Originally Posted by
EmSti
Update. Catalyst 12.4 is working great on the i7 and CrossFired 7970s. Heck, MilkyWay WU taking 41 sec or less. So I revisited the fx-8105 boxes and this is what I learned. The 12.4 work really weird on those boxes before on the opencl projects. So, I uninstalled 12.3 and manually removed the window\system32\amdocl.dll and opencl.dll (I think that was the right names). Apparently they don't remove with any of the uninstall and driver sweep removals. Installed 12.4 and made sure sdk was selected to install the newer opencl stuff. On the 2 7970 gpus box (BlackDragon) it still acted wierd and the 6970/7970 combo in hydra6 was just bad.
BlackDragon:
Besides the fx-8150 and i7 difference with FireDragon, the 7970s were not setup for CrossFire. I added the link and enabled the feature, which made it better, but niether card was running above 60%. The factory settings on the cards are different. I forced them to be the same and they took off like rockets. Both cards running above 90% and so far no weird behavior. So, CrossFire at same setting was the way to go.
Hydra6:
Tried Crossfire; that was a mistake you can't CrossFire 69Xx with 79xx. With 12.4 and non-CrossFire the GPUs have really odd behavior. The 7970 would run at 100%, but its time on a MW unit was over a minute, which is too long. The 6970 would only run at about 50% and take over 3 minutes. With 12.3 install but the leaving the newer opencl and amdocl install via the 12.4 install it runs better (49 secs - 7970 and 1 min 05 sec - 6970). Unfortunately I suspect this will still crash periodically.
I will see how this goes over the next day and then try out Donate. So, give the 12.4 a try. Your mileage may vary.