CGMiner - Only 6 Intensity?

[Abacinate]

So I've been running the standard setup with my 7970 on CGMiner -w 256 -v 1 -I 13 -g 2. I've been getting a solid 660MH/s for a while now. Just now I tried stepping down intensity one by one all the way down to 6, and my GPU is running much cooler AND I'm still getting 660MH/s

Wtf... What's the tradeoff here? Why am I not getting higher MH/s at higher intensity?

Thanks.

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[btdir]

how do you step down the intensity???

[Abacinate]

how do you step down the intensity???

.conf file

[Motivate]

i dont know this for sure but im sure its because its harder for it to do more threads then less threads at least i know thats what its like for all chips

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i'm Comptia A+ Cetierfied 

[Abacinate]

i dont know this for sure but im sure its because its harder for it to do more threads then less threads at least i know thats what its like for all chips

Source's
i'm Comptia A+ Cetierfied 

Yes but my question is why am I still able to achieve the same hash rate.

[Abacinate]

Bump

[btdir]

hmmmm

[moriewat]

Hash rate sometimes shows high on lower intensity on my 7950 rig but I believe the hashrate is technically "slower' look at your work per minute.  Every system a bit different i have noticed

[HumpNRun]

how do you step down the intensity???

hit G,

then I,

then a #

[btcmcdizzle]

On a 7970, intensity of 7 is a sweet spot, so using 6 should not be significantly slower from a mhash/s standpoint.  I'd be surprised if it ran significantly cooler since it's doing virtually the same amount of work; but if it is, perhaps you can push the card further @ I6 and find an even better 'sweet spot'.

[eadieni]

I use 9, but what other settings do you use?

[Abacinate]

I use 9, but what other settings do you use?

These

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "xxx",
      "user" : "xxx",
      "pass" : "xxx"
   }
]
,
"intensity" : "6",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "83",
"temp-overheat" : "78",
"temp-target" : "69",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Uping to 7 did not change anything.

[Devastator]

Isn't 7970 supose to use phatk kernel? maybe there will you see a diference...

[Abacinate]

Isn't 7970 supose to use phatk kernel? maybe there will you see a diference...

I have no issue with my current hashrate. It's pretty much in line with many other people at these clocks. I don't know anything about phatk.