Got an Alienware Aurora ALX with dual Radeon 5900 series (I'm assuming 5970's.) Definitely not a hardware expert or an electronic engineer, was looking for some help. Hit hard times, need some extra revenue, been considering dedicating the machine to mining. I've tried reading some guides and things but most of it is over my head. Here's sysinfo:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Alienware
System Model Aurora
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz, 2801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Alienware A11, 4/27/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 12.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 8.67 GB
Total Virtual Memory 24.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 20.2 GB
Page File Space 12.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Currently the dual 59xx's are overclocked 805MHz GPU clock, 1010 memory clock through AMD's "OverDrive" out of the catalyst control. I average nearly 700MHash/S using multiple miners on multiple pools (with GUIMiner. Most flags are set to the "recommended" -v -w 128). I've gotten over that speed with some unstable/failing card issues. I have for example MSI Afterburner and I'm not ENTIRELY uncomfortable in BIOS, but I'm too uneducated to mess with voltages and such. Not trying to fry my machine. Been pretty consistent with temps. however, never usually getting over 80C at any point using GPU-Z to monitor things. One or two sensors read a little hotter than the others on one of the cards pretty consistently, but the general sensors usually read no more than 73C at any given moment.
Name ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_25421002&REV_00\6&24A05AF0&0&00200018
Adapter Type AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x689C), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.982.0.0
INF File oem15.inf (ati2mtag_EvergreenH section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFBFC0000-0xFBFDFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000E0FF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967289
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6268, 360.00 KB (368,640 bytes), 7/27/2012 8:14 PM)
Name ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_20421002&REV_00\6&2FEAE45E&0&00400018
Adapter Type AMD Radeon Graphics Processor CrossFire Secondary (0x689C), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version 8.982.0.0
INF File oem15.inf (ati2mtag_EvergreenH section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFBEE0000-0xFBEFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000EFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967288
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmpag.sys (8.14.1.6268, 360.00 KB (368,640 bytes), 7/27/2012 8:14 PM)
Anyone who could help me set an overclock/mining up properly, it would greatly be appreciated. Might be some BTC in it for ya once I get this set up right.
Would it be possible/efficient to solo with this machine?
