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July 11, 2012, 02:32:39 PM
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I have a Radeon 5970 in my server that I'm using for mining, but I'm having some issues with it. At first I had problems getting both cores to work, but I seem to have fixed that now. The problem now though is that the hash rate is fluctuating a lot between about 170-350Mhash/s on each core. Shouldn't it be more stable than that? When I try mining with only one core its a lot more stable and stays at around 340-350Mhash/s.
The GPU's are at stock-speed(725MHz) and I haven't done any clocking other than underclocking the memory to 500MHz(wont go lower than that in either CCC or MSI Afterburner).
Should also mention that I'm using WinXP 32bit, Catalyst 11.10 and Stream SDK 2.1. And I'm using GUIminer with phoenix to mine.

Also, I'm currently using these flags:

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=FALSE AGGRESSION=7 worksize=128

For some strange reason I get the highest hash rate when I set AGGRESSION to 7, any other number and hash rate drops.

Anyone have any idea of what could be the problem?
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July 11, 2012, 06:53:11 PM
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Check you powersupply.

But what you are explaining sound more like a temperature problem. Use GPUZ to check what your VRM's temps are... Make sure they dont go over 90c and you should see "throttling" stop.
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July 11, 2012, 08:13:11 PM
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Check you powersupply.

But what you are explaining sound more like a temperature problem. Use GPUZ to check what your VRM's temps are... Make sure they dont go over 90c and you should see "throttling" stop.

I don't think my power supply is the problem. Its a 650W 80+ gold FSP power supply which should be more than sufficient.
And I have checked all temps with GPU-Z and nothing is above 90C.
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July 12, 2012, 12:20:13 AM
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I have a Radeon 5970 in my server that I'm using for mining, but I'm having some issues with it. At first I had problems getting both cores to work, but I seem to have fixed that now. The problem now though is that the hash rate is fluctuating a lot between about 170-350Mhash/s on each core. Shouldn't it be more stable than that? When I try mining with only one core its a lot more stable and stays at around 340-350Mhash/s.
The GPU's are at stock-speed(725MHz) and I haven't done any clocking other than underclocking the memory to 500MHz(wont go lower than that in either CCC or MSI Afterburner).
Should also mention that I'm using WinXP 32bit, Catalyst 11.10 and Stream SDK 2.1. And I'm using GUIminer with phoenix to mine.

Also, I'm currently using these flags:

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=FALSE AGGRESSION=7 worksize=128

For some strange reason I get the highest hash rate when I set AGGRESSION to 7, any other number and hash rate drops.

Anyone have any idea of what could be the problem?
i get the highest hash rate at 6 and 7 aggression too, but i don't believe it, so I use 9 instead

it shouldn't fluctuate that much though.  @ 6 or 7 i might see jumps from 360 to 390 or something like that.  did you try checking temps?  it could be throttling itself
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July 12, 2012, 09:09:45 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

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July 12, 2012, 11:21:56 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..
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July 13, 2012, 01:56:51 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

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July 13, 2012, 08:00:34 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.
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July 13, 2012, 08:57:01 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.

You shouldnt even get that much load either. I get 1% CPU on a 7 GPU rig, single core 2GHz. I'm going to bet you have a dual core CPU. You still have CPU bug. 11.12 and 12.1 don't exhibit the CPU bug with 2.1 SDK. Unfortunately, I tried 2.5 SDK a little while back on 11.12 and I had CPU bug. Will take some futzing around to get a 2.5 SDK combo working..

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July 13, 2012, 10:42:24 AM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.

You shouldnt even get that much load either. I get 1% CPU on a 7 GPU rig, single core 2GHz. I'm going to bet you have a dual core CPU. You still have CPU bug. 11.12 and 12.1 don't exhibit the CPU bug with 2.1 SDK. Unfortunately, I tried 2.5 SDK a little while back on 11.12 and I had CPU bug. Will take some futzing around to get a 2.5 SDK combo working..

Then I'm gonna give 11.12 and/or 12.1 with SDK 2.1 a try. Thanks for the tip. And yes, I do have in fact have a dual core CPU(C2D).
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July 13, 2012, 01:52:32 PM
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You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.

Ah I see that now. Must have glossed right over it. Tongue

Like ssateneth said, 50% of a dual core CPU is 100% on one core, and if you run both instances of Phoenix on the same core, the hash rates suffer. Upgrading to 11.12 will fix your problem.

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July 13, 2012, 02:44:54 PM
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I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..
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July 13, 2012, 03:36:44 PM
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I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..

Try 12.2 with SDK 2.5. I always used 2.5 on my 5970s with no issues.

I'm all for switching to CGMiner, but this sounds more like a kernel issue.

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July 13, 2012, 05:35:47 PM
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I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..

Try 12.2 with SDK 2.5. I always used 2.5 on my 5970s with no issues.

I'm all for switching to CGMiner, but this sounds more like a kernel issue.

As far as I can tell 2.5 isn't available for WinXP. 2.3 seems to be the newest version for XP.
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July 13, 2012, 06:10:36 PM
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I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..

Try 12.2 with SDK 2.5. I always used 2.5 on my 5970s with no issues.

I'm all for switching to CGMiner, but this sounds more like a kernel issue.

As far as I can tell 2.5 isn't available for WinXP. 2.3 seems to be the newest version for XP.

Oh man, I am full of fail advice today.

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July 15, 2012, 03:37:26 PM
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Just use 12.1. It's the last ocl driver for xp. Sdk 2.1 or use the one with 12.1. CPU bug should be gone.
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July 15, 2012, 03:47:45 PM
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yeah, 12.1 should be fine.

i have 3 5870's in a system w/ phoenix & aggression rating 9, it's about 1-2% per instance (this based on my dual core e6850 that's been underclocked to like 1600mhz and 1 core disabled)
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July 15, 2012, 04:47:23 PM
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Just use 12.1. It's the last ocl driver for xp. Sdk 2.1 or use the one with 12.1. CPU bug should be gone.

I have tried 12.1 and it doesn't help.. It doesn't seem to matter what drivers and SDK I use, both the CPU-bug and fluctuating hash rate remain.. And I've tried many different drivers and SDK's now..

Does anyone have any other idea of what could be causing my problems?
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July 15, 2012, 11:53:47 PM
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Uninstall whatever sdk you have. Do a search for opencl.dll and delete them all. Then Reinstall.
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July 16, 2012, 12:27:06 AM
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Drop your aggression down. I have setups where 9 will jump to 100% on a core, but 8 is fine. I even have one where 9 is fine on all the GPUs, except the one driving the display which needs to be 8 or lower otherwise a core gets pegged.
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