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Title: Hd 6850 Post by: shakerist on June 12, 2011, 04:27:13 PM Ok so i just started mining today I have a AMD 1055t , Asus m4a89gtd pro and hd 6850, my question is if I buy a 5850 would I be able to run both cards at the same time? I understand these cards cant be crossfired so how would i go about doing this? and im getting a average of 200 mhash/s is this normal my core clock is 955
Title: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: BTCPrizes on June 12, 2011, 04:36:32 PM You don't need to crossfire your cards to run them both. As long as your board supports 2 cards (ie. have 2 identical slots) and they fit physically, you should be able to run both. Keep in mind the physical space though as some cards take 3 slots.
Title: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: Vanquistador on June 12, 2011, 04:43:17 PM You don't need to crossfire your cards to run them both. As long as your board supports 2 cards (ie. have 2 identical slots) and they fit physically, you should be able to run both. Keep in mind the physical space though as some cards take 3 slots. I was wondering the same question. I have a pc with one 6970, but I also have two 4870s and one 4870x2 laying around (that I could place onto the same motherboard). Do I need to worry about drivers or will it be plug and play? (I figure since I'm in the newbie area I might as well ask a potentially "newb" question! <3 ) Thank you for a response. Title: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: emugoo on June 12, 2011, 04:48:17 PM Note that some graphic cards can conflict in the BIOS, when they both try to grab 'default', and then the computer never starts up.
There is also a possibility of driver collision in windows, which is actually more likely on vista/7 then on xp. No idea about linux. As this is a very unusual usage, you probably won't find help on the usual tech sites either. So You'll never know without trying I guess. Ok so i just started mining today I have ... hd 6850 ... and im getting a average of 200 mhash/s is this normal my core clock is 955 200 mhash/s looks about right, for a non-optimised setup. See here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparisonTitle: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: gaboo08 on August 04, 2011, 04:01:50 AM When you add the second card, in guiminer it should detect another device. For example you will see:
Device [0-0] Cayman Device [0-1] Cayman You will only need one instance of guiminer, create a new miner: File>New Miner and make sure to select the second device for your new miner. Title: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: bmgjet on August 04, 2011, 04:12:44 AM you should be getting more then that from a 6850, I was getting 255 at 940mhz core.
What miner are you using, I found CGminer to be the best since it uses the lest CPU and was the fastest. Title: Re: Hd 6850 Post by: SYC on August 04, 2011, 02:30:01 PM I have a Asus 6950 revision 1 with reflashed 6970 fw to unlock the extra shaders retarded by the original bios currently churning out 390Mhash/s with -v -w128 in flag dialogue box using guiminer
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