How can I maximize my mining speed?

[entropy137]

This shit is fucking stupid. I've spent weeks on this forum and now have a serious question about mining and can't post in the mining section. At first I thought it was related to the hack or something but I noticed that everyone else can post but I can't.

So if anyone can answer my mining question: I have a 6970 mining at 328MHashes/s I'm using guiminer on Windows 7 with the flags -v -w 128 -f 30. How can I increase my mining speed since the bitcoin hardware comparison website said you can get around 385 out of it. Also, if I decide to buy another GPU, to put on the second PCIe slot, does it have to be the same card and manufacturer? Would really appreciate the help.

[happycat85]

This shit is fucking stupid. I've spent weeks on this forum and now have a serious question about mining and can't post in the mining section. At first I thought it was related to the hack or something but I noticed that everyone else can post but I can't.

So if anyone can answer my mining question: I have a 6970 mining at 328MHashes/s I'm using guiminer on Windows 7 with the flags -v -w 128 -f 30. How can I increase my mining speed since the bitcoin hardware comparison website said you can get around 385 out of it. Also, if I decide to buy another GPU, to put on the second PCIe slot, does it have to be the same card and manufacturer? Would really appreciate the help.

How to increase the mining speed? You can overclock it.

[Entropia]

This shit is fucking stupid. I've spent weeks on this forum and now have a serious question about mining and can't post in the mining section. At first I thought it was related to the hack or something but I noticed that everyone else can post but I can't.

So if anyone can answer my mining question: I have a 6970 mining at 328MHashes/s I'm using guiminer on Windows 7 with the flags -v -w 128 -f 30. How can I increase my mining speed since the bitcoin hardware comparison website said you can get around 385 out of it. Also, if I decide to buy another GPU, to put on the second PCIe slot, does it have to be the same card and manufacturer? Would really appreciate the help.

Just because you have a 6970 doesn't mean you can get 385MH/s. Many different graphics card vendors use the same GPU (6970) and they might have different clock speeds and all sorts of stuff like that which then affect your mining speed. You can probably get some more juice out of it by playing with the flags. Try to increase them a bit, mine for a few minutes see what the average is. If it's higher, then raise them a bit more until they start degrading. Finetune the parameters -- you'll get the point.

[MadHacker]

I have my 6970 putting out 425 Mh/s
overclocked to 950Mhz, meory clocked down to 240mhz
no change in GPU voltage...
i do have the fans running at 100% so it does get loud...
the faster you run them the hotter they get... the more u need to increase fan speed.

you can mix and match your GPUs from any manufacturer and any model.
i have 4 5830 and 1 6990 running in the same machine.

Hope this helps.

[film2240]

To reach high overclocks,you'll have to Overvolt your card.Bear in mind however that this carries extra risks like premature wear and tear as well as heat issues,higher risk of frying/burning out your card and causing hardware damage.

My card is a Radeon Hd6950 and I get 405MHash/s from it.
I try these flags -v -w64 -f2 -r5

I use the latest version of GUIMiner (at time of writing this,the Aug version) as this contains several optimisations so you get more hash power for less effort due to more efficient coding in the app itself.

Clocks info:
905MHZ core clock ( or was it 908MHZ?)
320MHz mem clock
Volts 1105mV (overvolted by 0.005 Volts or was it more than that,I can't remember fully?))
Fans are at 55% so only moderately noisy.

Also another thing to consider is that not all cards are good at overclocking.Each GPU is different in terms of overclocking and overvolting abilities.

Let me know how the OC'ing goes.Hope it goes well :-)

[FYGM]

why in all the pics of rigs do people forego cases and have exposed boards? i thought maybe for air cooling, but dont (good) cases direct air where its needed?

[johnj]

why in all the pics of rigs do people forego cases and have exposed boards? i thought maybe for air cooling, but dont (good) cases direct air where its needed?

Most cases aren't designed to cool 4x cards at 99%  24/7.

[Jestare]

I've been seeing that a lot also. I think it's just from a long term build-up of heat inside the case. Could be wrong though.

[johnj]

I've been seeing that a lot also. I think it's just from a long term build-up of heat inside the case. Could be wrong though.

It's somewhere else on the forums, but I'll give you the tl;dr

There are two kinds of cards.  Closed case and open case.  Closed cards have that plastic shroud all the way around them.  The fan blows all the hot air out the end of it.  Open cards are ones where the guts are exposed - in these the hot air is blown every-whicha-way away from the card.

Closed cards individually stay warmer but they don't feed hot air off of each other since all the hot air is blown out the back.  However in a case with 4 open cards, the hot air from the bottom would be consumed by the next one up, which is consumed by the next one up, etc.  So the top card (could be) ~20c higher than the bottom.

To get around ALL these issues, many people just remove the case and put a boxfan next to it.  Problem solved.

[PLaci1982]

How can I maximize my mining speed?

1st: Buy a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
2nd: Buy a notebook with a discrete AMD GPU inside.
3rd: Buy mobile internet for the notebook.

Now you can mine at 415 km/h (258 mph)!!!! 

[endercoin]

This shit is fucking stupid. I've spent weeks on this forum and now have a serious question about mining and can't post in the mining section. At first I thought it was related to the hack or something but I noticed that everyone else can post but I can't.

So if anyone can answer my mining question: I have a 6970 mining at 328MHashes/s I'm using guiminer on Windows 7 with the flags -v -w 128 -f 30. How can I increase my mining speed since the bitcoin hardware comparison website said you can get around 385 out of it. Also, if I decide to buy another GPU, to put on the second PCIe slot, does it have to be the same card and manufacturer? Would really appreciate the help.

How to increase the mining speed? You can overclock it.

Definitely overclock

[Alex Fenner]

How can I maximize my mining speed?

1st: Buy a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
2nd: Buy a notebook with a discrete AMD GPU inside.
3rd: Buy mobile internet for the notebook.

Now you can mine at 415 km/h (258 mph)!!!! 

I don't have 2.5 Million Dollars to buy a Bugatti Veyron 

[entropy137]

Thanks for the responses. I managed to squeeze a little extra out with the flags: -v -w64 -f2 -r5. I still have some questions though.

Is there a page that explains exactly what every flag for this miner does? Among all the miners, are there others that are considered better? I'm currently using MSI Afterburn to overclock and when I increase the core speed above the default of 880, the hash rate actually goes down. What could be causing this? Also MSI only allows me to decrease the memory speed down to 600. So what are you guys using to underclock the memory? Also if I tweak a variable such as core speed and see that it optimizes at 920, will 920 core speed also be the optimal speed for any given voltage level or memory speed? I keep my fan at 65% and the core temp at 80C, is this a good setup?

Appreciate the help guys. I'm trying to get into mining since I don't pay for electricity.

[Alex Fenner]

Use this for reference:

 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

[entropy137]

Also, do the manufacturers really not matter? I noticed that different manufacturers sell for a different price on ebay. Are some better than others?

[RyNinDaCleM]

Some say Sapphire OC's the best! IDK about that but, my XFX's OC just fine!

XFX has lifetime warranties, others do NOT! So, that is why they cost more than the rest

I personally think ASUS sucks! Good laptops, alright MoBos, but not a GPU company!

[johnj]

Some say Sapphire OC's the best! IDK about that but, my XFX's OC just fine!

XFX has lifetime warranties, others do NOT! So, that is why they cost more than the rest

I personally think ASUS sucks! Good laptops, alright MoBos, but not a GPU company!

I think a lot of XFX have double-lifetime warranties, so it's valid for one resale.

[J.harris]

OP, and to anyone whose Mhash isn't what it is supposed to be and goes down with overclock.  In your task bar right click on the ATi CCC icon and go to performance I think it is. There is a power saving feature (powertune) set it to +20, then apply settings.  You should now see a huge increase in speed, my unlocked 6950 was doing 360mhash/s before and now that I set powertune to +20 I am getting 400mhash/s.  Good luck!

[entropy137]

I can't find the CCC anyway on the taskbar. Can it be found in program files?

[Bit-tired]

How can I maximize my mining speed?

1st: Buy a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
2nd: Buy a notebook with a discrete AMD GPU inside.
3rd: Buy mobile internet for the notebook.

Now you can mine at 415 km/h (258 mph)!!!! 

Whats the Dollar per hash on that puppy ?