I just received my RMA XFX 5830 back. They gave me the older style with only 2 heat pipes. The newer one that I bought had about five. Anyway, in my machine, the new style consistantly stays at about 59-60c while the older style is always 10C (or more) hotter. The newer style is at 80% fan speed and the older one is at 100%. It's a pretty big difference.
I saw a thread somewhere about someone who took the older style heatsinc off and put artic silver on. I was wondering if anyone has done that and what results they got.
I've been able to reduce my fan speeds and the temp is in mid 60ies which is quite fine... the fan may last longer for you at lesser speeds. These have lifetime warranties so I'm not too worried about how long the fans last. That said, being able to keep it cooler would be a plus. XFX also has a clause that they can replace the GPU with nvidea or AMD as long as it's the same or greater performance. |
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I just received my RMA XFX 5830 back. They gave me the older style with only 2 heat pipes. The newer one that I bought had about five. Anyway, in my machine, the new style consistantly stays at about 59-60c while the older style is always 10C (or more) hotter. The newer style is at 80% fan speed and the older one is at 100%. It's a pretty big difference.
I saw a thread somewhere about someone who took the older style heatsinc off and put artic silver on. I was wondering if anyone has done that and what results they got.
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Didn't someone re-grease their 5830 with arctic silver and it made a big difference?
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umm y dont u sell your old one on craigslist u probally can get 95% of original price(from some idiot) LOL
Buy another new one
I got this one back from XFX because the other one was dead. I'll run it for a while till it dies. Lifetime warranty, ftw. I may also artic silver the GPU to lower temps a bit better. Or get an aftermarket cooler. All in all, under 70C and I'm happy though. |
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I'm running two XFX 5830's. One has the old style cooler and the other has the newer (better) one. I'm running each at 958/300 and I'm getting 307mh/s from each stable.
The older style gpu is getting temps of 68C at 100% fan while the newer style (with 5 heat pipes) is getting 56.5. It's crazy.
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Could pass the deal on... to me...  I'd mine with it. Is there a warranty? If it's a year or three, mine it for half of the warranty period then sell. |
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Same. there should be no fee either.  |
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We're up to 561gh/s  |
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Last night was a very good night for mining. 400mh/s and .25btc mined. Wahoo! 10+ hours on the current block. I'm still mining because it's a cool day. I will make this block my bitch |
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bleh, the only time we have short blocks is during the day when I'm not mining. Whenever I mine we get the long, 10+ hour blocks. Damn bad luck.  |
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Or post incorrect results in public stats. Ie: 1000 workers @ 100ghs. Current block 18 hours at 7,054,284 shares. or something unattractive. And then just the opposite when things are going slowly/poorly on a long block That just confuses regular users. I'd prefer it if the public stats were correct, but that certain key elements were left out. Nah, that'd be only for guests. Anyone signed in would see real stats. Any users believed to be hopping could be then banned. |
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Or post incorrect results in public stats. Ie: 1000 workers @ 100ghs. Current block 18 hours at 7,054,284 shares. or something unattractive. And then just the opposite when things are going slowly/poorly on a long block |
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I'll second that, the only reason I have to swap to another pool to mine from time to time is because of the idle miner syndrome. I like everything else fine, no need for auto payout, etc. If I can't be bothered to click payout, then perhaps i have issues. (or no fingers). But, can't let the cards sit idle... so they go over to elgius when the BTC / hour --> 0. Hopefully though, that stops happening  Good job so far Jine, its hard to run a large pool. Just no two ways about it. Yeah, I don't care about auto-payouts or much else. I put my suggestions in that I'd like to see and hope they go through. The other night was tough because I had a massive reject rate 20%+ but I did end up getting a few shares in at least. |
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Can't mine tonight, tomorrow, or tuesday. We have guests... and it's friggin hot in my apartment right now. Looking forward to winter |
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I've got both my GPU's running. Just noticed massive rejection rates and now they're not running any processes. I only run my miner at night because it's cooler and I can not run it during the day. Seems like I can write tonight off as a loss. I think I'm going to start looking at another pool.
edit, one GPU just picked up some work and it was rejected. I'm not going to spend the power tonight to mine rejected shares.
I'm mining with another pool tonight. Just noticed we're down to 188.04 Ghash/s at the moment. Something is seriously wrong.
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No, you are better of not putting the cards into the slots.
* Get pci-e 1x -> 16x cables.
* Raise the cards, use all slows
=> Max number of cards, good airflow and cooling, most cost efficient.
Yes but in the configuration of that mobo, the 4x and 16x would be the best two to use. If I get extenders, I'd have no way to mount them in the case. I don't have a whole lot of extra room to build risers, etc either. |
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x1 is fine for mining. PCI-extenders just use a ribbon cable to allow you to raise your card from the board.
Application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICS, would be much more energy efficient for mining. As far as I know no one has done this yet. Field programmable gated arrays, or FPGAs, have been used. These also are highly efficient but can be prohibitively expensive... though cheaper than an ASIC.
Are you sure 1x is OK for mining? No card seems like it'd fit that slot. Do you mean 4x? The card wont fit into the x1 extender on it's own, the end has to be sawed off. Some sellers already do it for you before shipping though. Or I'd be better off using the 4x because that and the 16x are doubles paced anyway. Right? |
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From digbtc.com:
2011-07-16 01:12:39 136482 deep
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136481 btcmine
2011-07-16 00:55:42 136480 btcguild
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136479 bitcoinpool
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136479 slush
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136478 btcguild
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136478 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:40:51 136477 deep
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136477 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:38:11 136476 deep
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136476 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:28:06 136475 mtred
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136475 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:18:00 136474 mtred
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136474 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:14:54 136473 btcguild
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136473 bitcoinpool
2011-07-16 00:04:00 136472 deep
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136472 bitcoinpool
2011-07-15 22:52:01 136471 deep
2011-07-15 22:44:57 136470 deep
0000-00-00 00:00:00 136469 slush
Looks like there's a lot that haven't been paid out yet.
Welp...
Previous round duration 16 hours, 44 minutes
Just got paid for my 3000 shares. Guess it was another long one.
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Could you include affinity options in the next release? I'm having issues with phoenix using 50% CPU per GPU. By setting affinity to cpu1 (of 2) it'll use 100% of that core rather than 100% of both.
Why would you want it to use 100% of both? You realize the CPU usage is not a desired effect, which is why we have the affinity setting in the first place, to stack all the wasted CPU on a single core? should probably re-read what I said. I DO see affinity now. I don't know why I've never noticed it before. Thanks! |
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Me and my girlfriend took a trip to the DC a few hours ago. Installed a couple of new drives on the node for local storage and bin-logs. Some fast benchmarks:root@staging:~# hdparm -tT /dev/xvda1
/dev/xvda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 652 MB in 3.00 seconds = 217.16 MB/sec
Timing cached reads: 5302 MB in 1.99 seconds = 2658.56 MB/sec Eveything seems to run a lot smoother now, with the load balancing up and running and everything working as it should. We have dropped a lot in hash rate over the few past days, possible due to the extremely long run before. I hope we gain some more so i can prove that we're a lot faster, stronger and more stable now Also, the patch for rejected shares seems to have worked out fine:
[16/07/2011 03:19:07] Result: 228e3757 accepted
[16/07/2011 03:19:38] LP: New work pushed
[16/07/2011 03:19:40] Result: 0190214a accepted
[16/07/2011 03:19:40] Result: 1341c3ff accepted
[16/07/2011 03:19:43] Result: 837157d0 accepted
[16/07/2011 03:19:44] Result: 698b286a accepted
[366.86 Mhash/sec] [2136 Accepted] [13 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
That's ~0.604% rejected.I'm spooling up my 400mh/s for another mining night. I can only mine at night when it's cool. It gets too hot without mining during the day. Typically my 5830 gets 2-3% rejected. The other day it was 1.9% which was the lowest ever. Hoping to beat that tonight! The 4870 normally gets about 5% for some reason. Still have to look into that one Either way, glad things are getting sorted out. Thanks for your hard work! |
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