In a previous blog article, I wrote about “bitcoin” mining (really scrypt coins) on a 7970. The 7970 model runs really well with two gpu-threads in cgminer but the earlier model, the 7950, struggles with two threads. Up until recently, the general practice with a 7950 was to push really high intensity values (18+) until
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Scrypt Coin Mining with 2 Threads on a 7950
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This is a very specific article meant to target a very small subset of geeks out there. Sure, there are many of us geeks, and a large number have heard of this craze the last few years called Bitcoin. After Bitcoin became popular, like tv news popular, a number of crypto-coin spinoffs have surfaced. I’m
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