5870 and 6970 are architecturally different. 5870 is VLIW5 (5 stream processors programmed in a single word) and has 1600 stream processors (SPs). 6970 uses the simpler VLIW4 architecture to improve SPs utilisation for mainstream gaming and has only 1536 SPs. The simpler architecture makes 6970 faster than 5870 on gaming tests. But Bitcoin mining is a completely different story. It is highly parallel and can max out the VLIW5 of 5870 thus making it faster than 6970 on equal clock speeds. 5870 is also more power efficient since it contains less transistors than 6970.
Your first post? What an amazing first post to the forums! Sure beats the "Bitcoin is doomed since you guys never thought of people copying their wallets to 2 computers" variety. Not to get off topic but is that possible? And A follow up question i guess is did they think they could double spend if they did that or something? Becuase that just sounds rediculas. To the OP, i would have checked the hardware comparisan chart before buying but too late now. Im thinking about just getting another 5670 so i can have them both run my games abd mining faster. Cant wait til the high end cards start to lower in price. |
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Mines working here (Ubuntu Natty fresh installed about 2 weeks ago) although i always open mine from the command line and leave it open(helps debugging and just a habit really) try opening from command line if it hasnt already been suggested.
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I think i might have compressed the video too much the text is troublesome but I nominate my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSA5ipIyMm8Please respond in the comments sections with anything. your having trouble reading text, I'll re-upload with a less-compressed version upon request.  I hope this thread is still alive, Come one a couple more submissions would suffice and we have a competition! |
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It just needs to be made clear how to earn them and how they can be spent.
Good luck with that women will never learn how money should be spent. |
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I was reading about the the hashing documentation and it said that each miner gets there own separate hashes to work on how is this handled? Who distributes them?
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just please no crappy actors, hammy or contrived situations, or poor video production values...
Charlie Sheen crappy or Lindsey Lohan lying about been clean crappy acting? |
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Lawl, Now I'm not going to win if some hawt girl decides to make a makeshift video with all this boob talk. How come nobody gets off from content anymore? Such a shame.
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Any particular topics that would like to be discussed In particular know some people like to think bit coins as a ponzi-scheme but i disagree since im not investing anything just converting money.
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Is there an FAQ on this becuase I don't remember reading how all this worked. Mainly curious how transactions are made with alternate fees going around.
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 Is there any problem BTC can't solve? BTC can't buy you happiness? Well, drug dealers already accept BTC, the only thing left is hookers. Who do you know where dealers accept bitcoins? how does that even work people would be getting there drugs are weird prices in my opinion if the conversion rates changing all the time Me:Lemme get a 20 off of you Dealer: I only accept bitcoins Me:Cool, cuz i brought my bitcoin wallet on a usb stick! |
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I've always wondered if were secretly hashing stuff that we don't know about....
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Everyone talks about these transaction fees? how do i set up transaction fees and get payed?
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No, it doesn't matter, mining uses no GPU memory. Go for the fastest card, not the one with the most memory.
That sounds like minors are inefficient then but i could be wrong. Why would manufactures add more memory if its not going to good use? My only thought is that its really for videogames to save non-visible data, like what's behind the player or texture memory or somthing but if thats the case it still sounds like minors can put this to some more efficient use no? |
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I didnt think about the electric companies generating bitcoins. Costs could theoretically go down in electricity if they are paying there employees with bitcoins. Then electric bills can go do physical costs such as new transformers, or new building, etc, etc.
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Xenland,
When comes to economics, a very large slice of it is psychological. A bit like deflation, it's a nightmare due basically to psychological behaviors not by itself; say you earn 500, your coffee costs 1, at some point your coffee costs 0.5, your boss wants to cut your income to 250, this will alter your state of mind as you, "in your mind", are getting less (regardless you do the same with it or not).
People will never accept any currency they can't aim for the "unit". That's why gold ended up replaced for trade, even before banknotes regular trade was done with mostly bronze coins.
And here we go again, the existence of silver, bronze and other less precious metals didn't hurt gold's value.
I see your delimia that a paycheck will increase and decrease and that can do alot to people's plans with what they were going to do with it. but whos to say that my paycheck will decrease during a payweek? If we agree on me being payed 500 bitcoins it should already be in escrow regardless and if bitcoins prices go up or down(do you get payed less or more during a pay period if the price of the dollar went up or down?)then I'll have twice the money to purchase coffee until the next payperoid. But who knows what will happen in the future |
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Simple question do miners make use of all the memory or do lanuages like python limit stuff like that? Im thinking of upgrading my card and I would like to know if i should get one with more memory.
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You insist to forget one thing, the currency doesn't conduct trade, people does, so prior to "nerd thinking" you've to think on "the people" side.
Nowhere in Earth general population will stick with a currency where you need to go on nanoX or picoY or microZ, so if that's the idea, rather bury bitcoin for business now, as it only business will be to trade btc for fiat currency and back to btc again and to fiat currency...
That doesn't really prove a valid point all your really doing is calling it a different name. Currency is currency. I would pay for goods & services in microPennies in real life if i got payed in nanoPennies or vice verse or so whats your point? What is the people side? are nerds not people and if they're not please explain because I'm pretty sure we nerds arn't aliens coming to destroy every world currency with cryptocurrency. |
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Regular money is more like bread
Bitcoin is more like wine
I couldn't have said it any better, Bitcoins won't fail because of some simple flaw found in most centralized systems unless you've read the detailed description, checked the source code and possibly went to MIT for cryptology I highly doubt you'll find a flaw in this system after "taking a look at the details". Like someone else said they wouldn't be here if they didn't think it would work and I highly doubt thousands of people are investing in computers dedicated to mining bit coins if they thought all that Time, energy and centralized money backed money went to nothing. |
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Off topic.
Contribute or delte/move thread please.
I thought it was related to my life, i feel a little bit smarter just reading it. Your just jealous because you were about to post it.  |
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I wanna know what the economic freaks really think about all this. Imagine your running your GPU farms and PG&E says we accept bitcoins. I'm curious about a few things, will cost of electricity theoretically go up? Will bit coins value go up or down? Why does my brain hurt and feel good at the same time when I think about this?
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