Yeah definitely. Hell I don't even need them to have coolers on them if it saves money haha

I'd be interested. Can you post specs, like what mobo, memory, cpu, psu?


Intriguing! I'd love to try 3 of those out.


Keep us up to date

Regarding settings, I don't specify the gpu threads flag in my config--I can't recall what it defaults to. Here's a rough breakdown of what I do have:

Intensity: 20
Worksize: 256
Kernel: Scrypt
Threadconcurrency: 24000
Expiry: 120
Engine: 1080
Memory: 1500
Powertune: 20
Queue: 1
Scantime: 60

Congrats on the increased hash power guys

For me, finding a 280x isn't an issue. Finding it for a price I like, is the issue. I refuse to pay $100..$200 over MSRP. $15, maybe $50 over if it's my precious MSI series. But nowhere beyond that..

Newegg and Tigerdirect seem to be on the 'well screw it, we will charge $100..$200..$300 over msrp' bandwagon. So I just keep refreshing Amazon's in-stock, and hitting 1-click-buy LOL

^- Agree.

Running the new client, it still has issues with checkpoint too old, randomly stops downloading blocks even though it's connected to the network. What gives? This is half the reason the coin died.

Not sure why this should surprise anyone. It's been discussed that the network rate would be inreasing a lot, in lumps, over the next few months. Who it comes from, to me, isn't that important, because there's lots of vendors out there working on their gear, getting it out the door, and not all of them are as public about it. My projections from a few months back are a little off because 2 of the vendors I've talked to are a little behind.

Still, the hashrate is going to skyrocket this quarter as long as the other chips fall into place. Q2 will be worse if my longterm predictions are close.

It's probably OS and/or driver related. You're running 13x drivers. I heard horror stories about folks under linux trying to use those with the 79xx series cards, so I never updated BAMT from the 12x drivers. I would say to start there, go back to whatever the latest 12x drivers were.

If that doesn't fix it, I'd say it might be Windows, but that's just a maybe. I'm thinking more driver related.

I'm using BAMT 1.1 modified (a debian OS) with 12x drivers on cgminer 3.4.2/3.

tagbond, post back your results or if you need help. I can post up what I do to bamt if you need.

24kilo & tagbond, try 1080/1500 i-20 powertune-20 on the MSI 280x's, it's what I'm running. I tried variations on engine clock from 950-1100 with 1080 being about the best so far. Everytime I twiddled with memoryclock it funked out. I get some variation in the hash, I'm not sure if it's cgminer or driver related (using old 12x drivers).

I'm on cgminer 3.4.3, will try a newer version when I get a chance. Maybe tonight.

Here's a quick snapshot of the rig with the R9's. GPU0 needs to be spaced out more:



And one of several rigs using MSI 7950's, this is the the one with the normal hottest temps. GPU1 is too close to GPU0:

I took the bamt1.1 litecoin image, burned it to USB, and the updating I did was to cgminer, the scrypt kernel and some scripts to my liking. Didn't touch the AMD drivers, since 7950/7970 drivers work for the R9 series (270/280/290).

Out of the box bamt1.1 will run the cards, just not as fast as I'm at right now (3.4.3). I'm about to move to a newer version of cgminer to see how it does.

If mining this coin could get me a day with Alessandra Torresani and/or Genevieve Buechner.. i'd mine this coin very much. Haha.

I'm getting 740ish, using BAMT 1.1 with some tweaks. It's based off of Debian I believe. No undervolting, just stock.

Yeah I'd love to grab the GPU's and/or the rigs for a good rate, but shipping it here makes me wonder if it'll take too much of a hit. Sapphire 280x's are getting 740-780 depending on which model it is. To reach 3mh you'd need 4 of them. Unless it's a 290, which can do close to 1mh per gpu.

My MSI R9 280X rig is 2.2mh, 3 @ 740kh. $300USD per GPU to my doorstep, or $240 if I'm using amazon giftcards.

Humorous prediction: Chinese govt & people will wait until the value is absolutely tanked, and then corner the market by buying the majority of bitcoin. Sometime later, they will announce bitcoin is the best thing ever. Value shoots back up, and they now control the market.

This has been asked before but I can't recall the answer--is there an explorer which can search for transactions/final balance based on wallet address?

Sam told me that yes, if you make purchases using your reseller link, it's no different than using someone else's--that particular reseller ID is credited with each sale. So if you bought 10 whatevers with your reseller ID, you will receive 1 bonus whatever.

Good read, hope to see more positive articles.

I was reading that the Chinese govt has told the exchanges they can no longer convert to fiat or deal (trade/move/etc) with fiat at all, rendering them no longer an exchange.

Anyone else confirm this?

Wonder if they're doing this to cause a drop on purpose. To what end would be the question.

I know right? One day.

You're safe for now, more MSI's became available on Amazon but before I could finish checking out, they were sold. Stupid mobile internet connection died on me lol.

Back to refreshing the inventory pages every few moments.. lol

Cool beans I'll check it out

I took my new R9 280x's offline a few hours ago to put the new coolers on, and then I got sidetracked. Just got them back online. Silence is golden.

Do you control what MPOS puts in the Miner's API? Right now it has hashrate, share rate, worker info, etc. Wondering if 'confirmed/unconfirmed' balance could be added..