Title: [Solved]2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 09:44:28 PM Ironically as it is, conspirosphere.tk just posted his problem with two cards, that I am experiencing the same.
I did not want to barge into his thread. So, I just got a second 5830. xfire disabled. Dummy plug set on the sapphire extreme 5830, two monitors on my XFX 5830. Mining with both cards, created 2 different workers from the pool I use, worker 1 = xfx 5830, worker 2 = sapphire 5830. If I start worker 1, it gets its correct mhash/s, If I start worker 2, it gets 10 "ten" mhash/s, while worker one drops down from 250-260 to 110 mhash/s. Mining with either one each of the cards separately disconnected from the motherboard produces the correct mhash/s [250-260]. No overclocks are set yet. Any suggestions? Edit: Miners are the opencl Flags: -v -w128 -f25 EDIT 2: Ok, I've checked my CPU usage, for each card uses 1/4 of my processor = one core or 25% I've got a quad core. Mine with both cards, my cpu usage jumps up to 50% Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 09:53:58 PM sounds like you're running the newer drivers roll back to 11.6 if you can. also is crossfire enabled/do you have a crossfire bridge installed?
Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 09:59:03 PM sounds like you're running the newer drivers roll back to 11.6 if you can. also is crossfire enabled/do you have a crossfire bridge installed? I am on 10.11 with SDK 2.1 Crossfire is disabled, the crossfire bridge is not on. edit: Should I try 11.6 with sdk 2.4 or 2.5, w/e latest sdk is out? Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 10:00:28 PM 10.11 with that high of a cpu usage running a core up to full? what os are you running?
Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:03:05 PM 10.11 with that high of a cpu usage running a core up to full? what os are you running? Windows 7 x64 SP1. Intel Q9550, 4 gigs ram. Yea each card mining runs one core of the processor each to full = out to 50% of my processor. another words, one cards runs one core full, with two cards, two cores full = 50% out of 100% Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 10:05:04 PM i would certainly try 11.6 that cpu usage is more than strange if that was my systems the little dual core athlon in the one i built out of spare parts would have melted by now
Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:05:38 PM i would certainly try 11.6 that cpu usage is more than strange if that was my systems the little dual core athlon in the one i built out of spare parts would have melted by now K, which SDK should I install with the 11.6? Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:24:40 PM 11.6 installed with the sdk package that comes with 11.6.
In CCC, it is showing my second adapter disabled now, " the sapphire extreme 5830". In guiminer, all that is showing up is 0-0 cypress. Edit: Ok, I had to extend the sapphire under CCC. This is good news going forward kinda. Take a look. It is mining at correct speeds now but with crazy cpu usage. https://i.imgur.com/9VKDH.jpg Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:35:02 PM update above.
Still crazy cpu usage. Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 10:35:24 PM I've had better results mirroring desktops instead of extending try that
EDIT: also you can set your cpu afinity in gui miner to force both of them onto the same core Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:43:04 PM I've had better results mirroring desktops instead of extending try that EDIT: also you can set your cpu afinity in gui miner to force both of them onto the same core How do I mirror them if you don't mind explaining? Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 10:48:15 PM Here's your one thousand word instruction manual.
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9629/duplicates.png[/URL (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/695/duplicates.png/) Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 10:57:51 PM Ic, yea, that is a problem for me, I am using 2 monitors and the dummy plug. As this is my main and only good fast pc, for now. I use the second monitor as my extended for monitoring temps & mining, first monitor for browsers misc, etc.
https://i.imgur.com/JUhWB.jpg Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 11:00:31 PM if you want a monitor just for monitoring consider a usb display it won't put any load on the graphics cards :P
EDIT: i've been considering buying this one myself http://www.ebay.com/itm/iMo-XT-7-7inch-USB-monitor-New-sealed-orignial-box-/300591222452?pt=Computer_Monitors&hash=item45fca20eb4 Title: Re: 2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 11:06:21 PM if you want a monitor just for monitoring consider a usb display it won't put any load on the graphics cards :P Nice, I just checked them out, little pricey. I will consider it in the near future. --- I am guessing that high cpu usage is a bug in CCC from what I been searching google. boy, I hope they roll out a fix in the next release. And thank you for your help, I appreciate it very much. :) Title: Re: [Solved]2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 11:36:25 PM we've been waiting for that fix for at least 3 releases of CCC as far as i'm aware and will be for some time unfortunatly it seems
Title: Re: [Solved]2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 24, 2011, 11:47:19 PM we've been waiting for that fix for at least 3 releases of CCC as far as i'm aware and will be for some time unfortunatly it seems I've seen the post's roaming around for a while. I've lost quite a few mhash/s using 11.6 but to replace that with satisfaction, the second monitor flickering is gone, using two cards :). 10.11 was horrible screen flickering. Title: Re: [Solved]2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: deslok on August 24, 2011, 11:50:46 PM you should be able to push those to 1000/300 or 1025/300 without too much trouble and get 300 out of them a little bit more with pheonix although it's fussier
Title: Re: [Solved]2 cards working strangely badly together by pekv2 Post by: pekv2 on August 25, 2011, 12:02:14 AM you should be able to push those to 1000/300 or 1025/300 without too much trouble and get 300 out of them a little bit more with pheonix although it's fussier I've got the xfx 5830 set to 1010c/600m , the reason for 600 mem, is that the xfx is my main and browsing etc, it becomes unstable and crashes if set any lower than 600 memory. For the sapphire, I am testing atm, but seems to be very stable at 1020c/300m, in a few hours or in the morning I am gonna bump the sapphire up to 1030 then > 1040. ATM I am mining @ 635 Mhash/s. The sapphire is spitting out 320 Mhash/s. The xfx is spitting out 315 Mhash/s. It fluctuates, but yea, I might try the pheonix as I am on a newer driver and sdk and see how it goes. I'm gonna create a new thread about my PSU. Got a question, for anyone to answer. |