RX 470 4G Mining - Getting up and running / GPU identification help

[Boonze]

Hello,

I recently acquired what I think is a Mining edition RX 470 4 gb GPU. I noted one single HDMI port under the metal front plate as shown in the last pic. It appears to run and post in the device manager and once pixel patched, is recognized just fine by Windows. Assuming they have a modded mining Bios of some kind maybe. The issue I am having is when I go to mine anything with it, I cannot get it to benchmark on any algo and when I do manage to pass a benchmark to mine, it won't even try to start mining. I figured this thing should rip up some Raven. I have tried every version of adrenalin drivers I found from 16-18 to the latest 24. I even tried the old blockchain drivers I had on a CD. I am wondering if I need to flash the Bios to get this thing working/mining, maybe swap to a different driver I have not tried?! I have a fair amount of experience with computers in general, GPUs and mining, but this thing is stumping me and I am kind of lost. I cannot manage to even identify exactly what it is, who manufactured it, or even find an original picture of one! The GPU-Z says its a Sapphire when I click lookup, but the form factor and board look very different. All the benchmarking and testing I have done says everything works just fine in the card. Please see below pics of GPU-Z screen and tag. I appreciate any help or direction!

 

[eidairaman1]

Yeah incorrect bios is on the card, notice the clock speeds are both 0, take the heatsink off and get a pic of the metal fram surrounding the gpu die there should be a 215 number on it, also get a pic of a ram chip please

Hello,

I recently acquired what I think is a Mining edition RX 470 4 gb GPU. I noted one single HDMI port under the metal front plate as shown in the last pic. It appears to run and post in the device manager and once pixel patched, is recognized just fine by Windows. Assuming they have a modded mining Bios of some kind maybe. The issue I am having is when I go to mine anything with it, I cannot get it to benchmark on any algo and when I do manage to pass a benchmark to mine, it won't even try to start mining. I figured this thing should rip up some Raven. I have tried every version of adrenalin drivers I found from 16-18 to the latest 24. I even tried the old blockchain drivers I had on a CD. I am wondering if I need to flash the Bios to get this thing working/mining, maybe swap to a different driver I have not tried?! I have a fair amount of experience with computers in general, GPUs and mining, but this thing is stumping me and I am kind of lost. I cannot manage to even identify exactly what it is, who manufactured it, or even find an original picture of one! The GPU-Z says its a Sapphire when I click lookup, but the form factor and board look very different. All the benchmarking and testing I have done says everything works just fine in the card. Please see below pics of GPU-Z screen and tag. I appreciate any help or direction!