Mining 7970 with linuxcoin bounty [20 btc] - page 2.

Joshwaa

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Quote from: yochdog on February 17, 2012, 03:33:04 PM

Quote from: Joshwaa on February 17, 2012, 01:23:22 PM

Guess everyone can just laugh at me then running 13 rigs on Win7 and using SSD's too. Did I mention most of them are 2600K's and 2500k's. Also 2 rigs with 3 HD7970's each. Got a good laugh going yet?

However can any of you host a Lan/Gaming Party where no one has to bring their own rigs? Can you also mine at 500KHash for lite coins on your Semprons and Linux? I don't still hear the laughter.. Grin

OK enough of the gloating and here is my point. Why does everyone brag that they run this and you should too. Why are you not doing it my way? Why no Linux..

The guy just wants his question answered without all the problems.. If you can't help go blow your horn in another thread.

Sorry I can not properly tell you how to get the drivers packed in your install but I hope this got rid of some of the chatter so you can find your answer.

That is sexy. You got yourself some serious hardware.

Thanks.. Won about 20% of it from Folding@Home contests but still have a pretty penny invested. Its a fun hobby!

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Quote from: Joshwaa on February 17, 2012, 01:23:22 PM

Guess everyone can just laugh at me then running 13 rigs on Win7 and using SSD's too. Did I mention most of them are 2600K's and 2500k's. Also 2 rigs with 3 HD7970's each. Got a good laugh going yet?

However can any of you host a Lan/Gaming Party where no one has to bring their own rigs? Can you also mine at 500KHash for lite coins on your Semprons and Linux? I don't still hear the laughter.. Grin

OK enough of the gloating and here is my point. Why does everyone brag that they run this and you should too. Why are you not doing it my way? Why no Linux..

The guy just wants his question answered without all the problems.. If you can't help go blow your horn in another thread.

Sorry I can not properly tell you how to get the drivers packed in your install but I hope this got rid of some of the chatter so you can find your answer.

That is sexy. You got yourself some serious hardware.

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Quote from: jake262144 on February 17, 2012, 01:51:31 PM

Quote from: jjiimm_64 on February 17, 2012, 01:38:01 PM

will 10 btc bounty get the job done?

Update the topic title, jjiimm.
There's bound to be someone with a 7970 willing to take the job.

I purposely left it out of the title.

jake262144

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Quote from: jjiimm_64 on February 17, 2012, 01:38:01 PM

will 10 btc bounty get the job done?

Update the topic title, jjiimm.
There's bound to be someone with a 7970 willing to take the job.

Joshwaa

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I have a linux buddy I will have him get in touch with you.

jjiimm_64

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I am not totally against windows.. even for mining. before adding a card to miner5, it had been running steady for 3 months! win64

out of 18 rigs, 4 are windoz. but 2 of them that have the 7x cards I would like to put back to linuxcoin for reasons previously states...

will 10 btc bounty get the job done?

Joshwaa

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Guess everyone can just laugh at me then running 13 rigs on Win7 and using SSD's too. Did I mention most of them are 2600K's and 2500k's. Also 2 rigs with 3 HD7970's each. Got a good laugh going yet?

However can any of you host a Lan/Gaming Party where no one has to bring their own rigs? Can you also mine at 500KHash for lite coins on your Semprons and Linux? I don't still hear the laughter.. Grin

OK enough of the gloating and here is my point. Why does everyone brag that they run this and you should too. Why are you not doing it my way? Why no Linux..

The guy just wants his question answered without all the problems.. If you can't help go blow your horn in another thread.

Sorry I can not properly tell you how to get the drivers packed in your install but I hope this got rid of some of the chatter so you can find your answer.

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No. You misunderstood.
Anyway, the guy asked for help with linuxcoin. Please help him install latest SDK, driver and miner since you are such an expert in Linux. I've packaged Linux distros way back when; I know how much work it can be. Maybe these days things are different, but I prefer to stay away from Linux because it can be very time consuming (if you run into problems).
If you are an expert in Linux, maybe you can release 7970 distro, you know, hardened, static modules compiled into the kernel, etc. If you just using someone's distro, YOU are the Linux newbie.

Buy me a 7970 card and I'll upgrade linuxcoin, deal?

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In 2005, I've setup "high-end" server using P5AD2 motherboard, RAID SATA drives running Knoppix.
I just wanted to resell it today, guess what? You cannot find Win7 drivers for sound, network and sata for that motherboard.
The machine has zero resell value. Average desktop users don't want "old" Linux machines.

So, do I understand correctly that you're moaning and bitching because ASUS didn't write Windows 7 drivers for a board released in 2003?
May I remind you that Windows 7 was released to the public in late 2009?
No, you're right, it's all Linux's fault.
Newbies... guaranteed to make you laugh Roll Eyes

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Quote from: marked on February 17, 2012, 04:46:07 AM

why not just pxeboot/tftpboot/ all the linux boxes, no disk, no usb flash - just sufficient RAM to store something like BAMT, a network with a list of mac addresses of the cards to boot the relevant OS, and or driver configs required.

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That would be AWESOME!

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well i use teamviewer to view my windows miners you can see the temps fine stop and startminers overclock but i do understand for a mining rig the less power taken up by hdd cdrom drive and cpu and ram the better so i understand if you use linux on a flash drive

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Quote from: marked on February 17, 2012, 04:46:07 AM

why not just pxeboot/tftpboot/ all the linux boxes, no disk, no usb flash - just sufficient RAM to store something like BAMT, a network with a list of mac addresses of the cards to boot the relevant OS, and or driver configs required.

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Yeah this would be pretty ideal. Saves using those shitty USB drives that fail ever so often.

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why not just pxeboot/tftpboot/ all the linux boxes, no disk, no usb flash - just sufficient RAM to store something like BAMT, a network with a list of mac addresses of the cards to boot the relevant OS, and or driver configs required.

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Quote from: cuz0882 on February 16, 2012, 06:16:34 PM

I get 395mhash per core average @ 1.100, 870mhz on 3x 5970 rigs

What are u running at to get 404?

My temps and core clocks don't disappear. What are you using to control your core clocks?

careful bro.....you are gonna get screamed at. Dudes don't like dissent.

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I get 395mhash per core average @ 1.100, 870mhz on 3x 5970 rigs

What are u running at to get 404?

My temps and core clocks don't disappear. What are you using to control your core clocks?

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Quote from: yochdog on February 15, 2012, 11:10:05 PM

Quote from: cuz0882 on February 15, 2012, 10:41:23 PM

Quote from: jjiimm_64 on February 15, 2012, 10:12:49 PM

Quote from: cuz0882 on February 15, 2012, 09:34:20 PM

Not like it's going to save anything.

dont have to buy harddrives.
dont have to install operating system from cd.
dont have to pay to spin the harddrive

you can ssh into a mining rig and still see the temp and clocks. in windows apparently when remoteing in, temps and core clocks disappears, if you can even mine at all.

dont have to pay billy boy
dont have to hook a monitor up to the computer.

that all being said, I am typing this message on a 24in win764 miner14.

you still have to buy a usb, same price.
hard drive is like 6 watts(few cents a year), you can actually run windows on a usb if one wanted to.
I do like your idea of accessing it remotely, I never really mess with mine though. Been up for about 2 months without crashes.
I just use one monitor, to watch all my miners, they don't need dedicated monitors. Could be a pain if you set one up at another location though.

Havent any of you heard of Remote desktop connection? I remote into all of my Win7 PC's to check up on CGminer. Works like a charm.

when remoteing in, temps and core clocks disappears,

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Quote from: cuz0882 on February 16, 2012, 12:35:14 AM

Quote from: Inaba on February 15, 2012, 11:43:45 PM

RDP... lord. Why do you want an entire GUI to mine? You are using command line utilities to mine with text miners from a GUI. That just makes no sense. Why not bypass the GUI all together.

As for dummy plugs, you have that backwards. Windows requires dummy plugs, Linux does not. Linux allows 8 GPUs, Windows does not (unless that's been fixed in the past few months). Windows is an inferior mining platform under any circumstance; there is literally nothing compelling about using Windows as a mining platform.

Refurbished $20 drives fail fairly often... the USB stick, not so much. Generates less heat and takes up almost no power as well.

I run most my systems with 3x 5970's and never used dummy plugs. Not sure what people were doing to require them. I'm not using the new catalyst or anything. You can go 4x 5970's with extenders and what not. The GUI does not slow down mining. I originally was going to try ubuntu, but there was no driver support for my usb adapters. The only real benefit to linux that anyone has mentioned here is the size of the OS. A full install of windows takes a 16gb usb. I plan on needing hard drives to sell my cases and mobo's anyway though. I actually started using 60gb agility ssd's. There just sexy... If I had previous experience with linux like I bet you have, I may have gone that route.

Heh, I assure you that the GUI is slowing down your mining. It's not a lot, but it's there. For example, I get about 396 MH/s per GPU on a set of GPUs I have under Widows and if I run the same GPUs under Linux, both with poclbm, the hashrate is around 404 MH/s. All thanks to loading up that heavyweight GUI for absolutely no reason. Translates to about 60 MH/s loss across all GPUs.

As for sexy SSDs... I'm more concerned with efficiency and profit, not how good my rig looks. My rigs live in the basement and in the data center, and unless something is wrong, I never see them. I'll take an ugly 3 GH/s rig over a pretty 2 GH/s rig any day.

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Quote from: cuz0882 on February 15, 2012, 09:34:20 PM

I was under the impression you needed dummy plugs to run a large miner in linux...

Is that really how misguided your opinion on Linux mining is?

It's the heap-of-fail AMD drivers are that made dummy plugs necessary. The problem was OS-agnostic though different driver versions solved it for Windows and Linux.

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Got remote desktop working, some stupid security certificate was set wrong. Guess I gave up to easy last time.

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Quote from: Inaba on February 15, 2012, 11:43:45 PM

RDP... lord. Why do you want an entire GUI to mine? You are using command line utilities to mine with text miners from a GUI. That just makes no sense. Why not bypass the GUI all together.

As for dummy plugs, you have that backwards. Windows requires dummy plugs, Linux does not. Linux allows 8 GPUs, Windows does not (unless that's been fixed in the past few months). Windows is an inferior mining platform under any circumstance; there is literally nothing compelling about using Windows as a mining platform.

Refurbished $20 drives fail fairly often... the USB stick, not so much. Generates less heat and takes up almost no power as well.

100% right. Anyone using Windblows for mining is LOL Cheesy

An poster above ^. SSD, really ? Cheesy

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