Optimize HD 7970 for Bitcoin Mining

[dizizryry]

Hi there, I'm new to bitcoin mining. I'm wondering how best to optimize cgminer for mining bitcoins using my 7970. Electricity use is not an issue due to my current living situation.

[reich]

Buy good specs for mining

[dizizryry]

Do you mean purchase hardware or buy specifications from someone whom has figured out the best way to do it? I don't need to buy any new hardware. I know I'm pretty late to bitcoin, but my costs for mining are literally $0. I can only profit from this. Even if it's just a small amount of money per month, it's free money to me.

[Lachy]

Its pretty simple, get best possible cooling (water) and overclock.
Overclocking for begginers thourgt MSI afterburner, if you feel sure about what are u doing, use better software. You can get 700Mh/s.

One last thing - essential is GPU core clock, memory frequency wont help you at all

[reich]

Cooling water is way underrated. Overheating can kill your machine

[dizizryry]

I've been planning on putting together a custom loop, but it's not in place as of yet. I'm not sure how far I can overclock this 7970. It's the Sapphire Vapor-X GHz edition. I read somewhere that the voltage is locked on them, so I don't know how much of an overclock I can get. I was really asking if there was a special way I needed to configure the cgminer client? If overclocking is all I need to do to increase production I think I can handle that.