Trying to setup a 4870x2 for some mining and have run into some weird issues.
The system is as follows:
Asus P5N7A-VM motherboard with onboard nvidia gpu (enabled and used as primary display).
4GB ram
40gb hdd.
4870x2
Current cgminer config:
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "
http://poolname",
"user" : "username",
"pass" : "password"
}
]
,
"intensity" : "18,18",
"vectors" : "1,1",
"worksize" : "128,128",
"kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "3200,3200",
"shaders" : "800,800",
"gpu-engine" : "0-800,0-800",
"gpu-fan" : "60-100,60-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "920,920",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0,0",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.250,1.250",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85",
"temp-target" : "75,75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
1st issue: when using the nvidia as primary display and dedicating the card to mining, ATI CCC complains that my primary display device is not compatible. Understandably since it's nvidia, but shouldn't I be able to adjust the ATI card settings stil? In this configuration I get the message from cgminer that ADL found less devices than opencl and that hardware monitoring may not match up to devices.
When I get that error, it is in fact correct...there is no hardware monitoring nor does it control the fan...but I get equally decent hashrates on both gpu's (~150Kh/s). The problem here is that I also get a high number of rejects and hw errors. So high in fact that for every 4 accepts, I get 15 hw errors.
2nd issue: When I do a fresh install of the ATI drivers I don't get any of the messages from the 1st issue. It goes smoothly, cgminer sees the card correctly, adjusts the fat, etc. However gpu0 will get a hashrate of say 80kh/s while gpu1 will get a hashrate of near 160kh/s. I still run into the hw errors though.
Any ideas? I've tried to play with the thread concurrency but haven't really found a magic number yet.