Dual 5870's

[DrPop]

Al - from what the guys say, it's not good credit wise to crunch Moo! on two radically different ATI GPUs, because it will idle one while the other one finishes a portion of the WU. You are doing the best thing, I think in crunching MW anyway, because it does 2 separate WUs, one for each card. I have to admit I like the science of MW better, but it seems to go down a lot for some reason. And, of course if it had DNET like credits, everything would be right in the universe, but we can't have everything, can we?

[Philadelphia]

I got off my ass today and stopped by Radio Shack and bought the resistors, now hopefully, to put the other gpu in tomorrow, extend the desktop (hopefully get that right) and away we go.

I'm 'assuming' that using the vga to 'whatever' adapter works.

[Fire$torm]

I got off my ass today and stopped by Radio Shack and bought the resistors, now hopefully, to put the other gpu in tomorrow, extend the desktop (hopefully get that right) and away we go.

I'm 'assuming' that using the vga to 'whatever' adapter works.

Your monitor should be connected to the card in slot 1, the one closest to the CPU and the dummy plug(s) connects to the other(s).

[Philadelphia]

Your monitor should be connected to the card in slot 1, the one closest to the CPU and the dummy plug(s) connects to the other(s).

I should have read this first, my monitor was connect to the other one but I figured it out

Both are running now, wooo hooo

[Fire$torm]

Sweet! I'm glad you got it all sorted out. Now crunch your heart out...

[Mike029]

Looking good.

[Philadelphia]

Two postings from the 5970 Clusterfrak (didn't want to hijack the thread)

From Bryan

Quote Originally Posted by Philadelphia View Post
Am I pushing the 5870 too much here?

No that isn't pushing at all. Definitely good to 950 day in and day out.

I would strongly suggest dropping your memory clock down to 425 MHz and it will probably drop your temperature 5C or better. Collatz is the only project that high memory speed helps and since it uses single precision math the temperature doesn't rise with the increased memory clocks.

I've downloaded the MSA AB and take a gander at it, looks like it has a lot of options from looking at the web page.

I'll change the clock to your suggested setting.

Thanks for the suggestion Bryan.

Dan/Philly

[edit] here is a pic of the config file, should I put a '0' in the EULA?



[edit/edit] Lowest memory clock setting is 600. 'Assume' that is ok?