Found a the same card for 25 bucks cheaper at ncixus (http://www.ncixus.com/products/?sku=62694&vpn=AX6870X2%202GBD5-2DHG&manufacture=PowerColor&promoid=1365)

Not a great card but if your going for megahash per server this is almost in par with 6990's and 5970's and it beats them in megahash/$

Shut up let them fight to the death! I want to see blood and then when one is down yochdog needs to give the thumbs down and let them be executed.

Overclocked 5850's generate more than this My rig is set up for 920/325 and its 5 cards. According to my kw reader its about 1kw so closer to 170w per card.

But way over spending

I'm not interested but why is it that big of a deal to point the miners to the buyers choosing?

It's a good board I own two. Yea after you reach 5-6 cards your reaching the top end of psu's. If you add any more your going to need dual psu's.

Depends on where you live and what your plan is. It can be cheaper but you will get a significantly lower amount of bitcoins. If you pay less then 10 cents a kwh no matter what time of day it is your better off mining 24/7. If you pay upwards of 20 cents a kwh it might be wise to only use it on the off peak hours.

In short it honestly depends on your situation.

Just a heads up. Some motherboards have 6+ pcie slots but don't allow you to use them all. What board do you have? Also I'm pretty sure the limit is 8 gpu's not 8 physical graphics cards so you couldn't run 7 6990's on one mobo as they have dual gpu's.

bumping because I bought a ticket and want to actually have a chance to win this

I'm at work but I have a rig on win7 32 bit with 5 5850's. It gets around 1950 megahash.

I bought a ticket. I trust CanaryInTheMine and don't think he'd try to screw us.

I'm assuming its a typo 2600 makes a bit more sense then 1600. That's 433 per core.

Reading is your friend.

I think its been a month since I've seen a new 5830 at a store. They honestly might be gone.

Thats true normally but it's been over a month since I've seen a store sell a 5830 so they are becoming increasingly rare. I still think 130 is reasonable for a used one but being frugal I tend to wait for good deals. It's just all a matter of how long your willing to wait.

I'd personally say it isn't worth it. What I would do is try to buy a used 5830 which will give you about the same hash power and ask if they are willing to ship internationally. If you can pick up a used 5830 for 110 usd (76.8 euros) it will most definitely cost less maybe even by a wide margin.

As a side question for you are all Europeans forced to pay like 20% then Americans? Is 20% even the expected price hike?

I'd personally say if your paying more then 130 your getting ripped off. The highest I'd probably buy one used would be 110.

It all comes down to guaranteed money or speculative money. Businesses do this all the time. Why do you think they give you a discount for a year of their service and the most expensive one is monthly? It's because since they are guaranteed to get that amount of money they are willing to throw in incentives (lower prices). When a user buys only one month the risk is that they will stop after the first month and the company will no longer get paid.

This applies to renting bitcoin servers because if for some reason bitcoins hits the fan they still have guaranteed money. While its not as profitable its much safer and a better way to guarantee long term profits.

not powered I edited my original post as well.

Any increase in speed for the 5xxx cards?