Ubuntu 16.04 RX 470 4GB

Non of the changes I make in cclock, powlim, ccddc seem to have any noticeable effect on my watt-meter or on the sol rates in the miner.
Only changing the intensity visibly changes both and tt and ttli are working fine.

Should I load or start the amdgpu-pro program first or something for claymore to be able to make changes?
Because of a bug in Lightdm and gdm not working either, since I installed the amd drivers, I'm just using command line. I can't get to the desktop to see the amd configuration program.

And just to be sure: using a negative number for powlim, lowers the maximum power usage for the cards, right? Or does a postive number equal a decrease?

too much OC!!

does the miner store any data on the hard drive?

most likely you are running the GPU with too high temps and needs the processors to be resealed. Low voltage can do it too. Reset the GPU to the default values and see whats happens. If it continues under clock it. How old is the GPU? Also how many GPU's are on the motherboard and power supply do you have?

use watttool; change P7 state in the left column to 1150mh (core) and ram to 1950 (MHz) to start. Change fan min speed t o more spped. and max fan speed to 100% capacity. Change the temeprature target to 80C.. Now run the miner. If you are still getting error then I cant help. But if there is no error; then slowly increase clock speed on both core and ram and keep an eye on temperature and power intake. This is just the start.. slowly optimize the card. have you done any bios modding? If yes; then you need to use polaris bios editor and decrease the clock status from the highest clock to 1200 or lower. (you can change it later in watttool).. play with it

How does a GTX 1060 3GB beat my RX 480 with this algo by 20sol/s?
My RX 480 gets ~230 range 228 - 237 and my GTX 1060 3GB gets ~250 range 244 - 258

For me this was not true, it was the crimson 15.12 drivers causing the miner to crash.  I'd tried every troubleshooting trick in the readme to no avail and even asked in these forums, nothing worked.  If your miner is crashing or If you are having stability issues update to the latest relive drivers from AMD.

I was really confused on this one because I have two identical Optiplex 390 machines, both running windows 10 pro, both with newest A11 bios, both with onboard video enabled too, both with 8 gb of ram, and both with R9 fury's in them.  One has been running flawless for almost a month and the other wouldn't run at all.  I'm sure I used the 15.12 drivers on the machine that was working when I set it up, but that was in the earlier days of claymore (9.0) and I must have left the automatic driver update option checked.  Some change made between 9.0 and 9.2 causes issues with the 15.12 drivers on certain rigs.

Just to be thorough I removed the newest drivers on the optiplex that has been working and installed the 15.12 drivers and zecminer64 would crash right after card detection every time.  Updated to newest drivers with clean install option and it's working again.

Why is this ? where 3 cards are available separately r9 390 - 315 h s and if you add r9 390X and 290x, only 5 cards are beginning to give out r9 390 - 295 h s, who can say? The difference of 20 h s .thanks

Maybe your CPU is too weak.

You need to reduce the intensity if it is not overclocked. Some GPU cannot have high intensity.