Ethereum Mining Issue

[TallMills]

I set up a cryptocurrency mining rig for a family member recently and set him up with a b250 Mining Expert from Asus (Pentium G4400, 1x4gb ram, 120gb SSD) and we started with 5 RX580s (Asus Dual series) to mine with (3 plugged into the top row of x1 slots, 1 into the x16 slot, and 1 into the first of the second row of x1 slots) powered by an AX1600i. All of them are plugged in correctly with the psu powering everything, including the aux power for the slots I'm using. I'm currently using WinEth to mine on Windows 10 64-bit. The issue that I'm having however is that whenever I click "Start Mining" at random, only 2 or 3 of the cards actually get used. I have all the latest drivers installed, I have set their load to compute in the radeon driver settings. The weird part is that it's always a different 2 or 3 cards that get 'chosen' to actually do calculations. As most of you are well aware, you need some pretty damn good efficiency to get anywhere with GPU mining nowadays, so I'd like to have this up and running properly ASAP. Thank you in advance for your help!

[Mick Naughty]

Id try another program. Specially mining eth with amd cards. I assume they aren't flashed either?

 

 

[Xplo1t]

It's a sign that you should probably not waste your time and money doing ethereum now.  

[Srnewbee]

7 hours ago, TallMills said:

I set up a cryptocurrency mining rig for a family member recently and set him up with a b250 Mining Expert from Asus (Pentium G4400, 1x4gb ram, 120gb SSD) and we started with 5 RX580s (Asus Dual series) to mine with (3 plugged into the top row of x1 slots, 1 into the x16 slot, and 1 into the first of the second row of x1 slots) powered by an AX1600i. All of them are plugged in correctly with the psu powering everything, including the aux power for the slots I'm using. I'm currently using WinEth to mine on Windows 10 64-bit. The issue that I'm having however is that whenever I click "Start Mining" at random, only 2 or 3 of the cards actually get used. I have all the latest drivers installed, I have set their load to compute in the radeon driver settings. The weird part is that it's always a different 2 or 3 cards that get 'chosen' to actually do calculations. As most of you are well aware, you need some pretty damn good efficiency to get anywhere with GPU mining nowadays, so I'd like to have this up and running properly ASAP. Thank you in advance for your help!

I am usually never hostile...but I hate miners! Seriously, after the GPU price hike, you have the audacity to come to a tech forum for true enthusiasts and ask for tech questions. Because of you guys, I overpaid not only for my ram but my GPU as well. You guys also wasted my time since I had to waste for years for GPU prices to somewhat normalize. In addition, the 2070 RTX is launch at a higher price since the miners already gave nvidia more reasons to jack the price up. I am sorry if my response is completely unhelpful but I really hate you guys. 

[Mick Naughty]

Well don’t bother commenting if you aren’t gonna help. 

[Xplo1t]

21 minutes ago, Srnewbee said:

I am usually never hostile...but I hate miners! Seriously, after the GPU price hike, you have the audacity to come to a tech forum for true enthusiasts and ask for tech questions. Because of you guys, I overpaid not only for my ram but my GPU as well. You guys also wasted my time since I had to waste for years for GPU prices to somewhat normalize. In addition, the 2070 RTX is launch at a higher price since the miners already gave nvidia more reasons to jack the price up. I am sorry if my response is completely unhelpful but I really hate you guys. 

You sound a little self entitled and bitter.  If gamers like you didn't gobble up cards, then miners who are true entrepreneurs would have made more money.