How to install AMD controllers for mining



Cryptocurrency mining is an activity whose boom does not seem to stop in the short term. This is a fundamental piece in the engine that starts a blockchain and validates its transactions. The increase in the appearance of cryptoactives and their demand in the market, as well as the lucrative that business can become, has made this practice an investment plan for many people around the world.

There are many ways to mine cryptocurrencies, but one of the most popular is mining using graphics cards. Among the cryptocurrencies that are mined with these equipment, the ether (ETH) native currency of the blockchain Ethereum, is the most common due to the high margin of profit it leaves compared to its peers.

Unfortunately for many of the ETH miners, this cryptoactive and its matrix blockchain have been undergoing changes considered necessary to improve its operation and scalability. The increase in the size of the DAG files, together with the so-called Difficulty Bomb launched in the Ethereum blockchain, has made the algorithm solution for graphics cards much more complicated. Causing then a lower performance in its processing speed, and consequently a decrease in the profits generated.

AMD, one of the giant chip manufacturers of graphics cards, launched a Beta version of its Crimson ReLive controllers aimed at mining. It mainly seeks to improve the performance of graphic cards and recover the processing effectiveness that they lost due to the causes already mentioned. This move was somewhat unexpected on the part of the company, since days before its CEO had announced that cryptocurrency mining was not being seen as a long-term business line for AMD.

Then you will receive a series of steps necessary to install the latest edition of AMD drivers, and thus improve the performance of your ether mining rig. It should be noted that because it is a beta version, there are details in this software that may cause some instability in the performance of the rig. However, this tutorial will raise some recommendations that will help you to keep your team working more effectively and stable, enjoying an improvement of 5 to 10% in the speed of processing it.

WHAT APPLICATIONS DO WE NEED AND WHERE CAN WE DOWNLOAD THEM?

For those who are taking their first steps in the cryptocurrency mining, we recommend you follow this tutorial prepared by CriptoNoticias, where you will find information about the equipment and software necessary to carry out this activity.

Those who have already worked in mining for a while, might think that all we need is the new version of the drivers to appreciate the improvement in the performance of our rig, but in reality we will need 3 or 4 applications (depending on whether the BIOS of the graphic cards in the rig are modified or not) to execute this improvement effectively.

RADEON CRIMSON BETA RELIVE EDITION FOR BLOCKCHAINS COMPUTER 17.30.1029


This is the driver software launched by AMD for its graphics cards used for mining, which we have already discussed. It can be downloaded from the official support page and drivers of its manufacturer, and is available only for Windows 7 and 10, 32 and 64bit versions.





DDU DISPLAY DRIVER UNINSTALER



The DDU, is a software specialized in the uninstallation of graphics card drivers. This is responsible for removing both AMD and NVIDIA controllers without leaving leftovers, allowing the optimal installation and operation of new versions of these drivers. Undoubtedly, this application promises better results for the procedure we will carry out compared to the traditional Windows program uninstaller tool, and can be downloaded for free from here.

MSI AFTERBURNER 4.4
This tool will allow us to carry out a modification called 'overclock', which consists of altering certain values ​​in the performance of the graphics card in order to improve it and make it more optimal. Although we already have previous versions, only the latest version of it offers an effective interaction with the new controllers for mining of AMD. It can be downloaded here.


AMD / ATI PIXEL CLOCK PATCHER 1.4.5

This patch will be necessary only in case the rig includes graphic cards whose BIOS has been modified, since the new controllers are also able to identify if this procedure has been carried out. In case of detecting the change, the controller stops recognizing the equipment. The job of this application is to block the function of the driver that verifies the BIOS, allowing you to recognize the card and it works correctly. To download it you can follow the following link.

INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION PROCESS

1-UNINSTALLATION OF PREVIOUS CONTROLLERS WITH THE DDU

The first thing we must do after having downloaded each application, is to uninstall the version of drivers that we are going to replace. For this we will execute the DDU, which is preferable to be done in Safe Mode, or Safe Mode. This will allow the application to create a starting point in the event of any inconvenience in the installation process.

When choosing this mode, you must restart the computer by selecting this option in the same window of the application. After the reboot process is finished, we can continue with the uninstallation.

2-INSTALLATION OF THE RADEON CRIMSON RELAY BETA EDITION FOR BLOCKCHAINS COMPUTER 17.30.1029

After having completely uninstalled the version of Crimson that we were previously using, we proceed to install the new Crimson ReLive controllers for mining.

It is advisable to select the option "Custom Install" which will give us the option to choose only what is necessary to mine, thus saving some installation time and space on your hard drive. In this case it is not necessary to have audio drivers for a rig, so we will not install it.

We must keep in mind that at the end of the installation process, it is important that we select the option "Close" because if the BIOS of any of our graphics cards has been modified, we will need to take a crucial step before restarting the computer.

3-EXECUTION OF PIXEL CLOCK PATCHER 1.4.5

When executed, it will show us a list of functions of the software in a window, where you will notice that it mentions "BIOS signature check" at the end. It is simply a matter of selecting the option "Yes" for these functions to be blocked. Then we will see a window telling us that the process was carried out successfully, and that is when we will restart the rig.


4-UNINSTALLATION OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF THE MSI AFTERBURNER

If you have a different version of the MSI Afterburner than the one we will use, it is recommended to uninstall it. This can be done without any problem through the Windows Control Panel in the section "Uninstall a program".
While we have the option to save our configurations in this application before uninstalling it; As a preventive measure we could take note of the 'overclock' configurations we had been using in each of the graphics cards. Especially those of the clock of the processor (Core Clock), and of the memory (Memory Clock) of the same ones. This will prevent us from having to start from scratch to try out configurations to rediscover the optimal stability / performance balance on each card.

5-INSTALLATION OF THE MSI AFTERBURNER 4.4.0 BETA 16

This process is also quite intuitive thanks to the installation software of it. As a small suggestion, when choosing what will be installed select only the MSI Afterburner, obviating the RivaTuner.
It is not necessary to restart the rig immediately after the installation is finished, since after we make certain configurations to the application, it would require it. Although, if we save the previous configurations before uninstalling the previous version of the Afterburner, there should not be any necessary changes to be made.

START-UP AND COMPARISON OF RESULTS

Finally, we are ready to start up our mining software and compare current performance results with those obtained previously.

This update offers an improvement of 10% in the processing speed of the mining rig, in addition to a reduction of 20% in the electrical consumption of the same and 8% in the temperature of the graphic cards.


It is important to emphasize what we mentioned earlier regarding the instability that can be experienced with this Beta version of the controllers, since each device does not necessarily react in the same way. In case of irregularities in the performance of the rig, it is advisable to experiment a bit with the Afterburner values ​​and check that there are no other applications that may be in conflict with it.






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