Best BIOS ROM for Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB OC to Mine Ethereum 30+ Mh/s
Hey, people. I just found the best BIOS for Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX 480 8GB. Tested it on 8 GPUs, all of them are working great with no problem so far.
This bios is from a Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX 480 8GB with Samsung memory, some say that all 8GB cards have Samsung memory only and 4 GB cards are based on Hynix or Elpida memory.
Here is the exact GPU i am using in this tutorial ( also on SALE 🙂 )
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Sapphire Radeon NITRO+ Rx 480 8GB GDDR5 256 bit PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card (11260-01-20G), Althon Micro Inc.
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Price History
Statistics
| Current Price | - | August 22, 2019 |
| Highest Price | $792.99 | July 13, 2019 |
| Lowest Price | $673.99 | May 9, 2019 |
Last price changes
| $782.99 | August 10, 2019 |
| $777.99 | August 9, 2019 |
| $768.99 | August 8, 2019 |
| $776.99 | August 8, 2019 |
| $781.99 | August 7, 2019 |
Before to use this ROM, make sure your GPU has Samsung memory by checking it with GPU-Z
First of all i will tell you the exact tools and software i am using, maybe this will make the difference..
- Windows 10 PRO 64 http://amzn.to/2mG447M
- AMD Drivers 16.9.1Â download here
- ATIflash download here
- Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v8.1 (Windows/Linux) download here
- Sapphire TriXX download here
- Windows 10 Registry tweaks for mining
- Virtual Memory increased to 16 GB
Everyone should give a big thanks to Jukebox, from Ethereum forum.
On this thread here, Jukebox posted a BIOS ROM that he was testing, “Here is my another ROM with 1150/2150 clock settings, that does 29.8 MH, Use it on your own risk. “. He also stated that “If you VERY lucky, you can try to clock up to 1225/2300 MHz and reach 31.5-32 Mh with this ROM, but test it yourself. “, but i guess that would be too much and will also increase the power consumption.
My results with this BIOS ROM Ethereum: 180 Mh/s (30.1xx per card) Decred: 3050 Mh/s (511.3xx per card)
Here what you should do to achieve this awesome results
1 Download ATIflash and BIOS ROM file- Download ATIFlash 2.74 https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/ (extract the contents in C:/ and create a folder “atiflash“)
- Download the ROM here: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021640/uploads/editor/0h/dh5xcsdx676t.zip (extract the ROM to “atiflash” folder)
IMPORTANT: Always start ATIflash as administrator.
- First of all make a backup of the original BIOS (OC version) with ATIflash
- Shutdown the rig
- Switch VBIOS to the other side (side with HDMI cable)
- Turn on the rig
- Create a backup of “silent” ROM
Now that we have a backup of both BIOSES, let’s flash the v4.rom
- Start ATIflash as administrator
- Load v4.rom
- Click “Program” and wait, the programming process will take max 1 minute
- Restart the rig once you get the confirmation that the ROM was successfully programmed
If this ROM fails and does not work with your GPU click here!
I made a special video just for this, here it is
- Download the latest version https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w
- Create a text document and paste the following code inside
- GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe –epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 –ewal ETHEREUM_WALLET_KEY.RX480s –epsw x –dpool dcr.suprnova.cc:2252 –dwal SUPRNOVA_USERNAME.WORKER_NAME –dpsw WORKER_PASS –tstop 85 –dcri 34 - Save the file as .bat, like ETH+DCR.bat
- Now run the .bat file
- Download the latest version http://www.sapphiretech.com/catapage_tech.asp?cataid=291&lang=eng
- Install, start Sapphire Trixx and set the following values if not already added
- GPU Clock: 1150
- Memory Clock: 2150
- Apply changes, and after that make this modification
- mV: -100
- Apply changes
- Repeat this steps for each card
- Check Claymore for results
Registry modification & Virtual Memory
I am using a file created by a user from Ethereum forum which let’s you to disable a lot of unuseful features for a mining rig like windows update, windows defender, OneDrive etc..
Before to run the modifier, please backup your registry first
- Download Windows Registry tweak: https://mega.nz/#!8gZzjQaa!Dt4wE0WEo8nZkui_-cAAXL4mb4YlO6CJgFZTXKq9pnQ
- Run it, and will ask you one by one what to disable or not, tye “y” or “n” and hit enter
As for virtual memory, claymore’s is asking for it, and this will improove your rig performance, at least for me it did
- Go to “System” -> “Advanced system settings“
- On “Advanced” tab where its says “Performance” click on “Settings“
- Select “Advanced” tab again
- Click “Change” button
- Uncheck “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives“
- Check “Custom size“
- For “Initial size (MB)” i usually use the recommended one which in my case is “2938“, so i will add: 3000
- For “Maximum size (MB)” add: 16000
- Click “Set” button
- that’s it
If you have less than 6 GPUs on your rig then, i gues, not reall sure 100% but you will have to use a different –dcri, to find the best –dcri value for your rig increase or decrease intensity by pressing “+” or “–“, then press “S” to see current hashrate.
And finnally, the numbers, best moment of this tutorial 🙂
Profitaility
UPDATE: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
If for some reason this BIOS ROM does not work for your card as it happen with John here, like you get blue/black/green screens while starting to mine or booting to windows, low hashrate etc.. is maybe because of bad chips, you can use this ROM : https://mega.nz/#!M14GXLgS!n03dhVJZeHkTyFff48dpUqFE8hK3Rj0Ek7D8dcB7vMY , it is a bit slower but will work for sure. Check this tutorial if you need help re-flashing your GPU: How to FIX & RE-Flash BIOS of Bricked GPU on RX 470 / 480 Series
Happy mining! 🙂
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