For those who were CPU mining on Deepbit, what other pools still work with Ufasoft?  I'm looking for an alternative until this issue gets addressed with Deepbit.

I realize this thread hasn't been touched in a few days but it seems like the best place to post my questions, so here goes nothing ...

I've been trying to optimize a Sapphire 6970 with limited success.  I've gone through the settings recommended in several threads, this one and this one (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13809.0) in particular, as well as those listed in the Mining Hardware Comparison wiki, but have not been able to break the ~385 MH/s mark.  It's a little frustrating when it seems I should be able to squeeze  another 20+ MH/s out of it with out much more trouble.  There's also the chance I can get my hands on another 6970 and I'd like to get this figured out before I start on a new one.

I'm on a Win7 64 machine with the most recent Catalyst and SDK.  Right now I'm getting about 380-385 MH/s with this configuration in the latest (6/14) guiminer/poclbm: -w128 -f0, with GPU settings (ATI Control Center):

Core:  950
Mem:  685
Power:  +20%

Adding -v knocks off nearly 50 MH/s.  I tried duplicating 2nd_lawl's Afterburner settings above (assuming stock voltage at 1.175 V) and was only able to get to the 340 Mh/s range.  Adding -v and bumping the voltage in the CCC added hardly anything. I also experimented with datguywhowanders's settings (-v -w64 -f0, +7%, not sure on clock/mem) but couldn't break 350.   It feels like I'm getting close but I'm obviously still missing something.

Does anyone have any suggestions, anything I missed?  That last 20 MH/s is starting to feel a little personal.

Also, while I'm here, what effect, if any, does the CPU affinity selection have?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I've got some questions about the 6970 as well.  I've tried recommended settings from several people, most recently those discussed here:  http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13809.0, all to little effect.  They report rates of 400+ and I have yet to break the 350 barrier.  I'm obviously missing something but have not idea what that might be.   Anybody have any suggestions?

I'm looking for (slightly) early release, can  you help a miner out?

I've been lurking for a while and have a few posts in, but I'm actively mining and would really like access to the mining forums to ask a few optimization questions.  No need to worry about spam, I'm more of a lurker than a poster and won't add to the boards any more than necessary.  Thanks!

Started about a week ago, almost exclusively CPU mining since I'm running mostly low-end nVidia and a get more from the CPUs than the GPUs.  That said, I'm just setting up a couple 6970 rigs and am in the process of optimizing.  I've got a few questions but haven't hit the newbie threshold to post any questions in the relevant mining threads.  Only a couple more to go!  Currently mining at 500-800 MH/s.

Seems like a reasonable precaution, although now I have to think of something to post so that I can ask that questions I need to ask in the other threads.  I'm more of a lurker than a contributor.

Greetings!

I've got a newbie question I'm hoping someone can help me with.  Specifically, I'm wondering about failover.  That is, what's the syntax for my bitcoin-miner.exe command line string to so that if I loose connection to one pool it fails over to an alternate?  I've seen mentions of it and I've looked at the link in the OP, but I'm unclear as to how that string should look.  For instance, mining on a 12-core server with onboard GPU, if I want to start with Deepbit as my primary and use Slush as my alternate, what does that look like?  Mining only to deepbit the string is

bitcoin-miner.exe -a 5 -g no -o http://deepbit.net:8332 -u username -p password

To add Slush as a alternate pool the string becomes ...?

Thanks in advance for the help!