Frankly the most frustrating aspects of this are two things, inability to duplicate results across different brands/versions of 7970s, and absolute non-linear results. One card 1022/1244 might get 650k, 1022/1450 get 400k, and 1048/1720 get 720k.
They are the fastest cards but something tells me there is some sort of bug we have not found - for example most other cards show little performance variation and there are formulaic settings that can be plugged into any card to get close to max result.
Not so for 7970. I still have 2 that are fubar. I don't think I will ever get either one above 600k 24/7.
I never received any response trying to buy (6th of April). Very frustrating as I had held off using an international exchange, knowing it would be easier to buy directly with a UK bank transfer. I feel like I missed out on a big chunk of boom profits because of this. However I know others who have traded successfully with bitcoinfridge.
Could have also saved yourself from buying in at $260
right getting good hasrates now, but it seems theres a lot of stales, and my pool is returning a ~20-30% lower return than is quoted on my computer. what can be causing this?
HW errors will often be caused by too high/low thread concurrency or GPU threads. Play with those.
0 HW errors.. but ill try thread concurrency etc. increase concurrency by 128 increments? 12000 g2 and 24000 g2 dont work for me
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
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iruleeveryone28
on 12/04/2013, 22:08:53 UTC
right getting good hasrates now, but it seems theres a lot of stales, and my pool is returning a ~20-30% lower return than is quoted on my computer. what can be causing this?
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
seconds after typing that it seems i have hit a sweet spot....what an idiot. still only 620-650, but im not complaining
The thing about those sweet spots is they are not linear. You will usually hover around a certain value no matter what, then change the clock (or another setting) by like 5mhz and boom you jump from 600 to 720.
thanks, going to be a long evening
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also what are the benefits of using msi AB over CCC?
this is bonkers....1400 i get 530. 1405 i get 600. 1410 i get 530. bonkers
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
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iruleeveryone28
on 12/04/2013, 18:18:10 UTC
seconds after typing that it seems i have hit a sweet spot....what an idiot. still only 620-650, but im not complaining
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nope computer crashed as usual with any OC
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
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iruleeveryone28
on 12/04/2013, 18:16:47 UTC
i appreciate all the help and comments. ive tried increasing each setting gradually. if i do get ~600khash there are plenty of HW failures and it eventually bottoms out at 400 (btw 13.3 seems much more stable for OC). i find it hard to believe that even if i did hit the "sweet spot" i would get 750 khash. just seems impossible.
Did you look here? Go to "profile" -> "orders history" and check there - that's where mine was hiding. They disappeared from the normal viewable location on the trade page but I could cancel them and get the units back in my finances summary page.
The funds were transferred out of my account.. support even said so and gave me the supposed IP address of the hacker and the BTC address funds were transferred to.
Well that's awful - this is the sort of thing that might cause a run on the 'bank' - I've withdrawn my LTC.
as have i, any good ltc exchanges? vircurex good?
also, are there any good ppc wallets? trustworthy ones?
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
You can't just take someone else's clock numbers and use them. You need to tune your own clocks for your own card/mobo combination.
Actually, for clocks, you can. It has been demonstrated many times over that specific ratios at specific clocks, people reach similar sweet spots.
Where things vary a lot is with drivers/miner/thread conc/intensity/GPU thread. With those, you are on your own but still you should start with trying the common ones.
so frustrating, basically i can only clean install drivers with a clean install windows which requires waiting for automatic updates like .net. are there RECOMENDED drivers for 7970's generally? im on 13.1, tried 12.6 but cgminer just wouldnt work on it, maybe due to app sdk
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
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iruleeveryone28
on 11/04/2013, 21:23:20 UTC
might i just add, im running the 7970 on an old dual xeon processor mobo from about 6 years ago which has pci-e 1.0 x16.
is there a POSSIBILITY that pci-e 1.0's power supply is the reason for not being able to overclock? i'm sure this isnt the case as the voltages remain the same but could i be on to SOMETHING?
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im fairly newbie to all this. would undervolting the card help in overclocking the memory? is it possible to undervolt the gigabyte i seem to remember reading it isnt.
thanks
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Re: CGminer+reaper stop working just as im connecting to pool after win7 reinstall
by
iruleeveryone28
on 11/04/2013, 19:46:56 UTC
thanks, yeah im on 13.1 now, didnt installk sdk i assume it was included?
turned out it was a .net issue, not with the miner directly but with the gcard drivers.
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Re: 7970 will only mine at 550khash at stock clocks - Lower when OC'ed - HELP
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iruleeveryone28
on 11/04/2013, 19:24:30 UTC
Power limit is "power control settings" in CCC i assume? are we tallking + or - 20? changing these does nothing for my gigabyte 7970, currently peaking at a measly 536khash. also ANY memory overclocking at the piece of shit dies. any thoughts? could it be overheating? can i change the point at which it kills itself in terms of heat? im starting to think this card is shit - here are my essentials -
g2 makes no difference. higher thread concurrency kills khash to ~200.
Also, would one need to RESTART cgminer for changes to take effect? it seems even when i do OC the mem, nothing happens there and then, other than, of course, my computer dying.