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Title: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 13, 2012, 10:11:48 PM
I am selling 5 miners built from the following parts:

Case: Antec 100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129183 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129183)
PS: PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 950W High Performance 80PLUS Silver http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U29C40/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U29C40/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00)
MB: BIOSTAR TZ77XE3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138355 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138355)
CPU: Celeron G530 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116409 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116409)
Memory: G.Skill 4GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231253 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231253)

3 of the miners are built with triple GPUs: Visiontek HD 7970 reference design http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129204 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129204)

The other two miners have a Sapphire HD 7970 OC http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102982 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102982) and dual Visiontek HD 7970 reference design http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129204 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129204) ).

Parts were purchased less than 6 weeks ago.  All have generous manufacturer warranties.

All are running BAMT 0.5 with CGMiner 2.7.4 off Patriot Xporter XT Boost 8GB Flash Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220252 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220252)

All the hardware is in new/excellent condition -- less than 6 weeks old. They mine at ~ 9.5GH/s. I can ship the miners as built or using all the original boxes (shipping will be a bit higher this way).

I will entertain any reasonable offer for the miners as built. Parting is an option I'll consider later.

I do not have a high post count/reputation here but I've been on ebay for > 10 years with an excellent reputation (http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=arobincaron&ftab=AllFeedback (http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=arobincaron&ftab=AllFeedback)


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 15, 2012, 07:02:05 AM
What's your starting prices


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: superfastkyle on September 15, 2012, 08:16:26 AM
One month ago he was new to cryptocurrency, now he has over 9 ghash for sale, without any pics even...interesting


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: k3t3r on September 15, 2012, 08:57:14 AM
just over 1 month ago
I'm new to cryptocurrency but I am very interested.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 15, 2012, 01:16:12 PM
Here's a picture:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8299/7988281909_ebd33b1a79_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/arobincaron/7988281909/)

I have > $1700 in each miner.  This is all quality hardware is in a turnkey configuration. Please make offers accordingly.

Thank you for your consideration.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: superfastkyle on September 15, 2012, 09:56:30 PM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: crazyates on September 15, 2012, 10:17:15 PM
I have > $1700 in each miner.
Build 5 miners for $8500. Mine about $1500 worth of BTC in 6 weeks. Sell for anything over $7000 to make a profit. Sounds about right.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: BitcoinINV on September 15, 2012, 10:23:27 PM
Let me Know when you want to start selling some of the cards out of them :D


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 16, 2012, 12:38:12 AM
Let me Know when you want to start selling some of the cards out of them :D

+1


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 16, 2012, 01:24:35 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: fcmatt on September 16, 2012, 01:29:03 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?

Yes. Exactly. It takes about 3 gh/s just to make a btc per day. Things are getting rougher each week.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: aqrulesms on September 16, 2012, 01:52:56 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?

Yes. Exactly. It takes about 3 gh/s just to make a btc per day. Things are getting rougher each week.

If I'm correct the value of 1 BTC is a little more than double what it was a few months ago.... and maybe that has something to do with the higher difficulty?


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: fcmatt on September 16, 2012, 01:58:29 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?

Yes. Exactly. It takes about 3 gh/s just to make a btc per day. Things are getting rougher each week.

If I'm correct the value of 1 BTC is a little more than double what it was a few months ago.... and maybe that has something to do with the higher difficulty?

Sure. You are correct about the price.  diff... Well.. I am not sure.
But what i meant about rougher each week is not only diff going up... Soon rewarrd is getting cut in half, asics may soon start to arrive, and price is not guaranteed to match raises in diff. In dec we may have 8-10 btc price instead of 12. We might have triple the diff and only price of 13. Things are going poorly for future gpu miners as i type this.

I would like to buy the rigs but i will not insult the seller with my very low offer.... He can do better on ebay.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 16, 2012, 03:33:46 AM
only takes about 2700Mhashies for 1BTC per day


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: aqrulesms on September 16, 2012, 04:04:12 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?

Yes. Exactly. It takes about 3 gh/s just to make a btc per day. Things are getting rougher each week.

If I'm correct the value of 1 BTC is a little more than double what it was a few months ago.... and maybe that has something to do with the higher difficulty?

Sure. You are correct about the price.  diff... Well.. I am not sure.
But what i meant about rougher each week is not only diff going up... Soon rewarrd is getting cut in half, asics may soon start to arrive, and price is not guaranteed to match raises in diff. In dec we may have 8-10 btc price instead of 12. We might have triple the diff and only price of 13. Things are going poorly for future gpu miners as i type this.

I would like to buy the rigs but i will not insult the seller with my very low offer.... He can do better on ebay.

I'm not even worried about ASICs at this point.  BFL has a very bad record on delivering on time, ASICs probably won't come out till next year.

The other thing about a block halving is that people will drop out of mining.  This will lead to a drop in difficulty and therefore you can profit again.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 16, 2012, 04:13:32 AM
hmm wasnt expecting you to actually deliver, I guess I'm just a skeptic. Why sell now? they are nice systems but there's probably no way you'd even break even at this point.

 ;) Now where are the offers?  Is everyone down on GPU mining?

Yes. Exactly. It takes about 3 gh/s just to make a btc per day. Things are getting rougher each week.

If I'm correct the value of 1 BTC is a little more than double what it was a few months ago.... and maybe that has something to do with the higher difficulty?

Sure. You are correct about the price.  diff... Well.. I am not sure.
But what i meant about rougher each week is not only diff going up... Soon rewarrd is getting cut in half, asics may soon start to arrive, and price is not guaranteed to match raises in diff. In dec we may have 8-10 btc price instead of 12. We might have triple the diff and only price of 13. Things are going poorly for future gpu miners as i type this.

I would like to buy the rigs but i will not insult the seller with my very low offer.... He can do better on ebay.

I'm not even worried about ASICs at this point.  BFL has a very bad record on delivering on time, ASICs probably won't come out till next year.

The other thing about a block halving is that people will drop out of mining.  This will lead to a drop in difficulty and therefore you can profit again.

everything in the short term to me is leading up to more stabilization of the price because all these events are predictable but not on specific dates and times and happen slowly except when the block will halve when it gets close enough we'll know


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: Chrstian on September 16, 2012, 04:21:22 AM
well if no one else is going to post a public offer i can offer $1250 for one rig. i would request an escrow because of your lack of reputation.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 16, 2012, 12:24:09 PM
Where are you located?
I am in USA -- North Carolina.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 16, 2012, 12:25:18 PM
well if no one else is going to post a public offer i can offer $1250 for one rig. i would request an escrow because of your lack of reputation.

Thank you for your offer. It's a low bid and I am motivated to sell.  Unfortunately I cannot accept because of the cost of the hardware.  Also consider that you are getting tested, working and with known performance miners. When I started building this setup I had no idea how much work it was going to be to get working hardware and build the scripts (BAMT v0.5 does not work with HD 7970 not later builds of CGMiner), and stabilize the hardware configuration.

For others who maybe considering this: escrow is fine with me -- I don't have anything to hide.  PM is fine too.  Once deals are settled I will update this thread to indicate sales.

Happy day!


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: BitcoinINV on September 16, 2012, 07:19:23 PM
I live in NC too if you want to part out......


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 16, 2012, 07:31:12 PM
I live in NC too if you want to part out......

I'll let you know when I do that -- thank you!


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: abracadabra on September 16, 2012, 11:37:53 PM
well if no one else is going to post a public offer i can offer $1250 for one rig. i would request an escrow because of your lack of reputation.

Thank you for your offer. It's a low bid and I am motivated to sell.  Unfortunately I cannot accept because of the cost of the hardware.  Also consider that you are getting tested, working and with known performance miners. When I started building this setup I had no idea how much work it was going to be to get working hardware and build the scripts (BAMT v0.5 does not work with HD 7970 not later builds of CGMiner), and stabilize the hardware configuration.

For others who maybe considering this: escrow is fine with me -- I don't have anything to hide.  PM is fine too.  Once deals are settled I will update this thread to indicate sales.

Happy day!

Why don't you post what you are expecting to get for each rig? Otherwise it turns into a bunch of posts trying to lowball you and draw you out.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: yochdog on September 16, 2012, 11:44:39 PM
I will offer my standard $.55 per MH/s 

approximately $5,225 for the whole set-up


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: pazor on September 17, 2012, 12:01:53 AM
hey yochdog,

how big is your mining farm?
can we get details of your mining operation?

regards
pazor


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 17, 2012, 12:15:44 AM
I will offer my standard $.55 per MH/s 

approximately $5,225 for the whole set-up

At that price I'll keep mining with it :-) Thank you for the offer.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 17, 2012, 12:17:35 AM
Why don't you post what you are expecting to get for each rig? Otherwise it turns into a bunch of posts trying to lowball you and draw you out.

My offering price is $1700.  Make me reasonable counter offer  ;D


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: fcmatt on September 17, 2012, 12:27:57 AM
Why don't you post what you are expecting to get for each rig? Otherwise it turns into a bunch of posts trying to lowball you and draw you out.

My offering price is $1700.  Make me reasonable counter offer  ;D

Isnt that close to 80% retail?


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 17, 2012, 03:09:47 AM
The question is, how long have these parts been in use mining? When were they purchased. Forgive me if that was mentioned later, but I don't see in the OP


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 17, 2012, 11:01:19 AM
The question is, how long have these parts been in use mining? When were they purchased.
The oldest parts were purchased less than 6 weeks ago.

Thank you for the question.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: yochdog on September 18, 2012, 03:14:57 PM
hey yochdog,

how big is your mining farm?
can we get details of your mining operation?

regards
pazor

Pushing 70 GH/s

Comprised of roughly 2/3 GPU, 1/3 BFL singles.  Most of my GPU's are 7970's, with a few 5970's and 6950's sprinkled in. 


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: pazor on September 19, 2012, 06:44:46 AM
thank you yochdog for the details.
nice setup !


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: AndrewK on September 23, 2012, 11:54:48 PM
I sent you a pm ;)


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: arobincaron on September 24, 2012, 02:22:35 AM
I've decided to keep mining for the near future.  Thanks to all who sent in offers.


Title: Re: WTS 5 miners with triple HD 7970
Post by: 420 on September 27, 2012, 08:14:29 AM
I've decided to keep mining for the near future.  Thanks to all who sent in offers.

fantastic