DAT is back !  |
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one a corrupt bios. it asked for usb or floppy with the bios, I tried feeding it that with the correct bios, and now I only get a black screen; cmos resetting etc does nothing, seems dead.
The other one, I dont know. It still works, but I noticed a resistor burnt out and there is black stuff like it exploded all the way to a nearby chip (I think raid controller, but not sure). Funny thing, havent noticed anything not working yet (didnt test raid), but Im reluctant to put expensive cards in it.
Sucks to hear. Still working on my rig. I'm finally down to 300 MHz memory. At 400 MHz i had some bad artifacts which made me belive that a lower setting may not be possible with my cards. Tomorrow i'm going to add some more fans to the housing. Did some tests with my old amateur radio equipment and some fans  was fun to overdrive them at 15V up |
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What happened to the boards ?
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Second 80+ block in a row...  At least we have a good hash rate. |
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I use 275ms break interval on my 24h rig. Just play around with the settings to see what works best for you. The higher the number, the less responsive is your desktop.
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Was bad written. What you wrote is clear to me (correct).  Edit: My english is also very limited. German is my native language |
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Have i told something else ?
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Payout depends on many things. Bigger pool = more blocks solved in time. The more people the smaller the profit (per block... thanks Slush). In a mid- sized pool you earn more but you get paid out less frequent. Try out other pools. Join the darkside (Bitminter  ) |
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Yes, it's a wooden case. One 140mm fan. GPU temp 72 degree @ 675 MH/s. Only 1 to 2 degree difference to an open setup. It's well designed by myself with lots of openings |
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Perhaps HE was the saboteur...  Happy minting ! |
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I was playing around with the overclocking settings of my ASRock 970 Extreme 3, changed CPU frequency (FSB?) and CPU ratio to decrease power consumption from the CPU. Out of nowhere my hashrate goes up from 675 MH/s to 760 MH/s  wtf ? Nothing changed on GPU side. Same temps, 840 MHz gpu, 560 ram. Has someone an explanation for that ? While i wrote the above, the computer crashed without warning. Strange  |
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IIRC you can restrict Bitminter to single CPU by restricting the java process to a single CPU in task manager.
Sadly until AMD fixes their 100% CPU bug (w/ 2+ GPU) there is nothing else you can do.
since i'm new to windows 7 i wasn't aware of that function. I'll try it out. Thanks for the tip ! Edit: Works very well. Thanks a lot ! |
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Some new friends for the pool...  as you can see all still very experimental. Sadly i'm unable to use both cards with the bitminter client at the same time. The cpu rate (Athlon 2 x2) will jump to 100% (50 per card)... With my IC2 Q6600 and the hd6670 i see 2% Guiminer works at 50% with both cards but about 40 to 50 mh/s slower than the bitminter client. I need a cpu affinity button for bitminter !  |
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... at least i can see that the prices suck too in the netherlands.
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Allright, Im again mining with 2x 5850s. Took a bit longer than anticipated but had some cooling issues and then I had to borrow one of my decent PSUs to my neighbor. I didnt want to wait too long, so now I have a rat rig thats powered by 2 old flaky ~300W PSU's, one powering the GPU the other the rest. Hey, it works  . Pulled the trigger on two new 5850 for my rig. Can you give me the estimated power usage for 2 cards ? Around 300W or less ? Thanks Sam |
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a very lucky weekend, thanks to our big guns !
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Wow $750 I can see why you passed on a 5970.
I didn't realize supply and prices varied that much overseas. Wonder if I should buy like 10 used 5970 from ebay? Test/burn em, and then sell them in bitcoins to international users. The US postal service has pretty cheap international rates. If you don't mind me asking what do new 6970s go for in Switzerland?
750+ is for new cards. 6970 is around 410 to 430$ here. |
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If you ever look to expand try to find an "ancient" 5970. At $500 it is the best value for mining. At $400 (sometimes you can find it on "sale") it blows away any other card. There are a lot of used ones on ebay but some go for >$400+. If you are patient and low bid you can eventually snag on for $300 to $330. I know some people are afraid of ebay but ebay w/ paypal has 30 day buyer protection. If the card has been damaged or is defective mining is going to expose it and a lot faster than 30 days. My rigs are now nothing but 3x5970s ea (moving from a hodgepodge or 5870s, 6950s, 6970s, 6990s). Hopefully when the 7xxx cards come out those gamers who hung on to the 5970s through the 6xxx series will dump them on ebay. Maybe we can even see <$300 5970s prices. Well a miner can dream right? Thanks for the advice ! No doubt that the 5970 is the superior BTC mining card at the moment. Sadly they want about 750$+ !!! new here in Switzerland. They are really hard to find. 5xxx series is dead here. Only second hand cards are available. I'll keep my eyes open Sam |
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Ordered the first parts for my new rig (2x6970) today. Hope being online at the end of the year. That sh!t is expensive |
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