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ATI and NVIDIA same mobo LTC mining

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Hello,

i7-4930k
64GB RAM
SabertoothX79
SSD 250 Samsung evo
GTX 660 3GB
Windows7

This build is already running 24/7 with 90%+ CPU usage and 60%+ GPU usage (not mining).
I want to add up to two 7950s to my build to mine some LTC since it is running 24/7 and it has some spare RAM and CPU (not much). Is it possible?

Cgminer should use almost no CPU and very little RAM.
It should be possible to mix ATI and NVIDIA cards, but im not sure how it will turn out when both are working heavy on different tasks, if it will hurt the overall performance or bring a lot of instability thus not being worthed, etc.

Any advice?

Thanks.
 
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If you already have the 7950s, the extra PCIE slots, a beefy PSU for all those GPUs, the mining know-how, and adequate cooling, go for it. But that's a big list of requirements...
 
Yes, it is possible with some modifying of the cgminer/guiminer sometimes cgminer will not work at all so you have to use guiminer to get it to work properly. Also you sometimes get some weird driver issues and have to hard boot the computer down during setup. I did it for awhile until I got my 2x 290s, did it with a GTX 690 and 7950.
 
Nexillus said:
Yes, it is possible with some modifying of the cgminer/guiminer sometimes cgminer will not work at all so you have to use guiminer to get it to work properly. Also you sometimes get some weird driver issues and have to hard boot the computer down during setup. I did it for awhile until I got my 2x 290s, did it with a GTX 690 and 7950.
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I need guiminer?, i though cgminer was more versatile.
 
I did this with my 780 and a 6870 for a few days. I wound up needing a dummy plug (or you could use an actual monitor) for the 6870 in order for cgminer to work properly.
 
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