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Quote from: Gasai Yuno on December 27, 2013, 03:23:18 AM

is there a way to run my 5970 stable?

90 is to hot.

You should use software that can control the GPU fan speed and crank it up to max, and put big fans blowing on the cards.

Old-skool mining pic of what is appropriate:

Also, 5970s are power hogs, the max power rating at stock is 290 watts per card, your power supply might not be able to keep up.

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im guessing you got them used have they been rethermal pasted is the fan spinning up to speed and holding rpm? Huh

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Yukki Yukki Yukki!

sorry for bump

i got two readon 5970

i trying them for two days for litecoin mining.

i tried many .bat configs but i couldnt made them stable.

sometimes they get 90 temperature, sometimes they suddenly stop mining.

finally i put them off and inserted my powercolor 7950s

actually 5970s are mining about 700khs

7950s are mining 580khs

is there a way to run my 5970 stable?

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Quote from: melmo on May 28, 2013, 09:02:11 AM

Quote from: Madazam on May 28, 2013, 08:45:56 AM

has anyone found any major difference between mining of different flavors of 5970 like arctic cooler, black edition sapphire ?

I have a reference and non-reference running in one rig, no real problems other than the fact that after changing the fan on the non-reference version, one gpu runs much hotter than the other.

Sorry, I don't have experience with arctic cooler or black edition 5970s.

thx man ......just for info Arctic cooler is with 3 fans ..and black edition is the one scored the highest with Diablo on the wiki page for performance..863 MH....

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Quote from: Madazam on May 28, 2013, 08:45:56 AM

has anyone found any major difference between mining of different flavors of 5970 like arctic cooler, black edition sapphire ?

I have a reference and non-reference running in one rig, no real problems other than the fact that after changing the fan on the non-reference version, one gpu runs much hotter than the other.

Sorry, I don't have experience with arctic cooler or black edition 5970s.

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has anyone found any major difference between mining of different flavors of 5970 like arctic cooler, black edition sapphire ?

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Quote from: Sant001 on June 26, 2012, 10:14:04 PM

Quote from: crazyates on June 25, 2012, 09:36:03 AM

Quote from: Sant001 on June 25, 2012, 05:07:09 AM

How much power one needs to power 3x to 5x 5970s?

I have 2x 5970 at 1200W, the moment I try use 3x the thing gets really unstable and I can just assume it's due to insufficient power.

Running them with under clocked memory/default core/default voltage.

Plan for 200-300 W for each card. I'd say that PSU can handle 3 5970s at stock settings, or 4 if you undervolt. Do you have a killawatt?

I think my PSU needs a replacement... What's a good PSU to run 4x 5970s? Perhaps I will need to use 2x psu's on my setup

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341046

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Quote from: crazyates on June 25, 2012, 09:36:03 AM

Quote from: Sant001 on June 25, 2012, 05:07:09 AM

How much power one needs to power 3x to 5x 5970s?

I have 2x 5970 at 1200W, the moment I try use 3x the thing gets really unstable and I can just assume it's due to insufficient power.

Running them with under clocked memory/default core/default voltage.

Plan for 200-300 W for each card. I'd say that PSU can handle 3 5970s at stock settings, or 4 if you undervolt. Do you have a killawatt?

I think my PSU needs a replacement... What's a good PSU to run 4x 5970s? Perhaps I will need to use 2x psu's on my setup

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Quote from: zvs on June 21, 2012, 09:40:00 AM

Quote from: crazyates on June 18, 2012, 10:38:13 AM

Quote from: Sant001 on June 18, 2012, 10:18:59 AM

What's the best brand for 5970 in terms of overclocking/Mhps?

I got my Gigabyte 5870 to 450Mbps without much sweat, which is quite high for a 5870.

But my Gigabyte 5970s can't seem to go post 700Mhps without freezing the whole system :/

I'm running them at 180/800MHz/Default voltage

Mbps? You mean MH/s? Wink

I kid...

It's really card dependent. I like PowerColor, Sapphire, and Asus. A lot of people have good luck with Gigabyte. I've heard to stay away from XFX and Diamond, but again, YMMV. There is no BEST brand for OCing.

Also, while a 5970 is technically 2x 5870s in one card, the voltages are lower to keep the power/temps down. Stock voltage on a 5870 is 1.174, while stock voltage on a 5970 is 1.050. If you lowered your 5870 down to 1.05, you won't be getting 450MH/s.

If you raised your 5970 to 1.174, you MIGHT be able to get 400+ per core, but it would be a very bad idea. Power draw increases, temps become too much for the shared cooler, and your VRM temps would be through the roof. Not a good idea.

Side note: Here are my 5870 speeds, for undervolting comparison:
460MH/s - 980/300/1.174 - My "all out" setting
425MH/s - 925/300/1.000 - My "max profit" setting
350MH/s - 755/300/0.950 - My "keep the temps down" setting.

I think my card can get higher clocks at each voltages than average, so yours may be a little lower.

you should try higher at 0.950v... mine has been stable for 200+ hrs at 830/195/0.950

the next step for me is 940/195/1.112

then 1010/195/1.175

it's xfx non-ref (hmm or maybe a sapphire non-ref... haha)

Mine's a PowerColor with a reference cooler, and it crashes at 775,300,0.95. I'm happy with 925,300,1.000, so that's what I leave it at most of the time.

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Quote from: Sant001 on June 25, 2012, 05:07:09 AM

How much power one needs to power 3x to 5x 5970s?

I have 2x 5970 at 1200W, the moment I try use 3x the thing gets really unstable and I can just assume it's due to insufficient power.

Running them with under clocked memory/default core/default voltage.

Plan for 200-300 W for each card. I'd say that PSU can handle 3 5970s at stock settings, or 4 if you undervolt. Do you have a killawatt?

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How much power one needs to power 3x to 5x 5970s?

I have 2x 5970 at 1200W, the moment I try use 3x the thing gets really unstable and I can just assume it's due to insufficient power.

Running them with under clocked memory/default core/default voltage.

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Quote from: crazyates on June 18, 2012, 10:38:13 AM

Quote from: Sant001 on June 18, 2012, 10:18:59 AM

What's the best brand for 5970 in terms of overclocking/Mhps?

I got my Gigabyte 5870 to 450Mbps without much sweat, which is quite high for a 5870.

But my Gigabyte 5970s can't seem to go post 700Mhps without freezing the whole system :/

I'm running them at 180/800MHz/Default voltage

Mbps? You mean MH/s? Wink

I kid...

It's really card dependent. I like PowerColor, Sapphire, and Asus. A lot of people have good luck with Gigabyte. I've heard to stay away from XFX and Diamond, but again, YMMV. There is no BEST brand for OCing.

Also, while a 5970 is technically 2x 5870s in one card, the voltages are lower to keep the power/temps down. Stock voltage on a 5870 is 1.174, while stock voltage on a 5970 is 1.050. If you lowered your 5870 down to 1.05, you won't be getting 450MH/s.

If you raised your 5970 to 1.174, you MIGHT be able to get 400+ per core, but it would be a very bad idea. Power draw increases, temps become too much for the shared cooler, and your VRM temps would be through the roof. Not a good idea.

Side note: Here are my 5870 speeds, for undervolting comparison:
460MH/s - 980/300/1.174 - My "all out" setting
425MH/s - 925/300/1.000 - My "max profit" setting
350MH/s - 755/300/0.950 - My "keep the temps down" setting.

I think my card can get higher clocks at each voltages than average, so yours may be a little lower.

you should try higher at 0.950v... mine has been stable for 200+ hrs at 830/195/0.950

the next step for me is 940/195/1.112

then 1010/195/1.175

it's xfx non-ref (hmm or maybe a sapphire non-ref... haha)

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Anything above 5 won't change hash rate on a dedicated box. 7 and below will allow the box to be usable as a pc and not stutter or crash or just be slow. It will slightly slow performance if you are doing other things.

My main work box is two 6990 at 880 and i7. It's perfectly usable and quiet all while getting 1.5ghash.

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Quote from: jjiimm_64 on June 19, 2012, 11:16:53 AM

Quote from: Aseras on June 19, 2012, 11:09:54 AM

Quote from: jjiimm_64 on June 19, 2012, 09:58:42 AM

I'm with you, let them burn them up... not only is the electricity the issue. this rig as been running without stopping since My9th. I think I upgraded cgminer that day..

I cant remember exactly how many watts at the wall, i have that in another post.. i think 850-900

Power or cooling isn't an issue for me. My 5970's are rock solid at 900mhz core. They only downtime they get is when I switch pools up upgrade cgminer. They've been running full on since I got them, a LONG time ago. Minimal maintenance, clean dust and touch up the TIM if temps creep etc.

May I ask who is paying for your power then?

Power is included in my collocation/lease at my data center

. Most of my rigs are 1gpu web servers. They all run low intensity so it doesn't affect normal operation. Most of them are for development or sandboxing anyways. I have 6 full racks.

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OK, i have had them at 8 for about 10 minutes.. they finally stabilized....
as you can see, the heatindex has climbed 5 points. from 122 to 127, with no increase in MH

will post this again after my round of golf

Code:

cgminer version 2.3.6 - Started: [May 9, 2012, 8:03 pm] Rig:miner2
(5s):2455.98 (avg): 2420.28 Mh/s | H: 127.5 Q:1885119 A:1918524 R:13365 HW:0 E:?% U:32.75/m
TQ:? ST:2357 SS:? DW:166980 NB:5871 LW:4166227 GF:1176 RF:1321
Connected to http://gpumax.com:8332 with LP as user ?
Value:
GPU 0: 68.5C 3464RPM 56% 125 | 307.0/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:238920 R:1693 HW:0 U:4.08/m I: 8
GPU 1: 70.0C 3464RPM 56% 126 | 306.7/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:239633 R:1719 HW:0 U:4.09/m I: 8
GPU 2: 72.0C 3702RPM 61% 133 | 307.2/302.0Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:239798 R:1642 HW:0 U:4.09/m I: 8
GPU 3: 68.5C 3706RPM 61% 130 | 307.0/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:239522 R:1751 HW:0 U:4.09/m I: 8
GPU 4: 69.5C 3449RPM 53% 123 | 307.0/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:240170 R:1679 HW:0 U:4.10/m I: 8
GPU 5: 70.5C 3449RPM 53% 124 | 307.1/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:240237 R:1640 HW:0 U:4.10/m I: 8
GPU 6: 70.5C 3529RPM 60% 131 | 307.1/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:240166 R:1660 HW:0 U:4.10/m I: 8
GPU 7: 70.5C 3529RPM 60% 131 | 307.0/302.6Mh/s | 99% | 675Mhz 300Mhz 0.95V A:240078 R:1581 HW:0 U:4.10/m I: 8

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Quote from: Aseras on June 19, 2012, 11:09:54 AM

Quote from: jjiimm_64 on June 19, 2012, 09:58:42 AM

I'm with you, let them burn them up... not only is the electricity the issue. this rig as been running without stopping since My9th. I think I upgraded cgminer that day..

I cant remember exactly how many watts at the wall, i have that in another post.. i think 850-900

Power or cooling isn't an issue for me. My 5970's are rock solid at 900mhz core. They only downtime they get is when I switch pools up upgrade cgminer. They've been running full on since I got them, a LONG time ago. Minimal maintenance, clean dust and touch up the TIM if temps creep etc.

May I ask who is paying for your power then?

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Quote from: crazyates on June 19, 2012, 10:44:21 AM

Very nice. Is there a reason you run -I 7 instead of -I 8?

well, i tried 8 and 9, they seam to jump around too much.. tell you what, I will put this rig at I8 for today, lets see how it does.

putting them at I8 now. (thank you webmon)

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Quote from: jjiimm_64 on June 19, 2012, 09:58:42 AM

I'm with you, let them burn them up... not only is the electricity the issue. this rig as been running without stopping since My9th. I think I upgraded cgminer that day..

I cant remember exactly how many watts at the wall, i have that in another post.. i think 850-900

Power or cooling isn't an issue for me. My 5970's are rock solid at 900mhz core. They only downtime they get is when I switch pools up upgrade cgminer. They've been running full on since I got them, a LONG time ago. Minimal maintenance, clean dust and touch up the TIM if temps creep etc.

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