Topic: Radeon HD 58XX Series users get in here! - page 3. (Read 25524 times)

Hmm, that's odd cause I run my card at 300 and I've noticed no graphical glitches whatsoever. Granted I did not try gaming at this mem clock nor will I. But you'd think if this was affecting the 5870 it should also affect the 5970 which is nothing more than two 5870s in CrossFire config.

If you reduce the memory too much, it can cause graphics errors. My HD5870 cannot go under 425mhz memory without getting graphical glitches like you've mentioned. Sometimes after you set the 300mhz clock, then return the card to stock the glitches won't go away until you reboot as well.

69C is too high!? No way. I disagree. I'm sure others would too.

These lines show up even when the card is running at 60c overnight and memory is underclocked to 300.

2 things, one desktop lag. If running with -f1 flag.
second your TEMP is too high, run fan at 100% if u don't mind sound & don't want to burn card., but with out over clock, its rare.

When I run my 5870 even at stock settings overnight a few random red/green lines start flickering on the screen. They go away after a few mins of turning the miner off. Is this normal or is the card bad?

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I agree. At the current difficulty even with twice that hashing power it will take 19 days (95% probability) to find a block.

I would. It will probably take you 9 or 10 days at this difficulty (on average) to find anything at that speed. A pool is the way to go.

Moved the machine into another room, overclocked the core to 970 currently getting 360 MH/s and temps have been holding at 69c over night. First night of mining I got real lucky and woke up to 50 BTC. Second night, nothing at all. I'm thinking of hoping into a mining pool. Solo mining feels a bit meh.

77 at full load is pretty good If you can keep it at that you should be set to go.

Ya...it vents heat in the case. Not sure if I have room in the case for one of those PCI coolers, but that's a good idea. Too late to crawl around to worry about it. Actually got the temp down to 77...all in a night's work.

I think there are two different designs of the XFX 5830, so I'm wondering which one do you have. Is it the one that vents its heat inside the case? If so the biggest problem you have is airflow..getting fresh air from the front or somewhere and ejecting it out the back or top.

I'm thinking maybe one of those PCI coolers would help.

I have a HP Pavilion a6700z; it was not a horrible machine at the time I bought it, and it was a great media PC. As it's still my primary home PC, I will definitely be looking into building a dedicated mining rig. For now, though, I'm stuck with this. Here's what I'm running (in the aforementioned case):

Athlon Dual Core 4850e Brisbane @ ~2.5GHz on an Asus Narra3 mobo (which means I have 1 PCI-e x16 slot)
600 PSU
4 GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
and the 5830...it's an XFX
Total fans: 4 -- 1 on the processor, 1 exhaust, the PSU and the video card
No front intake fans -- no room for them in the case (the hard drive happens to be occupying that spot)

It doesn't bug me to run the fan all the time on the GPU. If it's bad for the fan, that's another matter entirely, though. Here is what I'm pulling down right now:

Catalyst 10.7 and SDK 2.1
poclbm-gui miner w/flags -v -w128
250-260 Mh/s even while running flash games and videos
Re-clocked using MSI Afterburner to 950/400 (any lower than 400 seemed to crash the computer...though I could definitely stand to bring that temp down some more...)
Fan at 75%
Current temperature is 82C (it is warmer in here...I have an AC...perhaps I should use it)

I would also point out that my old card ran at 78C for 2 years or more without incident with no overclocking at all...I used to run BOINC on it. Also, didn't like that temp, so pulling it down below 80 with the fans as we speak.

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

Edit: just knocked the memory clock down to 385...seems to be stable...will keep an eye on temps. My goal is below 80, for now, as I'm probably not savvy enough to carve holes in the tower. That would be an ideal situation, though.

Hmm I see. That's why I always profess the virtues of building your own pc. Nothing beats a custom case design. For hot running video cards (or multiple video cards) you want quite a few fans - as big as possible to keep the noise down yet maximize CFM.


I'm wondering maybe he can setup some sort of ghetto rig...cut a hole in the side of the panel and attach a 140 mm fan there..or two.

Do you have a pic of this case?

If he's got a case like my buddy's HP, then not really.  His case is one of those smaller reverse ATX cases (opens on the right rather than the left).  He was having minor troubles with heat in his case because the thing only had one fan in it other than the PSU fan and no room to add another.  What we did was add three 40x40x20mm fans to the side inlets.  It only worked just well enough, but it worked.  When he decided he wanted a video card, I told him that he can only have a blower style card cooler, no mid-mounted fan jobs.  It has been working well for him, thus far.

Do you live in a hot climate? Also would it not be possible to increase the case's airflow without taking the side cover off? I'm thinking something like adding side panel fans or bigger/more/more powerful front intake fans? Do you even have front intake fans? Do you have a clutter of wires blocking airflow from the front intake fan(s) ?

Can't run it with an open case...the cats would have a field day. I had the fan at 60% and it was hovering between 80 and 84, depending on what I was doing. Just turned it up to 75%...we'll see what that does to the temps.

Edit: Temp down to 78 within minutes...that's what my old nVidia card ran at, so I'm not expecting much more.

yikes.  85 is too hot IMHO: short term it's OK, but mid- to long-term you're going to hurt the card if you run it 24/7.  you might want to do something about that.  try messing with the fans using aticonfig - or, failing that, run with an open case and an extra fan or two.

i've got a couple of 5850s set up in my frankenputer miner with an extra case fan and two small blowers from an old CPU cooler blowing directly into the GPU intake fans.  they're down to a pretty reliable 72.5-74 C.  still a bit hot for my taste.  i'm working on it - i'd like 65ish, tops.

The card is here. Out of the box, it's pulling down 190. I'm off to find some software to get the memory clock speed down to 300...the heat is killing me.  

Edit: Okay...figured it out. Can't seem to do much better than 950/400 on clocks without crashing. This IS my actual computer I'm doing this on and not a rig, so I guess it is what it is. Running a music program, the miner, MSI Afterburner and posting this and still getting 240...250 when idle. I had it up to 270, but it crashed constantly. I guess I'll keep messing with it until I get it stable enough to actually use while mining. Went with 10.7 and 2.1 per your advice. Temp is running right around 85...can't seem to do much better than that, either. It's an HP Pavilion with a BS mobo that has no business doing what it's doing. I'm happy.