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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
by
ditchmagnet
on 04/04/2013, 15:24:41 UTC
Try 875/1375.  I found that yields ~608 Kh/s.  Make sure power limit is @ 20%.

If you're using CGMiner, my settings are:
Code:
-I 13 -w 256 --thread concurrency 8192 -g 2

Thanks.  That did appear to show just over 600khash, but wasn't submitting any shares.  Weird.

GPU usage is right up there at the top.  Temps are fine.  I am on latest stable drivers, but I did try 12.8 as well.  I flashed to the GHZ BIOS, but am back on original.  I am now up to 590 khash, and my clocks are 965/1575.  At these clocks I would expect much more at -I 20.  This card still isn't as fast as the 7950.  I really think there is just something about this card.

FYI to get close to or over 700 kh/s, you are going to be looking at RAM clocks in the 1700 to 1800 + territory.

Keep an eye on temps.  Sometimes a slight overvolt to the memory can help with stability.  I'm running 7970s with Arctic Accelero coolers for this very reason.

At current clocks it should be doing over 600.  I expect it to far surpass my 7950, but it cant.  Card is borked somehow.  Those Accelero coolers are nice though.