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Title: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: SkyNet on March 29, 2013, 01:47:25 AM hi everyone nice to be here
its great to find out that bitcoin has such an active community I am a newbie GPU miner with a few questions and I would like your help I started mining with my existing 5850 card with a bit poor results I think. I am getting around 305mhash with the cpu overclocked by the amd overdrive to 775mhz and ram clocked to 900mhz. I am under windows and using Diablominer along with the latest graphics drivers. I don't know though if these results are good or poor. It takes a while though to produce one BTC I can tell you. I registered in the bitcoin.cz pool and using this. Also I registered in mtgox and I am pushing the btcs' there (don't know if this is a good idea or if I should use the process described here). Do you consider that my current setup is producing the correct mhash? Also I am planning to buy soon a 5870 card. can these cards work simultaneously in the same rig? Do I need to connect them somehow? Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on March 29, 2013, 01:59:00 AM According to these charts you're ballpark for the card.
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: SkyNet on March 29, 2013, 02:24:01 AM Wow how do they clock the cards more than 775Mhz?
Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on March 29, 2013, 10:57:49 AM My bad wrong digi-coin charts.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Still going to be about the same times 1000. LTC mines in kh/s due to the scrypt algo. Per your question, likely factors, make of card, type of cooling, and who knows how long they ran the card at the stated clocks. Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: ijjed on March 29, 2013, 11:06:33 AM For 5850 card, around 300-340 MH/s is good.
If you get 5870, you are going to get something about 370-400 MH/s. Also, I would not recommend you to crossfire two different cards. Buy another 5850 and put it crossfire with your existing (or buy two 5870). Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on March 29, 2013, 01:38:03 PM For 5850 card, around 300-340 MH/s is good. If you get 5870, you are going to get something about 370-400 MH/s. Also, I would not recommend you to crossfire two different cards. Buy another 5850 and put it crossfire with your existing (or buy two 5870). I'm pretty sure for mining you don't use crossfire at all. There's no frame to split in two and render separately on each card, so you lose performance. You want each card doing its own work to get max performance from each card. Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: SkyNet on March 31, 2013, 10:22:13 PM For 5850 card, around 300-340 MH/s is good. If you get 5870, you are going to get something about 370-400 MH/s. Also, I would not recommend you to crossfire two different cards. Buy another 5850 and put it crossfire with your existing (or buy two 5870). No Crossfire here enabled 5850 maxes out around 300 and something (775Mhz GPU and 300Mhz RAM) 5870 maxes out around 400 (895 GPU and 300Mhz RAM) I also have a poor 5570 laying around maybe I will just plug it in :-) Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: s.paulson23 on March 31, 2013, 10:27:53 PM I also have a poor 5570 laying around maybe I will just plug it in :-) Why not. No need xfire for mining really Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: chong900208 on March 31, 2013, 10:43:27 PM Overclock your core clock to 850-900 and set the intensity to 9 should give you more hashes
Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: SkyNet on March 31, 2013, 10:48:39 PM Intensity is at 9 already
I cannot clock the 5850 more (not allowed...) Is there a way to do it? 5870 crashes above 895Mhz, this is the top (even 895 is borderline...) Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: s.paulson23 on March 31, 2013, 11:03:16 PM Overclock has limit, not to damage gpu!
Limit can be removed sometime, http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=338906 careful if using guide! donate btc here if good guide 19Q9rcmsYPDsmhVwjNYvz83ouKfDawycE4 Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: SkyNet on March 31, 2013, 11:09:01 PM thanks mate
Afterburner does not work for me though for some peculiar reason.... Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: s.paulson23 on March 31, 2013, 11:18:30 PM ok.. try http://www.techimo.com/forum/graphics-cards-displays/256789-enable-higher-overclocks-ccc-reg-entry.html
Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: logicsol on March 31, 2013, 11:26:13 PM ok.. try http://www.techimo.com/forum/graphics-cards-displays/256789-enable-higher-overclocks-ccc-reg-entry.html Thats handy, thanks for the linkTitle: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: OfekA on March 31, 2013, 11:50:22 PM thanks for the info guys!
Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: RainmanCC on April 01, 2013, 12:22:10 AM mine 5850 mines only with 270 seems to i have to configure it right.
well since i got my avalon i dont need gpu mining anyway ;) Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: twenty20cent on April 01, 2013, 01:31:52 AM Hi guys, im a newbie to GPU mining too and i recently downloaded the GUI miner software and read the faqs after the post, one of the faqs was to do with the GUI miner crashing, KIV wrote that if this problem happens to anyone then post up the bug report so someone can take a look, only problem is i cant post on that thread as im a newbie, my bug report is shown below, if there is any helpful feedback id love to know.
Bug Report: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: guiminer.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 49180193 Fault Module Name: StackHash_9e55 Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00000000 OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 5129 Additional Information 1: 9e55 Additional Information 2: b6de07bb34c6f6932dc078e4af9017d1 Additional Information 3: a79c Additional Information 4: c90e655ab54f9b3e4b586d7610ba132d Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on April 01, 2013, 03:43:55 AM Hi guys, im a newbie to GPU mining too and i recently downloaded the GUI miner software and read the faqs after the post, one of the faqs was to do with the GUI miner crashing, KIV wrote that if this problem happens to anyone then post up the bug report so someone can take a look, only problem is i cant post on that thread as im a newbie, my bug report is shown below, if there is any helpful feedback id love to know. Bug Report: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: guiminer.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 49180193 Fault Module Name: StackHash_9e55 Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00000000 OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 5129 Additional Information 1: 9e55 Additional Information 2: b6de07bb34c6f6932dc078e4af9017d1 Additional Information 3: a79c Additional Information 4: c90e655ab54f9b3e4b586d7610ba132d Post a link to the thread you wish this posted in, and I'll post the above data in the thread for you. Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Inciso on April 01, 2013, 04:59:57 AM Great Link for the digi-coin charts !!
I have tried both crossfired and not crossfired [I have 2x r6770's ] using them separately with two different workers (same username) seems to work the best along with giving u the ability to track each cards output. This also allows you stop mining on a single card for use, gaming, movies, etc... Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: twenty20cent on April 01, 2013, 05:23:22 AM Hi guys, im a newbie to GPU mining too and i recently downloaded the GUI miner software and read the faqs after the post, one of the faqs was to do with the GUI miner crashing, KIV wrote that if this problem happens to anyone then post up the bug report so someone can take a look, only problem is i cant post on that thread as im a newbie, my bug report is shown below, if there is any helpful feedback id love to know. Bug Report: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: guiminer.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 49180193 Fault Module Name: StackHash_9e55 Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00000000 OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 5129 Additional Information 1: 9e55 Additional Information 2: b6de07bb34c6f6932dc078e4af9017d1 Additional Information 3: a79c Additional Information 4: c90e655ab54f9b3e4b586d7610ba132d Post a link to the thread you wish this posted in, and I'll post the above data in the thread for you. If you could post it to https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0 that would be awesome Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on April 01, 2013, 10:02:14 AM If you could post it to https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0 that would be awesome Posted it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.msg1713864#msg1713864 Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: twenty20cent on April 01, 2013, 10:28:38 PM If you could post it to https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0 that would be awesome Posted it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.msg1713864#msg1713864 Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: mb8493 on April 01, 2013, 11:16:56 PM not totally sure where i should post this too so here goes, ive had mine working in the past but made the mistake of restarting my machine. on restart i get the same error message and this is after ive double checked my mining username and pool password. can any one help...theres a screen shot of both the console error message and my system specs at this link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103904355/guierror.png
Title: Re: Newbie GPU miner questions Post by: Grover on April 02, 2013, 04:10:23 AM If you could post it to https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0 that would be awesome Posted it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.msg1713864#msg1713864 YW. I hope you get a reply soon. |