-Compute-Release-Notes.aspx

 

[phill]

Yep that's the one I used.. I didn't get much luck with that sadly But as you said, I think that is my cards bios sadly that is affecting it...

 

[Maay Sim]

Correct that is the strap I use for all of my Hynix bios's and is why I have several labeled Hynix/Samsung. You would paste that strap over everything 1750 and higher. Typically Hynix based cards will do 2050-2100mhz with that strap and Samsung cards will do 2250. You can also drop the ram voltage down to 950mV.

Hi Dear,
Can u please try to edit my bios? It's doing good on eth (31 ish for single) but only 800 on monero. I read some article that this type of card can do 900+. However, I can't any good timings. I've tried almost all that i've thru net. Please help..

 

[Tornador]

I downloaded the BIOSes and am testing them now. What settings do you recommend to try for the modded BIOS for Sapphire 580 4GB Elpida / Hynix with low power bios? Its defaulting to around 25.5 with the Blockchain Beta drivers. Will experiment on myown now, but just curious what you think btw sending you some ethereum now as thanks.

Edit: I'm getting 26.86 or thereabouts at 82-83 watt draw, with AB settings -96, 0, 85, 1206, 2150 with the Elpida bios on the Sapphire 580 Nitro+ 4GB. Haven't tested the Hynix yet. If I set RAM to 2200 it goes BSOD.

For comparison, the Gigabyte Aorus RX580 8GB on the same rig, with a different bios i found (Anorak's) draws around 98-101w on 1120/2200 (-96v) and does 30-30.4.

 

[cdawall]

I downloaded the BIOSes and am testing them now. What settings do you recommend to try for the modded BIOS for Sapphire 580 4GB Elpida / Hynix with low power bios? Its defaulting to around 25.5 with the Blockchain Beta drivers. Will experiment on myown now, but just curious what you think btw sending you some ethereum now as thanks.

Edit: I'm getting 26.86 or thereabouts at 82-83 watt draw, with AB settings -96, 0, 85, 1206, 2150 with the Elpida bios on the Sapphire 580 Nitro+ 4GB. Haven't tested the Hynix yet. If I set RAM to 2200 it goes BSOD.

For comparison, the Gigabyte Aorus RX580 8GB on the same rig, with a different bios i found (Anorak's) draws around 98-101w on 1120/2200 (-96v) and does 30-30.4.

Might have to try the elpida timing set on that one some of them seem to prefer that set and get better results. I also set the TDP quite low and I have seen a trend with the Sapphire cards preferring a little more power for some reason. Give this one a shot though, it should be back up to at least 29MH/s, This bios should be stable at 2100mhz for the memory and still leaves room for you to tweak -96mV in it, but I had to set initial TDP higher.

and thanks!

Hi Dear,
Can u please try to edit my bios? It's doing good on eth (31 ish for single) but only 800 on monero. I read some article that this type of card can do 900+. However, I can't any good timings. I've tried almost all that i've thru net. Please help..

Give the attached 8GB/Hynix BIOS a shot.

Hi guys, looks like a perfect topic to my issues..

I have 8 x RX580 Armor OC 8Go. (Hynix)

I download "Apolyon's " custo rom from Anorak and went from 20Mh/s to 22.5 Mh/s and download the AMD Blockchain drivers and went to 28.3Mh/s.

I know a lot of users getting better results but I would be satisfied with thoses if everything was stable...

BUT .. I had a lot of freez (random.. something after 5 minutes, sometimes 5 hours..), so I had a look on HWinfo and two card were making errors.

As the "Armor OC" version, Overclock a little the CPU, I decided to underclock it again to "1200Mhz" instead of "1366Mhz" out of the box.

Three Options to underclock :
- Msi Afterburner : Must of the time just freez the graphic card.. I also ready that AMD block the possibility for external software to underclock GPU, only Overclock is allowed..
- Claymore parameters : As I am using Claymore to mine, we can set parameters to set gpu setting like -cclock 1200 . But Again not working..
- Radeon setting Wattman : This solution is working fine !! but after few minutes/hours I have "Watchdog GPU xx Hangs in OpenCL" in claymore (which restarted), but then Wattman reset the GPU clock speed to default.. and lead to freez the computer avec minutes/hours..

I am very upset as : The settings "out of the box" are not stable to mine. And Radeon Wattman is not stable with multi GPU. This is written by ATI in the "know issues" of the drivers...

So does somebody have a solution to make this RX580 Armor OC 8Go stable ? Rom / drivers / OC appreciate.

Once again, i'm not even trying to Overclock.. but just downclock to make it stable..

Can you post the original BIOS? I should be able to use the MSI Gaming X Bios settings with that card in a custom BIOS.

 

[leonel]

cdawall MSI ARMOR RX 470 8GB

 

[cdawall]

cdawall MSI ARMOR RX 470 8GB

sweet I will get it modded and posted back up for you.

 

[leonel]

Thx Bro

 

[cdawall]

Thx Bro

Give that a shot I can tweak from there depending if it is stable or not.