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gorobei said:
welcome to the new difficulty level.


edit: looks like everyone is running around like chickens with the head cut off. they're jumping around from 1 pool to the next and screwing up the share ratios.
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Difficulty went up 10%, not 50%.
But yeah, it seems to be normal again.
 
Man even with the 5870 + 6970 running, it seems my rate has dropped considerably in the last couple days despite only a slight difficulty increase.
 
ghost recon88 said:
Man even with the 5870 + 6970 running, it seems my rate has dropped considerably in the last couple days despite only a slight difficulty increase.
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Yeah, I noticed the same ... getting 740mhash, but I only got .05 in 6 hours? Must have been all the pool hopping people were doing?
 
DLeRium said:
What's a dummy plug? Just the 75ohm resister into a DVI plug is sufficient?

This is god awfully retarded. I understand the power savings nature of these cards, but this should be a software option.
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Apparently there is. The software option is 11.7 catalyst drivers 🙂

I'm hoping that we have the typical "weekend dip" in BTC value. I actually have some USD in my mtgox account and I want to pick up some of the sweet cheap $10 bitcoins.
 
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artvscommerce said:
Which 5830 do you have? I found my 100297L's to be very quiet @ 100% fan.
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The Sapphires also. They're now numbered 2L, but I believe it's the same model off their website 2L or just L.

I have them stacked right next to each other running open case right now. I'm used to absolute silence.

My old 4850 which was in my i7 system ran on a Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo. I could run at 30% fan and would never hear it above my already-silent Noctua D14 cooler.

I don't upgrade GPUs very much but I remember my 4850 stock fan being whiny and the same on my 7800GT. I've always gone aftermarket cooling.

Either I have a lemon (I doubt it cuz both are loud) or I'm just too spoiled by quiet computing. Heh.
 
70% is a pretty good fan speed.

Also, you should look into underclocking the memory and put something in between the cards to space them a little if they're stacked against eachother.

underclocking memory to 300mhz can make a big difference w\ temps. I had one card running @ 92c last night and then put fans up and clock down and temps went to 67-70c
 
airdata said:
70% is a pretty good fan speed.

Also, you should look into underclocking the memory and put something in between the cards to space them a little if they're stacked against eachother.

underclocking memory to 300mhz can make a big difference w\ temps. I had one card running @ 92c last night and then put fans up and clock down and temps went to 67-70c
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for my sapphire 5830 i have it set at 975/300 with stock voltage. temps is much better as well. one xfx i had to clock it down to 950/300 as it would lock up otherwise still testing this one


Jen
 
Yeah. Unfortunately boards back in the day only had 1 slot in between the 2 slots....

Even my X58A board I find retarded. I know they were shooting for 3 way SLI and stuff, but they always did:

PCIE x16
Junk
PCIEx16
Junk
PCIex16

That means all 3 cards will be stacked against each other. The new Z68 boards leave TWO slots between the first two PCI-es, so if you do dual cards, you get optimal cooling. It's only the third card that needs to be jammed in tight. That makes so much more sense. I kept complaining about the X58 boards not doing it right but it seems Intel finally got it together for Z68.

I'll try to see what I can do downclocking the memory and what not.
 
Jen said:
for my sapphire 5830 i have it set at 975/300 with stock voltage. temps is much better as well. one xfx i had to clock it down to 950/300 as it would lock up otherwise still testing this one


Jen
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I have my sapphire at 965/400 i found that at 300 my hash rate dropped
 
How long has it taken to get your coins transferred to MtGox? I transferred yesterday, I still do not see them. I'd hate to lose my three bitcoins. 🙁
 
There is absolutely NO need for video plugs or a keyboard or a monitor when running a Linux mining rig. There's no need to use a remote desktop either (although that's just as trivial as windows). I should know, that's what I do.

When the pools went down I just ssh-ed into my mining box and pointed the miners at a new pool in all of 30 seconds. If I had to do that more than once I could script it, at which point it would be the same effort to change 1, 2, or even 100,000,000,000,000 miners at at once.

Remember, Unix (and Linux) was designed as a command line multi-user OS. There was never a requirement for a monkey pounding on a keyboard while looking at a bitmap display.

With Nvidia drivers you can even run OpenCL *without* a GUI running. ATI still requires the GUI to be started, but there's no need for a monitor to see what it's displaying (in my case it's just a blank screen).
 
jeebus, the 5830s run hot. mine both throttle at 90c. I'm thinking of going open case... it's a noise tradeoff but at the same time cooler temps help run it quieter.

I've tried using Afterburner and Trixx, but Trixx seems to only control 1 card. You can't switch it from card to card like Afterburner? I like Trixx because you can drop to 300mhz memory down from 500mhz which is where Afterburner is capped. Either way, my 5830s are toasty... very toasty.
 
DLeRium said:
jeebus, the 5830s run hot. mine both throttle at 90c. I'm thinking of going open case... it's a noise tradeoff but at the same time cooler temps help run it quieter.

I've tried using Afterburner and Trixx, but Trixx seems to only control 1 card. You can't switch it from card to card like Afterburner? I like Trixx because you can drop to 300mhz memory down from 500mhz which is where Afterburner is capped. Either way, my 5830s are toasty... very toasty.
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close AB and open it back up and u can drop it below 300mhz
 
DLeRium said:
jeebus, the 5830s run hot. mine both throttle at 90c. I'm thinking of going open case... it's a noise tradeoff but at the same time cooler temps help run it quieter.

I've tried using Afterburner and Trixx, but Trixx seems to only control 1 card. You can't switch it from card to card like Afterburner? I like Trixx because you can drop to 300mhz memory down from 500mhz which is where Afterburner is capped. Either way, my 5830s are toasty... very toasty.
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What are your fan speeds set on? My 5830's run at 59c in a not well ventilated case overclocked to 1020mhz with the fan speed set at 70%.
 
The 11.7 drivers slightly increase hashes over 2.4 sdk, and they're almost even with 2.1 sdk. Good news if you have the 6 series card. No-op for 5 series.

This is a comparison under Windows. 2.6 sdk isn't out for Linux until the 15th of july.
 
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