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      Drjones Regular Member last edited by

      Hi all, after almost a year of mining realised I should have flashed these for better performance and lower power!

      Looking to do this tonight, how do I see the current bios can I see in windows or on the cards or is only way using the flash software on USB in dos mode?

      Also when flashing should I take out the other 2 cards or can I flash all 3 in one go?

      Thanks all

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        Drjones Regular Member last edited by

        Thanks there’s a switch on them I can see so if you move that if anything goes wrong flicking it back should mean we all good?

        Will give it a blast on one to test, I think it disables the hd I but VGA is fine.

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          Drjones Regular Member last edited by

          Thanks all looking good, worked first time so did them all.

          Gone from 590 to 646 so far on each which is nice as they cooler too :D

          As I use GUI miner and afterburner I’m using 1420 clock and 1100 which is max on afterburner but read using 1155 is way to go.

          I also see people use other flags or so but they all combiner configs which I don’t have clue about ;<

          Can’t believe not done it months ago lol, flashing sounded scary

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            Drjones Regular Member last edited by

            O sorry forgot to say voltage is also not showing in afterburner can’t see a figure what does everyone use for this I seen some nice GUI software for pool mining somewhere with lots of options

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              Drjones Regular Member last edited by

              Ok so with playing I got cgminer running :D

              Got a nice constant 1.990mh/s

              Temps all around 70 and 0 how errors

              Time for bed lol

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                mattmct last edited by

                Nice work, what bios did you use in the end?

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                  Drjones Regular Member last edited by

                  f43 are the way to go they change voltage down to 0.975 also so should be saving bit of power per card from the stock 1.25 they were. Fans now running lower too.

                  Average 1.986mh/s
                  Roughly 660 per card from 590 using old bios and GUI miner.

                  Cgminer took abit to work downloaded loads of different versions, in the end used the cgminer I already had in GUI miner folder and works a treat, there are quite a few stats on there so not 100% sure all is as should but will post screen shot later.

                  Followed article on rumorscity website if anyone else is interested, google flash bios 7950 litecoin and will be first result.

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                    Drjones Regular Member last edited by

                    One thing not sure about is power consumption I have a corsair 850 gold or plat not sure which and use these 3 cards any idea on wattage?

                    Need to invest in power meter now think

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                      Drjones Regular Member last edited by

                      So finally got my power usage plug and abit surprised, it’s showing average 940w on my 850 corsair psu hmmm zit has been running stable should I lower gpu clock and mem?

                      Also it has a cost part 00.00 where I put my 12.04 per kW price not sure if it should be 00.12 or 12.04 confusing. ???

                      Any idea on cost per day on that price per unit?

                      Thanks

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                        Drjones Regular Member last edited by

                        Feather calculator showing 1.92$ and ukpower.co.uk showing 2.75£ ???

                        Forgot to change wattage :) that’s correct @ 2.75 Gbp perday.

                        Is it safe on my psu running 100w over it’s rated ?

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                          angloblaxon Regular Member last edited by

                          which bios are you flashing it with? beware of the dreaded ft0 cards

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                            Drjones Regular Member last edited by

                            Not sure what the original bios was but changed it to the f43 lower clock as standard and lover voltages

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                              thisaznboi88 last edited by

                              F43 is the way to go with these cards. :)

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