usagi, is "mom and pop" a computer store? never heard of something like that. what city/state is this located in? must be a small town or something.

or am i just really confused about what you just said? 

i just got a brand new powercolor 6950 1gb, good thing is that it's flashable with no hardware mod, but i couldn't unlock the shaders. oh well, it's 1gb version so i didn't really expect shaders to unlock. i just wanted it to be flashable without hardware mod, which it was

you might have missed it, but i said that you need to short the two presence pins when using a pci-e x1 extender. when connecting the card using a x1 cable to a x16 slot, you HAVE to short the pins. when connecting the card using a x16 cable to a x16 slot, you DON'T have to short any pins. when connecting the card using a x1 cable to a x1 slot, you DON'T have to short any pins. is this clear now? i'm not sure i can be any more clear than that lol. i have not tested 5 or 6 cards at the same time yet, but i tested all the slots, and this i said is true for this specific motherboard

i can vouch for this guy, hes a good seller. i bought a 5830 off him and he shipped very fast.

free bump for you!

that thing is totally creative and beautiful. although i do question the durability of it. one karate chop and it will shatter to pieces  

nope, not gonna put windows on it since i would need a huge flash drive for that. if i'm gonna go the flash drive route, i'll be putting linux on it. but my main question was if it's possible to get a linux mining machine in a 1gb flash drive footprint.

i have two of these MSI 890FX GD70 boards, and i can confirm that you need to short the two presence pins when using a pci-e x1 extender. when using a x16 extender, it will work fine, but x1 will need presence pins shorted, otherwise the motherboard will NOT recognized that the cards are plugged in, whether you have then powered with the 6pin pci-e cable or not. either buy x16 extender cables, or short the presence pins for all the pci-e slots that you're plugging in.

shorting them was a huge pain the ass for me because the hole to insert the wire was so small, and the wire was so flimsy.

if you're looking to sell this dual 6990 mining rig, why are you requiring the buyer to also buy the 9 other cases? you might want to sell the complete mining rig separately from the other 9 chasis

corsair voyager huh? ok thanks, i'll probably look for one or two of these to pick up. are there any other ones i should consider besides the voyager series?

i have two sealed powercolor 6950 1gb to trade. ideally i want to trade it for a reference 5870, but if someone wants to straight up buy it instead, i could probably do that too. so you're basically getting a brand new 6950 for a used 5870. if you want to buy, then maybe $230 $220 $210 shipped.

terms if you're buying: i'm accepting paypal or amazon payment. i'm NOT accepting bitcoins or dwolla, i went through too much stress on my last BTC and dwolla payments. if you HAVE to pay with bitcoins or dwolla, i may consider it only if you have a lot of prior transaction references. these terms are pretty simple, if you don't agree to them, then don't bother contacting me.

reference to newegg, $250 + shipping:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131389

no need to apologize, everything has already been said and done, it won't undo all of these scams... but thank you anyways for the apology. i believe this is the biggest scam on this forum, involving at least 8 victims to the same guy. i'll be sending you a PM in a few minutes on all his info i know to be posted on your website. but i think all that information is already on this thread.

what surprises me is that even after i posted this thread and spammed his new sale thread to NOT buy his stuff, people still bought his stuff and even the same 6990s that i had already paid for and later wanted out. i didn't even get the supposed refund for the 6990s yet, and 1 or 2 people still paid for them

i've been talking to dwolla, they finally suspended his dwolla account so makes it a little harder to move money from mtgox to his bank account, or scam others directly paying with dwolla. i could probably post my chat with them later

lol OP i can't even tell if you're being serious or not. if it's a serious request, then just delete this thread, it's a useless offer.

LOL this accusation is kinda funny. those silly questions proves nothing, and also you can decide whether to tell the truth or not, which dwolla has to decide if they believe you or not.

this was written on sunday, but i chose not to publicly post it, until now:

for all those that side with Leon, did you bother reading all the PMs and looked at what was said privately before jumping to conclusions? how am i the shady one? am i suppose to just sit here and wait for the other half of my payment to clear so he can run with all of it? or can i ask questions after seeing a lot of red flags?

now i'll admit that i'm an idiot and didn't do a quick background check before sending payment. how about you consider these red flags about Leon:

• he joined the forum on july 12, and racked over 120 posts in two days, right before posting his sell thread. and of these 120 posts, most of them are within a few minutes of each other. seems like characteristics of spam posts to me for the purpose of building post count reputation
  

• he was marked and banned as a scammer on other forums (link), like other exchange or online money forums.

• attempted to change account name (link) when opening another sale thread after the first one after the deal with me started to get sour. why hide under a different user name?? not the smartest scammer in the world, at least change your avatar picture if you're going to try to be someone else

• after he already received payment for the 6990s from me, he marked them as SOLD, but only a few hours he completely took this "sold" status off so it's available again. why do this? so others can also pay for the same items that i alread paid for? when i saw this, i posted in his thread saying i already bought and paid for the 6990s, so that no one else falls for it and buys it too. that's also in hopes that if someone else also paid for them, they would come out and say something like "oh wait, but i though i already paid for them as well!". a day after all this, he just deleted the whole first post and replaced it with "sold".

• he supposedly sold all 5x 5830 and 2x 6990, how did he manage to get another 5 brand new 5830 to sell in a new thread? unless he doesn't have any of it and just trying to get as many people as possible to pay for non-existent items.

• he bought all these cards off newegg, so after i suspected something is wrong, i asked for pictures and/or a screenshot of the invoices (refer to the PMs). he could not provide any of these, but yet he was so readily to provide me screenshots (1, 2, 3 link) of him receiving my BTC and withdrawing it to his bank after converting it to dollars. no invoice or pictures because he never had the card to begin with? of course he was under no obligation to give these, but if this were me i would have no trouble to provide invoices or pictures.

• no prior references of past transactions. i asked for ebay, heatware, or anything else and he said he couldn't remember his ebay account. seriously??

• just look at the excuses and runaround he is giving me, refer back to the PMs that i publicly posted.  the things he’s said has no real content behind them, just see through it. he basically just says over and over that I demand things, and tries to turn it around to say I’m the scammer. please show me in the original PM how i can possibly be the scammer, or where my real demands were.

seriously, with all these flags, if you were in my shoes you would just sit back so 100% of the money will clear and he will just run with it? i just thought that someone with half a brain can connect all the dots, it’s pretty black and white. this is too much trouble for me, since i'm supposedly getting a refund and the two 6990s are now up for grabs, why don't someone else just buy it then? it's actually a great price at $410...

yes, ALL the HD5xxx cards works fine when underclocking the memory, but NONE of the 6xxx cards can get to the 300mhz memory range. i used MSI afterburner for both series

hmm very interesting idea. maybe someone can be a guinea pig and try this. where would you be finding these pci-e splitters? the only place i saw that has these is here, which i bet will cost a buttload:

http://www.amfeltec.com/products/x4pcie-splitter4.php

what type of 5850 cards are they? if they're the non-reference designs that doesn't shoot most of the heat out in the back, then the card in the first slot will have the highest temps in most setups. that's because the heat goes upwards, and the this top card will recycle the heated air from all the bottom cards.

as for the memory underclocking, just use MSI afterburner and after you configure your config file, the upper and lower memory limit should be removed. i just posted on how to do that in another thread:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=30032

are your pci-e presence pins shorted correctly? the hole to stick the wire in is so small and the wire is so flimsy that sometimes it doesn't actually make contact with one of the pins. i also had a problem similar to this one, and all i did was reseat the wires and it worked fine afterwards.