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September 19, 2011, 07:23:33 PM
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Yeah, you gotta get the latest and install them by hand. I use:

Seems like I better not. Works fine with 11.3 or whatever I have. Pretty much no CPU load at all.

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September 20, 2011, 03:26:55 AM
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The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?
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September 20, 2011, 04:08:13 AM
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The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?

The closest thing to that that comes to mind would be disableing the cores in the bios, although someone could probably cook up a script to set a program to core4 anytime it's launched

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September 20, 2011, 03:27:39 PM
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The shitty thing is that  if you have a decent CPU the "CPU big" is costing a lot of wasted wattage.

Restricting CGMiner to a single core (@ 100%) reduced power consumption at the wall by 40W.  Make me think we would save another ~10W if it had no CPU bug.

Is there any way to setup an "automatic CPU afinnity?".  i.e. anytime program "CGMINER.EXE" launches it is restricted to core #3?

for win7, use shortcut like that:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 2 /d  C:\bitcoin\phoenix-1.60 C:\bitcoin\phoenix-1.60\phoenix.exe -u http://user:pass@localhost:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT WORKSIZE=256 -q 1

affinity 2 is 3rd core

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September 20, 2011, 04:09:12 PM
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Awesome jkminkov  thanks.
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September 27, 2011, 02:56:41 AM
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Hmm... I see people haven't heard of this utility.
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http://mion.faireal.net/BES/

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September 27, 2011, 10:00:10 AM
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On Catalyst 11.8 drivers I get a drop in hashrate in cgminer when I throttle the CPU with BES.

Catalyst 11.9 drivers will be out in a few days anyway Smiley

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September 27, 2011, 12:30:43 PM
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I have found jkminov script above to be very effective.  It sets affinity to a single core limiting power consumption.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start /affinity 2 /d  <normal miner command line goes here>

One thing that may be confusing is that the cores are in powers of 2
1 = core 1
2 = core 2
4 = core 3
8 = core 4
16 = core 5
32 = core 6

The reason this is done is for people who want to set affinity to 2+ cores at same time.  For example affinity 3 would set affinity to core 1 & 2.  Obviously we don't want to do that but just be aware of how it works.
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