When I was running Windows I was using BarelyClocked to OC the cards and cgminer to do the mining, loaded these from a batch script by using a timeout and then changed clocks with barelyclocked, then finally running cgminer with arguments, Also got my self a dyndns account and installed vnc server for remote administration...
Current cgminer does OC'ing for you so you only need a batch script to run cgminer with your clock values and thats all you need, no dummy plugs needed are needed as of 11.7 drivers.....
I just switched over to linux the other day but too much work setting up vnc to auto start on reboot, along with all the other crap configs needed... yeah I know Windows miner has the "N00b" label stuck on it, but in real life its faster and easyer to setup, if that makes me a n00b for not wanting to deal with the bullshit configs you need to do with linux then so be it, I'll be back on windows by tomorrow
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P.s
If you need a hand with the batch scripts give me a yell and i'll show an example how to do it, you can also sett affinity using batch script
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