These babies’s are monsters, Large in size and Power hungry. Need some help since this is my first rig and I’m a newbie of sort’s. Well here is the spec’s of the rig.
1. 1 x ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard 2. 4 x PowerColor AX7990 6GBD5-2DHJ Radeon HD 7990 6GB 384-bit x2 GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support 3. 1 x LEPA G Series G1600-MA 1600W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power 4. 1 x CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M2A2400C10 5. 1 x Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73820 6. 1 x SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD128BW 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 7. (Just in case More is needed or for rig 2.0) 1 x COOLMAX ZPS-1600B (14642) 1600W ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular 8. 4x PCIE X16 Risers 9. Win7 64bit OS 10. Reaper latest released beta for 64bitwin7 11. Latest Drivers & bios.
Each 7990 has 2 7970 Gpu’s. ☺
Here is the question’s and issues I have come across.
When I install one 7990 everything is groovy, when I install the second the system becomes unstable and errors & various blue-screens of death occur.
Here is what I found out and tried.
Called AMD they said you can only put 2 7990’s on a mother board because they do not make the drivers to sustain them, they are already 4 7970 chips when using 2 7990’s. I called power-color and they said call AMD and update drivers. Removed old drivers and download the latest stable release and even tried the beta version without success. Flashed the bios to the latest version. With and without risers.
Reaper.conf settings kernel reaper.cl save_binaries yes enable_graceful_shutdown no long_polling yes platform 0 device 0 device 1 mine litecoin
Litecoin.conf settings
host mypool.com port 80 user smpl pass smpl
protocol litecoin
worksize 256 vectors 1 aggression 18 threads_per_gpu 2 sharethreads 32 lookup_gap 2 gpu_thread_concurrency 21712
My results have been 1.4 Ghz at times or 8,000 to 10,000 khs but starts degradation cycle to 800khs.
Questions.
1. How can I add successfully one more 7990, for a total of 2 connected to the motherboard per the AMD recommendations? 2. How do I max out my cards production via the reaper miner? Optimal reaper settings for my rig. 3. Why the High stale rate of 30-90%? 4. Is crossfire possible?
Thanks for your help with this. Have many more questions but been up for days working on this rig .
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