331Mh/s or: Why I Love My 5830 - page 2.

Dimsum

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Quote from: st4rdust on July 19, 2011, 04:53:03 PM

Doesn't it feel great to pass up that 300Mh/s mark?? You can just feel the overwhelming value oozing from the 5830 GPU.

TRIXX did the same thing for my memory clock, and while I haven't tried going below 300, I've always read the sweet spot for mem clock is around 350-360. 360 happened to be the right number for me, but you'll have to play around in that range to find yours.

Feels really great! I've been wanting to push the card higher than what CCC would allow so was eager to try AfterBurner - but that caused so many blue screens, it just annoyed me and made me give up. The look, feel and simplicity of TRIXX makes overclocking a breeze, and now I am not scared to push my card further! The AfterBurner interface for me was just too much and clearly the fact that it made me blue screen when i never pushed it anywhere close to what I am pushing the card with TRIXX makes me think that it has some technical issues.

I only wish I had bought a 2nd 5830 at the time I got my current one so I could crossfire. They were going for a steal and I only discovered Bitcoin a few weeks after they sold out =/

st4rdust

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Quote from: BobbyJo on July 19, 2011, 05:19:39 PM

My 5870 only puts out 320 ish. Its dropped since I added an old card in my second slot. Not sure why.

What kind of card did you add to the second slot? Also, what kind of power supply are you running this system with? The more you can tell us about your setup, the more likely it is that we can help you figure this out. If it's drawing system resources, the second card may or may not be infringing on your 5870's demand.

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My 5870 only puts out 320 ish. Its dropped since I added an old card in my second slot. Not sure why.

st4rdust

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Quote from: Dimsum on July 19, 2011, 04:27:17 PM

Quote from: xtoro on July 19, 2011, 04:57:06 AM

Trixx is the way to go. The fastest I run my cards is at night. Now doing GPU@985Mhz and Mem@325Mhz. Each card running 295-305MH/s.

Crossfired:
Sapphire Xtreme : 75-76*C
ASUS DirectCU : 70-71*C

Total 610MH/s.

Seems Mem@325-345Mhz is best. Still looking for the right spot.

Yeah tried TRIXX last night - managed to get to 301 Mhashs on 950Mhz/300MHz on my XFX card which was sweet!

When I close down TRIXX and re-open the app, I notice that the memory now shows 300Mhz as the highest value and allows me to down clock it to 0! Is there a value below 300MHz that is good or should we not go below 300?

Doesn't it feel great to pass up that 300Mh/s mark?? You can just feel the overwhelming value oozing from the 5830 GPU.

TRIXX did the same thing for my memory clock, and while I haven't tried going below 300, I've always read the sweet spot for mem clock is around 350-360. 360 happened to be the right number for me, but you'll have to play around in that range to find yours.

st4rdust

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What the he'll do you use for PSU's?

Not sure what he uses, but check out this awesome secondary power supply I came across:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104054

What a great unit. Fits in a 5.25" bay as an independent unit to power your graphics cards.

Dimsum

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Quote from: xtoro on July 19, 2011, 04:57:06 AM

Trixx is the way to go. The fastest I run my cards is at night. Now doing GPU@985Mhz and Mem@325Mhz. Each card running 295-305MH/s.

Crossfired:
Sapphire Xtreme : 75-76*C
ASUS DirectCU : 70-71*C

Total 610MH/s.

Seems Mem@325-345Mhz is best. Still looking for the right spot.

Yeah tried TRIXX last night - managed to get to 301 Mhashs on 950Mhz/300MHz on my XFX card which was sweet!

When I close down TRIXX and re-open the app, I notice that the memory now shows 300Mhz as the highest value and allows me to down clock it to 0! Is there a value below 300MHz that is good or should we not go below 300?

st4rdust

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Quote from: xtoro on July 19, 2011, 04:57:06 AM

Seems Mem@325-345Mhz is best. Still looking for the right spot.

Try between 350-360. I was told that this was the sweet spot for this particular card when overclocked. Personally, 360 is my sweet spot.

st4rdust

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Quote from: The_JMiner on July 18, 2011, 08:17:10 PM

Quote from: st4rdust on July 14, 2011, 05:00:53 PM

Got my Sapphire 5830 Xtreme yesterday and I've been steadily ramping it up to its eventual failure @ 1020mhz core. I've found it's stable at 1010mhz core with memory underclocked to 300mhz. This is all at stock voltage, and frankly I couldn't be happier with what this card turned out to be capable of.

313.5Mh/s @ 1010mhz core 300mhz memory stock voltage -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=12 FASTLOOP=false WORKSIZE=256 (in regards to 128 vs 256, for me at these settings the 256 worksize actually bumps my hash rate 5Mh/s)

What program are you using to get past the stock 900mhz? Are you on windows or linux?

I'm using Sapphire's own TRIXX software on Windows Vista x64. Nothing fancy at all, just download and install from their website. Only thing I'm limited to is stock voltage, for whatever reason it won't let me bump up the volts. If I set it to anything higher than stock 1163, once I hit reply it automatically reverts back to 1163, regardless of what I set the voltage to.

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Quote from: damon1492 on July 18, 2011, 05:45:21 PM

Quote from: Furyan on July 14, 2011, 07:39:32 PM

Just ordered a 6950... can't wait for it to arrive..

Requires enough power to have forced me to buy a new PSU Tongue

ordered 8X6990

Rape time

Grats!! Your wallet is now raped! :-P

xtoro

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Quote from: Dimsum on July 18, 2011, 08:51:36 PM

Man you guys make me want to crank it up on my 5830. I get 225 on stock and 270 when I push it to 900Mhz via CCC. Tried MSi AfterBurner but what annoyed me about that is you need to keep moving the slider down and then saving then repeating that step to get the memory down to 300Mhz. It also gave me my first set of blue screens even though I never pushed it so much. TRIXX is way better as I can move the sliders in one go to all the extremes and then revert back when i am using the system for regular stuff (but still mining at stock!) Now all I need is the courage to do it!

Trixx is the way to go. The fastest I run my cards is at night. Now doing GPU@985Mhz and Mem@325Mhz. Each card running 295-305MH/s.

Crossfired:
Sapphire Xtreme : 75-76*C
ASUS DirectCU : 70-71*C

Total 610MH/s.

Seems Mem@325-345Mhz is best. Still looking for the right spot.

Dimsum

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Man you guys make me want to crank it up on my 5830. I get 225 on stock and 270 when I push it to 900Mhz via CCC. Tried MSi AfterBurner but what annoyed me about that is you need to keep moving the slider down and then saving then repeating that step to get the memory down to 300Mhz. It also gave me my first set of blue screens even though I never pushed it so much. TRIXX is way better as I can move the sliders in one go to all the extremes and then revert back when i am using the system for regular stuff (but still mining at stock!) Now all I need is the courage to do it!

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moOo

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but I got mine to 370 on stock clocks

Either you are looking at the hash rate your pool says you have, or you made a typo, or you are spouting BS

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Keep it real

Quote from: hmblm1245 on July 18, 2011, 02:21:18 PM

Anyone else having trouble getting 4 over 900? If i move anything past that it freezes the whole system. i have AC blowing directly on the board and cards.

all at full load
gpu1 (Primary) 64c
gpu2 54c
gpu3 50
gpu4 42

SAPPHIRE 100297-2L x4
MSI 890FXA-GD70
COOLMAX RM-1000B 1000W ATX (motherboard and 3 5830s)
ANTEC Neo power 430W (For 8 80mm fans 2.5 HDD and one 5830)
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500)

any thoughts would be nice.

It may be a similar issue that I had.... check your task manager while starting the miners. Mine were killing my CPU, I had to set the affinity on all phoenix processes to the same CPU core so it wouldn't eat 100% and crash the computer.

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Quote from: st4rdust on July 14, 2011, 05:00:53 PM

Got my Sapphire 5830 Xtreme yesterday and I've been steadily ramping it up to its eventual failure @ 1020mhz core. I've found it's stable at 1010mhz core with memory underclocked to 300mhz. This is all at stock voltage, and frankly I couldn't be happier with what this card turned out to be capable of.

313.5Mh/s @ 1010mhz core 300mhz memory stock voltage -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=12 FASTLOOP=false WORKSIZE=256 (in regards to 128 vs 256, for me at these settings the 256 worksize actually bumps my hash rate 5Mh/s)

What program are you using to get past the stock 900mhz? Are you on windows or linux?

jhas

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nice!

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Quote from: Furyan on July 14, 2011, 07:39:32 PM

Just ordered a 6950... can't wait for it to arrive..

Requires enough power to have forced me to buy a new PSU Tongue

ordered 8X6990

Rape time

hmblm1245

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Anyone else having trouble getting 4 over 900? If i move anything past that it freezes the whole system. i have AC blowing directly on the board and cards.

all at full load
gpu1 (Primary) 64c
gpu2 54c
gpu3 50
gpu4 42

SAPPHIRE 100297-2L x4
MSI 890FXA-GD70
COOLMAX RM-1000B 1000W ATX (motherboard and 3 5830s)
ANTEC Neo power 430W (For 8 80mm fans 2.5 HDD and one 5830)
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500)

any thoughts would be nice.

xtoro

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Quote from: abracadabra on July 18, 2011, 10:47:32 AM

I have 5 5830s running in my basement, with no additional "high CFM fans" blowing on them. All are running at 69-70C @ 1010/250 stock voltage. No cases. all open.
Ambient in the basement is about 20C.

Parts in bold and underlined was my point. Not a regular setup. Myself, I don't set any special conditions to my computers. They sit in my house in my living areas. You must have a chilly basement.

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I got some on the way Ill post my speeds when mine is built

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Quote from: xtoro on July 15, 2011, 05:46:59 AM

Unless you have your case opened up with a high CFM fan blowing right on your card, or you're water/oilcooled, I call BS on your 70*C full load @ 1010Mhz....

I have 5 5830s running in my basement, with no additional "high CFM fans" blowing on them. All are running at 69-70C @ 1010/250 stock voltage. No cases. all open.
Ambient in the basement is about 20C.

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