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full member
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August 23, 2011, 08:21:58 AM
#48
My video driver always stops working when I try to raise the core 865+, with 320mhz memory (fan manual 60%), with stock voltage, on 5850 shappire extreme and xfx.

Anyone have the same problem?
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1011
August 22, 2011, 06:43:24 AM
#47
I'm running 2 Cards, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have a Silverstone Strider 1500w PSU
Do you use stock coolers? In auto mode or on 100% rpm?
I can't get, how do you keep temp at 68C.
My cards are separated with pci-e risers and heat up to 75-80C.
What software do you use for OC, MSI AfteBurner?

My 5850s are the sapphire xtreme ones, stock coolers running at 65-70% fan depending on the days temp, running at 100% will kill its life time

I'm using sapphire trixx for the OC, not sure why you are getting such high temps, maybe your OC software is automatically bumping the voltage.

I found that my 5850 Xtremes with stock coolers and stock voltage would run at around 72*C and 78*C even with the fans at 100% (not recommended).  At the time the ambient temperature was about 20*C.  Ventilation wasn't the best but it was ok.  I'd imagine a single card would be at around 70*C but haven't verified this.

Perhaps noogai93 has good ventilation, low ambient temperatures, or is using case fans or something to blow cool air between the cards.  If you're struggling to obtain low enough temperatures then I'd consider undervolting the cards.
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0
August 22, 2011, 04:19:45 AM
#46
I'm running 2 Cards, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have a Silverstone Strider 1500w PSU
Do you use stock coolers? In auto mode or on 100% rpm?
I can't get, how do you keep temp at 68C.
My cards are separated with pci-e risers and heat up to 75-80C.
What software do you use for OC, MSI AfteBurner?

My 5850s are the sapphire xtreme ones, stock coolers running at 65-70% fan depending on the days temp, running at 100% will kill its life time

I'm using sapphire trixx for the OC, not sure why you are getting such high temps, maybe your OC software is automatically bumping the voltage.
newbie
Activity: 44
Merit: 0
August 22, 2011, 02:29:18 AM
#45
I'm running 2 Cards, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have a Silverstone Strider 1500w PSU
Do you use stock coolers? In auto mode or on 100% rpm?
I can't get, how do you keep temp at 68C.
My cards are separated with pci-e risers and heat up to 75-80C.
What software do you use for OC, MSI AfteBurner?
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 20, 2011, 06:52:47 PM
#44
I got mine up to 411Mh at 1000/333 but it wasn't stable and I didn't feel like bumping the voltage.
Right now I'm happy with the 402-3 Mh I'm getting with 975/325.
Your doing something wrong if you need 975/325 to get to 400 megahash. I only need 950/325 to get 400. Are you using the sapphire card?
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 250
August 20, 2011, 04:54:51 PM
#43
I got mine up to 411Mh at 1000/333 but it wasn't stable and I didn't feel like bumping the voltage.
Right now I'm happy with the 402-3 Mh I'm getting with 975/325.
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0
August 20, 2011, 02:10:33 AM
#42
I'm getting 406mhash/s with my sapphire xtreme 5850 @ 975/300 no voltage change, operates around 68 degrees C
Do you have 1 card only?
I have 6 sapphire xtreme 5850 and the best card works stable @ 875/300 (the worst works @ 800/300), how did you made it work @ 975MHz ?
What OS do you use (Linux/Windows 32/64bits)?
What PSU do you use?

I'm running 2 Cards, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have a Silverstone Strider 1500w PSU
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Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 16, 2011, 09:27:49 AM
#41
I'm getting 406mhash/s with my sapphire xtreme 5850 @ 975/300 no voltage change, operates around 68 degrees C
Do you have 1 card only?
I have 6 sapphire xtreme 5850 and the best card works stable @ 875/300 (the worst works @ 800/300), how did you made it work @ 975MHz ?
What OS do you use (Linux/Windows 32/64bits)?
What PSU do you use?
I'm not him obviously but yea theres no way you can touch that speed with 5+ cards. I'm running 920/325 and getting temps around 78c. I might try to push it once the summer is over. I live in the north east so come September/October opening a window is like a free ac unit Cheesy
newbie
Activity: 44
Merit: 0
August 16, 2011, 09:21:16 AM
#40
I'm getting 406mhash/s with my sapphire xtreme 5850 @ 975/300 no voltage change, operates around 68 degrees C
Do you have 1 card only?
I have 6 sapphire xtreme 5850 and the best card works stable @ 875/300 (the worst works @ 800/300), how did you made it work @ 975MHz ?
What OS do you use (Linux/Windows 32/64bits)?
What PSU do you use?
legendary
Activity: 2072
Merit: 1001
August 16, 2011, 12:09:19 AM
#39
I have a HIS Radeon HD 5850 that I cannot OC past 775Mhz, 600 Mem .  If I raise it just by 1 to 776 the card crashes and the rig needs a cold reboot.  I have a 2 card rig (6950 ref and the HIS 5850).   The 6950 pushes 430 Mh/s but I cannot get the 5850 to break 303 M/hs.  I clearly must be doing something wrong.

Setup:
ASrock 970 Extreme4
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 850
GPU0: HD 6950 Ref
GPU1: HIS HD 5850
OS: Debian via BAMT

Anyone have the same card and success in OC w/ aticonfig or atitweak?


I think I've heard mixing 6xxx cards with 5xxx cards can cause some issue. I don't know the solution though since I have never tried to mix the series.

mixing is not an issue on win7 64bit proffessional. two ref 6950s with a non-ref 5850. 6950s at 430mh/s with the 5850 at 390 mh/s.
but perhaps linux is different? just throwing my windows exp out there.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 15, 2011, 12:55:55 PM
#38
I have a HIS Radeon HD 5850 that I cannot OC past 775Mhz, 600 Mem .  If I raise it just by 1 to 776 the card crashes and the rig needs a cold reboot.  I have a 2 card rig (6950 ref and the HIS 5850).   The 6950 pushes 430 Mh/s but I cannot get the 5850 to break 303 M/hs.  I clearly must be doing something wrong.

Setup:
ASrock 970 Extreme4
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 850
GPU0: HD 6950 Ref
GPU1: HIS HD 5850
OS: Debian via BAMT

Anyone have the same card and success in OC w/ aticonfig or atitweak?


I think I've heard mixing 6xxx cards with 5xxx cards can cause some issue. I don't know the solution though since I have never tried to mix the series.
newbie
Activity: 47
Merit: 0
August 15, 2011, 12:10:32 PM
#37
I have a HIS Radeon HD 5850 that I cannot OC past 775Mhz, 600 Mem .  If I raise it just by 1 to 776 the card crashes and the rig needs a cold reboot.  I have a 2 card rig (6950 ref and the HIS 5850).   The 6950 pushes 430 Mh/s but I cannot get the 5850 to break 303 M/hs.  I clearly must be doing something wrong.

Setup:
ASrock 970 Extreme4
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX 850
GPU0: HD 6950 Ref
GPU1: HIS HD 5850
OS: Debian via BAMT

Anyone have the same card and success in OC w/ aticonfig or atitweak?

member
Activity: 100
Merit: 10
August 13, 2011, 10:25:53 PM
#36
The problem is that I can't lower Memory Clock too much cause I use my comp for other stuff other than mining too. So I try to leave it at 900 mem clock togheter with 900 gpu clock @ 1.125 voltage, but that ocasionally crashes my gpu.

Have you tried using phatk 2.1 or phatk 2.2?  It has an option "VECTORS4" which you could give instead of "VECTORS" which might improve your hash-rate.  "VECTORS4" is basically for people with high RAM clocks.  Don't forget to lower your WORKSIZE too.  Here's the main thread.


I see, thanks for letting me know, but sadly I'm using poclbm.
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0
August 11, 2011, 07:31:09 AM
#35
I'm getting 406mhash/s with my sapphire xtreme 5850 @ 975/300 no voltage change, operates around 68 degrees C
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1011
August 09, 2011, 01:55:45 AM
#34
The problem is that I can't lower Memory Clock too much cause I use my comp for other stuff other than mining too. So I try to leave it at 900 mem clock togheter with 900 gpu clock @ 1.125 voltage, but that ocasionally crashes my gpu.

Have you tried using phatk 2.1 or phatk 2.2?  It has an option "VECTORS4" which you could give instead of "VECTORS" which might improve your hash-rate.  "VECTORS4" is basically for people with high RAM clocks.  Don't forget to lower your WORKSIZE too.  Here's the main thread.
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1011
August 09, 2011, 01:51:45 AM
#33
I found my old post about my personal best MH/s for a 5850.  461.1 MH/s at 1110 MHz core clock, 3 hours continuous with very few stales.

Higher clocks such as 1140 MHz were fine for a short time but after 30 seconds or so the cards cut out due to high temperatures.  I couldn't find a way to circumvent this so I guess (I have no water-cooling).

As I said before, I don't run at these speeds normally - this is just a bit of fun.  The same card is now running at 377.5 MH/s (899MHz/[email protected]) and I'm trying to get my miner up to 2.5 MH/J.

0.9875?
whoa.
that's quite an undervoltage. what's the temperature?

Right now my temps are 57*C and 43*C respectively (one card is sucking in air being heated by the back of the other).  The miner is in a pretty small room and if I cut off all ventilation for 12 hours or so the temperatures can reach as high as 62*C and 48*C (peak from the last two weeks).  This is with all fans turned down to minimum to reduce noise as much as possible.  If I turn up all the fans and keep the room reasonably well ventilated the temps sit at about 44*C and 36*C.

I've been through a phase of maintaining high clock rates but I much prefer having a cooler and very quiet miner achieving more than 2.4 Mh/J and I certainly don't mind sacrificing around 100 Mh/s (from 828 Mh/s to 733 Mh/s) for this.
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1011
August 09, 2011, 01:31:40 AM
#32
I wonder if the cards were cutting out due to GPU temps or VRM temps?

If it's not a reference cooler (in which the heatsink contacts the VRM's via thermal pads), maybe try using arctic cermique (sp?) to glue on some small heatsinks to the VRM's

Good question, I've wondered this myself.  I'm guessing it was the GPU rather than the VRM that was suffering simply because everything was fine for 3 hours at 1110 MHz and consistently died in seconds at 1140 MHz (same voltage).  When I replaced the stock cooling I was not able to improve the VRM cooling and the sticky pads and stock heatsink remain in place.  For the testing I had a fan-heater turned to cold and focusing a blast of cool air on the VRMs.  I have no way of measuring the temperature of the VRMs and can only assume they were roasting.

Thanks for the tip but I'd rather take good care of my cards by running at lower settings. Smiley
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Activity: 100
Merit: 10
August 08, 2011, 11:17:23 PM
#31
The problem is that I can't lower Memory Clock too much cause I use my comp for other stuff other than mining too. So I try to leave it at 900 mem clock togheter with 900 gpu clock @ 1.125 voltage, but that ocasionally crashes my gpu.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
August 08, 2011, 10:52:18 PM
#30
Right now OC'd at 900/600/1.125 with TRIX. My 5850 is a XFX. I was trying out this new OC setup and my card crashed while I was typing this. Idk what's wrong with my card but it seems that it just can't stand having a 900mhz clock at 1.125 voltage, I need to pump it up to 1.150 so my card won't crash. Also, it hashes around 350mh/s @ 900. Yeah, I think I just got a god damn crappy batch.
Lowering the mem clock to around 300 should help. If it becomes unstable below 600 try a different version of its drivers. I switch from 11.6 to 11.7 and from afterburner to trixx and that fixed all my problems.
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Activity: 100
Merit: 10
August 08, 2011, 09:21:53 PM
#29
Right now OC'd at 900/600/1.125 with TRIX. My 5850 is a XFX. I was trying out this new OC setup and my card crashed while I was typing this. Idk what's wrong with my card but it seems that it just can't stand having a 900mhz clock at 1.125 voltage, I need to pump it up to 1.150 so my card won't crash. Also, it hashes around 350mh/s @ 900. Yeah, I think I just got a god damn crappy batch.
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