|
Title: Windows 7 VS Windows XP, both 32 bit Post by: dishwara on March 01, 2011, 04:18:34 PM I have quad core, 4 GB RAM with Sapphire HD6870 1GB for mining. & 2 hard disks. one is 500GB & other is 80GB.
Usually i use win 7 for everyday life & mostly i will be installing & uninstalling any new softwares i see. & its always crowded with softwares. Only 3 days ago i got HD6870 & before i had 9400GT. i am getting 210Mhash/s at 900 clk (default) & 230Mhash/s at 999 clk OC. If i go over 1010+ system crashes & at 1005 i got white pixels.. Having ati catalyst 11.2 & also SDK 2.3. Today suddenly i wondered since win 7 using more graphics ....for visual appeal, what if i try in xp, will i get more hash/s. So, i uninstalled all the nvida drivers & installed 11.2 & SDK 2.3 of xp. When i ran the same poclbm in win xp, it makes background things slow. when mining, everything takes time to open....system becomes slow. Some one used/using xp getting better than win 7 or same or less. Please any advices welcome. Title: Re: Windows 7 VS Windows XP, both 32 bit Post by: xenon481 on March 01, 2011, 04:23:23 PM Instead of going down to XP, you could try turning off Aero.
Title: Re: Windows 7 VS Windows XP, both 32 bit Post by: niooron on March 01, 2011, 04:30:15 PM XP wasn't really done with gpu computing in mind. You could try setting -f 120 in the miner to improve responsiveness, but it's better to just use windows 7 or linux.
Title: Re: Windows 7 VS Windows XP, both 32 bit Post by: nster on March 01, 2011, 04:31:25 PM all i know is that aero doesn't affect performance on my 6870
Title: Re: Windows 7 VS Windows XP, both 32 bit Post by: dishwara on March 01, 2011, 05:03:07 PM I think everyone misunderstanding what i say.
With aero effects turned on & many softwares running in background, mining doesn't affect other programs in WINDOWS 7 The problem is only on xp. I think xp don't have aero effect. what niooron said maybe correct, xp may not have designed with gpu computing |