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hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 500
April 20, 2011, 10:46:10 PM
#30
Since I added "-v -w 128 -f0" I've been getting ~620 mhps.  I've also noticed times when deepbit reports that I'm getting >700 mhps.  I haven't logged onto the mining machine to see if poclbm-gui reports the same, so I don't know if deepbit is misreporting my mhps. 
Deepbit can't see your exact mining speed, those numbers are guesstimated from number of submitted shares.
You can be more lucky in one minute and less lucky in another, but overall it's pretty close to real value.
Sometimes you may find a run of many shares in a few seconds - then the number on luck meter will be higher.

You can open advanced settings page and increase averaging window from 7 minutes to 30 minutes and this reported speed will be more precise. But since it depends on luck, it's not guaranted to be 100% accurate.

On the other hand, your reward depends on the speed reported by "luck meter", and not the real hashrate, because the number of submitted shares is what you get your money for :)

Looking at numbers in your history column i can say that your actual speed is ~622 MH/s, because those are calculated for all the block's lenght and thus more accurate.

EDIT: and you forgot to erase your login name in the upper right corner :)
legendary
Activity: 2198
Merit: 1311
April 20, 2011, 10:36:24 PM
#29
Thank you.  Adding "-v -w 128" definitely made a difference.  I just have a single 6990, and a single 6990 has two GPUs, so I don't think I need to do anything with crossfire.
Can you get over 550 mhps?

Since I added "-v -w 128 -f0" I've been getting ~620 mhps.  I've also noticed times when deepbit reports that I'm getting >700 mhps.  I haven't logged onto the mining machine to see if poclbm-gui reports the same, so I don't know if deepbit is misreporting my mhps.  





In this last screenshot you can see on the left some occasions where deepbit reports less than 600 mhps, but those were spans of time when I was actually working on the mining machine, and even moving the mouse around will sometimes drop the hash rate by 50 mhps; and I was using Internet Explorer and adjusting fan speeds.  If I leave the machine alone, it settles in at about 620 mhps.

My hunch is that deepbit is misreporting my hash rate.  There have been occasions when, from my laptop, I've seen deepbit report that I'm getting ~550 mhps, but at the same time, or over the same period of time, poclbm-gui reports that I'm getting ~620 mhps.  I'm not sure what to make of that.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
April 20, 2011, 09:51:59 PM
#28
Thank you.  Adding "-v -w 128" definitely made a difference.  I just have a single 6990, and a single 6990 has two GPUs, so I don't think I need to do anything with crossfire.
Can you get over 550 mhps?

I am pulling 333Mhash/s with my 6970 for reference.  The 6990 is pretty much the same GPU, but two of them on the same board.  I also am curious what he is getting with the 6990.
legendary
Activity: 3878
Merit: 1193
April 20, 2011, 07:14:04 PM
#27
Thank you.  Adding "-v -w 128" definitely made a difference.  I just have a single 6990, and a single 6990 has two GPUs, so I don't think I need to do anything with crossfire.
Can you get over 550 mhps?
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
April 20, 2011, 03:49:49 PM
#26
Ah, for some reason I thought you built a rig with two 6990.  I looked at getting the 6990, but it won't fit in my existing case (the 6970 leaves about 1/4" to spare and creative cable management).  From what I have read, they had to do some trade offs to get the dual GPU to fit on that board, so you won't see double what the 6970 puts out in general, but it is cheaper than two 6970's in cross fire, so count your bitcoins one way or the other Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2198
Merit: 1311
April 20, 2011, 02:13:45 PM
#25
I'm getting between 450 and 500 mhash/s with my single 6990 in W7x64 with the latest Catalyst drivers and the latest AMD SDK and using poclbm-gui.  Anyone have any tips on how to improve my hashrate?  Should I have added anything to the 'Extra flags' box of poclbm-gui?

Pass -v -w 128 to your miner and you will see your 6990 increase without a doubt.  I am getting 333Mhash/s with my 6970 just installed yesterday.  I am not overclocking or underclocking anything as I don't want to generate more heat [so I left voltage locked] and changing clock speed for memory or core in either direction affected hash rate negatively.

I don't know if I'm doing this right, but in poclbm-gui I have two tabs open - one for each gpu of the 6990.  Each gpu is mining with deepbit.  Is there a way to just have tab, but have that tab using both gpus?

Did you setup the cards with the crossfire cable and setup crossfire in the motherboard BIOS?

Thank you.  Adding "-v -w 128" definitely made a difference.  I just have a single 6990, and a single 6990 has two GPUs, so I don't think I need to do anything with crossfire.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
April 20, 2011, 01:49:32 PM
#24
I'm getting between 450 and 500 mhash/s with my single 6990 in W7x64 with the latest Catalyst drivers and the latest AMD SDK and using poclbm-gui.  Anyone have any tips on how to improve my hashrate?  Should I have added anything to the 'Extra flags' box of poclbm-gui?

Pass -v -w 128 to your miner and you will see your 6990 increase without a doubt.  I am getting 333Mhash/s with my 6970 just installed yesterday.  I am not overclocking or underclocking anything as I don't want to generate more heat [so I left voltage locked] and changing clock speed for memory or core in either direction affected hash rate negatively.

I don't know if I'm doing this right, but in poclbm-gui I have two tabs open - one for each gpu of the 6990.  Each gpu is mining with deepbit.  Is there a way to just have tab, but have that tab using both gpus?

Did you setup the cards with the crossfire cable and setup crossfire in the motherboard BIOS?
mrb
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1028
April 20, 2011, 03:09:28 AM
#23
I replied to you who stated "ATI has not released the Linux drivers yet" which is untrue:
- 11.3 was fixed to support the HD 6990 (previously aticonfig displayed "no supported device")
- There are people mining successfully, with poclbm and Diablo's miner (not only my miner), on Linux, on the HD 6990.

A glitch on the website doesn't mean it is unsupported. Like I said, select "HD 6xxx". You and I can argue about the meaning of "fully supported", but what I want to convey is that it actually works. Again, people are mining with it. You may want to try poclbm which runs faster than Dialbo's miner on the 6990.
legendary
Activity: 3878
Merit: 1193
April 20, 2011, 02:20:27 AM
#22
Linux is not an option for a 6990 rig. ATI has not released the Linux drivers yet.
Pretty damn important piece of information to know.

As stated numerous times, this is untrue. The 6990 is fully supported under Linux by the Catalyst 11.3 driver. I am mining with it!

The confusion comes from AMD's website that only lists Windows 7 drivers when selecting "HD 6990". Select "HD 6xxx" instead.
So if I go to http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and select HD 6990 I see only Windows drivers. That's not fully supported, now is it? There are significant problems with the 11.3 driver, especially relating to OpenCL. So unless you plan on Open Sourcing your CAL miner, stop telling people that 11.3 is "fully supported".
mrb
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1028
April 20, 2011, 01:58:40 AM
#21
Linux is not an option for a 6990 rig. ATI has not released the Linux drivers yet.
Pretty damn important piece of information to know.

As stated numerous times, this is untrue. The 6990 is fully supported under Linux by the Catalyst 11.3 driver. I am mining with it!

The confusion comes from AMD's website that only lists Windows 7 drivers when selecting "HD 6990". Select "HD 6xxx" instead.
legendary
Activity: 2198
Merit: 1311
April 20, 2011, 01:26:50 AM
#20
I don't know if I'm doing this right, but in poclbm-gui I have two tabs open - one for each gpu of the 6990.  Each gpu is mining with deepbit.  Is there a way to just have tab, but have that tab using both gpus?

No, you have to open 2 tabs.

Ok, thanks.
newbie
Activity: 39
Merit: 0
April 20, 2011, 01:22:43 AM
#19
I don't know if I'm doing this right, but in poclbm-gui I have two tabs open - one for each gpu of the 6990.  Each gpu is mining with deepbit.  Is there a way to just have tab, but have that tab using both gpus?

No, you have to open 2 tabs.
legendary
Activity: 2198
Merit: 1311
April 20, 2011, 12:44:56 AM
#18
I'm getting between 450 and 500 mhash/s with my single 6990 in W7x64 with the latest Catalyst drivers and the latest AMD SDK and using poclbm-gui.  Anyone have any tips on how to improve my hashrate?  Should I have added anything to the 'Extra flags' box of poclbm-gui?

I don't know if I'm doing this right, but in poclbm-gui I have two tabs open - one for each gpu of the 6990.  Each gpu is mining with deepbit.  Is there a way to just have tab, but have that tab using both gpus?
hero member
Activity: 696
Merit: 500
April 19, 2011, 11:09:56 PM
#17
I just discovered bitcoin via a philosophy podcast (of all places).  I love the idea of a decentralized form of money!  I happen to have a 6990 that I can employ in mining 24/7 and I'm just wondering if somebody can help me assess how many bitcoins per month this would yield.

depends on the level of difficulty. currently you could probably expect 6-9btc per day from a single 6990 mining in a pool.
legendary
Activity: 2198
Merit: 1311
April 18, 2011, 10:23:33 AM
#16
I just discovered bitcoin via a philosophy podcast (of all places).  I love the idea of a decentralized form of money!  I happen to have a 6990 that I can employ in mining 24/7 and I'm just wondering if somebody can help me assess how many bitcoins per month this would yield.
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
April 16, 2011, 04:49:10 AM
#15
I'm running a 6990 + 2 6950(unlocked) in Ubuntu 10.04 just fine with 11.3....
What's the hashrate on the 6990, and which miner?

I'm using poclbm and getting a hash rate of 310 Mhash on the 6990 with the bios in default setting, on the unlocked 6970 I get around 320 Mhash.
I've used this guide by roulo https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47174
And then continuing with this guide by humble https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47489

I used 11.3 Catalyst (latest available) with the latest APP for linux available.
Disabled autoupdates through update manager (after finishing installation) (caused problems after an autoupdate)

in order to overclock/underclock the memory I used AMDOverdriveCtrl
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/

launched 1 for each gpu using (AMDOverdrive ctril -i ) in the bash.

My only gripe is that on a seperate (everyday usage) rig my other 6970 gets 345 Mhash @ 900Mhz on windows where I can push it further (than 840Mhz  on linux) with MSI Afterburner, and lower mem clock lower than 725Mhz (linux).

So if I can sort out the little problems in windows or get hold of a nice alternative mining software, I'm pretty sure my hashing rate would go up.



newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
April 16, 2011, 04:10:24 AM
#14
I'm running a 6990 + 2 6950(unlocked) in Ubuntu 10.04 just fine with 11.3....

How did you unlock the 6950? Did you do it in ubuntu or in Windows?

(I have a 5850 I would like to unlock too)

Thanks!

6950 reference is pretty easy to unlock with atiwinflash + the RBE tool (takes about 5mins), I did it under windows, just get the bios image using atiwinflash, load it up with the RBE, go to the additional features tab where you then select unlock 6970 shaders, load it back on on the 6950 with atiwinflash(unlock bios if you have to) restart , done.

I assume you mean 6950, as I dont have experience with 5850.

legendary
Activity: 3878
Merit: 1193
April 16, 2011, 02:05:09 AM
#13
I'm running a 6990 + 2 6950(unlocked) in Ubuntu 10.04 just fine with 11.3....
What's the hashrate on the 6990, and which miner?
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
April 15, 2011, 05:33:32 PM
#12
I'm running a 6990 + 2 6950(unlocked) in Ubuntu 10.04 just fine with 11.3....

How did you unlock the 6950? Did you do it in ubuntu or in Windows?

(I have a 5850 I would like to unlock too)

Thanks!

There are overclocking programs out there to unlock the 6950. Afterburner may be one of them (I'm not sure, I don't own a 6950). You can not unlock a 5850 to equal a 5870.
newbie
Activity: 39
Merit: 0
April 15, 2011, 05:31:15 PM
#11
I'm running a 6990 + 2 6950(unlocked) in Ubuntu 10.04 just fine with 11.3....

How did you unlock the 6950? Did you do it in ubuntu or in Windows?

(I have a 5850 I would like to unlock too)

Thanks!
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