GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum! - page 50.

Justsomeforumuser

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Quote from: A554551N4710N on May 17, 2011, 03:27:46 PM

Can you add automatic support for BTCGuild?
http://forum.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7760.0

Also, a README file with all the possible flags would be nice, combined with what they do.

Other than that, your GUI is AWESOME!!

The poclbm page/wiki/readmes are essentially what you want for the flags, as GUIminer is just a GUI to poclbm.

As for adding BTCGuild, it's literally a handful of lines in the server.ini or just using the "other" option and plopping in the BTCGuild hostname(port seems the same, i.e. 8332). That should pretty much be it, although I have no idea if that "long polling" stuff is an issue or not.

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Can you add automatic support for BTCGuild?
http://forum.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7760.0

Also, a README file with all the possible flags would be nice, combined with what they do.

Other than that, your GUI is AWESOME!!

wuffer

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I have tryed this miner and very easy to use. Then i tryed diablominer but i want to change back but when i use guiminer i get connection problems. And i dont matter if i shut down the pc for an hour. What is wrong??

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Quote from: martin on May 17, 2011, 04:45:28 AM

Is this any documentation on the -F switch anywhere?

run in command prompt poclbm.exe -h

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Quote from: Justsomeforumuser on May 17, 2011, 02:45:06 AM

Quote from: martin on May 16, 2011, 07:20:31 PM

I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

You don't want that, you want to change your cooling

I'm only doing very occasional mining on my gaming machine when I'm bored, so I'd rather not change the system around. I have a nice quiet computer at the moment. It just happens that right now the side of my case is off and I have a massive desk fan pointed right at the graphics card - so I doubt any heat is getting trapped at the moment Wink

Quote from: jkminkov on May 17, 2011, 02:59:43 AM

you can play with -F switch - above 60, or use phoenix miner with low aggression - 3 or 4

Is this any documentation on the -F switch anywhere?

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Quote from: martin on May 16, 2011, 07:20:31 PM

I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

if it's the same crap as mine Asus cucore, drop vcore from 1,2mV to 1,125

you can play with -F switch - above 60, or use phoenix miner with low aggression - 3 or 4

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What I personally have had several times over with the 5770 is that the "middle" GPU clocks get used, i.e. 400 MHz core, which drops Mhash/s to around 80 instead of the normal 175-180.

Sometimes doing nothing resets it back to the full 850, sometimes I need to start a 1080 video or SOMETHING, but quite frankly, most of the time I can't use any manual trick to get the full clocks back, not even the overclock trick in the FAQ, nothing. And it sure is not temperature anymore at 65C peak.

Why would the card clock down if it itsel reports 97% use all of the time?

Anyone else have this issue?

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Quote from: martin on May 16, 2011, 07:20:31 PM

I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

You don't want that, you want to change your cooling. I had 3 low RPM, 3 pin fans left lying around. I put one BELOW the GPU(blowing out of the back side of the case) because I found out a buttload of heat was "trapped" below there and constantly used as "cooling" air by the GPU, one pushing in fresh air ONTO the GPU from the side and voila, 65C even with 10% overclock where I was in high 80s to 90C before as well with the 5770.

The card is cool and lower power use, you just have to give it a chance to actually cool itself.
Fan speed now is never over 60% even at full load and very, very quiet.
Costs maybe 5 EUR per case fan(these were ancient standard rasurbo cheapo fans here).

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Quote from: martin on May 16, 2011, 07:20:31 PM

I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

Better change fan speed from Auto to 100%, which will make fan run at 100% speed, so less temperature.

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Quote from: martin on May 16, 2011, 07:20:31 PM

I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

i believe there is a -s option coming Real Soon Now (someone has coded it and they're just waiting for a pull) to poclbm which forces a sleep period per frame, effectively leaving the GPU idle for some amount of time per frame.

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I suspect I should be making this change m0mchil as it's a miner feature, but I thought I'd ask here first.

Is there any way to artificially limit the hashrate? If so, can it be tied to the card temperature to reduce the target hashrate as the temperature rises?

My HD5770 keeps running up to 95 degress, which is not a good temperature!

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I posted in tech support, but maybe cross posting here would be good:

I am on windows7 x64. Installed bitcoin and the GUIMiner. Running the ATi (AMD) OpenCL posted in the GUIMiner thread.

I have changed my bitcoin.conf (C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin) to have my username and password:

rpcuser=c
rpcpassword=c

I launch GUIMiner and tell GUIMiner to launch bitcoin client as server. I always get the "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC" although I think I have set it all up correctly.

I even have launched bitcoin.exe with -server (and even --server) after a friends recommendation. no avail.

I dont think port forward is an issue cause it is all local.

Anyone else experience this problem? Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks for any ideas, I am at a loss here.

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Thanks for the GUI, Kiv!!

Any problem since first use, GREAT Grin

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Eadem mutata resurgo

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Btw, why is it that people going into mining and buying expensive premium hardware doesn't have a clue how things work and how to troubleshoot various issues? -.-

Itsa gold rush like no other ... gonna be some trashed high-end AMD graphics cards coming on the market that's for sure.

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Well, just switching to OC bios doesn't void any warranties, its operating the card at those out-spec. settings that voids it.
In any case, the yellow sticker can be put back to place w/o any trace of removal, if something goes wrong...as with all things there's always a chance that the vendor won't accept the RMA request. Its a gamble but nothing to be sh1tting about =)

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Good news is that power control setting allowed GPU 1 to be in full clocks. However GPU 2 is not.

And doesn't the bios switch thing void the warranty?

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Well, in fact, numerous compute applications do throttle even in default bios 1 mode w/o OC and even with powertune limit increased. Just the way it is and there's barely any workaround around this except touching the second bios. On second thought, perhaps by decreasing the vCore, but its more likely that one encounters instability way earlier than any noticeable benefit of decreased throttling on the same clocks.
Check pls.

oftop: Oh and, I meant no disrespect, I wouldn't wanna people jump on me like last time I posted...people are different and strangely sometimes they see themselves offended.

cheers

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I don't install the catalyst control center comes with ati driver bundle. so don't know/ care about power tune.
I only install ATI display driver, ATI catalyst install manager, APP 2.4 or SDK 2.1 & VC++. All other things are useless for mining & many times catalyst control center gives trouble by not accepting Afterburner changes.

You are right 6990 works on default clk only unless you use bios switch to change.

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Quote from: PwrLeveld on May 15, 2011, 10:21:29 PM

You may not have a strong enough psu as that could be throtling due because there is not enough power.
edit- wow when I am tired my sentences make no sense

Quote from: dishwara on May 16, 2011, 12:06:07 AM

You are using MSI Afterburner BETA 2.2.0 & enabled core voltage.
Disable core voltage, So far i didn't heard any one getting more or less hash by changing core voltage.
Also you set your fan at 94, but displaying 92, may be BUG in beta. Use stable version & check before changing drivers.

There are TWO certified PSU's in TX-850, TX-850 & TX-850 V2
http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/details.aspx?item=470
http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/details.aspx?item=549

All of you are wrong fellas.
youra6 only has problems with GPU throttling because of "powertune" settings and the overall TDP limit for HD6990.
youra6 -> you're hitting the TDP threshold, so:
fix No. 1 -> go to CCC and push the powertune slider to +20 [may not work and the card may still throttle]
or
fix No. 2 guaranteed working -> turn off your PC, find the physical BIOS switch on your card, set it into its secondary position, turn on your PC & enjoy the higher power consumption, higher clocks and absolutely NO powertune TDP limit whatsoever!

Manually increasing voltage in the default 830mhz mode will only make the situation with the OCP and subsequently throttling worse.
Btw, why is it that people going into mining and buying expensive premium hardware doesn't have a clue how things work and how to troubleshoot various issues? -.-

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You are using MSI Afterburner BETA 2.2.0 & enabled core voltage.
Disable core voltage, So far i didn't heard any one getting more or less hash by changing core voltage.
Also you set your fan at 94, but displaying 92, may be BUG in beta. Use stable version & check before changing drivers.

From your picture, you have set core clock to 879 & said it fluctuates 770-800, but in picture it shows max was 879 & 895.
Also the GPU usage is fluctuating , which must not happen if you use -f0.
-f0 forces GPU as much as to mine only, so you must get constant usage.

There are TWO certified PSU's in TX-850, TX-850 & TX-850 V2
http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/details.aspx?item=470
http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/details.aspx?item=549

Just for how it looks in mine, i added my screen shot. I don't have 6990 or 2 cards in same pc currently.
Only one 6870 running with -v -w128 -f1

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