Why won't it?

Anyway, solution to avast! network shield blocking EMC - ditch avast, get Microsoft Security Essentials. Works beautifully.

Avast keeps blocking connections to EMC by CGminer. Any suggestions on how to avoid that?

Question: what efficiency should I expect (generally)? I'm mining on a Radeon 5750. I'm getting ~27% efficiency (ATM 1820 queued, 500 accepted, and U (whatever it is) is @1.89/m). Is there any way I could improve on my situation?

As for the memory clock, they're probably dropping it in CGminer or so. Mine is also running at 150MHz, keeps the GPU quite a bit cooler for some reason.

Regarding the voltage settings in windows - they definitely stay what they were set even after a reboot. I've manually set the voltage to 1.1V (nothing about the voltage in the .bat launch file), the PC froze and I had to reboot. After the reboot the voltage is still at 1.1V. I think this is worth looking into, because I've no clue what my default voltage is supposed to be, or whether it would return to normal lower voltage when it's idle.

Thanks. Upon selling and removing my second graphics card I'll reinstall the drivers and will see whether this changes anything and then report back to you.

Agreed, you should just enable it and make sure it is stated clearly (and the same message should include explanation how to disable it, e.g. "to disable add -donation 0" flag), especially since the buggy donations are fixed.

It's not like a) people aren't given a choice or instructions how to disable it, and b) everyone who uses knows so much as to enable the donations.

I like the phrase "I believe in the exploitation of the stupid", so if users aren't clever enough to disable donations - well, thanks for their support


On a side note, a question - if I set a GPU voltage in CGminer, then restart the PC and start cgminer without the flag, does the voltage go back to default or stay at the previously set voltage? Because the BIOS says (with Radeon BIOS Editor) GPU voltage at load should be 1.1V, but cgminer and FurMark read it as 1V. That will hinder my overclocking results in the future.

This is awesome. Thanks for this. Hashing rate increased from ~120 to ~140 (cgminer 2.1.2, dynamic intensity, Radeon 5750, stock clocks, memory 150MHz). Small donation sent  

I have Vista and TrayIt! indeed does work. You need to run cgminer, and while it is running, open TrayIt! Select to place cgminer to system tray, and put TrayIt to your startup folder. Should work.

Sweet! Looking forward to what GCN can achieve 

Is there any benefit to having multiples of 60?

If that's anywhere close to -f settings in GUIminer, -f 60 lets me watch GPU-accelerated HD videos without a problem. Even -f 55 is ok.

First e-mail received, read, liked on facebook. We'll see if this is for real

For that, try adding an exception to Symantec (the whole cgminer folder).

If you don't want to see the window, get TrayIt!. It will minimize the window to system tray.

I don't think you're able to run cgminer as a service, though.

Send them a message in some way: it may be twitter, e-mailing their PR department or something like that.

Just tell them that if they want to advertise mining as a selling point, they should have software that is made for that architecture, and since you've already made software for the previous architecture (show them the links and everything), you're just the guy to do it. It's not that they won't find a spare 7970 lying around.

No, at mining load it's constantly at full frequencies (only at idle drops down completely and at something like 10% load it sits in between).

That made me giggle

Well, my point is, it doesn't have a reason - one restart it's faster, the other - slower, doesn't seem to have any pattern at all, since I've had the same behaviour through different driver and miner versions. Otherwise there were no software or hardware changes.

On the topic of my fluctuating hash rate, downgrading to 11.6+2.4 didn't help - again dropped to 60 Mhash from 80. I'll just stop trying.