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Quote from: P4man on November 08, 2011, 05:10:25 AM

If your temps are anywhere near 90C with the fans at 100%, you are doing something wrong with case flow or you should really invest in a better cooler. If the DispIO (the default) temperate sensor is at 90C, more often than not the shader temp will be near or over 100C and god knows what your VRMs are at. Run GPU-Z and find out. None of my cards (5850s and a 5870) are over 65C, none of them are anywhere near 100% fan (either fixed speed 7v or ~50%). At 90C, I wouldnt bet on them lasting a year, let alone two.

i oc cards. 8x5850s(2 rigs which are tables not cases) A 6950(930/300),5970(899/300) & 5970 vapour X (900/300) in one case (well, 2 outside the case Tongue

) and a 6870(1025/300 work in progress) all below 80 degrees with 100% fan. VRM's stay well below 100 degrees (120 is there max without effecting there lifespan) tested with IR temp sensor Wink

My point is 90 degrees is perfectly fine, 110 IS DANGER DANGER. Also, auto fan ISNT RELIABLE Wink

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If your temps are anywhere near 90C with the fans at 100%, you are doing something wrong with case flow or you should really invest in a better cooler. If the DispIO (the default) temperate sensor is at 90C, more often than not the shader temp will be near or over 100C and god knows what your VRMs are at. Run GPU-Z and find out. None of my cards (5850s and a 5870) are over 65C, none of them are anywhere near 100% fan (either fixed speed 7v or ~50%). At 90C, I wouldnt bet on them lasting a year, let alone two.

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Quote from: Eveofwar on November 07, 2011, 09:02:18 PM

That's what it should look like, except your fan speeds are through the roof...should be no more than 85% for 24/7 use.

Familiarize yourself with --auto-gpu & --auto-fan, also the Core and Memory clock switches.

As long as your temps are below 90 put your fans on 100%, auto IS A BAD IDEA, ALWAYS. Ive seen mine throttle the fan down when its 100% workload because of all sorts of things. Hense why i have 6 series cards on some cause my 5 series fans failed due to this. 6 series sucks compared to 5 Sad

I always have 100% and as long as it doesnt get too hot, 100+ degrees they WILL seize up. Then again, i plan to replace cards every year or 2 so its not as if im too fussed about thrashing the fans. I wouldn't go below 85% fan speed, Dependant on your location as well though (tempreture outside).

Looks like you got it working sweet. Try playing around a little, you might get slighly different results with say 2 threads, not 4. Worksize 128, not 256 etc etc but Vectors 2 seems to be the best on all of mine. Everyones system behaves differently, cause no card/board is the same Wink

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Quote from: ragingazn628 on November 07, 2011, 10:03:51 PM

basically it just throtlles down to meet the desire temps?

README.TXT

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402

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When I said "Familiarize yourself with...", that didn't mean keep asking questions that have been answered.

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basically it just throtlles down to meet the desire temps?

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Quote from: ragingazn628 on November 07, 2011, 09:25:37 PM

what does the core switches do?

Core and Memory clock switches.

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what does the core switches do?

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That's what it should look like, except your fan speeds are through the roof...should be no more than 85% for 24/7 use.

Familiarize yourself with --auto-gpu & --auto-fan, also the Core and Memory clock switches.

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does this look correct for TWO 5830s @ 900mhz OC core and 300mhz mem?

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Use -I 8, for 5xxx cards
Use -I 9, for 6xxx cards

Also, only need to run 1 instance of cgminer...works across multiple cards.

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is this correct?

cd C:\Users\Bitcoin\Desktop\cgminer-2.0.7-win32

start /affinity 0x0 cgminer -o pit.deepbit.net:8332 -u xxx6950a -p xxx -v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -I 9

start /affinity 0x1 cgminer -o pit.deepbit.net:8332 -u xxx6950b -p xxx -v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -I 9

What do I put for the affinity?

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Updated above post, BFI_INT is auto on Wink

I found big improvement over diablo and pheonix so i recon you'll get even more Wink

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how much of an improvement do you think it will be?

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Quote from: ragingazn628 on November 07, 2011, 07:38:01 PM

oooo I use guiminer Sad

o my, thats the worst one. Diablo and pheonix are much better.

Download CGminer 2.0.7 from the software section, Make a bat file or equivilent on your desktop and edit it and put something like this in it

cd c:\cgminer (WHERE YOU PUT CGMINER)

start /affinity 0x2 cgminer -o YOUR POOL ADDRESS:PORT NUMBER -u USERNAME.WORKER -p PASSWORD -v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -I 9

/affinity is upto you, it just sets it to use whatever core you want on the CPU. After your first pool you can add more so if it fails it uses the next in one until your primary becaomes available again, Example:

start /affinity 0x2 cgminer -o YOUR POOL ADDRESS:PORT NUMBER -u USERNAME.WORKER -p PASSWORD -u USERNAME.WORKER -p PASSWORD -u USERNAME.WORKER -p PASSWORD -v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -I 9

That would load 3 pools with 1st been primary and other too been fail safes Wink

I think BFI_INT is auto enabled Wink

CGminer also allows you do alot within the program itself, even overclocking and all sorts. Wink

cgminer -h gives you all the commands possible, but there listed on there download page

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/official-cgminer-mining-software-thread-for-linuxwinosxmipsarmr-pi-4110-28402

GUI miner is for people who cant be bothered learn a few command lines. And you pay for that Wink

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oooo I use guiminer Sad

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for cgminer yes Wink

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ok sweet does this look good?

-v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -i 9 BFI_INT

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AGGRESSION=12 = same as intensity(I) on cgminer, ANything above 8-9 is pointless. Cause more problems

BFI_INT = DEFINNITLY, missed that :/

Im using 8 sapphire xtreme 5850's (2 rigs)965/300 but all hit 1000 except 1, I've lowered it for server performance and all do 400mhash+, a 6870(930/300),6950(1025/300 WORK IN PROGRESS) and a 5970(899/300 no OV allowed:(). Works for all perfect Wink

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what clocks do you guys currently have it at? I currently have mine at stocks 810mhz and with my flags I get about ~225 mh/s does that sound ok?

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-v 2 -w 256 -g 4 -k phatk -i 9

Vector 2, 256 worksize, 4 threads, phatk kernal and intensity 9 if its a mining rig. I 5 to I 6 and your system works as if its doing nothing, Just dont load flash as its a hog and kills your system sometimes Wink

CGminer that is, dont know why you would use any other though, its simply the best one and is updated on a week/2 week basis Wink

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