Title: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: worldinacoin on November 27, 2011, 02:12:39 AM Just tested two 5870 on Ubuntu with cgminer and crossfire (can't detect two GPU without using crossfire), but I am only having about 600 mhash/s . Wonder what is the best commands for it to maximize the hashes?
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: Turbor on November 27, 2011, 01:59:53 PM Change the intensity to 9 or so. Never used crossfire. I was able to use my second card without a VGA dummy plug in Win7. But using one is better for me. Now i can change the settings the way i want. That was not possible before.
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: worldinacoin on November 27, 2011, 02:09:36 PM Prob is without cross fire, my cgminer can only recognize 1 GPU using Ubuntu Linux, will Windows recognize two without cross fire?
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: Turbor on November 27, 2011, 02:35:59 PM Prob is without cross fire, my cgminer can only recognize 1 GPU using Ubuntu Linux, will Windows recognize two without cross fire? It should. Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: P4man on November 27, 2011, 03:10:10 PM 600MH? Thats weird. Its too much a single card and not enough for two.
And you shouldnt have to use crossfire Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: Turbor on November 27, 2011, 03:31:42 PM I think 600 MH/s is two in crossfire
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: worldinacoin on November 27, 2011, 03:40:56 PM Yeap it is two in cross fire, or should I be using windows and guiminer?
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: Turbor on November 27, 2011, 04:32:24 PM You can stick with cgminer in windows. Works well.
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: coretechs on November 27, 2011, 10:14:47 PM 1. Disable crossfire and remove the plug
2. Run as root or sudo "aticonfig -f --initial --adapter=all" 3. reboot 4. In a new terminal run "export DISPLAY=:0" 5. Then run "cgminer --gpu-memclock 300 --gpu-fan 100 --gpu-engine 900 --gpu-vddc 1.1625 -o http://xxx.xxx -u user -p pass -I 9" That should get you over 400mh per card as a baseline. Hit "G" to confirm clocks and voltage. If it's stable, adjust the gpu-engine up by 5-10 mhz at a time (or voltage down, fan, etc) until you are happy with temp and perf. You may add --cpu-threads 1 if you have the max cpu bug to isolate to a core. Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: P4man on November 27, 2011, 10:27:11 PM Try to get it working at default gpu clock and voltage before tinkering with those.
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: -ck on November 27, 2011, 11:11:08 PM As coretechs said "aticonfig -f --initial --adapter=all" is probably what was missing. It sounds like you only had one GPU configured and the second is limping along purely by being attached by crossfire. You shouldn't need crossfire.
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: worldinacoin on November 29, 2011, 04:47:40 AM I think I will reinstall, any recommendations? Ubuntu 11.10 or 10.4?
Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: kano on November 29, 2011, 06:31:45 AM 11.04 :P
See my sig (and don't update it to 11.10 - not needed and not enough space if you use a USB to run updates) Title: Re: How to Optimize cgminer for 5870 Post by: worldinacoin on November 29, 2011, 06:41:27 AM 11.04 :P See my sig (and don't update it to 11.10 - not needed and not enough space if you use a USB to run updates) Thanks a million, your sig is just what I need! |