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Hello, I want to buy a videocard for playing games (my GeForce 8600 is quite outdated by now...)

So, what videocard has the best cost/benefit related to bitcoin mining and still can be used to play games occasionaly?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Give me a budget and I'll tell you right away

I'd like to spend no more than $110 or so on a video card.

What's the best card at that price range?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102878

I saved you 1 cent!  ;D

5770 is your best bet though you may be able to run across a used 5830. I will be selling several 5770s next week for less than $100 USD equivalent in BTC, each shipped to USA. PM me if interested.

Edit: there you go, NewEgg previous post.

you can get a 5830 at 110$ (when on sale)

I just bought a couple of those days back, and I think they have high rate of DOA.
Still testing...

I bought several of the 5850 version and every one is working great. No experience with the 5830.

they seem to have a ~5%+ DOA rate, still worth it

Definitely the 5830.  By far the best value for that pricerange.  I just picked up 3 of them myself, as all of the reasonably priced 5850's were backordered and 5870's are nearly non-existant at this point.

I agree, Get'em while they can be gotten. I wonder how much longer till you can't even get 5770's.

nster what video card would you recommend if I don't have a budget at all ???

Also thinking what card would be best if this goes bust, though I'm hoping it won't etc. ?

That SAPPHIRE 100297L Radeon HD 5830
(The link to NewEgg, posted above)

does it have a Linux driver, specifically Ubuntu?

Thanks.

no budget = unlimited funds or 0 funds?

unlimited, the 6990 of course, 0 funds, whatever you have of course :)

If you game etc, I find the 6950 1GB to be the best value, if only mining, it is hard to say.... 4* 5970 or 4* 6990 would be best on a single motherboard cost effective-wise... Used 5970 @ 400$ each would be phenomenal value. But with such high difficulty, idk if buying a rig only for mining is the smartest idea

Yeah, it's true.  With difficulty jumping 60%+ this time around, and projected to jump another 50-60% the next time around, and possibly again, it'll be much more profitable to dump the monies into bitcoins themselves, and hope the value of them goes up.

Seriously?  Why?  That's so lame...

Hi, I'm totally new to Bitcoins and since my desktop is >6 yrs now I've been planning on getting a new rig now.


I think I agree with this, since I'm just getting into SC2. I'll be going for a gaming rig although still keeping in mind about mining.

So after plenty of reading other stuff with all the talk of BTC's collapse in mind I plan to get 2*5970 aftermarket since I have quite a tight budget. What do you guys think about my decision?

And the CPU is? Bottlenecking is also a factor.

What is bottlenecking? I hasn't planned the rest of the components yet. Please do give me suggestions :) I'm just asking about my overall decision to go that way

if you have a sempron, no games would run well, so the CPU would be a "bottleneck" Think a neck of the bottle, which limits the amount of fluid the goes through.

I find i5 2500K systems to be cheap for what they are :)

also

http://img.techpowerup.org/110520/Capture177.png

99.99$, GREAT price

picked up 3 of those 5830s today w/ the promo code... jumping into the game super late  :-\

RAGEEEEEEE

I just bought three of those for $30 more than I needed to!

I guess they'll be here two days earlier than if I had ordered them now though... 2 days of mining @ 800MH/s = 5.67 BTC = $36.87.  So I guess I'm ok.  :P

newegg are good with this kinda stuff... try contacting them

Will do, thanks.

125% more frequency, 50% less shaders/processors==more power consumption and less performance in both OpenCL/OpenGL and Direct3D workload.

I think this question is going to be an ongoing subject, don't you guys think so -.-

buy 68xx instead of 5830.
"in short".

Skip the video card and buy Bitcoins.

yep.
its Already more profitable and become more meaningful with every week.

And just when I was getting my first rig :(

don't worry :)
you GPU invested not wasted.
before GPU mining era was start, im use my AMD GPU in number of GPGPU appz to process images for example.
also number of [really-nice]3D-renderers with GPGPU support exist.
also GRID teams seriously consider adding OpenCL support and same about Linux guys -)

How cheap would you have to find a 5970 for it to be worth it to purchase vs multiple cheaper cards?  I keep seeing people saying they can find them for 400 used, but I haven't had that kind of luck...