bug or miracle?

[mb300sd]

My 5850 has been steadily cranking out almost exactly 390MHash/sec at 940 Core/330 RAM running Phoenix with phatk 2.2.. I just discovered that by opening, not even running, CrystalDiskMark that my MHash rises to 395MHash/sec!! Is it just somehow interacting with the timing code that calculates the speed or am I actually getting 5 more MHash!? I do have a Dell PERC/4e PCIe RAID controller in the computer though, maybe a PCI-Express bandwidth/timing thing?

This is probably the strangest thing I've had happen with this computer, no other software causes this.

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[Starlightbreaker]

huh.

nothing happened to me.

5850's still at 407.

[mb300sd]

Probably some weird interaction with my RAID controller, I'm leaving it open though, even if it dosen't actually make it faster, just feels good to have it tell me I have an extra 5MHash...

[mrb]

In Windows, applications sometimes reconfigure the rate of timer interrupts from 100 Hz to 1000 Hz for more accurate timekeeping. For example the Oracle JVM does this when calling Thread.sleep(). Perhaps CrystalDiskMark does the same, in which case your first guess would be right: you are simply observing more accurate numbers. Check the rate of timer interrupts with perfmon.exe.

[cablepair]

huh.

nothing happened to me.

5850's still at 407.

if you dont mind me asking , how did you get your 5850 at 407?

mine runs at about 350 easy , but this thing is one of the pickiest cards I have ever overclocked , it cant be clocked very high (and dosnt need to )

so please share your secret

btw: to the person who started the topic, you really made me laugh out loud when I realized the "miracle" you were talking about was 5 mhash hahahah

[Starlightbreaker]

1005/285 stock voltage. hang'm loose on the side of the case.

my other 5850s are so damn picky, one topped at 390, the other only 385.

[cablepair]

i have a 5850, visiontek, its a nice card, but its the pickiest of the 10 cards I have. They like to be clocked way low. thanks for the info brother, Im running mine at 890/180 and it would never run anywhere near 1005 - not in a million years., but im getting 360 mhash right now out of it so i cant complain.

[DiabloD3]

My 5850 has been steadily cranking out almost exactly 390MHash/sec at 940 Core/330 RAM running Phoenix with phatk 2.2.. I just discovered that by opening, not even running, CrystalDiskMark that my MHash rises to 395MHash/sec!! Is it just somehow interacting with the timing code that calculates the speed or am I actually getting 5 more MHash!? I do have a Dell PERC/4e PCIe RAID controller in the computer though, maybe a PCI-Express bandwidth/timing thing?

This is probably the strangest thing I've had happen with this computer, no other software causes this.

Textbook timing bug. Phoenix has a broken mhash meter that is known to read either too high or too low. Use DiabloMiner or cgminer instead.

[TurdHurdur]

Does your CPU downclock on low load?

[Shevek]

Interesting. I sign up the thread.

[hmongotaku]

how do you guys go over 900mhz without water cooling or volt mods? jw... any tricks? mine are at 880mhz/300 with 71-74c on load.