Trouble Overclocking 5850 to 900MHz shader

[CoinMan]

What is phoenix 1.3?  Obviously I'm not using that...maybe I should.

A new OpenCL miner.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6458.msg94376#msg94376

Thanks! Getting it now.

Well I didn't get the Phoenix miner to go any faster than 120 M/hs.  Strange.  The good news is that I did download the new poclbm miner and am clocking my 5850 at 850,1000 now to get 325 M/Hs and it not only isn't freezing anymore but is running about 79.5 - 80 degrees now, down from around 82-84.

[grndzero]

Well I didn't get the Phoenix miner to go any faster than 120 M/hs.  Strange.  The good news is that I did download the new poclbm miner and am clocking my 5850 at 850,1000 now to get 325 M/Hs and it not only isn't freezing anymore but is running about 79.5 - 80 degrees now, down from around 82-84.

120? Are you sure you weren't running another miner at the same time? Are you on Windows.

I downloaded the new poclbm also and it runs at 350Mh/s. I'm going to race it side by side with most current snapshot of phoenix and see if there is any diffence in performance.

[CoinMan]

Well I didn't get the Phoenix miner to go any faster than 120 M/hs.  Strange.  The good news is that I did download the new poclbm miner and am clocking my 5850 at 850,1000 now to get 325 M/Hs and it not only isn't freezing anymore but is running about 79.5 - 80 degrees now, down from around 82-84.

120? Are you sure you weren't running another miner at the same time? Are you on Windows.

I downloaded the new poclbm also and it runs at 350Mh/s. I'm going to race it side by side with most current snapshot of phoenix and see if there is any diffence in performance.

I am sure I wasn't running another miner and that I had the proper device id.  I'm on ubuntu 10.10 x64.  I seem to have something not quite figured out since the new poclbm instantly gave me 30M/hs more performance but I never found decent settings for phoenix to hardly match half that performance.  I also haven't been able to keep from freezing up with memclock under 1000.  Obviously I have issue's and am losing out on at least 20 M/hs. 

[grndzero]

I am sure I wasn't running another miner and that I had the proper device id.  I'm on ubuntu 10.10 x64.  I seem to have something not quite figured out since the new poclbm instantly gave me 30M/hs more performance but I never found decent settings for phoenix to hardly match half that performance.  I also haven't been able to keep from freezing up with memclock under 1000.  Obviously I have issue's and am losing out on at least 20 M/hs. 

What fglrx packages and SDK are you using?

I found that WORKSIZE slowed my card down with phoenix. It seems to do just fine leaving that option off.

My card didn't like the mem clock below 1000 either. I had to leave it at 1000 until I got AMDOverDriveCtl working.

[CoinMan]

I am sure I wasn't running another miner and that I had the proper device id.  I'm on ubuntu 10.10 x64.  I seem to have something not quite figured out since the new poclbm instantly gave me 30M/hs more performance but I never found decent settings for phoenix to hardly match half that performance.  I also haven't been able to keep from freezing up with memclock under 1000.  Obviously I have issue's and am losing out on at least 20 M/hs. 

What fglrx packages and SDK are you using?

I found that WORKSIZE slowed my card down with phoenix. It seems to do just fine leaving that option off.

My card didn't like the mem clock below 1000 either. I had to leave it at 1000 until I got AMDOverDriveCtl working.

fglrx 8.801 (fglrx, fglrx-amdcccle, fglrx-modaliases), 2.1 SDK

Thanks for the help here.  I do have AMDOverDriveCtl version 1.1.4 but I haven't applied any profile or started using that as of yet.

[grndzero]

fglrx 8.801 (fglrx, fglrx-amdcccle, fglrx-modaliases), 2.1 SDK

Thanks for the help here.  I do have AMDOverDriveCtl version 1.1.4 but I haven't applied any profile or started using that as of yet.

That's crazy. I can't believe that there is that much difference in performance between manufacturers. What's the brand of your card?

[CoinMan]

fglrx 8.801 (fglrx, fglrx-amdcccle, fglrx-modaliases), 2.1 SDK

Thanks for the help here.  I do have AMDOverDriveCtl version 1.1.4 but I haven't applied any profile or started using that as of yet.

That's crazy. I can't believe that there is that much difference in performance between manufacturers. What's the brand of your card?

Sapphire - 1GB, GDDR5.  My PCI-e slot is 16x1 2.0, not 2.1 (if it makes any diff)

[grndzero]

Sapphire - 1GB, GDDR5.  My PCI-e slot is 16x1 2.0, not 2.1 (if it makes any diff)

My cards are Asus and Visiontek so I can't say for sure if it's different.

The board they are on is 5 years old so I'm sure it's not 2.1, and there's only 1 x16 slot, the other 2 are x8 and x4 and work without a problem.

[fpgaminer]

Well I didn't get the Phoenix miner to go any faster than 120 M/hs.

Post your command line.

Here's mine (on Windows. In linux I had to set DEVICE to 1), for a 5850:

phoenix -u blahblahblah DEVICE=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 BFI_INT

[CoinMan]

Well I didn't get the Phoenix miner to go any faster than 120 M/hs.

Post your command line.

Here's mine (on Windows. In linux I had to set DEVICE to 1), for a 5850:

phoenix -u blahblahblah DEVICE=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=128 BFI_INT

./phoenix.py -u http://username:password@mining.bitcoin.cz:8332 -k poclbm VECTORS FASTLOOP BFI_INT PLATFORM=0 DEVICE=1 AGRESSION=8 WORKSIZE=128

Note that these are the last settings I tried.  I have adjusted AGRESSION (8 to 13) while having WORKSIZE=64 and WORKSIZE=128 with little effect on the hash rate (and removed the FASTLOOP parameter for AGRESSIONS above 8 after trying them all with the FASTLOOP parameter)

I don't know if this is odd or not but if I put an invalid device id it then shows:

• AMD Athlont(tm) II x2 245 Processor
[1] Cypress