Good Speeds on Sapphire 5830's 311.4MHash/s

[innervisi0nn]

im doing 300 mhashes for each 5830 card via xfx or sapphire with phoenix -phatk.

now on my testbed machine, HAF 922 with 3x sapphire 5830s, check out the temps:

1st card (Top) 73 celcius
2nd card (Middle) 87 celcius
3rd card (Bottom) 65 celcius

What the hell is going on? I get the 2nd card is in the middle and cant breathe, but i have 3x200MM fans blowing and the HAF case is made just for air flow, any ideas?

running 950/320 =\

The HOT back of hte PCB of card 3 is right on top of the intake of the Sapphire Card 2
Card 3 Is Breathing Good and, top is getting ambient temps from card 2.

The bizzare thing I found with Sapphires Cooling system is it exhausts out both back and front. Very odd.


Perhaps invest in a PCIe Riser?
http://cgi.ebay.com/PCI-E-16X-Slot-Riser-Card-Extension-Flex-Relocate-Cable-/160569002257?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2562a88911#ht_2615wt_1139

Thanks, never used a PCI-E riser before, ill give it a try, but that means its going to have to sit somewhere else bah humbug!

BTW, how many cards you running to get 1,200 mhash/s?

I have to run 2 xfx 5830 and 2 sapphire 5830s, all running 301 mhash each 975/340

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[namley]

4x 5830's and more comin

[thundertoe]

Interesting... Is GUIminer holding me back?
i am stable at  -v -w128 1015/300 stock voltage 55c 85% fan  290Mhash. old cheap ass case with 1 good case fan. i will push this card more tomorrow any ideas on getting more Mhash out of it?  multicard setup should go together tomorrow afternoon

[namley]

Interesting... Is GUIminer holding me back?
i am stable at  -v -w128 1015/300 stock voltage 55c 85% fan  290Mhash. old cheap ass case with 1 good case fan. i will push this card more tomorrow any ideas on getting more Mhash out of it?  multicard setup should go together tomorrow afternoon

you can try -v -w128 -r2 -f1, but your machine will become unusable

Try Phoenix miner, play around with the settings. In GUI Miner I was able to get 304/s running at 1000/300, what else do you have running? Any maybe cards are getting hot?

[Aqualung]

for me the best settings in phoenix are VECTORS BFI_INT AGRESSION=11 and that is it no -w 256 or 128, no fastloop
at 950/400 i'm getting 291Mhash

[zvs]

im doing 300 mhashes for each 5830 card via xfx or sapphire with phoenix -phatk.

now on my testbed machine, HAF 922 with 3x sapphire 5830s, check out the temps:

1st card (Top) 73 celcius
2nd card (Middle) 87 celcius
3rd card (Bottom) 65 celcius

What the hell is going on? I get the 2nd card is in the middle and cant breathe, but i have 3x200MM fans blowing and the HAF case is made just for air flow, any ideas?

running 950/320 =\

I have a similar issue w/ two cards, but not so bad.  I have to have my sound card squeezed between my two 5830's so the top card has little airflow.   I just open the case up and put a small floor fan angled to blow air out the back... works wonders.  Probably doesn't even cost a whole lot more in electricity either, since you can lower the fan speed on your cards quite a bit.    Like when my cards were running 63o/72o, that floor fan dropped them to 60o/64o within a minute.  Just like some $15 fan or something that doesn't draw a huge amt of power.

The highest I've ever gotten on my 5830 was ~330 (1050 core).  That only lasted about a few minutes before it froze though, haha.  It'll run "stable" at 1030 core as long as I do absolutely nothing else with my computer, at about 318-319.

[thundertoe]

Still stable at 1015/300 55c with 80% fan. squeeked out a few more mhash.. staying over 300 now. changed some extra flags -v -w256 -f5. also turned off aero and other fancy windows stuff. still able to surf the net read the forums etc with some lag. vista64, guiminer.

[sang]

1005/300 stock voltage 65c stable. Hitting 310mhash/sec with phoenix and the following attributes:

"-k poclbm DEVICE=1 VECTORS AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 FASTLOOP"

Tried lots of combinations, that seemed to be the best. SDK 2.1 w/ 11.5 Cat drivers on Windows 7 64bit.

[fascistmuffin]

Trixx will only overclock one of the cards, due to the fact, that It would only pair profiles if the card's are Crossfired. I used ATI Tray Tools.

How were you able to change both cards in ATI Tray Tools? I can only seem to change the card in position 0, and I have the same Sapphire 5830 as you. The cards don't have a crossfire bridge on them, which I'm assuming is what you're doing too, since crossfire doesn't help btc mining.

[kbs2011]

Trixx will only overclock one of the cards, due to the fact, that It would only pair profiles if the card's are Crossfired. I used ATI Tray Tools.

How were you able to change both cards in ATI Tray Tools? I can only seem to change the card in position 0, and I have the same Sapphire 5830 as you. The cards don't have a crossfire bridge on them, which I'm assuming is what you're doing too, since crossfire doesn't help btc mining.

I would also love to know how you can overclock multiple 5830s as I read Trixx only does one.

[airdata]

1st card (Top) 73 celcius
2nd card (Middle) 87 celcius
3rd card (Bottom) 65 celcius

What the hell is going on? I get the 2nd card is in the middle and cant breathe, but i have 3x200MM fans blowing and the HAF case is made just for air flow, any ideas?

running 950/320 =\

I got my new 3x 5830 system up last night and ran into the same problem.

Can somebody suggest how to cool these?  Here's my setup




I added a 20-24'' box fan behind the setup but it didn't do much to help the temps.  One of the cards is around 65-70 and the other 2 are high 80's low 90's.

I'm also interested in how I should overclock all of them together.   

Thanks.

[nazgulnarsil]

ahhhhhh! get that middle card out of there with a riser!

[airdata]

ahhhhhh! get that middle card out of there with a riser!

Thanks for the response.  I'll see what I can do when I get home.

[SomeoneWeird]

1st card (Top) 73 celcius
2nd card (Middle) 87 celcius
3rd card (Bottom) 65 celcius

What the hell is going on? I get the 2nd card is in the middle and cant breathe, but i have 3x200MM fans blowing and the HAF case is made just for air flow, any ideas?

running 950/320 =\

I got my new 3x 5830 system up last night and ran into the same problem.

Can somebody suggest how to cool these?  Here's my setup




I added a 20-24'' box fan behind the setup but it didn't do much to help the temps.  One of the cards is around 65-70 and the other 2 are high 80's low 90's.

I'm also interested in how I should overclock all of them together.   

Thanks.

Yeah, rise the middle card, and buy a desk fan or something and point that at them.

[srty]

Im going to be putting my 3 card rig together later today. Do you recommend 64 bit or 32 bit Windows 7?  I can do Ubuntu/Vista/XP/any other OS, but I was getting the gist that Windows 7 was easiest to overclock on...

[donotdisassemble]

I have one rig with 2 5830s and just ordered my second with 4 of them...  

The two I have were unstable anytime I tried to clock above 970, or memory below its normal 1000... what gives...  how are you guys able to OC them so high and they last for days.  (shrug)

Make sure when your dropping the memory, between 400-600 the card is extremely unstable. The Sapphire 5830, has a power save mode, which underclocks the card to 157/400 I think. ** I know the Core Clock speed is for sure, not the memory clock speeds in powersave mode **

Drop the memory clock all the way down to 300, make sure that the card is running above the powersave 0.9V


MSI Afterburner - Can't do it ** not that I know of anyway **

If your using ATI Tray Tools, set the Voltage profile from 0.9 to 1.163 then save the core clock somewhere between 800-1000 or where every you want, and the memory down to 300

If you bump the core above 828 I found that the card hardlocks using the 0.9V card profile.


Start by adjusting it at 5MHz increments and test for a couple minutes mining, making sure you keep your temps below 80C. You can run the Temps higher, but its not recommended for long term use, especially 24/7 100% utilization lol
When the card starts to studder back it off by 20MHz, then start playing with the AGGRESSION and WORKSIZE and other RPC Miner options.

It takes some playing around with to find the sweet spot for the card in your system, but when you find that hotspot, she's good to go for a long time , unless some fails of course

YES, Double YES!  thank you.  I can finally clock both cards the way I want and without crashing them.  the key was removing all the crappy tools like afterburner, trixx.  disabling ATI's own processes, and then removing UAC and installing ATI Tray tools as admin on win 7.  Upping the voltage FIRST before playing with RAM speed was the trick! kudos!  im at 980:180:1.163v and runnig stable at about 304Mhs on each card ... woo hoo.   

--edit: Namely: I just sent you a little token of appreciation.  thanks much for the help. -John

[airdata]

Ok... Upon advice here I did remove the middle 5830 and swapped it w\ the 5770 i had in the system next to it.

This didn't help temps at all.

Went to microcenter earlier today and got 2 of these :  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103091  for $5.96ea.  Because of the size of the fans and the orientation of the power plugs, I couldn't put both the same way.  I have the one in the front exhausting hot air upwards and the one in the back is blowing downwards.  Current temps under load are : 53, 61, 79.  Previously it was 91,7X,8X.

[Chick]

Ok... Upon advice here I did remove the middle 5830 and swapped it w\ the 5770 i had in the system next to it.

This didn't help temps at all.

Went to microcenter earlier today and got 2 of these :  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103091  for $5.96ea.  Because of the size of the fans and the orientation of the power plugs, I couldn't put both the same way.  I have the one in the front exhausting hot air upwards and the one in the back is blowing downwards.  Current temps under load are : 53, 61, 79.  Previously it was 91,7X,8X.

I have 3 fans for a 4 5830s with no extenders, doing really well.

I have a 120mm fan sitting on top of the 4 fans, blowing cool air into the seams of cards.
Another fan blowing the hot air from the front exhaust.
And another huge fan (vertical) blowing the back and the heat from the top.

[Lightspeed]

both of my 5830s are at 990/1000

i have a 5870 + 2x 5830s going on my main pc atm

i put a cunt of plastic between the 5830s and pushed them apart, then i put a noctua 120mm fan blowing down over the intake fans, the 120mm is resting on these awesome rubber mounting things, that happen to be perfect for sitting on hardware... noctua is way to expensive for a BTC rig though

[BitMinerN8]

I'm trying to overclock my quad Sapphire 5830's with Trixx, yet my changes are only being applied to my 4th gpu. Synchronize cards in multi-gpu configuration is checked in the trixx settings, but doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

Yes I am wondering that as well. Does anyone know the best tool to overclock multiple GPUs on Win 7 x64?

I have used ATI Tray Tools which works great, got my 5830 to about 303 MHash/s with 300/1000 stable with temps around 68-70, but would like to get the 2nd GPU in the system OC'd as well.

Thanks.