Perhaps slightly off topic, but just wanted to check if anyone's come across this...
My main PC (this one I'm reading this forum from) uses Windows 7 SP1, and cgminer 3.7.2 with CGWatcher. It all works fine, but recently I switched to using Chrome (having used Firefox before), and have now noticed that whenever I maximise (or have it open in a window - not maximised) Chrome, my hash-rate drops significantly. Normally, it's at around 745 Kh/s, and with Chrome on top, it drops to about 680-700. Minimise Chrome (or shut it down) and the hash rate goes straight back up, nearly instantly. It's repeatable, and it's definitely Chrome affecting the hash rate. I haven't noticed this with Firefox, but the reason I switched to Chrome was my tabs-fetish was getting out of hand (I was using groups in Firefox, and had something like 40-50 tabs open per group and about 5-6 groups, yes, I know, insane
). So now I'm trying a tab-diet, and have only about 20 tabs open in Chrome, but it's doing this weird thing.
Has anyone come across anything like this, anyone here specifically uses Chrome and CGWatcher/cgminer, and can perhaps do a quick test?
Weirdly, I googled this, and found a couple of threads on other forums where people were experiencing THE EXACT OPPOSITE issue, in that their hashing rate INCREASED when they had Chrome open, and would drop with it minimised or closed.
P.S. Waffle, you rock.
My main PC (this one I'm reading this forum from) uses Windows 7 SP1, and cgminer 3.7.2 with CGWatcher. It all works fine, but recently I switched to using Chrome (having used Firefox before), and have now noticed that whenever I maximise (or have it open in a window - not maximised) Chrome, my hash-rate drops significantly. Normally, it's at around 745 Kh/s, and with Chrome on top, it drops to about 680-700. Minimise Chrome (or shut it down) and the hash rate goes straight back up, nearly instantly. It's repeatable, and it's definitely Chrome affecting the hash rate. I haven't noticed this with Firefox, but the reason I switched to Chrome was my tabs-fetish was getting out of hand (I was using groups in Firefox, and had something like 40-50 tabs open per group and about 5-6 groups, yes, I know, insane
). So now I'm trying a tab-diet, and have only about 20 tabs open in Chrome, but it's doing this weird thing.Has anyone come across anything like this, anyone here specifically uses Chrome and CGWatcher/cgminer, and can perhaps do a quick test?
Weirdly, I googled this, and found a couple of threads on other forums where people were experiencing THE EXACT OPPOSITE issue, in that their hashing rate INCREASED when they had Chrome open, and would drop with it minimised or closed.
P.S. Waffle, you rock.
If your intensity is high you will see a drop doing anything, If you want to use it while mining drop the intensity.
Or you can use the integrated graphics. I use my work computer that way with 2 amd cards mining on I18 and my system is still snappy. I put a dummy plug to one of the AMD cards because you can't control the cards without it (only stock clocks and fan speed). On win8 it is more of an issue. Win8 won't load the driver if you don't have a monitor (or dummy plug) plugged in.