I'm gonna think about and comment on the new post soon.

I'm writing this time because I saw there was a payout to my wallet earlier, even tho I had set it to 10btc automatic, it paid out when I had 4btc, and the automatic payment was reset to 1btc.

Hehe thank you, I'm glad to finally find a block here as well, just recently (before I switched all my miners over to this pool) found a block on BTCguild, and started mining in general just over a month ago

Thank you for providing us with the service.

I was looking through the site, and while I could agree to the TERMS, I'm not sure I could accept too high THERMS @ https://bitporium.com/index.php?main_page=conditions

(no pun intended!! just a heads up)

Thank you!

After trying the URL, getting an error in firefox, installing chrome, retrying the url in chrome, I finally googled it, and found out it's for linux, Im a winblows nab, and can't for the love of bitcoins, figure out how I get the r110. Please help me, Im getting balder by the minute.

Perhaps a stupid question, but where can I get the r110 version? When I go to the SVN it shows r112
I am getting a whole lot of idles and restarts on btcguild with the newest version.

Forgot to mention, I am not too willing to overvolt, as far as I can understand, the increase in power usage is too big compared to the mh/s gained.

Perhaps I'm looking for too much, since not all cards are made equal, and there is a reason for why the 5870 is set to 850mhz stock and not 900, but I feel that I'm cheating myself with a 50-60mhz overclock, and from reading the forums, I get the idea, I should be able to get it a bit higher, even on stock volt.

Any experience from people with 5870's with regards to the OC would be great, especially memory speeds.

And again with regards to stability, I get the idea that it's not small signs you look for (i.e. miners restarting), but drivers crashing, BSOD, reboot, etc.

Thanks for your reply.

I know why the memory speeds are lowered, and I think 300 is good for the 5850's, I was more wondering about the 5870, have been looking at the Mining Charts, looking through forums, and it's hard to get an idea of the current popular/working memory speeds. The other thing I wanted to ask about was how much I should push the overclock, until the drivers crash/system hangs/reboots? What about the random miner restarts and increased stales? Could it be a sign of approaching the OC limit? Or is it more likely that it's because of my wireless network card.

The temps shouldn't be a problem, I made a custom case (ugly as ****, but works) and have a huge room fan just next to it, the hottest card gets around 67 degrees celsius if it's really hot outside.

Hi all.

I have been playing around with overclocking my cards, 2x5850 1x5870, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right.

My 5850's are clocked at 885/300 and spit out around 366mh/s, I think that's not too bad. The 5870 on the other hand, I have a feeling Im not pushing enough. It's currently clocked at 910/300 and spitting out ~412mh/s. When reading up on other people's results, I noticed that different memory speeds are used, generally between 300-350, how does the core clock correlate to the memory clocks?

How much should I push a card? It may seem as a stupid question, but other than BSOD's, freezing up, rebooting the pc, is there things that can indicate unstable OC? Noticed at higher clocks my miner restarts more often, but to be honest I cannot rule out that it's simply something with the internet-connection between me and btcguild (Im in Europe). Higher overclocks also gives me higher stale counts, can raising the memory speed decrease those? The system itself does not hang or anything, so that is why I'm not sure if the cards are pushed enough. Should I just overclock till the system restarts, shows visible graphic errors, etc, and then set the core clock down like 5-10mhz?

I am using Windows 7 32bit, AOCLBF 1.75, Phoenix 1.5 with the 07-17-11 kernel, AMD 11.7 with included SDK.
Motherboard Asus P5K, C2D e6850 (or e6750, can't recall atm) 2x1gb RAM, Wireless network card (could that mess with my stale share count/miner restarts?)
Two Sapphire Xtreme 5850's and one XFX 5870 HD-587X-ZNFV.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ever since I updated to 11.7 on Win7 32bit, it seems the cards cannot stay stable at the same overclock speeds, the miner is restarting pretty often (seldom get to 1000 shares before restart). Currently trying to find a setting that doesn't restart the miners that much.

I have a noobish question.

When you peeps overclock, how do you see if the card is hitting the limit? I am using Win7 32bit with AOCLBF, monitoring load/temps with Afterburner, OC'ing with Trixx. Should I keep an eye on the GPU load graphs/AOCLBF for restarts? Or will the cards simply hang/reboot the system? (even if it's a multi-gpu setup, and I'm OC'ing one of the cards not hooked up to the monitor?)
Sorry if these questions are noobish, just trying to get the most out of my 5850's and 5870 on stock voltage.

Thanks in advance.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong, better ask.

I have a couple of 5850's and a 5870 in a system, and whenever I try to OC the cards to 900 core, I seem to get more stales etc. The weird thing is, both the 5850's and the 5870 are hitting the same "wall" 900/300 they seem to get more stales, they restart a tad more often I think, 898/300 they seem fine.

I haven't done extensive testing, but somehow I feel it's not really the cards, but more my way of OC'ing. Any tips and tricks? How do I see if I pushed the card to the limit, only 1 of them is connected to a monitor, so I am guessing it's the only one that could make the system "hang" or am I wrong? Im using Trixx to OC, Afterburner to monitor temps, gpu load. The 5850's are Sapphire Xtreme's and the 5870 is a XFX.

Windows 7 32bit, AMD 11.7, AOCLBF 1.75, Phoenix 1.5, PhatK 07-17-11 (BFI_INT, Vectors, Aggression 13, Worksize 256)
5850a   898/300  ~369MH/s
5850b   898/300  ~369MH/s
5870     898/300  ~408MH/s

Thanks for any help/tips in advance.

Great service!

I don't quite understand how the Jackpot and the "X Prizes total worth XXXX" are working, could you please explain?

Perhaps it's on my end, but Im not sure.

My miners have been getting a lot of idles over 8 secs in duration and my setting makes them restart, after it occurs 2 times within 2 minutes they go to backup pool for 8 minutes. Is there anything wrong with the servers? Im using win7 32bit, AOCLBF with Phoenix 1.5, and the 7-17-11 PhatK Kernel, my gfx's seem to run stable, but yeah a lot of restarts and idles.. and I think 8 secs idle before restarting is a long time already, am I wrong? Should I use other settings?
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Finally! After ~7.5mill. shares

Is there any way to discourage/punish people who leave while we have long rounds? I mean, all of us know that by switching pool, we could be getting more for our time, but it makes the round so much longer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it has something to do with the older blocks having more transaction fees in them than the newer ones, so they get higher priority.

Have you checked if the extender is working correctly? Have you tried to unplug one of the cards in the 2 primary slots, and see if the extender works? Are you sure the PSU is big enough? Just trying to help. I have the same mobo, but haven't tried a 3rd gfx yet, getting one soon but still need an extender cable, so can't confirm or deny anytime soon. I haven't been able to find anything online about the 1x slot not working when using the 2 other ones tho.

Does anyone know for sure?

I haven't been home most of the day, so I can't be more specific about the times, but my 2 workers keep reverting back to my backup pool (not btcguild), I think they have been doing that most of today, they are pointed to log on us.btcguild, anyone else having those issues?

Once again, thanks for a great pool!

To above posters, AOCLBF with Phoenix will solve your backup pool problems.

edit: Forgot about the linux peeps, just shows how much of a WinBlows nab I am. Pardon me good folks.