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lol i applaud you for starting the first donation, but with only 0.02 BTC, it's gonna take quite a long while for 100k
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there's also the factor of newly mined coins that holds some kind of value for some people. when you mine, then you know these virgin coins has never been touched by anyone else  , whereas if you only buy coins, you know for sure it has already been "used". like mentioned before in this thread, mining is not always about selling right away for a profit. it's about the value of newly minted coins, which pure traders will never see. |
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100,000 BTC is a lot, with the amount of greed these days, i don't really see the community donating that much just to keep them running for a year
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my highest outputting rigs has 3x 5850 and 1x 5870, all overclocked, draws about 750w from the wall using a 850w gold efficiency PSU
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thanks, good to know. how come i've seen crunching setups that are about 1gb size? so it's not possible to get a miner started with anything less than a 4gb flash drive?
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if these ASIC machines are real it would be very interesting. but why take down payment in BTC? why can't you take it in paypal or a more reliable type of payment? pictures of this prototype would mean a lot, and you can't reverse engineer everything from just pictures, especially with 10 boards stacked on each other.
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i also forgot to add that even the small x1 pci-e does not even use all the pins on there. i got a bad on from hong kong, and it was missing some 3.3v and ground pins, but the video card still works fine when using this defective extension. whether or not it's bad for my card or hurt the longevity of it, i do not know.
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Do you just make up shit to make up shit? I think you do, for one your payment hasn't cleared, second I told you when you would get your refund I believe on page two.
you just contradicted yourself. if you're refunding me, why wait for my dwolla payment to clear? shouldn't it be you giving me back my first payment instead of waiting for my second payment to also be in your hands? now i already sent the money request on dwolla yesterday, all you had to do was press "accept", which you have yet to do. is there a reason why you haven't done it yet? because obviously you have the money available to refund, you just haven't done it yet. |
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well then it's monday, and no tracking number or refund yet on the cleared payment. by the end of the day if me and the other member(s) that already paid for the stuff don't get confirmation like he said he would on monday, then it's pretty much confirmed. now i know his log in online status and posting habits, he was online almost EVERY hour from all of friday up until sunday noon, and it just so happens that after i sent the dwolla refund money request to his dwolla account, he never logged in to this forum again. i think he already fled with my money, but i'll just give him the benefit of the doubt and wait until the end of the day.
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Wow asher, you've got some balls to do that to your card! How did you figure out those pins needed to be shorted? How are you going to reverse it to take advantage of warranty without them being able to tell you did it? Shaders unlock gives you about 40 more Mhash, but I don't know that it's worth voiding the warranty like that. Kudos.
he can just put the wire and gum back and reflash |
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hey this is an awesome guide. it would have saved me a lot of time, although material does cost a little more than what i started building. i used a bunch of aluminum angled (L) bars to make the frame, and rivets to hold them together. not completely finished yet because my dog just chewed the drill's power cord in half, so i can't continue until i get a replacement drill  have you tested a one of the Cablesaurus x1->x16 cables? really interested in how those ones specifically work out.
if i remember correctly, i think when using the x1 pci-e extension cable, i had to short the two presence pins together on each of the pci-e slots for my MSI 890FX-GD70. i think it's easier to just use a x16 cable |
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so based on the comments so far, 4gb flash drive is minimum for mining? i think i remember seeing people use a very small footprint of 512mb or 1gb space on linux for crunching or folding setups for both the CPU and GPU  just a little reality check, you're not going to gain that much.
even if you were running a ridiculous hard drive like a seagate cheetah 15k, you'll only gain about 5 or so watts by switching to a flash drive.
If your rig is anything like mine (single 6870, about 300W total system draw while mining), that's about 1.6% hashes/joule efficiency gained, and less if you're running multiple cards.
it's not about the extra power draw difference between a mechanical HD and a flash drive, it's about cost and setup. it'd rather spend $5-10 on a flash drive than a cheap $30 hard drive, and also when the mining hardware just lays on the table, it saves a little bit of space, especially when having multiple mining setups on the same table. |
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Hi clondeone, I'll take it off your hands for $1300. PM me if you want to sell.
this kind of offer is not even a lowball, it's straight up insulting. unless it's just a typo and you meant to say $2300 instead of $1300 |
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they were able to sell norton keys so low because i believe frys or newegg sometimes had these FREE after a mail in rebate, and they sometimes comes as "family pack" that includes 3 keys. i believe i saw some people selling them on other forums for pretty cheap also, let me see if i can refer you to those sell threads on the other forums.
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started with a HD5670, later added a few 5870s, 5850s, and 5830s 1x5770 Added anothe one 2 days later Added 3x6970 3 weeeks later. Next week I add 5 6970 A week later I add 33 6970
Ordered, paid  Waiting  33x 6970 in one order is freakin crazy! |
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has anyone tried to shave off some mining hardware costs and bought flash drives for the OS instead of using regular mechanical hard drives? i know this is possible and it's more ideal for linux. i'm going to need at least a 16gb flash drive for win7 right? is it possible to have all mining settings set up using a 1gb flash drive on linux? i know nothing about linux, but if this is possible, i'm wiling to learn it if the OS can fit in this small footprint. any comments on this would be great, thanks!
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like Jen said, try using a mobo with onboard video, and only put that bricked 5870 in there to flash it.
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i have chained two together before, and it works fine. just keep in mind that pci-e signals are not designed to travel across long distances of cable. two 19inch cables worked fine for me, i have not tried 3 yet.
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i never once had the captchas problem. it's always the case the looking at the letters very carefully, but i'm pretty much stating the obvious
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agreeing to refund someone and ACTUALLY refunding them are two completely different things.
in all honesty, if you could have refunded his BitCoins as BitCoins, its so simple to do so and has plenty of community verification via Block Explorer, I don't see why you wouldn't have just for the sake taking the high ground.
Instead it became a public show. I understand why Leon choose to come public after haploid brought this to the public eye, you didn't want to give any impression that you were scamming him. Not coming public would have put a more negative light on you. However, both of your attitudes overall in this whole mess harm BOTH of your reputations in the long wrong.
it had to become public, otherwise i wouldn't have gotten my money back. he states in one of his last few PMs to me :" Im in no way in hell refunding you..." Lol the demands from this guy never end even after agreeing to refund him, I'm not going to call your bank and cancel your pending payment, thats up to you. I don't even think I could stop it even if I wanted to, and I looked for an option on dwolla but I don't see one. If they have that option let me know exactly where to go, otherwise you need to call your bank.
As for the request to receive a refund in dwolla instead of BTC, that is fine by me.
thank you, but please actually follow through with the refund. BTC value was $13.73 when i sent the coins, so i sent total $392.95 worth of BTC. you keep $30 of it like i offered, so it's a refund of $362.95. i just sent that requst to you on dwolla. accept the request when you can, so we can just get this over with please. |
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