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Cashed out, thanks guys!  Cheers!

hnnnnng... All the prices for the cards I want are too high... :(... I wouldn't pay more than $130 shipped for each cypress XT class GPU (5870/5970)

Stupid rally driving up gpu prices.

I would probably buy a 5870 at 130 as well if u end up parting out

id buy 5970 $305 shipped to california

< $400 new (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130595) ? Or is that not the same thing?

Nope, that's the same one. All of his prices are high, imo.

Someone on [H]ard|OCP pointed that out, too.  I had no idea they were still available, or became available again.  I was looking for one a few months ago and Newegg didn't have them, neither did any other online store, I thought they were entirely extinct. 

So I could see giving a discount on that one for sure.  But it's $379.99 because of a $20 off right now.  So it's not <$400 new, you still have to pay tax on that, making it >$400 new.  I had my 'low' price set at $400, which I think is worth it still, but I would go as low as $350 probably, potentially a bit less depending on if you bought other items at the same time.

All my prices are *current value* according to the market right now.  Nothing is firm, but I set those ranges so you wouldn't say "how much for _____" a million times.  If you want to make me an offer on the whole lot, of course I'll give you a deal. 

Make.  Me.  Offers. 

Just ask Darrell from Storage Wars:

https://i.imgur.com/VjUHz.png

$310 or i can pickup if you're near cali

5970's have been about $300 (150/core) for about months

420: PM'd! :D

More info about the custom cases I had typed originally before posting:

I have a case that can hold four motherboards, with a variable amount of cards per motherboard (one wide mount area), you could do like 6 or 7 cards per motherboard, probably. 

There are two of these chassis' that we have built, one of them can only hold two boards, and I have two Asrock boards on it, one has 5 cards the other has 4.  One has a Phenom II and the other has an Athlon II.  It has a 1400w and a 1000w PSU (both single rail).

The other case is the one that holds four boards.  I have the MSI Big Bang Marshal B3 (http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Big-Bang-Marshal--B3-.html) for motherboards, the "only" board that has eight full size PCIe slots, plus they are LGA 1155 so they are very current technology.  I have two of these boards.  One of them is in the box as a spare, I had planned on putting 8 more cards in that rig (8 cards per side in that case gives tons of room between them so they stay breezy.  You can't fit four MSI Big Bang Marshal B3's in that case, since it's bigger than ATX spec, you can only fit one per side.  Right now I have two Corsair HX850s running the Big Bang and 8x 5870s.  I have two i7 2600k's available but I'd rather sell you two i3's with it and sell the i7's on eBay, depends on the price we agree on.

These cases are very valuable, and I was considering them *included* in the prices of the rigs, so if you bought the whole lot or one complete rig (mobos/gpus/cards) the case would be added at no charge, I'm hesitant to post pictures of the genius design of our cases because we were planning on making them available for purchase.  They are sort of our "prototypes" but our final version would be made out of aluminum.  They are awesome.  The one that has 2 boards in it right now is 17" wide, 26" deep, and 12" tall, all the video cards sit horizontally so there is a full 26" to mount the video cards for both boards.  The dimensions were chosen becuase it's the same footprint as a big rack server, except it's a rack mining rig.  The Big Bang case is too wide to possibly fit in a rack, but it can hold more and is great for it's purpose.  

If I sell off all the cards and I'm left with mobo/cpus/psus and the cases, then they make the ultimate mining setup if you have a bunch of cards and they need a home, this is a palace.  

bump

Oh and I will throw in lots of fans if someone wants to buy a rig.  I have three of these 30v fans, I have some crazy high cfm Delta 120mm fans, among many others.

how many cards have you had running in the MSI? and which model cards

I've had all eight slots populated with 5870s and it's godly.  Using BAMT 0.5a 64-bit. 

Here's a screenshot of 8 GPUs enabled
 
https://i.imgur.com/stWZS.png

This screenshot shows 7 cards, one of them is a 5970 so 8 GPUs BUT I have ran the Big Bang with 8 5870s and it runs great!

hubba hubba. whats the max # of dual core gpu's like 5970's you think?

I believe ATI's drivers cap out at 8 GPU cores, so 4 dual GPU cards like the 5970 would be max.

I would give you 45 coins for all 5 of the 5850s. They go for $100 USD on ebay all day long.

find me some for $100 on ebay been looking cant find any that cheap

There is a couple,



http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-725M-1GB-DDR5-DP-HDMI-DUAL-DVI-/160858805633?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item2573ee9581

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-AMD-RADEON-HD-5850-1-GB-GDDR5-PCI-E-16x-Gaming-Video-Graphics-Card-/130743551682?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1e70ec46c2

Buy it now at 120
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-725M-1GB-DDR5-DP-HDMI-DUAL-DVI-/120966435664?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1c2a295350

yah with 5 hours left on it


i mean buyit now for under $100

True just trying to help a little ;D

i` know was just giving you a hard time ;D

45 BTC for 5 5850s.. i'd rather do like 52 BTC..

nope. most 120-150. 100 is if you're vulturing around for a week

$110 with ship sold
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Visiontek-900297-Radeon-HD5850-Video-Card-1GB-DDR5-Eyefinity-USED-/120963538961?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1c29fd2011


125
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Technology-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-11162-00-40R-111620040R-/230833372438?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item35bebdbd16

correct myself, 1 penny under 100
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-1-GB-PCI-Express-/120964245254?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1c2a07e706

so you've never tested the max NUMBER of gpu cores in one board? could you test for me, id like to know if i could use more than 8 cores that would affect my buying strategy

2 of those are the Radeons with the aftermarket-style fan, it may be an original Sapphire but it doesn't have the glorious turbine fan.

The other one has a turbine, but it's more like an ancient 8800 GTX-style, I think Dell computers that came with 5850s would have received a card like that.  Certainly not reference.

https://i.imgur.com/SZp5Q.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Y8cPQ.jpg

Which one would you rather have?  Show me a reference 5850 for $100 on eBay. 

I had one of those 5850s (http://img239.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=914691346_DSC01207_122_402lo.JPG), and mined with no issues. It's def not a reference board, but I liked the blower style coolers. I believe mine was out of an Acer or a Gateway, I never could tell...

THATS a 5850? O_o I got a "5850" from someone on ebay that looked like that, but it detected as a 4850.

Yep. Like was mentioned before, it was prolly an OEM card from an Acer or a Gateway. It didn't OC all that well, IIRC, but I ran them undervolted, so no issues.

You need to check prices. $380 for the big bang at newegg. I would offer you for the big bang MB and for 8, 5870 $1500.

Shipping+Tax honkey