So you can not mine with more than 4 GPUs in Windows
Topic: Catalyst 11.6 + phoenix 1.50 + ATI-APP-SDK v2.4 (650.9) testing results (Read 9079 times)
June 23, 2011, 09:23:44 AM
Windows can detect more than 4 GPUs BUT ATI OpenCL Driver can not!
So you can not mine with more than 4 GPUs in Windows
So you can not mine with more than 4 GPUs in Windows
June 22, 2011, 06:12:26 PM
hm, should read the whole post i'm not sure
June 22, 2011, 01:22:12 PM
June 22, 2011, 10:25:02 AM
would windows work with affinity using 3 x 6990's(6 GPU's) and only having CPU with 2 cores(AMD II 255) ?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
Dunno but think that it would!
windows has trouble with more then 4 gpus
June 22, 2011, 01:40:11 AM
would windows work with affinity using 3 x 6990's(6 GPU's) and only having CPU with 2 cores(AMD II 255) ?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
Dunno but think that it would!
June 21, 2011, 05:31:17 AM
HD5770 with 11.5 = 186 Mhash/s
HD5770 with 11.6 = 176 Mhash/s
After I updated to 11.6, I immediately downgraded back to 11.5
HD5770 with 11.6 = 176 Mhash/s
After I updated to 11.6, I immediately downgraded back to 11.5
I wonder what you get with:
11.4
11.3
11.2
11.1
11.0
10.X
June 21, 2011, 03:29:07 AM
would windows work with affinity using 3 x 6990's(6 GPU's) and only having CPU with 2 cores(AMD II 255) ?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
Would mining be possible with this kind of setup? or back to linux?
June 18, 2011, 10:20:03 AM
the voltage on ASUS can be regulated but not on Gigabyte cards.
My rig freeses as soon as cards run at 90C for a couple of minutes. If I only find a way to keeo them at 70 I would set 1000 and 980 core.
I overclock them with AB.
My rig freeses as soon as cards run at 90C for a couple of minutes. If I only find a way to keeo them at 70 I would set 1000 and 980 core.
I overclock them with AB.
June 18, 2011, 03:29:59 AM
clocks are (core\mem) 990\300 as for the ASUS HD 5870 V2 and 960\300 as for other 3xGigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD
how do you get it to run stable on 990/300 (365)? whenever i surpass 950, the whole things starts to become unstable and sometimes freezes.
do you use msi afterburner? do you raise the core voltage?
June 18, 2011, 12:54:11 AM
BSOD for me.
June 17, 2011, 01:32:03 PM
HD5770 with 11.5 = 186 Mhash/s
HD5770 with 11.6 = 176 Mhash/s
After I updated to 11.6, I immediately downgraded back to 11.5
HD5770 with 11.6 = 176 Mhash/s
After I updated to 11.6, I immediately downgraded back to 11.5
June 17, 2011, 10:56:14 AM
On my machine there's only high CPU load with aggression=10 or higher.
With lower aggression there's almost no CPU load.
This is with Win 7 64bit, Athlon 64 X2 6000 and a single 6870 card.
With lower aggression there's almost no CPU load.
This is with Win 7 64bit, Athlon 64 X2 6000 and a single 6870 card.
June 17, 2011, 02:18:39 AM
W7x64 SP1 with Core-i5 [email protected]
June 16, 2011, 06:32:37 PM
The CPU load is something I haven't experienced on any of my machines, what kinds of processors are you using and what OS's?
With 11.6 on Win7 64bit and an unlocked 4x Deneb core I only ever see a maximum of 15% load on one of the cores and I haven't needed the affinity locks. Strange?
With 11.6 on Win7 64bit and an unlocked 4x Deneb core I only ever see a maximum of 15% load on one of the cores and I haven't needed the affinity locks. Strange?
June 15, 2011, 03:46:08 PM
The CPU load is 100%! You're right BUT the solution to solve the CPU full load problem is to set cpu affinity of all the miners to a single CPU core. Such feature is avaliable in GUIminer and Phoenix Rising as far as I know.
Using such a method my CPU is ~30% loaded.
Using such a method my CPU is ~30% loaded.
June 15, 2011, 03:26:07 PM
I'm guessing no change in the CPU 100% problem or you would have mentioned it...
June 15, 2011, 03:11:30 PM
Yeah I was monitoring my GPU load while using 11.5 and it was the same.
If i were you I would downclock my memory to 300 'cause it results in faster hashing speeds and lower temps and also made the aggression higher up to 13.
If i were you I would downclock my memory to 300 'cause it results in faster hashing speeds and lower temps and also made the aggression higher up to 13.
June 15, 2011, 02:47:44 PM
I'm running 2 x 6950 (unlocked @ 925 core, 1250 ram) on each miner and I get 95% gpu load on the first card and 84-89% gpu load on the second card (no clue why it varies). I get 400-430 Mhash, goes up and down every few seconds on both cards but the gpu load only goes up and down on the second card. I have set the power control is at +20, temps are all below 75 degrees.
Running catalyst 11.5 with phoenix 1.50.
Did you by any chance check your gpu load with catalyst 11.5 ?
Running catalyst 11.5 with phoenix 1.50.
Did you by any chance check your gpu load with catalyst 11.5 ?
June 15, 2011, 02:42:37 PM
Of course 
~99-100% but when I switch to another card GPU-Z shows 93% and then after a couple of seconds it jumps to 99-100%
Afterburner says that cards are 96-100% loaded
~99-100% but when I switch to another card GPU-Z shows 93% and then after a couple of seconds it jumps to 99-100%
Afterburner says that cards are 96-100% loaded
June 15, 2011, 12:23:57 PM
Can you tell me please what's your gpu load with pheonix + phatk, as reported by gpu-z ?
June 15, 2011, 12:03:03 PM
My pleasure
June 15, 2011, 11:34:10 AM
forgot to thank for benchmarking.
thanks ! -)
thanks ! -)
June 15, 2011, 11:26:48 AM
No release updates list avaliable yet.
June 15, 2011, 11:00:16 AM
anything good for OpenGL/DirectX appz in 1.6 ?
like introduced in 11.5hotfixes OpenGL driver, more or less conforming OpenGL specs.
like introduced in 11.5hotfixes OpenGL driver, more or less conforming OpenGL specs.
June 15, 2011, 10:45:48 AM
Hi to evetyone 
Have suddenly found out that there are Catalyst 11.6 and Phoenix 1.50 updates out. I immidiately downloaded and installed them!
As for ATI drivers I uninstalled them via ATI's official Catalyst setup manager. And then sweeped them via driver sweeper 3.1.0 in safe mode.
I am mining with GUI miner using Phoenix+Phatk on W7x64 SP1 Professional. All VGAs are in CrossFire.
VGAs are 4x5870
clocks are (core\mem) 990\300 as for the ASUS HD 5870 V2 and 960\300 as for other 3xGigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD
flags are VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=13
results are
423 Mhash\sec for Gigabyte cards and 436 Mhash\sec for ASUS card.
Update:
Changed mem clocks to 365 for all cards and got + ~2.5 Mhash\sec.
NO CHANGES comparing to Catalyst 11.5 BUT with new phoenix 1.50 I have much less stales comparing to Phoenix 1.48!!!
Hoping that this info will be of any use...
Catalyst 11.6 release notes:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116ReleaseNotes.aspx
Have suddenly found out that there are Catalyst 11.6 and Phoenix 1.50 updates out. I immidiately downloaded and installed them!
As for ATI drivers I uninstalled them via ATI's official Catalyst setup manager. And then sweeped them via driver sweeper 3.1.0 in safe mode.
I am mining with GUI miner using Phoenix+Phatk on W7x64 SP1 Professional. All VGAs are in CrossFire.
VGAs are 4x5870
clocks are (core\mem) 990\300 as for the ASUS HD 5870 V2 and 960\300 as for other 3xGigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD
flags are VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false WORKSIZE=256 AGGRESSION=13
results are
423 Mhash\sec for Gigabyte cards and 436 Mhash\sec for ASUS card.
Update:
Changed mem clocks to 365 for all cards and got + ~2.5 Mhash\sec.
NO CHANGES comparing to Catalyst 11.5 BUT with new phoenix 1.50 I have much less stales comparing to Phoenix 1.48!!!
Hoping that this info will be of any use...
Catalyst 11.6 release notes:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116ReleaseNotes.aspx
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