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AMD Beta Driver 14.1

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MaddMutt

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HELLO AGAIN :cool:

I have just installed the 14.1 beta drivers and they are SWEET!!. I went from the 13.9 that used a full core and a TPF of 3 Min ~43 - 48 Seconds on a water cooled WF3 7950 Ver 1. The new beta drivers DO NOT use any cpu % and my times have dropped to 3 Min 20 sec:eek: Has anybody else tried out the 14.1 beta drivers??????

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Yep - and I have seen the same results with my 7970s, 7790. 14.2 beta also has the same improvement.
 
EXT64 said:
Yep - and I have seen the same results with my 7970s, 7790. 14.2 beta also has the same improvement.
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At the AMD site, it says to uninstall your current driver before updating to the 14.x Series. Did you have to do this to update from the 14.1 to the 14.2 drivers???

Thank You For Your Time
 
I might have before going to 14.1, but I think I just installed over for 14.2 (not certain though). Usually that seems to work ok. Folding wise I don't think that there was a difference, at least not as big of a jump as going 13.x to 14.1. Haven't done any gaming yet to see the performance there.
 
How does the 7790 TPF compare to the 7970??? I've got a Gigabyte WF3 7950 Version 1 (only has 2 6pins) that I have water cooled. I can hit 1.250v with the Core @1235 and Memory @1285. The 2 6pins limit my OC, I have to trade the Memory for a high Core Clock or vise versa. I think it's a good trade off with the 384 bit memory bus:
WU - 8900 = TPF = 3min 20sec - EC = 315xx - PPD = 135xxx :eek:
WU - 9401 = TPF = 5min 34sec - EC = 675xx - PPD = 175xxx :eek:
 
My 7790 has a TPF of 7 minutes on 8900 vs my 7970s at 3:30 TPF. Which isn't bad considering it only has 896 SP (@1075 MHz Core) vs 2048 (@1050 MHz Core) in the 7970. Note that 9401 has variable PPD. The lower runs (below 400 or so I think) can run a lot lower PPD than 8900, while the higher runs can get a lot higher PPD.
 
These drivers sound nice. I'll check then out
 
I could not get my 7950's below 3:48 before it would do a memory crash and send back home an error code:-( When it would hit that wall, I would send back 7-10 not finished WU's in less than 10 sec :(
For X-Mas, my wife got me a water cooler for my video cards :)

I updated my driver from 14.1 - 14.2 and it made my folding time go way up. Right now, the 14.2 drivers are not playing nice with MSI's AB. I had to completely uninstall AB and AMD, before I could get back to a clean install of AB/AMD. Now I'm getting the low TPF times that I started this post with.

Thank You For Your Time
 
Ever since I installed the 14.2 drivers, my Milkyway@Home box has faltered. It was delivering over 200K points each day (dual Radeon 7970's), now it's like 2K. Not sure if Afterburner is at fault or if I need to upgrade something else.

Last time I logged into this host and looked at BOINC Manager, it was crunching WUs in less than 2 minutes each. Not sure what to try first, look for a newer Afterburner or downgrade back to 13.x.
 
brilong said:
Ever since I installed the 14.2 drivers, my Milkyway@Home box has faltered. It was delivering over 200K points each day (dual Radeon 7970's), now it's like 2K. Not sure if Afterburner is at fault or if I need to upgrade something else.

Last time I logged into this host and looked at BOINC Manager, it was crunching WUs in less than 2 minutes each. Not sure what to try first, look for a newer Afterburner or downgrade back to 13.x.
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It looks like you had the same problem that I had :mad: I downloaded CCleaner (good program) and had it uninstall the AMD drivers. Rebooted and had it uninstall AB and clicked "not to save profiles" and rebooted. I reinstalled the 14.1 drivers/reboot - installed AB and set it up the way it was before :confused: Another Reboot. You now have a clean install of your Video Drivers and MSI's AB. AMD needs more tweaking on the 14.2 drivers before they let users DL it, as it and AB will not work together:(
 
MaddMutt said:
It looks like you had the same problem that I had :mad: I downloaded CCleaner (good program) and had it uninstall the AMD drivers. Rebooted and had it uninstall AB and clicked "not to save profiles" and rebooted. I reinstalled the 14.1 drivers/reboot - installed AB and set it up the way it was before :confused: Another Reboot. You now have a clean install of your Video Drivers and MSI's AB. AMD needs more tweaking on the 14.2 drivers before they let users DL it, as it and AB will not work together:(
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Thanks for the pointers. Are you using AB 3.0 beta 18 or the older 2.x?
 
FAH: I switched to 14.2 and AB 3.0 beta 18 on my dual 7970 system, nice little points bump.
 
rhavern said:
FAH: I switched to 14.2 and AB 3.0 beta 18 on my dual 7970 system, nice little points bump.
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I took a hit with 14.2 + AB 3.0b18 on Milkyway@Home. Down from over 200K to around 150K per day. I just wiped 14.2 and reinstalled 13.12 and we'll see how this does over the next couple of days.
 
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