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Topic: Sapphire 7970 below $300 on new egg, 720 khps (Read 880 times)

legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1000
September 15, 2013, 01:43:12 AM
#12
Great card, that's what I use but my intensity is 20! Hehe  Cheesy
this particular model gets upset at -I14 and above. Perhaps older version are ok with 20. I have all kinds of cards and -I varies per model dramatically from 13 to 20.

Let me know how the settings work out for you.

You have 7970s that get better results above -I 13? All of mine hit 740 easily enough, but with different clock speeds depending on models and all at -I 13 -g 2. (I have over 25 7970s)

I'm loving 7970s, I purely ran 7950s till I got 2x 7970s for cheap and they run sooooo much cooler than the 7950s. My 7950s run 72-80c on average but the 7970s run 62-65c on average. HUGE difference. Now all I buy is 7970s.


Absolutely. 7970 >>>>> 7950. Much cooler running and they actually consume less power, unless you want to run them at a crappy 550 kh/s. Even then, I'm sure a 7970 would consume less power at only 550 kh/s. Much better KH/s/W, easily.

For example, to get 700kh/s on my 7950s, I have to push the hell out of them and I'm not sure they will stand the abuse too long.

With 7970s, 740kh/s is uber easy and all of my 25+ cards are heavily undervolted while hitting those speeds. Some as low as 1000mv. On the other hand, if I decide to push them like I have to push the 7950s (I refuse to run them under 650 kh/s) I can hit 800-830 KH/s with 90% of the 7970s. I always SMH when people sa y 7950s are the cards to have for mining. If you look hard enough, you can find 7970s in the same price range as 7950s and they wak all over them.
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
September 15, 2013, 12:11:10 AM
#11
Great card, that's what I use but my intensity is 20! Hehe  Cheesy
this particular model gets upset at -I14 and above. Perhaps older version are ok with 20. I have all kinds of cards and -I varies per model dramatically from 13 to 20.

Let me know how the settings work out for you.

You have 7970s that get better results above -I 13? All of mine hit 740 easily enough, but with different clock speeds depending on models and all at -I 13 -g 2. (I have over 25 7970s)

I'm loving 7970s, I purely ran 7950s till I got 2x 7970s for cheap and they run sooooo much cooler than the 7950s. My 7950s run 72-80c on average but the 7970s run 62-65c on average. HUGE difference. Now all I buy is 7970s.
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
September 15, 2013, 12:08:50 AM
#10
I'll just keep buying used 7970s for $200 and under. Smiley

Way faster ROI  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
yeah, where is that?

Not eBay or Craigslist. I buy them with bitcoin. Thats all the hints I will give, I don't want you buying up all the cards, they don't come up for sale every day, I have to watch and catch them when they are first listed. Smiley

Sometimes they need fan repairs, which is a simple $10-15 fix.
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1000
September 15, 2013, 12:06:00 AM
#9
Great card, that's what I use but my intensity is 20! Hehe  Cheesy
this particular model gets upset at -I14 and above. Perhaps older version are ok with 20. I have all kinds of cards and -I varies per model dramatically from 13 to 20.

Let me know how the settings work out for you.

You have 7970s that get better results above -I 13? All of mine hit 740 easily enough, but with different clock speeds depending on models and all at -I 13 -g 2. (I have over 25 7970s)
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
September 14, 2013, 11:14:46 PM
#8
Great card, that's what I use but my intensity is 20! Hehe  Cheesy
this particular model gets upset at -I14 and above. Perhaps older version are ok with 20. I have all kinds of cards and -I varies per model dramatically from 13 to 20.
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
September 14, 2013, 11:12:16 PM
#7
I'll just keep buying used 7970s for $200 and under. Smiley

Way faster ROI  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
yeah, where is that?
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
September 14, 2013, 11:09:16 PM
#6
intensity 13, thread concurrency 10240, gpu engine 1040, gpu memclock 1500, gpu threads 2 will get you 735KH/s
ohh, I shall try, tks
member
Activity: 76
Merit: 10
September 14, 2013, 07:33:21 PM
#5
I'll just keep buying used 7970s for $200 and under. Smiley

Way faster ROI  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

And I'll just keep my coins parked at mcxNOW.com drawing interest (more profitable and better ROI than buying video cards  Cool
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1000
September 14, 2013, 06:15:57 PM
#4
I'll just keep buying used 7970s for $200 and under. Smiley

Way faster ROI  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Damn, that's cheap. Local classifieds?
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
September 14, 2013, 06:12:26 PM
#3
I'll just keep buying used 7970s for $200 and under. Smiley

Way faster ROI  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1000
September 14, 2013, 05:51:49 PM
#2
 intensity 13, thread concurrency 10240, gpu engine 1040, gpu memclock 1500, gpu threads 2 will get you 735KH/s
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
September 14, 2013, 05:32:04 PM
#1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202008

 intensity 13, lookup gap 2, thread concurrency 8192, gpu engine 1085, gpu memclock 1500, gpu threads 2

everything else default.

720 khps stable for two weeks.

At $299, I can't find anything better.
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