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I was mining for GPUMAX for about a month solid. Then something happened to purchasing or whatever. Kept messing with my price and never getting any shares. I went back to BTCGuild in the meantime. Every time I come back to this thread I keep reading about people having the same problems. Is this project going to get development and head towards stable? I think it's cool to get more than the major PPS pools, but we need to get out of alpha/beta stage already. It's coming up on 6 months of development.
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What? Stable algorithm that never changes? One kernel update and the results can be 10MH/s faster or slower. One wrong setting on intensity, worksize, etc and the result can be way off. Also, what happens if during the test the mining server or network in between gets flaky? Then the results aren't stable. I'm all for review sites showing the hashing power of the cards to the public, but it can't be considered a 100% stable, no variables test like they are claiming.
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Got it also. I love the occasional spam from my leaked e-mail. I never get anything as interesting from anything else.
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Fixed it by accident! I have a few beta/preview and official AMD catalyst driver releases extracted to a certain folder. I went into my Device Manager in Windows 8 and forced the 7970 (listed as Microsoft generic display adapter or something like that) to install a driver from that main directory. I don't know which one it used, but it installed properly (meaning I told it to search all subfolders and it found one). AMD has not released a driver for 7970 in Windows 8 officially, but here I am with a working setup! It unlocked OpenCL for all 3 of my video cards and I am mining just like I was in Windows 7. Whee! Hope this helps other ppl.
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Anybody mining in Windows 8 yet? Installed "amd_catalyst_win8_consumer_preview_[rc10]" driver. I have one 7970 and two 5830's. The driver does not support the 7970's, but the 5830's are fully detected. OpenCL says it is fully installed. Mining software cannot find OpenCL devices, only CPU detected. Tried 12.4 preview driver made for Windows 7 that doesn't even install, tried installing OpenCL v2.6 standalone SDK - no go. Gah.
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It's way easier for me to drive down to the dispensary.
Yea, must be very nice, mmm I'm thinking of tangerine haze now. Had some of that stuff not to long ago, think it came from a dispensary in Michigan. What state are you from? California. Times are good here. Right now all I see in the news (alternative news) is that we are fighting a bill again zero tolerance DWI using cannabis metabolite testing. The problem with the test is that the metabolites are in your system for weeks, not just right when you medicate. It would effectively outlaw driving for all medical cannabis users due to epic science FAIL. There is no way it's gonna pass. Actually, now that I think about it, times recently got rough here for most dispensaries. All the shady ones got raided and shut down. They were in the wrong zone for the business or they were taking profits, or something. I'm kind of glad that happened because it cleaned things up and left the good ones. All those shops went delivery only, though. |
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It's way easier for me to drive down to the dispensary.
Lucky You !  I guess you live in a state which hasn't reformed yet? Move! It's no fun being processed through the system for a non-violent drug offense. Unless your state has started to decriminalize and it is just a ticket. We lock up more people than any other country because of our silly laws. |
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What's so special about Apr. 20? Is there something I'm totally missing?  It's when all the Pot-Heads are going to supposedly use SilkRoad to buy their nuggiest nuggets of weed for their sacred holiday. It's also Hitler's Birthday. Yaywoo. It's way easier for me to drive down to the dispensary. |
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Notice that not one person has mentioned solar or wind power?
that is because solar power would NEVER work. At least not with current existing technologies. What do you mean it would never work? You may not power 100% of your rigs from just your PV array, but you offset as much as you can. We are installing 33 panels that total to 7.6kW. We have one bitcoin mining rig that takes ~600W and a whole bunch of TV's and other electronics. During the day a percentage of our total power draw is going to come from the panels, during the night we should be backfeeding (selling) a significant amount back to the grid. Explain to me how that doesn't work? Scale it up to tons of bitcoin mining rigs, say you even had 8kW of rigs...you are still offsetting the cost with the array. |
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What timezone are you basing this off of? GMT?
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Wait, what? 80plus is old news and all you find on the official list is consumer parts? Eff me running
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You're gonna love my nuts! |
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EVE female voice: "Skill training completed"
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Why would 7970s get you 1 ghs? Everywhere else it says 800 mhs...
I said 7990. It is a different card. 7970 does not get 800 mhash either, unless perhaps it is extremely overclocked with something other than water cooling. 7970 gets 550 mhash stock, and 650 OCed on air. I've got my 7970 at 710Mh/s right now, on air. 1250MHz core, voltage bumped up with Sapphire Trixx. |
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Uninstalled version "2.6", deleted the DLL's manually in System32 and SysWOW64 (necessary step going between versions!), then installed this new leaked version. Deleted my kernel bins in cgminer dir as usual, then launched...
Can't really see any change in performance. Hopefully this gives ckolivas and the kernel devs something to chew on and progress forward, though.
I'm very confused by the overall driver version thing. Is there a post (on this forum or somewhere else) that clarifies driver versions, OpenCL versions, which versions to use, how to change them and so on? I'm using Windows 7. No and it's a shame because the good info is just spread out all over the place on these forums  |
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Um ... to state the obvious, unless it's from the AMD website - no one in their right mind should download it.
Edit: however that 898 number isn't new if I remember correctly you can get 898 from AMD?
Comes from Guru3d forums, which has been around for a long time. Sorry, forgot that link to close the loop on where this came from, here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=360108 |
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cgminer won't adjust the voltage on my 7970 either.
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I wish I could just run massive 12V cables to my computers or hell, wire up the whole damn house to have 12VDC outlets in every room! Unfortunately, 12VDC doesn't carry very far without massive cables and major voltage drop. That's why DC's like Google and others use ~48V as an intermediate step. Freaking electricity.
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