Mining with Nvidia and ATI at the same time?

[bitman442]

I was into mining for quite a while with 3 5850s in tri-fire, but I sold 2 of them because I needed money and there were just too many bugs to use it as a decent gaming machine. I bought a GTX 470 to use as my primary gaming card and I'm just trying to figure out if there's a way to throw the 5850 in with the GTX 470 and use it to mine bitcoins, or if I should just sell it too. Just to clarify I don't want to mine with the 470 because that would be counterproductive. Thanks.

[jh1523]

Yeah you can, each of them will have to have the proper drivers and sdks installed (AMD's stream sdk, nvidia's CUDA)

[xus]

i would not mine with your 470 because the 5850 are much more efficent for mining.
Keep the 470 cool for gaming so she will work longer 

best regards

[bitman442]

I'll try it out tonight, I was getting about 340 mh/s out of each one before, hopefully I can get the same speed out of it with this config. BTW, I ran guiminer with the 470 just to see, and it only gets like 30 mh/s lol. Thanks for the help and I'll let you know how it turns out.

[jh1523]

30? That's insane, something's wrong. I get 31 out of a 8800GT.

[bitman442]

Even if it was 200 it still wouldn't be worth it with the 470, it uses way too much energy. I got it going last night, it works fine (282 mh/s at stock speeds) but nothing will let me overclock my 5850 so I guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way and reflash it. At least now I can mine 24/7, I ran through 3Dmark vantage/11 last night with no problems while I was mining and there was no performance drop.

[jh1523]

I have a 5850, it was very easy to overclock in Windows with MSI Afterburner. Now it's in a Linux machine being overclocked with atitweak.

[bitman442]

Afterburner and overdrive wouldn't even detect the 5850 because the 470 was the primary card. I reflashed it using winflash with the core set to 885 and now I'm getting 345 mh/s so I'm pretty happy with that.

[jpinconline]

congrats I had a friend ask me the same question a couple days ago. now I have an answer