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Re: (LTC Reward) Gigabyte 7950 - Settings Nightmare
by
mr.n00blar
on 07/05/2013, 02:26:29 UTC
Pretty sure my card is voltage locked, cause It's the newer 3 fan one with a 8 pin and a 6 pin, I don't know what this means. Sure would love to know how to back up my Bios and then flash them so I could get my card running cooler. It's around 85c on average giving me 605 K/hash, also like I said anyone know whats up with the memory clock problem? If I change it in CGMiner or even Catalyst, it makes my monitor go black then locks up. Really would love to get the most hash out of this card and I know I need to tweek this if I want that. Thanks everyone.

Also. BONUS POINTS! Whoever can help me get CUDAminer running at the same time as CGminer, so I can mine with my GTX 570 as well, when I launch CUDAminer, while CGminer is already mining my 7950, it's like it steals away from CGminer, my card gets cooler, the hash rate drops to like 40 k/hash, it's like CUDA takes priority or something. Really need this one resolved! Thanks guys


Don't use CGminer to control your GPU, it's not built for that. You're card is heating up because your ambient is probably high and your fan control speed is either low, or the program that is telling you how fast the fan is spinning is lying to you, it happens to me. Can you hear the fans on this card only spinning when you're at 60%+? You should if the fans are really going that fast. I use a combination of MSI after burner and trixx to control my fans, it's a pain but worth it.

How much system RAM do you have and how much VRAM total do you have? I'm told this ratio plays a huge role in hte thread concurrencies you are able to run which impacts your hash rate.

I bet your CUDAminer program is not using hte nvidia card, it sounds like its using hte ati. When I had a mixed system I needed to run two instances of CGminer, one for ati and one for nvidia. I had to add this flag for nvidia - "--gpu-platform 1". I would assume your CUDAminer config is wrong / missing a key flag?