Geez, I realized just how bad my settings above were…
After many hours of testing, I arrived at this efficient configuration:
Couple of remarks:
AIM: Maintain a high hashrate with as little wattage as humanly possible.
- CORE: I was aiming for 900 MHz originally (anything below 900 crashes), but I couldn’t get that speed to work at low mV value. It would automatically jump to 750mV and stay there, no matter what voltage I set. The nearest speed I found to work, was 920 MHz.
- VDD: step by step, I reached a minimum where it doesn’t crash at 920mhz - 640mV.
- VDDCI: seems to not have any effect beyond a certain minimum. Initially power draw kept dropping, till around 600-ish. I even tried 100mV - no effect. But it did drop a solid 3W from default to 600mV.
- MVDD: Anything below the magical 1300 mV would cause immediate drop in hashrate.
- MEM Speed: The rule “use frequencies that divide by 15” is very true, you can see the difference in hashrate straight away. 1080 MHz is the highest my PowerCollor Hellbound with micron memory will take. 1095 isn’t stable at 920 MHz core.
- SoC Frequency: The minimum I reached safely was 418. I set mine at 420.
- SoC Voltage: The minimum I reached was 755 mV. Anything below would crash. I have it now set to 760 mV.
The result of all this tweaking is amazing - a steady 32 MH @ 49/50W.