For me pool works without any problems for few hours already. How about you?
Fine and dandy since that little down time, I'm a happy camper. |
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It's not worth it. I've done the calculations many times, and every time, the 5850/5830 wins out on electrical usage and MHash/$ compared to the 6990.
My friend bought two 6990's, but only because he is one of the types to buy top-end stuff if he is going to buy anything at all. I make more MH/s than him and spent several hundred less.
totally agree, got a bud that picked up a 6990 when he got into mining, i chose 3 5870's for the same price.  Actually I think I might've paid less than his 6990 while getting more m/hash So 3 5870's consume <= power than a single 6990? Heh, I may have to change my plans for future rigs  for sure it consumes more power, but I also have 50% more hashing power, roughly. I'm getting 400m/hash with each 5870, can oc it some more to get a little more juice but eh. While the 6990 is 700-800mhash depending on clocks. 1.2ghash>800mhash One other thing; a 5870 costs ~ 400 each; and you get 400MH/s out of it. A 6990 costs ~750, but I easily get 830MH/s out of it. Just curious how this works out in the favor of the 5870? I picked mines up for around 230-250 each |
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It's not worth it. I've done the calculations many times, and every time, the 5850/5830 wins out on electrical usage and MHash/$ compared to the 6990.
My friend bought two 6990's, but only because he is one of the types to buy top-end stuff if he is going to buy anything at all. I make more MH/s than him and spent several hundred less.
totally agree, got a bud that picked up a 6990 when he got into mining, i chose 3 5870's for the same price. Actually I think I might've paid less than his 6990 while getting more m/hash So 3 5870's consume <= power than a single 6990? Heh, I may have to change my plans for future rigs for sure it consumes more power, but I also have 50% more hashing power, roughly. I'm getting 400m/hash with each 5870, can oc it some more to get a little more juice but eh. While the 6990 is 700-800mhash depending on clocks. 1.2ghash>800mhash |
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For all those curious about the newly arriving Mining/Computer Hardware Chassis, pictures will be up of the first model this weekend and orders will begin.
This model will be a rack mountable solution.
Shipments will take about a week to begin, more details and pictures to follow.
can't wait to see it |
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It's not worth it. I've done the calculations many times, and every time, the 5850/5830 wins out on electrical usage and MHash/$ compared to the 6990.
My friend bought two 6990's, but only because he is one of the types to buy top-end stuff if he is going to buy anything at all. I make more MH/s than him and spent several hundred less.
totally agree, got a bud that picked up a 6990 when he got into mining, i chose 3 5870's for the same price. Actually I think I might've paid less than his 6990 while getting more m/hash |
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Hey slush, I was just wondering why my share was so low on this round.  Thanks ^_^, same here, that round was unusually low for me. I think maybe the pool had a dc problem. |
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I've run the numbers and it isn't worth it to buy 6990s compared to a cheaper video card. Unless someone has limited space in their apt, and can only run 1 rig with all 6990s vs 2 rigs with all 5830s. Unless you've found a cache of used 6990s for 50% off, I can't see why someone would build with 6990s? Maybe my math is off
factor in electricity too and your view might change a bit. |
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I was hoping for a command line program - not an msi board
MSI Afterburner is what the clocking software is called. |
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Damn!
5043 2011-06-02 16:46:17 3:05:53 1671479 - invalid
5042 2011-06-02 13:40:24 1:48:14 981119 - invalid
Bloody long runs .. and with no payout! Probably due to network problems these precious block did not get to propagate fast enough.
I was just about to ask a general "wtf..." How is that even right? |
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I switched to slush's pool and then regretably back to my previous pool again. I did leave Slush as my backup but the reason I switched is I got and still get constant "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC". I don't have this with other pools and am using win7 guiminer.
I feel your pain, if this keeps up for another day or two I will also be looking for another pool. I hate it when I'm out and I check the site only to see my miners are down. It usually reconnects, but twice already when I went out and one of them refuse to reconnect, so I had to go home just to click the start button again... |
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was mining through a pool for the first week..went solo after i got to 1.2 ghash/s and found 50.05 btc in 6 hours..ill be switching back to a pool now after the next increase  lucky bastid  |
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thx for the hint, the second line I found myself. Problem is this made my trouble worse. After adding the EULA-Line the memclock is nailed to 1250Mhz. Up it goes but not under the stock speed.  changing the config file doesn't always unlock your vid card for msi ab, if you can't change it I suggest using AMD GPU Tool. It will let you change the clocks but it doesn't have a fan feature, so use it to set clocks and then use MSI to set fan. This was the only method that worked for me because MSI wouldn't work. Had to scoury alot of oc forums, and this combo really works if you can do it alone with MSI AB. |
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in all fairness, i'm actually pretty happy with this 516000 number, thats a small increase compared to that last difficulty bump
Know what I'm saying! I was worried last increase that it'll keep being like that. |
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Glad you're on top of it, I was about to jump ship if this went on for another day.
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Downclock the memory to as low as you can go without crashing, it should lower the temps a bit. Also if the 2 cards have very little room in between each other use something to space them out, not sure if you know what I mean. Some pics of rigs using pieces of plastic or w/e just to give them that extra centimeter of space help quite alot.
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This would be awesome, I'm currently using GUI Miner already and its great. I can't wait for this to go through a little more testing, it'll probably be healthier for my CPU since someone brought up that phoenix takes less cpu resources. My quad core is pretty warm right now and always 70-90% load on all 4 cores.
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Use Phoenix instead of poclbm.
My personal experience is that poclbm can put quite a load on the CPU. With Phoenix (phatk) I've never seen any load, maybe 2-4% now and then.
can phoenix be used through GUI Miner? I think Kiv put a bounty up a few days ago, but not sure if it can be done yet. |
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I'm mining with 3 5870's on win 7 on a quadcore and the average load on all 4 cores is 70-80% most of the time and goes beyond that alot of times depending on what I'm doing on the computer. Anyone have experience with this and how to relieve the cpu from cranking like this all the time?
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if you don't plan to overclock don't expect 1500-1600
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Shorting the presence detect pins should correct this issue, one would bridge pins A1 & B17 as in this picture:  A 24-ga wire should slide right into place without forcing. This is something that seems to effect a small percentage of motherboards, while on the majority it won't be necessary. Ok shorting the pins work! If your comp won't pick up from a pcie 1x slot short it like this picture. At first it didn't work for me probably because I didn't have a solid connection since the holes are so small. |
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