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LTC mining with 13.8 beta drivers?

Not an LTCman myself, DGC and WDC mainly, but I'm gldcoining pre 45k split atm (in case it turns into something, likely not) and seems fine stability-wise so far. However, my accepted average hash rates have dropped from about 760kh/s to 580kh/s, though I also haven't had a single reject yet either. Maybe things are averaging out somewhere?

Otoh, I'll usually have at least 12-20 rejects after about 12 hours, so far none.

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2 * 6950 (1mhz oc each, helps with ulps as they're headless), i:19


AC kicked off a while ago and it's a sauna now.. probably something to do with it. I'll check more in the morning.
 
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so more stable but less hashes hmm
I am wondering about these for BTC, I tired using various combos for myself but the best ones period for me have been 12.8 with 12.11 cap1 and SDK 2.5/2.6 these seem to give best overall game performance(with some artifacts now and then) but best mining performance as well as clock speeds at a given temp/voltage and seem overall stable, cat 13.1-.2-.4 all lowered the clocking and overall reduced hashrate not to mention various desktop related issues I was not fond of.
 
Did some quick tinkering before bed, back to normal.. lost the ULPS setting in Sapphire Trixx which was keeping the cards ramped a bit down since they are headless (haven't gamed on these in a while, they just sit in the basement crunching and I remote in).


743kh/s from cgminer right now, haven't seen any immediate rejects yet, but I'll report back tomorrow.
 
I get my best results with BAMT when you consider staying up as a part of things since I just boot it and it runs. Windows constantly had too many driver type issues for me.
 
Got up this morning, pretty typical results. ~3800A, ~20R per gpu. Hash rate has leveled out.

Scrypt doesn't seem affected, and all of the review sites do seem to be pointing out very tangible frame pacing results, so drivers seem like a win.

Go for it! Keep your old drivers around just i case ;)
 
13.8 beta's blew chunks for me... was running fine for a few days, and then last night just doing some simple web surfing the screen would go to a scrambled grey/black mix, computer itself still running fine, just a borked display. My setup for mining is two 7970's in my main rig NOT set in crossfire.

Went back to 13.4.

I love AMD/mining hardware... but they are just total shit for any sort of driver it seems.
 
I do and will continue to use AMD anyways, but, it has been like this for me for many years now(since 4870) find a specific driver and stick with it, every time I try a new driver out something is messed with it, 12.8 cap 12.11 sdk 2.5/2.6 for me is best least amount of issues, and I can use driver sweeper to clean it, could not with 13.4 had to us the cat uninstall utility which did a good job :p

I don't know, I think they need more folks working on these drivers or something, since the 11.7 or so there really has not been any massive changes just polishing but even then, least IMHO.
 
That is exactly how I feel.

I love the hardware + the ability to mine

But, I can't stand the software/drivers... It is amazing how nvidia can deliver with lesser hardware and better software/drivers.

AMD driver team must be 3 people who never talk...
 
how does Nvidia have lesser hardware exactly? I do not use them myself(despise them as a company) but lets be honest here, they in no way have lesser hardware, if anything the 6-700 series showed they can achieve ALOT if you take the time to optimize the structure, something AMD did for the longest time 7k and 5k are the only 2 really they went out of that zone some(seems to be kind of a make it fast first then optimize the design later)

Look back in the books some it was usually AMD keeping pace with Nvidia though using a smaller die(and surprised many people including the industry by doing so) not quite as much oomph but keeping pace none the less, generation after generation it has been toss up between the 2.

Historically Nvidia used the mammoth GPU but as a result took more power and was not as efficient per mm of space nor as good a value for the performance steps. AMD/ATi for the most part achieved great performance from a smaller die, their power use was better, temps +/- (but were also built for higher tolerances)

AMD drivers have more or less always been :( but they also have how many areas of development vs Nvidia? (generally only 1 being GPU) hell even Intel with their mighty staff numbers and uber RnD $ still have yet to come up with something that keeps pace with a budget level GPU from AMD or Nvidia, unless you don't want to shell out massive amounts for custom and even then.

Yeh I am constantly amazed at what AMD has done over many years, so many interesting and cool firsts, but, their drivers/software need to get a lot of polish and consistent results, if they can do this, they will have a 1 2 punch vs any other really.
 
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