Did you read my post? I'm assuming when you write MHZ, you really mean MH/s. First, we were trying to find the most profitable settings, surprisingly as you overclock, while you're MH/s increases, often your MH/j tends to decrease, meaning while you get more BTC, it costs you more per BTC to generate them.
So, while AMDOverdriveCtrl doesn't allow you to overclock as much as certain Windows tools, the sweet spot was *always* within the range of a linux system without having to jump through hoops.Now your point probably is that makes them even... but it doesn't...
In theory you're having to buy a Windows license to run that dedicated mining rig... that costs money... you're most likely putting Windows on a hard drive, which costs a lot more than network booting, or thumb drives, that costs extra money... Windows requires dummy plugs for each card, that costs money, and makes management that much harder... and remote management takes a little more setup time, costing you time, and as we all know time is money... More money spent means less profit
So yeah, if you know what you're doing in Linux, it's more profitable than Windows for dedicated mining rigs.
Then you obviously don't know what you are doing. Post some settings and screenshots and we'll soon find out if you're talking fanboy crap. With a 5830 the best hash rate you're going to get is around 330 MHz in Windows. "Faster by far" would be around 400 MHz. So, lets see then.
So, while AMDOverdriveCtrl doesn't allow you to overclock as much as certain Windows tools, the sweet spot was *always* within the range of a linux system without having to jump through hoops.Now your point probably is that makes them even... but it doesn't...
In theory you're having to buy a Windows license to run that dedicated mining rig... that costs money... you're most likely putting Windows on a hard drive, which costs a lot more than network booting, or thumb drives, that costs extra money... Windows requires dummy plugs for each card, that costs money, and makes management that much harder... and remote management takes a little more setup time, costing you time, and as we all know time is money... More money spent means less profit
So yeah, if you know what you're doing in Linux, it's more profitable than Windows for dedicated mining rigs.
Linux hands down is going to be more profitable if you know what you're doing. We ran extensive tests on 58xx and 69xx systems running both Windows XP and Ubuntu 11 even with the "limited" overclocking controls we found Linux to be faster by far than Windows. Keep in mind that we first searched for the sweet spot of profitability, sometimes overclocking reduces your profit margin.
Long term this is a game about maximizing profit, and while maxing out MH/s seems like the thing to do, you should be much more concerned with MH/J, we found that over clocking outside of the 'normal' settings, resulted in a lower MH/J in all cases.
Long term this is a game about maximizing profit, and while maxing out MH/s seems like the thing to do, you should be much more concerned with MH/J, we found that over clocking outside of the 'normal' settings, resulted in a lower MH/J in all cases.
Then you obviously don't know what you are doing. Post some settings and screenshots and we'll soon find out if you're talking fanboy crap. With a 5830 the best hash rate you're going to get is around 330 MHz in Windows. "Faster by far" would be around 400 MHz. So, lets see then.