Topic: Finally got 7x 7970 and 7x 7950 cards running on one motherboard! (Read 12209 times)

Hello sorry for resurrecting an old thread

But I am using the same board with a 3770K CPU and the board will not post with 7 1070s. It works fine with 6 cards but the minute I add the 7th gpu I get a code 95 error.

Can I ask precisely what CPU and hardware did you use?

I do have a Celeron and a Xeon cpu at my disposal if the CPU is the cause of the issue. I was thinking some how the onboard GPU is not being disabled in the bios causing the 7th GPU to not post.

I'm looking for the same answer...

I'm runing 3  X GTX 750ti directly from the PCIex16, but I have no luck so far with the PCIeX16 to X1 riser (USB version/powered)...

I have two extra cards sitting there...QQ

Prelude, for the MSI Z77 MPower, did you have to short any of the pins in the PCI-e slots to get all 7 GPUs to work/be recognized?

Your PCI extender cables are probably shit.

I'm trying to build the exact same set-up using the Mpower Z87 instead of the Z77.
Is there anything you know of that would prevent that board from doing the same as the Z77?

Right now I can get all 7 cards to detect in Bios. All 7 cards appear properly in Windows8, and cgminer -ndevs shows 7 cards.

However, after about 10 minutes of running cgminer with all 7 GPUS in windows 8, one of the cards goes sick (always GPU 1), and then the whole system freezes.

Any suggestions?

Sorry got a bit mixed up on my wording there. I meant standard as in "the safety limit."

My 7970's run at 290w each, so 7 of them will go a bit over.

If you undervolt a few, it could fit. I would just run 6 to be safe.

It's a 20 amp circuit. Don't want to go over 16 amps (80%) on it.

There's no way you can run 7 7970's on a standard 16amp circuit.

Even if you could undervolt enough to make it fit, it's probably not safe to run that 24/7 for months anyway.

Sometimes I wish I lived in the UK :\

Prelude,

Can you please post your power consumption on your (7) 7970s rig?

Watts and amps if you have them.

I am at (4) 7970s and am hitting over 1000w. and 9.4 amps with each GPU at 1.125 volts.


Watts          Amps     # of GPUs    Notes
291            2.45     1
539            4.55     2
804            6.906    3             verified at the wall with Kill-a-watt
1072           9.422    4             Started using power-in for watts in CorsairLink as efficiency in/out started to go down. Have not verified with Kill-a-watt yet.

Trying to see if I can fit 7 GPUs inside of 16amps. Looks like I'll be just over :/
Note: worst case watts/amps

As I noted above, we've since removed the shrouds - that was an early photo.  They run cooler without the shrouds.

Further, those "dinky fans" do, in fact, "cut it" - they move an incredible amount of air, and keep the cards quite cool.  That's also an old system - we've moved to a newer chassis that moves even more air with "dinky fans" as you call them.

Please realize we're not selling systems for bitcoin or litecoin mining.  We're selling large OpenCL clusters for password auditing and other compute needs that scale beyond the capability of one system.  All our boxes are rack mountable, and designed for use in data centers.

I'm sorry, you will not find a data center willing to host your "Old Trunk" mining rig.  Most data centers won't even allow any sort of open air rig in their racks.

It's /not sold as a bitcoin mining system/ - though we certainly have run it under mining loads (both bitcoin and litecoin), just to verify that it can handle the heat/power.  Turns out, it can.  Also, oclHashcat-lite with the register-only algorithms (MD5, MD4, SHA1, etc) is just as hard on the GPUs as bitcoin is, and it handles that great - we use it during the system burnin tests to check all the cards and ensure they're all running properly and cooling properly.  In production, the system runs a blend of oclHashcat-plus, oclHashcat-lite, JTR, Cryptohaze, and some other tools we have.  It's a 24/7/365 production system in the data center, and other than one bad GPU we had a few months ago that was overheating no matter what we did (bad card - we RMA'd it), we have no trouble with it.

To be fair, that's an old photo.  We've since removed the shrouds/fans, as they were not needed in that system and it runs cooler without them, and we've pulled one card so we had room for the infiniband controller card that we're using to cluster that with a number of other systems for our development cluster.  But I assure you, it ran just fine in that configuration under sustained heavy loads.

As a matter of fact, right now, I just grabbed temps off it during an oclHashcat-plus run that's on it.  It's not as heavily loaded right now as mining, but you can see, we don't have any temperature issues (and, apparently, only 6 cards in it - I think we pulled another one for some testing in a different system).


Glad you put the pieces together.  Yes, I am part of Stricture, and yes, the systems we sell work as advertised.  I'm actually the owner of about half the systems in our cluster.

If anyone is interested in some quotes, let me know.  If anyone is going to ask for a quote expecting a dirt cheap milk crate system price, don't bother - our stuff isn't cheap, but it is solid, tested hardware designed for sustained use in data centers.  We only sell things we know work.  And we offer a warranty.

Why keep the plastic shrouds on them at that point? They are so close together that the fans on the cards are not doing any good. You might as well take the shoud and fans off, this would open up more surface area for the heatsinks to radiate the heat. Also, thoes dinky fans(even tho they are server fans) are not going to cut it. Use a squirlcage fan, they are AWESOME!. Check out my Old Trunk Litecoin Mining Rig. I should be able to fit 20-25 cards inside of a "wind tunnel" and keep them all below 70c even at 100f outside.

Do your research. This system was featured about a year ago (http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/), but Bitweasil is well-known as being part of Stricture, so he's not kidding.

yeah looks uber for the coin mining...
NOT

heat mate, heat! this one has no chance even with 1.5kw direct cooling system blowing directly at it. This is noncence.. This hardware can be used only for old ladies to check emails (thats counting the cryptoworld heat requirements).

who wants to see camera pictures of your screen! if you post stuff like that we want to see the monster. :p

also, for both your systems, what's the wattage pulled from the wall when mining?

I have sapphire OC 7950s (only 3 in a rig) and they could be undervolted quite a bit, from 930 W stock to 570 W without losing performance. I'm curious about the hash/watt ratio your rigs offer.

3x Sapphire OC will get you 1650 MH/s at 570 W for scrypt. I could push them harder, but heat, noise and energy usage started increasing too quickly after 550 MH/s per card.

Let's see the whole rig, please. I'm jealous and want to see what it looks like

Yes, 7970s. I have three of the newer ones with the blue PCB and one original one with the black PCB. They behave completely differently in regards to how they react to thread concurrency and settings. I have a weird issue that as I add GPUs to each machine even at the same settings the hashrate of the individual GPU will decrease. This is an older post, but it applies the same to LTC mining: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2336788 . I haven't done too much testing on the blue cards as I'm really happy with their performance, but I've had the black card for over a year and done a lot with it.

Sapphire: Dual X 7970 (Black PCB) - In a system with 3 other 7970s; one Blue dual x and two reference visiontek cards.

GPU2 is the black PCB and GPU3 is the blue PCB

Sapphire: Dual X 7970 (Black PCB) - In a system by itself getting 120 kh/s more at almost the same settings

7970 ??
i'm running at 950 core / 1250 mem
they reach 660Khash easily 

That's about right, given that we've had this system for around a year...

i saw this picture a year ago