Topic: Upgrading from MSI 890FXA-GD70 (Read 5197 times)
intensity depends on if the GPU is being used.... I have a few cards in my @home rig and the Desktop card uses I:6 and the others use I:9...
set affinity for all miner processes to 1 cpu core.
then save other core(s) to run the OS and feed the gpus
then save other core(s) to run the OS and feed the gpus
I found the issue, was a bug in my miner. Moved to an older version, problem went away. Doh.
All of the latest miners use 100% cpu, seems like some sort of bug in the engine or mining code. If I swap to slightly older versions the usage drops to < 2%. Any idea what might be going on there? I'm running the latest drivers as of today.
For aggression/intensity, I"m using 14 under BFGMiner, and 12 aggression on phoenix.
All of the latest miners use 100% cpu, seems like some sort of bug in the engine or mining code. If I swap to slightly older versions the usage drops to < 2%. Any idea what might be going on there? I'm running the latest drivers as of today.
For aggression/intensity, I"m using 14 under BFGMiner, and 12 aggression on phoenix.
I think the newer drivers introduced the 100% cpu bug, but only at high aggression/intensity. For me (driver 12.
, I:9 is good, but I:10 or higher isn't. 
I found the issue, was a bug in my miner. Moved to an older version, problem went away. Doh.
All of the latest miners use 100% cpu, seems like some sort of bug in the engine or mining code. If I swap to slightly older versions the usage drops to < 2%. Any idea what might be going on there? I'm running the latest drivers as of today.
For aggression/intensity, I"m using 14 under BFGMiner, and 12 aggression on phoenix.
All of the latest miners use 100% cpu, seems like some sort of bug in the engine or mining code. If I swap to slightly older versions the usage drops to < 2%. Any idea what might be going on there? I'm running the latest drivers as of today.
For aggression/intensity, I"m using 14 under BFGMiner, and 12 aggression on phoenix.
besides mining bitcoin using amd cheapo cpu on gd70 board.. i am done investing money in amd
compat motherboards. intel all the way.
and i was a long time amd cpu user. bought my first intel this year when i ran amd for what seems like the
last decade.
compat motherboards. intel all the way.
and i was a long time amd cpu user. bought my first intel this year when i ran amd for what seems like the
last decade.
I use the Athlon x2 250 cpu for the rigs.. They work great... @ home 1090T for now.. until I see some decent spec's on the new Bulldozer style architecture...
How are you doing that? I'm using an x2 250 and it maxes 100% cpu with only 3 cards. With 4 cards the rates go down considerably from what they should be. That cpu can barely support 3 cards, and definitely not 4. I'm upgrading to an FX-8120.
What driver/SDK? Unless you're over I:9, CGMiner usus almost no CPU?
Why is your CPU being used at all ?
using cgminer there is very little, to no cpu usage.....
using cgminer there is very little, to no cpu usage.....
I use the Athlon x2 250 cpu for the rigs.. They work great... @ home 1090T for now.. until I see some decent spec's on the new Bulldozer style architecture...
How are you doing that? I'm using an x2 250 and it maxes 100% cpu with only 3 cards. With 4 cards the rates go down considerably from what they should be. That cpu can barely support 3 cards, and definitely not 4. I'm upgrading to an FX-8120.
I would recommend the GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 for your purposes, it has the same layout for pci-e except one of the 16x slots is replaced with a 1x slot, obviously shouldn't be a problem if you are running 6 cards since you are definitely using some extenders already. It is $30 cheaper than the UD5 and I like the pci-e layout better. It also has support for the FX processors.
Are you actually personally currently running 6 cards on a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 ??
I would recommend the GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 for your purposes, it has the same layout for pci-e except one of the 16x slots is replaced with a 1x slot, obviously shouldn't be a problem if you are running 6 cards since you are definitely using some extenders already. It is $30 cheaper than the UD5 and I like the pci-e layout better. It also has support for the FX processors.
I use the Athlon x2 250 cpu for the rigs.. They work great... @ home 1090T for now.. until I see some decent spec's on the new Bulldozer style architecture...
If you are just using it for mining then there's no point in throwing a Bulldozer in that board. Regardless it should work and I've got 5 cards running in a pair of these boards. Been working error free for about 2 months.
MSI GD70.....
I can run 5 cards no problem on this board..... 4 cards without an PCI-E extender...
On which board, the MSI, or the gigabyte?
I run 6 cards on my MSI 890FXA-GD70
I can run 5 cards no problem on this board..... 4 cards without an PCI-E extender...
It might be an AM3+, but AMD said you need a 9xx series board to use a Bulldozer CPU. I use the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5, and it's great! It does support Bulldozer, as well.
If you are using more than 3 cards I would be really intrigued to know how you make it work!
See this post:- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37880.60
I only ever used 3 cards, plugged directly into the MB, like you had. Sorry.
Only thing I can tell you is these Gigabyte boards respond positively to disabling unneeded stuff in the BIOS. Try disabling the 2nd sata controller, audio chip, the USB3.0 controller, USB2.0 (if you can), LAN (if you can), limiting it to 1 core, etc. Some people have had good luck with doing that.
It might be an AM3+, but AMD said you need a 9xx series board to use a Bulldozer CPU. I use the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5, and it's great! It does support Bulldozer, as well.
If you are using more than 3 cards I would be really intrigued to know how you make it work!
See this post:- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37880.60
On all the boxes of my 3 890FXA-GD70's theres stickers stating 8 core cpu support..... am3+........
It works... and it will support the future Pyledriver....
It works... and it will support the future Pyledriver....
No, it does not work. It is a beta support (or something like that). I don't want it, simple because I can't use it! :-/
It does... I have (3) of those boards with FX-8100's in them, working fine.. Upgrade to the latest bios, and off you run.
I'll do it!!
No, it does not work. It is a beta support (or something like that). I don't want it, simple because I can't use it! :-/
It does... I have (3) of those boards with FX-8100's in them, working fine.. Upgrade to the latest bios, and off you run.
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