Want GPU's running 100%

[mautobu]

So, I'm having a little issue here. Setup:

Phenom II 965
8 GB Ram
2x 5870 @ 1040/300 pulling 435 at load
Temps at 55-60 C for the cards
Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1
poclbm

The issue is that my cards are not being consistently pegged. One will run at 100%, while the other hovers between 60 and 95%. I've got the machine set to sleep the display immediately, but still I see a significant drop in MHash/s. Any ideas? Do i just need dummy plugs and a crap dedi card?

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[mautobu]

Shameless self bump...

[LegitBit]

Hmm, what settings do you use?

Also what program are you measuring utilization with?
I prefer HWINFO since it gives more accurate Temp readings than many of the overclocking tools out there.

It could be that the second GPU is entering a power save state, you may want to disable ULPS which can be done via Sapphire Trixx.

Need more info.

[mautobu]

Using MSI Afterburner to measure, but also just looking at my MHash. One will float around 435, while GPU 2 sits around 360-430, fluctuates with the load.

[mautobu]

did this:  http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/667144-crossfire-disabling-ulps.html

no luck

[BinaryMage]

did this:  http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/667144-crossfire-disabling-ulps.html

no luck

What Aggression level are you running at?

[genewitch]

don't use crossfire. SLI is for video not GPGPU. i may be wrong but setting up separate threads for each GPU may be your best bet.

[mautobu]

Already have separate threads, but thanks for the help

[mautobu]

did this:  http://www.overclock.net/amd-ati/667144-crossfire-disabling-ulps.html

no luck

What Aggression level are you running at?

Uhhh..... Whatever the default is. I haven't looked into changing it at all. What's the setting for my batch then? --AGGRESSION=x?

[mautobu]

figured it out... workload at 128, set it to 256.

[Saturn7]

Also use the Phatk kernel instead of poclbm if you are using SDK 2.4

I am getting 423M/h with my 5870 at 970 MHz, If you have clocked yours to 1045 you should be getting 450M/h

What voltages are you using for that speed. I killed one of my cards when i pushed it to 1000Mhz?

[mautobu]

Well, it turns out that my workload and -f were to blame.

new batch: poclbm0.exe  -v -w256 -f 10

Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1
m0mchil's POCLBM
Slush's pool
2 threads, 1040/300 @ 1.2V.

Card 1 runs at 99%, card 2 at 97% consistently. I get 458 on thread 1 and 445ish on thread 2.

Thanks for the input gents.

[hunter]

Which driver version has the sdk 2.1?
And is that the best version to use?

I just can't seem to get > 420 on my cards, running 1GHZ on windows 7 64b using poclbm.

[mautobu]

Which driver version has the sdk 2.1?
And is that the best version to use?

This:

Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1

found here (for windows 7 at any rate):

Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1


Does not work for 6000 series cards.

[hunter]

Which driver version has the sdk 2.1?
And is that the best version to use?

This:

Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1

found here (for windows 7 at any rate):

Catalyst 11.4
SDK 2.1


Does not work for 6000 series cards.

Thank you, I gained ~170 mhash/s total on my cards.