I'm new to mining

[thewerx]

I have a fairly new personal computer that i will be mining in the background. ive been using kivs miner and ive been mining from slushs pool at about 480Mhash/s. my question is, should i run a different miner? Is there anything i can do program wise ( Besides OC ) to make it go faster? Any tips or reference pages i can read? any help would be amazing.


Heres the specs;

CPU
   AMD FX-8150   16 °C
RAM
   32.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard
   Gigabyte Technology GA-990FXA-UD7 (Socket M2)   33 °C

Graphics
   AMD Radeon HD 7950 Series   VA1930wm-3 (1440x900@60Hz)  72°C

Hard Drives
   932GB Western Digital  30°C
   112GB OCZ-VERTEX3 ATA Device (SSD)  30°C
   466GB Hitachi ATA Device (SATA)   27 °C

[screamingservers]

You are doing great for windows. I have a 6990 and cant get more than about 600mh in a windows miner phoenix 2... GuiMiner I was gettin about 500 and tons of having to stop and start. Same card with bamt gets me about 725mh, also pheonix2. I think the main difference other than windows/linux is the aggression setting.

[thewerx]

You are doing great for windows. I have a 6990 and cant get more than about 600mh in a windows miner phoenix 2... GuiMiner I was gettin about 500 and tons of having to stop and start. Same card with bamt gets me about 725mh, also pheonix2. I think the main difference other than windows/linux is the aggression setting.

is there any settings or something i could input or anything? all i did was basically open it and start running the program as stock.
theres no way to tweak the settings and make it better?