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5stringer

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Quote from: 5stringer on July 08, 2013, 10:56:06 AM

I currently mine on the guild. Any better merged mining pools?

And how would I go about clocking my 6870s to ensure longevity. I see on the comparison page that 2x 6870s at 945 clock, 330 under the SP tab. I take it SP is the memory clock?

Please correct me if im wrong. If not, how would I go about achieving optimum performance without wasting cards quicker than most.

5stringer

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I currently mine on the guild. Any better merged mining pools?

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Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 08, 2013, 10:33:48 AM

I suppose with those settings its no harm no foul for BTC, but adjusting things like thread concurrency doesnt really yield any results in BTC mining, but doesnt hurt either.

Ahhh... I didn't know that. I rarely mine BTC, since I can yield more BTC equivalent of alt-coins (LTC, FTC, and CAP at the moment)

But that is good to know. Thanks for the info

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Quote from: Damnsammit on July 08, 2013, 08:11:49 AM

Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 07, 2013, 07:29:49 PM

Quote from: Damnsammit on July 07, 2013, 07:43:19 AM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 07, 2013, 12:59:36 AM

Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 06, 2013, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

ok. That brings me to my next question, how would I go about OC'ing, MSI AB? or catalyst?

fire up cgminer and make sure they are both working first... then you can overclock straight from cgminer.. this is how I run my 5850 and 6850 with cgminer, note that I don't care about noise

--intensity 19 --gpu-engine 850 --gpu-fan 100 --thread-concurrency 7200 --shaders 2880 --worksize 256 --api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1

Thats assuming he is wanting to mine LTC.

I don't follow. I use those same settings for mining Bitcoin, too... ~~LTC~~ Scrypt is just more profitable right now.

I suppose with those settings its no harm no foul for BTC, but adjusting things like thread concurrency doesnt really yield any results in BTC mining, but doesnt hurt either.

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Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 07, 2013, 07:29:49 PM

Quote from: Damnsammit on July 07, 2013, 07:43:19 AM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 07, 2013, 12:59:36 AM

Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 06, 2013, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

ok. That brings me to my next question, how would I go about OC'ing, MSI AB? or catalyst?

fire up cgminer and make sure they are both working first... then you can overclock straight from cgminer.. this is how I run my 5850 and 6850 with cgminer, note that I don't care about noise

--intensity 19 --gpu-engine 850 --gpu-fan 100 --thread-concurrency 7200 --shaders 2880 --worksize 256 --api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1

Thats assuming he is wanting to mine LTC.

I don't follow. I use those same settings for mining Bitcoin, too... ~~LTC~~ Scrypt is just more profitable right now.

Zanatos666

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Quote from: Damnsammit on July 07, 2013, 07:43:19 AM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 07, 2013, 12:59:36 AM

Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 06, 2013, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

ok. That brings me to my next question, how would I go about OC'ing, MSI AB? or catalyst?

fire up cgminer and make sure they are both working first... then you can overclock straight from cgminer.. this is how I run my 5850 and 6850 with cgminer, note that I don't care about noise

--intensity 19 --gpu-engine 850 --gpu-fan 100 --thread-concurrency 7200 --shaders 2880 --worksize 256 --api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1

Thats assuming he is wanting to mine LTC.

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Quote from: 5stringer on July 07, 2013, 12:59:36 AM

Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 06, 2013, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

ok. That brings me to my next question, how would I go about OC'ing, MSI AB? or catalyst?

fire up cgminer and make sure they are both working first... then you can overclock straight from cgminer.. this is how I run my 5850 and 6850 with cgminer, note that I don't care about noise

--intensity 19 --gpu-engine 850 --gpu-fan 100 --thread-concurrency 7200 --shaders 2880 --worksize 256 --api-listen --api-allow W:127.0.0.1

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Quote from: Zanatos666 on July 06, 2013, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

ok. That brings me to my next question, how would I go about OC'ing, MSI AB? or catalyst?

Zanatos666

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Sometimes man, just sometimes.....

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 06:37:38 PM

Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

Cgminer should run both cards. You should only have to put one set of arguments for your overclock for them since they are the same.

5stringer

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Will CGminer run both cards at the same time? or should I use GUIminer?

5stringer

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Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 05:28:29 PM

Quote from: Damnsammit on July 06, 2013, 04:18:55 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 09:17:26 AM

Quote from: Damnsammit on July 06, 2013, 09:08:12 AM

Try Catalyst 13.1

It's the only version that I got to work for both my 5850 and my 6950

Which AMD APP SDK should I install....do you know?

Remove all of your drivers and SDK. Install Catalyst 13.1, no SDK is needed for that version.

After installing 13.1, I reboot like it asked. boots up with a box [MOM.exe - .NET Framework Initialization Error] To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework: v4.0

I got net framework v4.0. Catalyst works. under each monitor/desktop should I turn on the openGL triple buffering under the frame rate control?

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Quote from: Damnsammit on July 06, 2013, 04:18:55 PM

Quote from: 5stringer on July 06, 2013, 09:17:26 AM

Quote from: Damnsammit on July 06, 2013, 09:08:12 AM

Try Catalyst 13.1

It's the only version that I got to work for both my 5850 and my 6950

Which AMD APP SDK should I install....do you know?

Remove all of your drivers and SDK. Install Catalyst 13.1, no SDK is needed for that version.

After installing 13.1, I reboot like it asked. boots up with a box [MOM.exe - .NET Framework Initialization Error] To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework: v4.0

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