Hi @ all.
I just noticed that adjusting the voltage of a Sapphire 5850 Xtreme seems to work correctly with aticonfig. This is what Windows-users without crossfire-bridge dream of.
How I noticed? I use a saved overdrive-profile
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OVERDRIVE_PROFILE>
<PERFORMANCE_LEVEL level="2" gpu="95000" mem="30000" voltage="1088"/>
<PERFORMANCE_LEVEL level="1" gpu="55000" mem="90000" voltage="1038"/>
<PERFORMANCE_LEVEL level="0" gpu="15700" mem="30000" voltage="950"/>
<FAN_SETTING percentage="75"/>
<FAN_CTRL enabled="no"/>
<FAN_CTRL_CURVE type="0"/>
<FAN_CTRL_POINT nr="0" temperature="2000" percentage="0"/>
<FAN_CTRL_POINT nr="1" temperature="4000" percentage="2500"/>
<FAN_CTRL_POINT nr="2" temperature="6000" percentage="5000"/>
<FAN_CTRL_POINT nr="3" temperature="8000" percentage="7500"/>
<FAN_CTRL_POINT nr="4" temperature="10000" percentage="10000"/>
<MONITOR_SAMPLE_TIME interval="10"/>
<COLOR_PROFILE enabled="no" longitude="-13,500000" latitude="52,500000" color_temp_day="6500" color_temp_night="4000" transition="30"/>
<POWERTUNE percentage="0"/>
</OVERDRIVE_PROFILE>
and played with gpu and mem, because I don't like the GUI. The standard voltage in Performance Level 2 is 1088 (=1.088 V). When I have it like this, while mining, the rig will consume
454 W/h. With these settings, the 1st card gets 75.5 °C, the 2nd card gets 78°C.
Even the slightest change of the voltage, e.g. to 1094 will cause a heavy increase of consumed power:
515 W/h! Card temperatures rise to 78.5 °C and 83 °C.
Maybe someone is interested how this profile is executed. Save the profile as overdrive_settings.ovdr (or else). Create a bash-script named overdrive.sh and put in
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0.0
aticonfig --od-enable
AMDOverdriveCtrl -b -i 0 overdrive_settings.ovdr
AMDOverdriveCtrl -b -i 3 overdrive_settings.ovdr
And run a
chmod +x overdrive.sh - voilá. This is not new, found it somewhere in the forum. Interface numbers may vary for you - to check, run
export DISPLAY=:0.0 (or what is right for you) and
AMDOverdriveCtrl. It will show you which adapters are active.
But I think this is the proof, that voltage adjust works in linux.
However increasing consumed watts and heat a lot.Btw. I am using Linuxcoin 0.2a at this time with smartcoin r370. Combined hashrate with the settings above is between
815 and 940 MHash/s. Average is 860 MHash/s. Just noticed this is wrong. Smartcoin added 2 miners per GPU, the hanging calculation stretched the measured time and so it showed more than it actually hashed at. Configured it correctly now, getting 782,5 MHash/s. Not fluctuating this much anymore. This is still very good at these clockings and stock voltage. Compare the
Table.
Good luck.
