I dont doubt what you guys are saying. Im sure in some situations the molex is a good idea. But to say its needed for any and all dual chips or more than 4 cards is complete bullshit. What should be said is they might be a good idea if your using cheap equipment or trying to run more cards than what your board was intended. If you have a decent board and psu that was designed for multiple cards you will not NEED the molex. Your equipment will run just fine without it and you will have saved yourself some money.
Ok. Here's what it boils down to.. the PCIE spec allows for up to 75watts to be pulled through a PCIE slot. Most cards only pull 25watts, with your higher end/dual gpu cards pulling the full amount. Some board manufacturers will cut corners and think "They won't use all 6 PCIE slots at one time, so we'll only account for 150 watts for that" and go cheap. Then you go and use risers to make more cards fit than what would normally and before you know it, you've got 6x25=150watts of draw. Ok, not an issue. The board the designed for 150 watts. If any of those cards starts pulling more than 25watts and the board was made cheaply, you're screwed. See how both sides can actually be right in this situation? It really comes down to your exact mix of hardware. So you run 6x5830s. We all know different brands run their cards slightly different. One person's 6x5830 might pull more than a different person's 6x5830s. Its easier to make a blanket statement about using molex than it is to go and explain all of this, especially to n00bs. That being said, I think 22.95 for a riser is a bit much, although I have bought some when I couldn't get them elsewhere. Interesting direction this thread has gone... I've had 3 5970s and a 5830 going strong for about 4 months on standard extenders without issue(1200watt corsair,gigabyte ud3 mb). I never thought about overdrawing power from the pcie connector but this thread has me thinking. I'm only drawing 1000w at the wall but I can't get my system to boot with any more cards. I'm thinking I need a pcie extender with molex, and that I'm lucky I haven't burnt anything out yet. With that said, I hesitently started to order one from cablesaurus. $22 is ridiculous, add $6 shipping on top of that and it's enough to make me change my mind. From the pics it looks like they just soldered a single pin molex connector to one of the exposed pcie pins. I may break out the old soldering gun and make a few myself. Anyone have any experience making their own? |
|
|
|
|
Is it possible to specify more than one merged URL and pass?
|
|
|
|
I tried to drop my 2.5 gh/s minecart in, with the same version of phoenix but running the last release of linuxcoin. I'm getting about 30% - 50% reject rate on all 7 gpus (3x5970s & 1x5830) Same miners pointing at Slush and I'm down at 1% reject rate. Does the P2P client have issues with nodes that have too many GPUs? Maybe I need to update the ATI drivers... I run a single rig with 5 GPUs and phoenix and get about 5% reject. Check your AGRESSION option. It needs to be lower for p2pool in order to get lower stales. I was getting 20-30% as well and dropped the AGRESSION from 9 down to 7 and reject rate dropped like a rock. I don't know why this is necessary, but it seems to be. Thanks, dropped aggression from 11 to 8 and no rejects yet. It did lower my hash rate by about 2.5% but that's better than 50% rejects. |
|
|
|
I'm a little confused about where the payments come from though... Does the p2pool client force multiple payments from the block solver's bitcoin client to all miners in the pool? Is another bitcoin client built into the p2pool binary?
The found-block directly includes the appropriate payments in the coinbase (the transaction that generates the 50 BTC). Instead of the 50 BTC going to one address, it goes to all of the addresses of people that have mined shares in the last N shares (usually 8640) relative to how many shares they have mined. See here for an example: http://blockchain.info/block-index/856135(see the "No Input (Newly Generated Coins)" transaction) Ok, that's really cool, I didn't know bitcoin allowed multiple addresses for payout of the found-block. So, I've got my 2 Windows miners(1x2x5870 & 1x2x6970) chugging along at about a 1% reject rate with phoenix 1.7.5. I tried to drop my 2.5 gh/s minecart in, with the same version of phoenix but running the last release of linuxcoin. I'm getting about 30% - 50% reject rate on all 7 gpus (3x5970s & 1x5830) Same miners pointing at Slush and I'm down at 1% reject rate. Does the P2P client have issues with nodes that have too many GPUs? Maybe I need to update the ATI drivers... I'm running p2p client on a central machine in my network; I would try running another p2p instance on the minecart but I'm running the OS off a 4gb USB stick and I'm not sure it could handle the current size of the Bitcoin blockchain. |
|
|
|
|
Moved ~ 1.6 gh/s to p2pool this weekend from Slush, and if all goes well this week, I'll be moving another 2.5 gh/s over next weekend.. I'll have to say, Slush hasn't had any DDOS attacks recently, and I trust he hasn't been holding any block rewards for himself, but decentralized mining pools are a natural progression for a decentralized application like bitcoin. Great work guys!
I'm a little confused about where the payments come from though... Does the p2pool client force multiple payments from the block solver's bitcoin client to all miners in the pool? Is another bitcoin client built into the p2pool binary?
|
|
|
|
Yeah, a regular US key seems to be the way to go.
If you are buying the game for someone else, yes. I purchased from gamerkeys and although VPN is not necessary it is a bit of a hassle to get running. You'll have to download the English language pack, US library and make a few registry changes to get it working. You'll have to repeat with each update as well. I'm a cheap bastard and it was worth it for me, but it would be quite a shitty burden to tie on to a gift for a friend. EA had US BF3 keys on sale for $25 a few weeks ago, I'm sure they'll do it again at some point. |
|
|
|
Running one of those fans at 100% will do more than just shorten its life a bit... there's a good chance it wont make it past a few weeks. Those fans are notorious for failing and aren't meant to run at 100 percent duty. I keep spares around and have already gone through 2 of them. The two fans that I ended up replacing were brand new and only a couple weeks old. My girlfriend forgot to turn up my window fan one day and the room got pretty warm. The GPU fans had ramped up to 76 percent to compensate. One fan failed and the other fan failed 2 days later. All of the cards that weren't at the top of the room did just fine.
Is this true? I've been mining with reference 5970s and 6970s at 100% for the past 3 months and just received my first reference 5870s from Ben's last week. They've been running at 100% for a week with no issues. Is there a defect in the 5870 fan design that isn't present in 5970s and 6970s? |
|
|
|
|
Mine came with the 101 bios, no problems managing clocks manually for mining but haven't tried gaming yet. Where did you guys get the 107 bios? The latest OEM bios is v103 on tech powerup
|
|
|
|
|
Be careful with this site. I had about 6800 namejack chips and my account balance went to zero a couple weeks ago. I emailed the site owner December 21st and have still not received a response.
|
|
|
|
|
Difficulty has gone down 20% tonight, but trade rate has gone down 25% or more since the last difficulty change. If mining was not profitable for them then, it still shouldn't be.
|
|
|
|
|
Honest seller, thanks again.
|
|
|
|
|
That registry key is not the same for everyone, it is uniquely generated by origin, you'll just have to dig through all existing sub keys or do a registry search starting from the origin dir. Also want to note that the battlefield install is actually under the origin games dir and the instructions left out dropping the English dll.
|
|
|
|
Got ours in, thanks. Can you provide a little more detail on the English patch? Is it necessary for all versions? Mine says "Russian standard edition". What exactly does the patch do? Is it just adding a language pack that's freely available?
Yes it is required for all versions unless you want to play in russian. The instructions are available here. http://gamerkeys.net/Battlefield-3-Instructions.htm Ok, that's a bit more helpful. You may want to resend the "your order is ready" emails as that link is not included, just a direct link to the patch executable. If the registry update and language pack drop is a manual process, what exactly is the executable doing? |
|
|
|
|
Got ours in, thanks. Can you provide a little more detail on the English patch? Is it necessary for all versions? Mine says "Russian standard edition". What exactly does the patch do? Is it just adding a language pack that's freely available?
|
|
|
|
new at the trading thing
just sold some stuff to Crazy Blane and he's good for his word
Same goes for ashklton, honest trader and good deeal. |
|
|
|
|
As mining profits shrink I'm trying to think of some other cool ways to use my system. I noticed that DVD Fab and a few other applications can utilize ATI GPUs for converting video. I wonder if I can put the 10k+ stream proccessors in my mine cart to use compressing blurays in a few minutes time. Anyone have any experience with these applications? Do they support multiple GPU's? Any Linux based software out there?
|
|
|
|
Come one month after the sale, is born again scammer Jake still going to be looking to improve his karma and return your money?
Yes. Anything else? I guess that settles it, if the yes is underlined it must be true. I am kind of curious what your role is in this sale. I also noticed you defending user "terrytibbs" in another thread. He sold me a spotify membership a few weeks ago that was purchased with a stolen credit card. Are you the hero status member that gives credibility to shady deals without taking flak directly when things go wrong? Are you snorting coke as you type? Provide a link. I don't even know who that user is. Jake however I've taken under my wing so to speak. EDIT: As for my role-- completely uninterested peacekeeper. This entire deal stinks, along with its presentation, but I'm here to make sure it doesn't end up in 20 users bashing someone for poor judgement. No coke snorting in crawl spaces. I was just looking through terrytibbs posts. Speaking on your indignation of the "SCAMMER" tag https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg574673#msg574673For an uninterested peacekeeper, you seem pretty interested in this deal. What's your cut? My cut is having a jr developer that is a part of a much larger organization not fuck up everything he's worked on to build. What's your cut for your paranoia? Like you said, this deal stinks. I don't want to see anyone get scammed. Sounds like an interesting work environment though, I've never heard of a legitimate organization that encourages their junior developers to sell black market gift cards. I guess it's one way to keep your your organization afloat in a down economy. Good luck! What kind of mental acrobatics must you be doing to continuously cherry-pick your conclusions from parts of messages you "like" and "don't like". I bet money you're a tweaker. Can you find the part of my message that said I signed off on this or that I even knew he had posted it, much less encouraged him to? This is totally a private thing he decided to do on his own. The only reason I'm here is because I don't have any reason to believe his supplier is intending to defraud anyone, nor Jake any intention of defrauding anyone in the community. I'm also willing to cover any losses in the off chance something did happen unexpectedly, namely because I've already told Jake privately that this kind of business is only 'bad business', and he won't be doing anything like this in the future. That doesn't however change the fact that the offer is already out there, and that there is already a would be customer so... If it's all the same to the community, I'd rather him delete this thread, but since he already has a would-be buyer, I told him that's twice as bad and twice as scammy looking. It's up to you guys. I vote he apologize for wasting time, admit it was a bad business idea, and stop posting shit without checking with us first. If you want to go through with it, stop arguing with me about it and wait for him to get the product. I'll be back if something happens. Ok, I get it now.. You're like a mob boss and Lil' Jakey is a "friend of yours" but not yet a "friend of the family". You specialize in robbing big banks but Jakey has gone off and robbed a small time motel and killed a hooker. You're gonna vouch for him cause if he screws up you'll both be swimming with the fishes. |
|
|
|
Come one month after the sale, is born again scammer Jake still going to be looking to improve his karma and return your money?
Yes. Anything else? I guess that settles it, if the yes is underlined it must be true. I am kind of curious what your role is in this sale. I also noticed you defending user "terrytibbs" in another thread. He sold me a spotify membership a few weeks ago that was purchased with a stolen credit card. Are you the hero status member that gives credibility to shady deals without taking flak directly when things go wrong? Are you snorting coke as you type? Provide a link. I don't even know who that user is. Jake however I've taken under my wing so to speak. EDIT: As for my role-- completely uninterested peacekeeper. This entire deal stinks, along with its presentation, but I'm here to make sure it doesn't end up in 20 users bashing someone for poor judgement. No coke snorting in crawl spaces. I was just looking through terrytibbs posts. Speaking on your indignation of the "SCAMMER" tag https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg574673#msg574673For an uninterested peacekeeper, you seem pretty interested in this deal. What's your cut? My cut is having a jr developer that is a part of a much larger organization not fuck up everything he's worked on to build. What's your cut for your paranoia? Like you said, this deal stinks. I don't want to see anyone get scammed. Sounds like an interesting work environment though, I've never heard of a legitimate organization that encourages their junior developers to sell black market gift cards. I guess it's one way to keep your organization afloat in a down economy. Good luck! |
|
|
|
Come one month after the sale, is born again scammer Jake still going to be looking to improve his karma and return your money?
Yes. Anything else? I guess that settles it, if the yes is underlined it must be true. I am kind of curious what your role is in this sale. I also noticed you defending user "terrytibbs" in another thread. He sold me a spotify membership a few weeks ago that was purchased with a stolen credit card. Are you the hero status member that gives credibility to shady deals without taking flak directly when things go wrong? Are you snorting coke as you type? Provide a link. I don't even know who that user is. Jake however I've taken under my wing so to speak. EDIT: As for my role-- completely uninterested peacekeeper. This entire deal stinks, along with its presentation, but I'm here to make sure it doesn't end up in 20 users bashing someone for poor judgement. No coke snorting in crawl spaces. I was just looking through terrytibbs posts. Speaking on your indignation of the "SCAMMER" tag https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.msg574673#msg574673For an uninterested peacekeeper, you seem pretty interested in this deal. What's your cut? |
|
|
|
|
Show Posts
