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Topic: XFX 280X Crossfire Mining Setup (Read 712 times)

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February 22, 2014, 03:00:35 AM
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I didn't find any difference whether Crossfire was on or off either.
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February 22, 2014, 01:27:46 AM
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I have been looking around for the answer on why I should disable my crossfire while mining.  I am running this setup:

Intel i7-4770k
ASUS Sabertooth Z87
2x XFX Radeon HD 280x Double D
16GB G.Skill Vengence RAM

With Crossfire on, I get ~ 705Kh/s per card.  With it disabled, I get the same.  Temperatures are the same, and the GPU usage is 99% on each one.  See images below:

With Crossfire:
http://imageshack.com/a/img38/1268/4sfv.jpg



Without Crossfire:
http://imageshack.com/a/img850/9596/hrr1.jpg

Am I missing anything or does crossfire not affect mining in a negative way?


Here is my BAT I'm running:
Code:
setx ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o ***(Stratum and user/pass info here)***  -I 13 --lookup-gap 2 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192


Both cards are running at these settings:
Core clock:  1020MHz
Mem clock:  1500MHz
Voltage :  1.106v
Fan at 100%

*Note*  One card runs about 10 degrees warmer than the other.  Throughout the day one card will be between 74-76 and the other will be 65-68.  I swapped the card's in their PCIe slots and the warmer one is always warmer.  I think it has a thermal paste issue, but does anyone else have any other ideas?

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