Title: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: zombo on June 16, 2011, 04:53:25 AM So I am mining with Win 7 64bit, because I find it easy to set everything up with no problems. I don't really want to switch to linux unless I'll 100% gain at least 10m/hash or it's not worth it.
The question I have is what can I do to improove mining performance on Win 7? I turned Aero off but I can't think of anything else to adjust Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: Auspician on June 16, 2011, 05:01:03 AM I'm also mining on Win 7 64. What GFX card(s) are you using? What software are you using to mine? What flags are you currently using?
Using myself as an example . . . 2x ATI non-reference 6950's running at 890mhz core clock/650mhz mem clock (configured using MSi Afterburner), one card currently running only at 70% capacity due to heat concerns. The cards run in a non-Crossfire independent setup. GuiMiner software, OpenCL miners, using a mixture of deepbit.org and btcguild.com as pools. Using -s0.01 flag on the top (hot) GFX card to achieve 70% utilization, and -f128 on the bottom (cool) GFX card to allow gaming while the rig is running. This is yet to be fully tested with my new configuration, however. Hashing 570 Mhash/s Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: neneko on June 16, 2011, 05:05:35 AM Why so opposed to switching to linux if it's on a dedicated box? You don't even need to format it, just add a partition and throw a linux distro on there.
Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: zombo on June 16, 2011, 05:07:19 AM I'm running 2x Sapphire Radeon 6870's at core 990mhz memory 1000mhz, fans at 50% temprature around 75-78celcius
Running phoneix miner under guiminer with -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=12 worksize=128 Getting around 594m/hash :) Any thoughts on making it even better? Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: Auspician on June 16, 2011, 05:13:59 AM If its a dedicated box, I'd drop your Memory Clock down as low as MSi Afterburner will take it. That'll give you a bit more headroom to increase your Core Clock, though you'll probably need to increase voltage to increase it further than you've already gone.
Win 7 won't use 1% of your GFX capacity even with Aero on, though there is no reason to keep it on with a dedicated box. Were I in your shoes, I'd focus my efforts on increasing my GFX performance directly as there is very little else you could turn 'off' that would net you even a single Mhash. Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: zombo on June 16, 2011, 05:29:23 AM Sounds good, strange thing is with msi afterburner whenever I try lower the clock for memory lower than 1000 it just goes straight back to 1000 when i click apply. whys that?
Also the limit msi afterburner will take my clock to is 1000 can i unlock it somehow to go further? And to answer the linux question, if it's not going to gain any M/hashes why bother? lol I'd rather have a nice gui to muck around with the settings to be able to point and click (remotley from my desktop) rather than bash commands that I don't know about into an SSH terminal and hope for the best ;p Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: Auspician on June 16, 2011, 05:31:20 AM Make sure you 'save' both before and after you apply to get the underclock of the memory to stick. And strangely, play with the size of the skin; I've been able to achieve lower memory clocks just by moving back and forth between the large and small skin.
Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: zombo on June 16, 2011, 06:59:17 AM Tried that but no dice :(
Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: dmiii on June 16, 2011, 07:21:23 AM You may try disabling Aero, unused system services etc...
Title: Re: Optimize Windows 7 for Mining on dedicated box? Post by: willphase on June 16, 2011, 07:35:32 AM Also, use afterburner to boost your fan speed to 80% as long sad you don't mind the noise!
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