CGMiner settings Windows DogeCoin

[Slinkey]

Alright so I finally decided to mine Dogecoin, giving up on Litecoin.

I set up my wallet and have a worker, now I just need my miner to get ready.

I have 2x MSI R9 280X Gaming3GB.

My pool happens to be: http://doge.netcodepool.org/index.php?page=gettingstarted

 

So I found out pretty much that I need these settings:
Intensity: 13

Threads: 2

Workload: 256

Thread-Currency: 24000 or 8192

lookup gap: 2

temp-target: 75

auto-fan

gpu-engine: 1050

gpu-memclock 1500

scrypt: true

 

ofc also including the GPU_MAX_Alloc blalblabla

and Sync blalbalalbabl

Source: https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

 

I've also learned that I should have two instances of CGminers running one for device "0" and the other device "1". (I have disabled crossfire)

 

Now, when I go to download CGMiner I have no idea which version to download, I tried Windows version, but does not seem to work. (Not reading "cgminer.conf" file)

Then I tried the latest build (3.7.2) Does not work, because there is no CGMiner.exe in the download! So many guides tell me to make a bat which executes CGMiner, but how can it do that when there is no CGMinger!

 

I've tried GUIMiner-scrypt, but only get like 140kH/s when I am supposed to be getting 700kH/s+

 

Basically, how the hell do I get a CGMiner which works! T_T (or to work?)

[KamiKatze]

while i can't help you on that topic, you should also try out a thread concurrency of 2048, once you got it set up. It helped me bumping it up from 650 to 750 KH/s on my Gigabyte 280X with stock clocks.

 

Edit: I used GUIMiner.

 

While mining veterans will tell you that you can get more out of your system and have a more detailed error message display when using CGMiner,

I can tell you that setting up GUIMiner is easy as pie and it yields some impressive Hashrates, despite the limited capabilities of GUIMiner.

[Denned]

You're downloading the 32bit version right? You should get the 64 bit version instead, else you'll need to compile it.

And I doubt you'll gear anywhere near 700KH/s with intensity 13

[Denned]

Intensity of 13 is what works for 280Xs as anything else would significantly lower hashrate.

Didn't know that sorry! Seems like everything else works better with 18+

[Slinkey]

So I decided to try GUIminer again, and for some odd reason it is working better than before. 586kH/s though.

Still want to figure out with CGminer.

 

Now how do I make sure I game with only of the cars and let the other card mine.

[KamiKatze]

So I decided to try GUIminer again, and for some odd reason it is working better than before. 586kH/s though.

Still want to figure out with CGminer.

 

Even with thread concurrency 2048? That helped me.

 

For the cards: you can select which cards mine in GUIminer, just create a worker for each card. As long as you don't crossfire, windows  should automatically use the primary GPU for video output. If not, i am sure you can configure it within the hardware manager.

[Slinkey]

Figured out the gaming.

It seems like I am getting enough shares 200+, but I have 3 stale/invalid, what does that exactly mean?