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Title: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: Peleus on April 15, 2013, 10:58:41 AM
Hardware
4x 7950, 8GB of Ram, FX-6100 processor.

Software
Catalyst 12.8
ADL SDK 5.0
APP SDK 2.7
Xubuntu 12.04
CGMiner 2.11.4


What was happening before -
Previously I was running this rig with 3 cards. I was getting ~1.5 Mh/s - 500 Kh/s per card. Not mind blowing, but acceptable. I was using the following command to start.

Code:
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100

./cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum.give-me-ltc.com:3333 -u username -p password --thread-concurrency 24000 -I 18 -w 256 -g 1

What is happening now -
So now I've upgraded my rig by adding an extra card. Instead of getting gains it seems my cards are simply running slower apart from GPU0.

https://i.imgur.com/lr36Rge.png

It seems even at lower intensities now it's mining unevenly (@ I=13)

https://i.imgur.com/4WviBjX.png

Instead of getting 500 Kh/s I'm getting ~ 350 - 400 a card, even though with the same settings before I was getting 500 (same as GPU0). Can anyone suggest trouble shooting methods or ideas as to whats going on?

Help appreciated.


Title: Re: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: hedon on April 15, 2013, 02:58:21 PM
Maybe try changing PCI Latency setting in bios. Hope it helps  ;)


Title: Re: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: Rawted on April 15, 2013, 03:34:19 PM
What PSU?


Title: Re: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: Peleus on April 15, 2013, 09:58:44 PM
Maybe try changing PCI Latency setting in bios. Hope it helps  ;)

Thanks I'll give it a go.

What PSU?


Corsair HX1050


Title: Re: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: Marv21 on April 19, 2013, 02:59:20 PM
MY 4x7950 use nearly 1300W...


Title: Re: Poor Unbalanced Performance - 7950 x 4 - Litecoin
Post by: rograz on April 19, 2013, 03:58:32 PM
MY 4x7950 use nearly 1300W...


my 6x7950 are pulling 1050W at the wall (810MHz@0,875V), the price you pay for overvolting/overclocking  ::)