Some people had luck by cutting the blue cable or flashing a different BIOS version but don't blame me if it blows up  |
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Well done rjk for investigating this crazy land of expensive backplanes. We bow down to your awesomeness  Keep up the good work and us posted ! |
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Not to be an ass, but it would be fairly easy to put a virus/trojan/wallet stealer in this. Without the source code I'd advise running on a different (virtual) machine than the computer that holds your wallet at least.
This ^. I realise senbon is trusted but I would never run something like this on any Windblows that contains a wallet. He may not steal the BTC on sight but keep the private keys and they just get sweeped whenever the author feels like. Not saying senbon will do this but just as a warning to noobs and other potential scammers that might try to do this. I am 99% sure that senbon's program is clean and he is an honest person but beware programs like this from unknown people in the future. |
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Am I just dumb ? There is no link or anything to get the game as I see it  |
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OK. I registered as "bulanula"
Address is 1QEhKt1ZH7eZEe3Dr6jAKnNEAuKKbqSwZt
Thank you !
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I'm assuming bulanula was paid out since I've not seen anymore chat about this.
Paid out, my ass. This guy deserves a total scammer tag. I have given up on this lowlife lying scum scammer. |
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Stop faffing about with Windblows and start putting that "use-bins" thing in Linux 2.2.7  |
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I'm sorry to barge in and spoil your party guys, but did you per chance miss the fact that Kepler's shaders will be running at core speed? Fermi-based cards run their shaders at twice the core speed. The new kepler gk104 will have 1536 cuda cores. That is 3 times the gtx 580. The gtx 580 gets 140 mhash/s so wouldn't the new kepler card get 420 mhash/s give or take, or at least 6970 territory?
Unfortunately, I don't think so. GTX 580's shader clock is 1544 MHz. Let's optimistically assume 1 GHz stock clock speed for Kepler (that translates to 65% of a GTX 580's shader speed). Therefore, a better estimate might be where a is overclockability modifier and b is architecture modifier. Let's assume that Kepler will overclock to 1200 MHz, what results in a = 1.2. Since integer operations efficiency has long played second fiddle to floating-point operations, there is no reason to expect huge gains. Let's assume b = 1.1, i.e. Kepler being 10% better at integer operations than Fermi. A stock Kepler running its 1536 shaders at 1 GHz would achieve 300 MHash/s. Overclocking the card to 1200 MHz would boost the hash rate to 360 MHash/s - that's uncomfortably close to a stock VLIW4-based hd6950. While half of a 7970's hashing speed is far less embarrassing than nVidia's previous generation of GPUs, it's still pretty underwhelming for an expensive and power hungry card a 1536 SP Kelper running at 1 GHz will have to be. I guess we will see. Until now all this is speculation on our part until the official details are announced. I still think they COULD become competitive if they wanted to with a 4608 shader dual GPU moster that is GTX790 but as I said, we will see ... |
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I've ordered two of these from the taobao.com vendor and am going to try them out with 7x 5750s and 7x 5770s.
I'll post back here once I receive mine and have tried them out.
If anybody has any experience with virtd I'd be very interested in hearing about it as I'm going to try adding these to one of my other rigs long term.
Yeah. It seems you cannot buy directly from taobao ( only if you are in China ). Let us know how you get on. A review would be great. Thank you very much ! |
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I will say Cuba ! |
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Ugh. Well I wish I could say OP didn't deserve it, but it's going to be an interest month while we wait for this meme to die down.
Well as soon as Freddie Prinze Jr week is gone I am switching my avatar to "Paraipan seal of approval" week. Loving that seal, psy ! |
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Well I sent an email to BFL on Feb 6th. At this point I didn't think I would actually hear anything. But here is the response I got today. Hi *****,
We have begun shipping of the product. However, the lead time on new orders is 4-6 weeks from the date of purchase. Now that we're underway with production, this could be much faster but it's best to assume 4-6 weeks when making a purchase decision.
Kind regards,
Sonny K
BF Labs Inc.
Boiler plate. I'm afraid we've all seen that. Yeah. I think that is all we will see after they run to Jamaica with our money  BFL communication is so crappy. Same old 4-6 weeks crap from them. They were saying "4-6 weeks" last year and since then they have not progressed at all |
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Attention business owners: Please send you applications for the Paraipan Seal of Approval or you'll be denounced to the popos.  Best thing I saw all day. Thank you psy !!! LOL. Seal of approval. Hehehe. |
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It is much cheaper getting 8*7970s than 4*7990s here in the UK etc. so I believe these boards do have a future. No need for powered extenders or racks now etc. How do you know price of 7990? Inside information. Need I say more  ? Here in the UK the 5970 still costs 400 GBP or about 633 USD while a 5870 can be had for about 180 GBP or about 284 USD so MUCH cheaper going that route rather than with dual GPU cards. Only in the US 2*5870 > 5970 in terms of price. Here it is 2*5870 < 5970 in terms of price. |
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I placed an order for 2 units the other day, haven't heard from Sonny at all. Sent him an email to confirm they received the payment and have not heard back. Have you stayed in communication this week Inuba? Bit nervous I haven't heard from them at all, last time I ordered one I got an email within a few hours confirming.(i canceled the order until a unit was in the hands of someone on this forum.)
I would give Sonny a couple days to get back. I'm sure they are working hard to deliver units right now. I received this e-mail response last night regarding future orders (so it should apply to your order for 2 units): It's best to assume 4-6 weeks from the date of purchase. It's possible delivery will come earlier as we're already into the production cycle at this point but 4-6 weeks is a safe measure.
Good luck to those that ordered. Hope you can afford to lose it all. Report on forums if they ship you one unit but I doubt it at this point in time. |
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@zhoutong thanks for answering some questions. Can you show us some paperwork on bitcoinica.com, like company registration with the local authorities, and your position in the company ? Contract or similar will do, you can blackout very sensitive information.
Can you do the same for your "business" |
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As it turns out, Art was correct - PCIE graphics manufacturers are prohibited from creating a galvanic link between PCIE power sockets.
Plug1 powers a set of voltage regulators and Plug2 - another set.
The VRM controller regulates those subsets independently and in general makes sure they behave.
So what exactly does this mean in practical terms ? Can mix and match PSUs on an individual GPU without problems ? Thanks ! |
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why not just pxeboot/tftpboot/<whatever flavour of the month network booting method> all the linux boxes, no disk, no usb flash - just sufficient RAM to store something like BAMT, a network with a list of mac addresses of the cards to boot the relevant OS, and or driver configs required.
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Yeah this would be pretty ideal. Saves using those shitty USB drives that fail ever so often. |
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