Post your 7970 Card info and Settings

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Quote from: drlukacs on May 17, 2013, 09:56:04 AM

Quote from: crazyivan on May 15, 2013, 04:05:43 AM

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

Would you please be so kind to post your core/mem settings, and voltage?

Quote from: crazyivan on May 15, 2013, 03:32:03 PM

No, stock coolers, just took out the cards out of the case.

Made a custom wooden frame, got PCI extenders and they work fine. In terms of settings, here is what I use:

GPU engine 1060 MHz , voltage 1100 mV
Memory 1750 MHz, voltage 1650 mV

than get the latest cgminer 3.0.1 run it with --shaders 2048 -I 13 -g 2 -v 1 -w 256

There ya go..

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Quote from: crazyivan on May 15, 2013, 04:05:43 AM

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

Would you please be so kind to post your core/mem settings, and voltage?

Skag

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Quote from: mccminer on May 15, 2013, 07:46:01 PM

Quote from: Skag on May 15, 2013, 03:50:23 PM

Quote from: Nargule on April 21, 2013, 10:24:58 PM

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

Try this: http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-cgminer-latest-ubuntu/

Thanks, I'll have a go

mccminer

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Quote from: Skag on May 15, 2013, 03:50:23 PM

Quote from: Nargule on April 21, 2013, 10:24:58 PM

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

Try this: http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-cgminer-latest-ubuntu/

Wilderness

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Quote from: gateway on April 23, 2013, 08:29:19 PM

I'm thinking of picking up some Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition boards cause I think by default they are clocked at 1100, my sapphire ones are 1000 which I push to 1150 ish.. anyone have any thoughts about the Gigabyte card?

I have 4 gigabyte 7970 OC editions and they are more stable than any other cards I have. My friend has 4 GHz cards as well as 12 OC cards and he constantly complains about his GHz cards taking more power, getting the same or less hash and crashing more.

Skag

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Quote from: Nargule on April 21, 2013, 10:24:58 PM

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

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No, stock coolers, just took out the cards out of the case.

Made a custom wooden frame, got PCI extenders and they work fine. In terms of settings, here is what I use:

GPU engine 1060 MHz , voltage 1100 mV
Memory 1750 MHz, voltage 1650 mV

than get the latest cgminer 3.0.1 run it with --shaders 2048 -I 13 -g 2 -v 1 -w 256

big pete

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Quote from: crazyivan on May 15, 2013, 04:05:43 AM

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

water cooled or what?

ive got the same card but i cant get it past 670 stable 710 if i wanna reboot it every hour

plz share your settings

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I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

nookiegirl

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I am also thinking about getting the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC (GV-R797OC-3GD).
As far as I have read here in the forums, it seems to be the best choice for BTC mining.

Any downvotes on that?

Spendulus

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I'm running Giga 7970, totally stock, 550 and 600 Mh, had heat issues that kept me from dreaming about upping the parms. They are now fixed, so I'll be optimizing but here is a question.

Anyone doing water cooling and if so what rig/part numbers?

crazyates

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Quote from: gateway on April 23, 2013, 08:29:19 PM

I'm thinking of picking up some Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition boards cause I think by default they are clocked at 1100, my sapphire ones are 1000 which I push to 1150 ish.. anyone have any thoughts about the Gigabyte card?

Ya that's the one I have, the Gigabyte with the stock clocks at 1100MHz. Mine clocks up to 1200MHz no problem. Core stays nice and cool, but the VRM temps are a lil high for my liking (while mining, gaming is just fine). It runs a lil higher volts than stock to accommodate the higher stock clocks, which also helps with the OC as well, but also explains the VRM temps. It's sort of a trade-off, but I think it's worth it.

gateway

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I'm thinking of picking up some Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition boards cause I think by default they are clocked at 1100, my sapphire ones are 1000 which I push to 1150 ish.. anyone have any thoughts about the Gigabyte card?

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Quote from: QuiveringGibbage on April 21, 2013, 03:38:37 PM

Quote from: crazyates on April 21, 2013, 01:10:54 PM

Card, Drivers, OS etc:

Card Name: Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition
Card ID:
Catalyst Driver: 13.1
ASIC Quality (GPU-Z): 67.9%
AMD Stream SDK: 1084.4 (2.8?)
OS: Win8x64
Voltage Unlocked: yes

OC Settings:

Core GPU: 1200
Memory: 1050
Voltage: stock
Boost: 0%

Miner Info:

Miner: CGMiner 2.11.4
Config Options: -I 7 --gpu-fan 90 --gpu-engine 1200 --gpu-memdiff -150
Hash Rates: 722MH/s
GPU Temp: 69C

What sort of uptime do you get? Win8, can't say I've tried that OS. I've tried on Win7 and Ubuntu12.10 and I can't get it to last more then 24hrs on 1200 clocks.

QG

I just went on vacation for a week, and it ran at those clocks for 8 days straight with no problems. I've used this card in Win7x64 and Win8x64, same results. Try monitoring your VRM temps, and make sure those don't get too hot. I know some people say they're fine up to like 150C, but I try to keep mine under 100C.

Nargule

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Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

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Quote from: crazyates on April 21, 2013, 01:10:54 PM

Card, Drivers, OS etc:

Card Name: Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition
Card ID:
Catalyst Driver: 13.1
ASIC Quality (GPU-Z): 67.9%
AMD Stream SDK: 1084.4 (2.8?)
OS: Win8x64
Voltage Unlocked: yes

OC Settings:

Core GPU: 1200
Memory: 1050
Voltage: stock
Boost: 0%

Miner Info:

Miner: CGMiner 2.11.4
Config Options: -I 7 --gpu-fan 90 --gpu-engine 1200 --gpu-memdiff -150
Hash Rates: 722MH/s
GPU Temp: 69C

What sort of uptime do you get? Win8, can't say I've tried that OS. I've tried on Win7 and Ubuntu12.10 and I can't get it to last more then 24hrs on 1200 clocks.

QG

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Card, Drivers, OS etc:

Card Name: Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition
Card ID:
Catalyst Driver: 13.1
ASIC Quality (GPU-Z): 67.9%
AMD Stream SDK: 1084.4 (2.8?)
OS: Win8x64
Voltage Unlocked: yes

OC Settings:

Core GPU: 1200
Memory: 1050
Voltage: stock
Boost: 0%

Miner Info:

Miner: CGMiner 2.11.4
Config Options: -I 7 --gpu-fan 90 --gpu-engine 1200 --gpu-memdiff -150
Hash Rates: 722MH/s
GPU Temp: 69C

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Quote from: crazyivan on April 20, 2013, 03:51:17 AM

How can you get the core to go up so high. I thought catalyst control center limits it to 1125. At least his is with my CUII card.

I don't use CCC to control my settings. I just use cgminer gpu settings.

Quote from: gateway on April 20, 2013, 01:45:35 PM

Nice setup.. what risers did you end up getting? Hows the 1200 watt power supply holding up?

Bought the risers off eBay http://stores.ebay.com.au/Micro-SATA-Cables based in the US but the risers have Flyconn on them and looks to be from China. I bought the 12 inch ones but the last time I checked eBay, they were out/no longer listed.

The AX1200i PSU seems to be holding up pretty well at 36c. They're only 2 months old. My Steplight power meter reads ~1400W atm.

QG

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Quote from: QuiveringGibbage on April 20, 2013, 01:25:33 AM

http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#y6zZ4pi

QG

Nice setup.. what risers did you end up getting? Hows the 1200 watt power supply holding up?

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I push my cores on Linux with the atitweak scripts - no idea on the Windows side.

As far as cooling multiple 7970s, you can do it, but it's easiest if you put a space between all the cards.

http://blog.cryptohaze.com/2012/02/quad-gpu-builds-with-case-part-2.html is the general setup I use at this point, though I only put 3 cards in - 4 is harder to cool by a large margin and runs the cards much hotter. It's just not worth the effort at this point.

It's much less dense than some of the builds I've seen here, but the data center doesn't like "weird" things in their racks - open air cases were not acceptable. It's actually not that high a cost per system - if you can get the parts used, a $125 mainboard, $50 CPU, $50 of RAM, $100 PSU, and a $150 case will host 3 cards in sustained 24/7/365 operation with no trouble.

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