Look for JJ_Hashmonitor.ps1. You can examine the power shell script if you like and change it. I would say if it's stable between 1800-1900h/s per vega keep it. Any down time would also cause you on the long run.
ETN is based on XMR but the issue is how fast they can apply the changes and how competent their Dev team? With their recent blunders that required an outsider to fix their network issue.
You can check with GPU-z. If it's samsung then you got a good card. I got 2 Nitro 56 with Hynix and I couldn't get passed 900 + memory without crashing and just settled with 880mhz but both cards do 1820 h/s and using softmod table. I also have an MSI 56 with samsung memory and it can do 950...
I don't think it was windows 10 and afaik the thread was closed and most of the people in the thread requested to RMA their cards. I been using my R290 (xfx reference cards ) from windows 8 (that's since beta ) till I upgraded to windows 10 and so far haven't had any issues.
You might have...
Well he might already known the issue and sold the card just to get his hands off it? Like Kardonxt said it might be good on windows driver but if you try to install the GPU driver it just turned dead. Afaik those card only carries limited warranty and it might not be transferable ?So if the...
You need to toggle it on the other direction just to check whether you can initialize and use the other bios. Just be sure to turn off everything when you toggle the bios switch. If this method didn't work have you tried it to install to another PC ? Did he mention on craigslist that he used the...
There's a toggle switch above the card that switches bios. You might want to toggle to the other direction and hopefully the one you bought from craigslist only used 1 bios as he might have used it for mining already. No you need GPU drivers to mine.
Where did you read that it won't work on windows 10? I'm using 2x R9 290 both on windows 10 (tried all version from 15xx to 1709) and they're gaming happily and yes they can be use in mining.
Inno3D is very popular in asia. They're based in China which in term can source out parts easily.
http://www.inno3d.com/products.php?refid=398&gclid=CjwKCAjws6jVBRBZEiwAkIfZ2mvht4gKPn1FJxMruEx3xjZ77hRv19aLAMcBVWdNqycdqlBWSs4_0RoCJyIQAvD_BwE
What xmr stak version are you using ? Try lowering your intensity ? Are you also using the soft mod table ? Are you using the blockchain driver ?If you are mining Crytonight I would try to use DDU and reinstall the blockchain driver ( be sure it's just the driver nothing else) only downside...