5870 Users! Clock Speed, Memory, Voltage, SDK and CCC Version, Flags, etc. - page 3.

tiberiandusk

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Quote from: The Koolio on June 01, 2011, 09:17:58 AM

getting a nice 440-460 Hash with my 5870, clocked to 1Ghz and 185 mem clock using AMD clock tool. Using msi afterbruner to run gpu fans at 100% after 50c, currently stable at 74c, been running for 5 days now, averaging 1BTC-1.1BTC per day. Whenever i try and take my mem clock to 200-250 or below 180, as well as taking gpu to over 1Ghz i get heavy artifacting, I end up having to go into safe mode, use driver sweeper then reinstall CCC 11.5. Also running SDK 2.4

My flags are:

phoenix -u http://username_1:[email protected]:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=13 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=128

BTW

Ive ran deepbit, slush and btcguild each for at least 24 hours, in my honest opinion BTCguild is bringing some nice speeds, although i do get periods where theres no work, but this last for a max 4 seconds, hardly any refused shares and take into account the 0% fee!

Ive also ran Phoenix and POCLBM, again, my best speeds were gained using phoenix and the phatik flag.

Now planning to buy either another 5870, or a 5870x2 (drooling at the 850 hash rate!)

Good luck finding them. Every site I have checked is sold out and there are no stores like Fry's anywhere near where I live.

The Koolio

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getting a nice 440-460 Hash with my 5870, clocked to 1Ghz and 185 mem clock using AMD clock tool. Using msi afterbruner to run gpu fans at 100% after 50c, currently stable at 74c, been running for 5 days now, averaging 1BTC-1.1BTC per day. Whenever i try and take my mem clock to 200-250 or below 180, as well as taking gpu to over 1Ghz i get heavy artifacting, I end up having to go into safe mode, use driver sweeper then reinstall CCC 11.5. Also running SDK 2.4

My flags are:

phoenix -u http://username_1:[email protected]:8332/ -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=13 DEVICE=0 WORKSIZE=128

BTW

Ive ran deepbit, slush and btcguild each for at least 24 hours, in my honest opinion BTCguild is bringing some nice speeds, although i do get periods where theres no work, but this last for a max 4 seconds, hardly any refused shares and take into account the 0% fee!

Ive also ran Phoenix and POCLBM, again, my best speeds were gained using phoenix and the phatik flag.

Now planning to buy either another 5870, or a 5870x2 (drooling at the 850 hash rate!)

tiberiandusk

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I'm getting 435 with mine with core at 990 and mem at 185. Stock voltage and phoenix with phatk. Sitting around 70c with fan at 85%.

Seraphim401

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I edited the file in question,but still can't tweak the voltage.

icaci

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I have 2x Sapphire Vapor-X 5870 OC running at stock voltage (1.16 V if I remember correctly), 935 MHz core and 319 MHz mem clocks. No CrossFireX bridges. Windows 7 32-bit, Catalyst 11.5 w/ bundled SDK 2.4. Running Phoenix 1.48 + phatk. Options are: VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=13. Getting 413 Mhash/s from each card. The rig is located in a conditioned room alongside other IT equipment. With both fans at 100% and with case's side covers removed core temperatures are 45C and 75C (the second card sits too close to the first because of bad PCI-E slots separation).

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Quote from: Dyaheon on May 31, 2011, 04:54:52 PM

Quote from: zapeta on May 31, 2011, 04:17:53 PM

Anyone else have a Gigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD? I've only managed to get keep it stable at 950mhz clock, and it appears that other 5870's have been able to go considerably higher. I think it could go higher if I could increase the voltage a bit but I haven't found a software yet that will do it and I don't want to tinker with the BIOS unless someone else has had success. Just wondering if anyone has gone higher on that card and what suggestions/settings they might have.

I have 3x Gigabyte 5870 OC models (870MHz default core) that look like yours, and they are stable at 975 except one of them needs a little lower (5-10MHz) to be stable. Though I guess it's possible that these OC models have increased voltage from defaults, 1.163V according to GPU-Z.

I believe you can overvolt these with gigabyte software, which you can probably find from the driver CD. Haven't tried it myself and probably won't, as I doubt it would be worth it. Most 5870s really don't go much higher than that, 1GHz+ is very rare afaik and most will be 950-1000MHz at manageable voltage.

Mine do 433MH/s in Ubuntu, 975/300 clocks, phoenix w/ poclbm kernel, aggression 12 worksize 256 fastloop=false.
427 in Windows at same settings, except phatk kernel as it seems to be faster in Windows.

Thanks for the info. The stock voltage on mine is also 1.163 but it is stable at 950 and unstable at 955. I wasn't sure if the gigabyte software would adjust voltages but based on your results it isn't worth my trouble. I run mine aggression 9, worksize 128, and phatk asince I do use the card for video output and need it to be somewhat responsive and I get about 408MH/s.

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Quote from: zapeta on May 31, 2011, 04:17:53 PM

Anyone else have a Gigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD? I've only managed to get keep it stable at 950mhz clock, and it appears that other 5870's have been able to go considerably higher. I think it could go higher if I could increase the voltage a bit but I haven't found a software yet that will do it and I don't want to tinker with the BIOS unless someone else has had success. Just wondering if anyone has gone higher on that card and what suggestions/settings they might have.

I have 3x Gigabyte 5870 OC models (870MHz default core) that look like yours, and they are stable at 975 except one of them needs a little lower (5-10MHz) to be stable. Though I guess it's possible that these OC models have increased voltage from defaults, 1.163V according to GPU-Z.

I believe you can overvolt these with gigabyte software, which you can probably find from the driver CD. Haven't tried it myself and probably won't, as I doubt it would be worth it. Most 5870s really don't go much higher than that, 1GHz+ is very rare afaik and most will be 950-1000MHz at manageable voltage.

Mine do 433MH/s in Ubuntu, 975/300 clocks, phoenix w/ poclbm kernel, aggression 12 worksize 256 fastloop=false.
427 in Windows at same settings, except phatk kernel as it seems to be faster in Windows.

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Quote from: MiningBuddy on May 31, 2011, 04:22:43 PM

very strange Huh

Not really, that's just how hardware works. Each chip will be stable at a different speed/voltage as it comes off of the line. The stock clocks are set such that 100% of the chips that are actually used in production cards will be stable in almost all cases at those speeds. Some have more headroom than others.

The hardcore overclockers (the type who compete in this stuff) will buy numerous chips/cards and test each one individually to find the fastest unit. Variations can be huge.

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Quote from: zapeta on May 31, 2011, 04:17:53 PM

Anyone else have a Gigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD? I've only managed to get keep it stable at 950mhz clock, and it appears that other 5870's have been able to go considerably higher. I think it could go higher if I could increase the voltage a bit but I haven't found a software yet that will do it and I don't want to tinker with the BIOS unless someone else has had success. Just wondering if anyone has gone higher on that card and what suggestions/settings they might have.

I have an xfx 5870 that wont go stable above 940 in linux, I have flashed the bios with RBE but the voltage control table is missing all of its information and I cannot figure out how to increase it to make it stable.
I have a sapphire version also that goes right up to 985 stable without having to modify the bios.

Very strange Huh

zapeta

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Anyone else have a Gigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD? I've only managed to get keep it stable at 950mhz clock, and it appears that other 5870's have been able to go considerably higher. I think it could go higher if I could increase the voltage a bit but I haven't found a software yet that will do it and I don't want to tinker with the BIOS unless someone else has had success. Just wondering if anyone has gone higher on that card and what suggestions/settings they might have.

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50Million: I'd start with checking if the cooler is properly mounted on the card. If the heatsink is cold to touch, it would be a likely indicator that it doesn't connect properly to the components.

Edit, more info: The low hashrate you're seeing would probably be due to the GPUs thermal throttling kicking in. When you try to change the memory setting it probably overrides the throttle and tries to run the core at default clock rate, which causes the card to overheat and crash/shut down.

I had a GTX 260 with the earlier version of MSI's twin cooler. It's a card with similar heat output (overclocked from 580 to 655 as well), and it kept the GPU well below reference temperatures with the fans running at about 45%. So, I'm at least fairly confident that you're having a cooling problem.

50Million

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Yeah, am starting to think is hardware. My rig is in a large case with 2 (120) fans drawing air in from the front, one from the side directly onto the vid card, and then two drawing out the top(140's) and one out the back(120), so airflow is not a problem.
Have a large Zalman cooler on the CPU, and that sits and 40-50 on full load, have fantastic cable management (there is a huge amount of space around the vid card for nice airflow) and the fans on the card are defntly working. Am thinking the temp sensor on the card is wonky, or something isnt right. Its getting full voltage from the psu (the card has LEDs that change depending on how much power is going in, and these are always on full).

chiropteran

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I do NOT have a 5870.

However, my 5850 is pulling 350MHash/s with -v -w128, 965MHz GPU, 1000MHz Mem, catalyst 11.5, default voltage

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Quote from: EgoPaintedGrey on May 09, 2011, 11:12:35 PM

Try this, set your mem clock to 300 and on the bat file remove fastloop and add aggression=13. With sdk 2.4 and 980/300 i´m getting 415Mhash/s.

Cool thanks for the info I did not think I could push those cards any more than what was out of the box.

richwest

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Quote from: 50Million on May 26, 2011, 07:45:29 PM

Forgive me for asking the noob questions (feel free to flame / point me in the right direction)

But.... I have an i7 w 6GB ram Win7 64bit etc, and an MSI 5870 Lightning, decent card, but on stock gives me only 260MHs (1.12V, 900Clock and 1200Mem).... Starts off with 380, but then winds down over a couple of mins to 260, fan at 100% all the time. Card is sitting at 96 degrees (3 days non stop so far), but is actually cold to the touch (took side fans off to check its really that hot).

The card shouldn't be running that hot - I would guess the reason it's slowing down after a few minutes is that thermal protection is cutting in. I wouldn't recommend running a 5870 at more than 90C for extended periods (and obviously lower is better).

The fact that you're getting those temperatures at stock settings suggests a problem with your setup. Probably the most likely thing is no airflow. Work out where the air is going - make sure you have case fans that are working properly and are configured to take hot air away from the graphics card. Also check that the graphics card fans are working properly and that the heatsink is properly seated on the GPU.

If all else fails install the latest MSI afterburner (or equivalent) - if you decrease the stock voltage by about 10% (exact amount is trial and error, test for stability) and the memory clock down to about 600MHz the card should run a little cooler without reducing hashing performance. I suspect you have a hardware issue though and that any amount of tweaking won't make a vast difference, so look into that first.

50Million

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Forgive me for asking the noob questions (feel free to flame / point me in the right direction)

But.... I have an i7 w 6GB ram Win7 64bit etc, and an MSI 5870 Lightning, decent card, but on stock gives me only 260MHs (1.12V, 900Clock and 1200Mem).... Starts off with 380, but then winds down over a couple of mins to 260, fan at 100% all the time. Card is sitting at 96 degrees (3 days non stop so far), but is actually cold to the touch (took side fans off to check its really that hot).

Anyway, I tried to follow the above with flags and edited my config for MSI (both that and CAT are latest), and would only let me drop the mem clock down to 600. As soon as i apply that, thinking its going to run ok, the temp goes from 96 to over 100, and at that point, the pc locks up (when mining, is stable in the os for that, temp goes up about 10 degrees but no issues).
Feeling a bit silly with only 260 Sad

and def not sure what im doing wrong....

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I use my 5870 in my gaming rig so the following configuration only runs overnight (got a couple of batch files I run with different settings) but:

950Mhz Core
300Mhz Memory
210W Power Use (188 + OC)
Peaks at 80C on XFX stock cooler, drops to 65-70 if I leave my window open (British summer time at its best Undecided

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420Mhash/sec (Well, it averaged 419.83 last night so close enough)

Using phoenix miner 1.48 on Windows 7 x64 with the following settings:

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256

Using CCC 11.5 and SDK 2.4.

I can get it to spike to almost 450 using a high clock speed up to around 990 (1000 causes instant crash and I don't feel like toying with the BIOS/Voltage) but these clock speeds aren't amazingly stable and I don't fancy a crash in the middle of the night while I'm asleep.

timmmay

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I'm running 4 x 990/610, stock voltage, fans 100%, Catalyst 11.5 SDK 2.4, poclbm -v -w128 and pushing 410-420MH/s
Temps around 60C on all cards (all are in separate PC's)

Whenever I try to go to 1000 or above the cards instantly lock up.

I'll be trialing linux tomorrow with SDK 2.1

tiberiandusk

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I'm running my 5870 @ 950mhz core and 180mhz memory with stock voltages. I'm getting about 400 Mhash/s. I would push my OC higher but it has been really warm here the last few days and it has been running a little hotter than I like.

smgoller

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I'm running 2x5870 @stock voltage, 1Ghz core/ 300Mhz mem. I'm getting about 440Mh/s per card. Catalyst 11.3/Stream SDK 2.1/Ubuntu 10.10.

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