There were some bugs in the batch files an errant in one, for example, so ive updated them with new versions that should run properly now. 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. Both cards are quiet and both are fast as i use fcp x. For the project page of the version produced by kerry cupit, see cgminer for mac os x project. Added support for amd radeon r9 fury series, r9 390 series, r9 380 series, r9 290 series, r9 285, r9 260 series, r7 360, and r7 260 desktop graphics products. Ive got two r9 290, using cgminer im getting nothing but trouble. The install was dead easy, i installed the whole lot with one 280x in, disabled the onboard graphics, went straight to the efi partition hack and it just worked. Sapphire tri x radeon r9 290x directx 12 112260040g 4gb 512bit gddr5 pci express 3. Radeon r9 280x litecoin mining and sweet spot for 700khash. Sapphire radeon vapor x r9 290x 8gb gddr5 dviidvidhdmidp tri x oc graphics. It will ask about naming the config, just press enter for the default name nf you now have a config file. Radeon r9 280x 6 radeon r9 285 1 radeon r9 290 radeon r9 290x 12 radeon r9 295x2 1. An r9 280x on a 600w psu pcmaclinux society gamespot. Issue with r9 390 on ubuntu ethereum community forum.
A vast selection of titles, drmfree, with free goodies, customer love, and one fair price for all regions. The characteristics of amd, nvidia cards, algorithms of mining, description of work of mining farm, software for mining, what to choose windows, linux or osx for mining. Release date oct 8th, 20 dec 5th, 20 generation volcanic islands r9 200 production endoflife bus interface pcie 3. Video card win 10 mac pro msi ati radeon r9 280x 3gb gddr5 mojave metal 4k 7950. I had those same issues before flashing my cards bios with a modded bios. The sapphire toxic r9 280x features the respected tri x triple fan cooler with a huge 10mm heat pipe and a dense aluminium heatsink. Just make sure you place a comma between each cards settings and should be fine. I tried pcirootuid1 and i got a black screen with a bunch of text, but i couldnt do. The only thing i noticed is the efficiency, as you can see in the photo the first graph gpu1 usage is for the r9 280x and then the 3x r9 390.
Configuring the r9 280x for litecoin mining with cgminer. Unless otherwise stated, clock, core and memory are in mhz. Example run for amd radeon r9 280x for scryptjaneleo. Silent r9 280x 3gb gpu for apple mac pro wefi, boot screen, metalmojave, 4k. Easyminer easyminer is mostly a graphical frontend for mining bitcoin,litecoin,dogeecoin and other various al. Sapphire r9 280x 3gb gpu for apple mac pro wefi, boot. Dev neoscrypt hardware comparison site feathercoin forum.
The program lies within business tools, more precisely finances. I recently built a rig with 4x sapphire vaporx with the new and sucky 015. We have not updated our miner control tool package for amd radeon r9 280x gpus for a while, so it was time to release an updated package using the latest miner control v1. Powercolor turboduo r9 280x oc specs techpowerup gpu.
There are a few things to keep in mind when setting up a rig with the r9 cards. Mac pro video card upgrade how i flashed a r9 280x for a. Finding optimal clock speed for cgminer and r9 290 r9 290x update, 121220. This is basically what i went through to get the gigabyte r9 280x working in my upgraded 2009 mac pro and enables me to get the boot screen. 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.
Macaniac, the card i installed is sapphire tri x oc 1003622sr radeon r9 290x 4gb 512bit gddr5 pci express 3. After booting with clover and seeing the apple logo and the install screen, my monitor stopped getting a signal. This card is the fastest r9 280x model on the market. The actual developer of the software is con kolivas. 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.
Flashing r9 280x for boot screenspci system information. Sapphire toxic radeon r9 280x 3gb graphics video card for apple mac pro. They both happily start mining, but after about 30 seconds cgminer hangs for a few seconds and gpu0 starts dropping its hashrate it gives hw. Apr 07, 2020 bitcoin mining is big business these days, with people able to mine a digital currency in their own homes. Aug 26, 2019 cgminer contains unofficial mac binaries of cgminer, a commandline bitcoin mining tool.
Fire up cgwatcher and you can put the cards in the order you with with the gpu map editor. I finally found the solution it is actually a bios problem. This page hosts unofficial universal binaries of sgminer for mac os x 10. Litecoin mining sapphire radeon r9 280x sweet spot for. Radeon r9 280x, desktop graphics cards, video cards. The unofficial how do i mine neoscrypt with cgminer 3. 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. Our antivirus check shows that this download is clean. Previously, i have mentioned that cgminer version 3. Do not flash the card as there is no reason to ever do this and it will break the card under windows making the card useless. You can check out the tutorial on how to build your own litecoin mining rig with radeon r9 280x if you are interested.
Im running 2 x 280, 3 x 270 and 1 x 7950 in a mining rig now using sgminercgwatcher with no probelms at all. For the project page of the version produced by kerry cupit, see cgminer for mac os x project there are several unofficial projects which compile cgminer for use with mac os x. This page is about mac os x compatible distributions of cgminer. Sapphire equips r9 290 and r9 290x with trix triple fan. Mining rig example running cgminer with low temperature 73 degrees, only losing approx 100 khs from 1. The only reason i didnt want the 280x is because i play games in bootcamp and really wanted the extra gpu power. New user interface and intuitive radeon software installer that includes options for express install, custom install and clean uninstall.
You will have a list of options show up, next press w for write config file. Old bios cards of this series never have vrm overheat, however with new bios of this series vrm. Finding optimal clock speed for cgminer and r9 290r9 290x. I have a 2006 mac pro running yosemite thanks pike. 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. Get the best deal for amd radeon r9 280x amd computer graphics cards from the largest online selection at. There are several unofficial projects which compile cgminer for use with mac os x. Sapphire r9 280x vaporx 3gb gddr5 trix std with czc. The uefi bios on all xfx cards for the amd 200 series are broken for mac os x. The sapphire r9 290x 4gb and 8gb vapor x oc adds an industry leading 8gb frame buffer to the companys award winning cooling technologies and a factory overclock to deliver best in class performance with very low noise.
Sapphires r9 290 trix measures in at a whopping 30 cm 11. Currently running tri x 290 with 500watts psu, youd be fine. 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. They both happily start mining, but after about 30 seconds cgminer hangs for a few seconds and gpu0 starts dropping its. The sapphire tri x cooler, first introduced on the r9 280x toxic edition to great acclaim, uses three fans with dust repelling bearings and aerofoil section blades to deliver highly efficient. Feb 07, 2014 mining rig example running cgminer with low temperature 73 degrees, only losing approx 100 khs from 1. Use the boot loader to load a modified bios to make the gpu work properly under mac os x. Bitcoin mining is big business these days, with people able to mine a digital currency in their own homes. Amd radeon r9 280x amd computer graphics cards for sale. Whats the point in a router letting you put custom names in for all the mac addresses. Before bitcoin had its big take off, mining bitcoin at home was actually lucrative if. Radeon r9 290x, desktop graphics cards, video cards.
Holy invisible batmani dont know how ive been sleeping for so longbut i just wanted to share that i was stupidly using some old cgminer 3. Presspi a turnkey raspberry pi wordpress server image. Sapphire vapor x radeon r9 280x 100363vx2sr 3gb pci express 3. Sapphire r9 280x vaporx flash bios with older firmware. Continuing from my previous post, ive now created a batch file to help find the optimal thread concurrency setting for r9 290290x systems. Sapphires r9 290 tri x measures in at a whopping 30 cm 11. I got an msi r9 280x gaming 3gb video card, and it worked great outofthebox, but i wanted to get boot screens and get it recognized in the pci section of system information.
Geforce gtx 285 for mac 2 geforce gtx 295 4 geforce gts 400 series. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. Radeon r9 280x litecoin mining and sweet spot for 700khashsec part 2 if you have read part 1 of this tutorial, you should have known that i promised to share my cgminer configurations for both msi radeon r9 280x and powercolor radeon r9 280x. Problem with xfx radeon r9 280x dd and uefi bios ati.
Clocked at 1100mhz for the base gpu clock and 1150mhz boost gpu clock, with the their 280x toxic sapphire is aiming to have the fastest 280x. From what ive heard and read about this graphics card already. Normal 0 false false false enus x none x none apple mac pro wefi, boot screen support up to macos 10. Sapphire radeon vapor x r9 280x 3 gb gddr5 dviidvidhdmidp tri x with boost pciexpress graphics card 112212020g.
Dec 31, 20 solution is found to sapphire vapor x r9 280x vrm over heating and throttling problem good news after searching alot for my new sapphire vapor x r9 280x cards vrm overheating problem. We have 24 apple mac pros and we purchased 48 of the sapphire tri x r9 290 graphics cards to install into the apple mac pros and were trying to figure out how to add driver support to os x for the sapphire tri x r9 290 radeon r9 290 to the latest mac os x. Sapphire r9 290x 4gb gddr5 dual dvidhdmidp tri x oc version pciexpress gpu. Gigabyte amd radeon r9 280x 3gb hdmi pci express for. Im trying to run sgminer with an amd radeon r9 280x gpu under linux.
The file size of the latest installer available for download is 2. But unlike with radeon r9 280x, the r9 290290x cards have more specifics and could. Amd radeon r9 280x 3gb hdmi pci express video graphics card for apple mac pro, outperforms ati sapphire radeon hd 2600, 4870, 5770, 7950, 9000, 9800 gigabyte. 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. Amd apple radeon r9 280x oc 3gb graphics video card mac. When i launch cgminer it sees both cards, gpu0 and gpu1. Sapphire vapor x r9 280x bios flash guide as far as i know you all have some problems vrm, heat, performance drop, throttling with this card. Sapphire vaporx r9 280x bios flash guide to overcome. Gigabyte hello fellow miners tiny background story. 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.
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