Post your 7970 Card info and Settings

[crazyates]

I'm thinking of picking up some Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition boards cause I think by default they are clocked at 1100, my sapphire ones are 1000 which I push to 1150 ish.. anyone have any thoughts about the Gigabyte card?

Ya that's the one I have, the Gigabyte with the stock clocks at 1100MHz. Mine clocks up to 1200MHz no problem. Core stays nice and cool, but the VRM temps are a lil high for my liking (while mining, gaming is just fine). It runs a lil higher volts than stock to accommodate the higher stock clocks, which also helps with the OC as well, but also explains the VRM temps. It's sort of a trade-off, but I think it's worth it.

[Spendulus]

I'm running Giga 7970, totally stock, 550 and 600 Mh, had heat issues that kept me from dreaming about upping the parms.  They are now fixed, so I'll be optimizing but here is a question.

Anyone doing water cooling and if so what rig/part numbers?

[nookiegirl]

I am also thinking about getting the Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC (GV-R797OC-3GD).
As far as I have read here in the forums, it seems to be the best choice for BTC mining.

Any downvotes on that?

[crazyivan]

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

[big pete]

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

water cooled or what?

ive got the same card but i cant get it past 670 stable 710 if i wanna reboot it every hour

plz share your settings

[crazyivan]

No, stock coolers, just took out the cards out of the case.

Made a custom wooden frame, got PCI extenders and they work fine. In terms of settings, here is what I use:

GPU engine 1060 MHz , voltage 1100 mV
Memory 1750 MHz, voltage 1650 mV

than get the latest cgminer 3.0.1 run it with --shaders 2048 -I 13 -g 2 -v 1 -w 256

[Skag]

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
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 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

[Wilderness]

I'm thinking of picking up some Gigabyte 7970 GHz Edition boards cause I think by default they are clocked at 1100, my sapphire ones are 1000 which I push to 1150 ish.. anyone have any thoughts about the Gigabyte card?

I have 4 gigabyte 7970 OC editions and they are more stable than any other cards I have. My friend has 4 GHz cards as well as 12 OC cards and he constantly complains about his GHz cards taking more power, getting the same or less hash and crashing more.

[mccminer]

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

Try this:  http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-cgminer-latest-ubuntu/

[Skag]

Code:

 cgminer version 2.11.4 - Started: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):706.5M (avg):719.3Mh/s | A:18110  R:48  HW:0  U:10.0/m  WU:10.0/m
 ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 222  LW: 29951  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to eu1.bitminter.com diff 1 with stratum as user xxxxxx_xxxxxx
 Block: 0094b6a032307cc7...  Diff:8.97M  Started: [22:10:51]  Best share: 136K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  72.0C 2578RPM | 775.6M/719.3Mh/s | A:18110 R:48 HW:0 U:10.00/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPU 0: 819.7 / 720.0 Mh/s | A:661  R:4  HW:0  U:9.96/m  I:13
72.0 C  F: 84% (3223 RPM)  E: 1200 MHz  M: 1050 Mhz  V: 1.256V  A: 99% P: 20%
Last initialised: [2013-04-20 16:01:46]
Intensity: 13
Thread 0: 223.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 241.7 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 2: 329.3 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE

[E]nable [D]isable [I]ntensity [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue

Code:

{
"worksize" : "64",
"vectors" : "1",
"intensity" : "13",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.025", // Not being honored
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-threads" : "3",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "45",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"sharelog" : "share.log",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I've had this system running for several days now and it seems to be pretty stable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, AMD driver version 2.8

cgminer from https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
compiled with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -mtune=native -march=native"

card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I hit submit on this post cgminer went defunct and I needed to do a hard reboot.

Do you know where I can find a proper 7970 ati configuration step by step for ubuntu 12.04?

Try this:  http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-cgminer-latest-ubuntu/

Thanks, I'll have a go

[drlukacs]

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

Would you please be so kind to post your core/mem settings, and voltage?

[waichet]

I have 4 Sapphire 7970 Dual X, get about 750 per card, no problems at all, temperature 68-72. Great card, highly recommended.

Would you please be so kind to post your core/mem settings, and voltage?

No, stock coolers, just took out the cards out of the case.

Made a custom wooden frame, got PCI extenders and they work fine. In terms of settings, here is what I use:

GPU engine 1060 MHz , voltage 1100 mV
Memory 1750 MHz, voltage 1650 mV

than get the latest cgminer 3.0.1 run it with --shaders 2048 -I 13 -g 2 -v 1 -w 256

There ya go..