Watercooling allows the GPU to run much cooler. 

If temperatures are high, resistance is also high.  It requires more power to overcome that resistance.

This therefore saves a good amount of energy.

Simple GPU miner with 1x 5850 and 1x 7970.

Pulls 370 watts at the wall with some tweaking of the GPUs.

59C for the 7970 and 68C for the 5850.

850 Mhash/s

 P.S. Picture was taken by Potato 2000

Playing too much Half-Life 2?  



But yes the government is not truly there for the people.  I predict that the government will eventually turn into a totalitarian state, due to utter chaos that will come from future lack of resources (oil and other hydrocarbon energy sources)

As to the other posters and criticisms, you must agree that the government is in fact placing too many regulations and taxes upon us.  They are limiting job creation while at the same time promising to promote them.  Take from the candidates that are running for office, for example.  I have not seen much improvement and most of it is just empty promises to simply get them in power.

Although the government may be trying to prepare for the future and sustainability I don't think they are taking it the right way.  After all, the government cannot do this alone.  By them setting up all types of programs they are simply wasting tax payer money.  It is up to ourselves and private sector companies to shape our growth.

What the government is doing is simply stunting future growth.

Yeah seems quite unlucky.  I'm over here due to GPUMax not accepting leased shares 

Also, what is recommended here?  Is DGM or PPS better?

The government, ironically, is supposed to be a government for the people, in the USA at least.  Yet we have constantly seen that people are being controlled by the government, and our freedoms being taken away slowly, and slowly, and slowly,  yet we have allowed this to happen.

Let me list some things:

1. Tobacco Tax
2. Banning smoking in public places
3. Plastic bag ban
4. Ban on drugs (Looks bad, but there is no reason for marijuana to really even be banned)
5. Closure of coal plants (30 closed across the nation, decreasing our electricity generation capacity)

And more...

Unfortunately for me to make things worse, I live in a liberal city full of liberals that want things only their way.  They're increasing electric rates, banning plastic bags soon and making a big stir...

Electric used to be much cheaper $0.03-0.04 and now it's going up to rates such as $0.15/KWh.  They decided to close down a ton of power plants in the city while demand is rising, and decided that stealing more money from our pockets is a viable solution to lower demand and rolling blackouts.

So why don't people stand up to the government?  Our freedoms are slowly being taken away.  The majority politicians only go into government to control people and have power.  Of course that is human nature but we still can limit that from having such slow and devastating impacts on our freedoms.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171053&Tpk=cooler%20master%20750w

That should suffice your needs.

I have that exact same PSU and it can run a 7970 that pulls 250w at stock and the 150.  At the same time I have a pretty expensive CPU since this used to be my gaming PC, yet it provides enough power to everything.

Yes looks like it's stuck at $5.20-5.27

Not going anywhere.  Might as well wait for the real price increase in December, since there is no reason for the price to really go up unless demand overtakes the daily inflation of bitcoin.

Seems like we're still out of public work.

Any ideas when it usually comes back online?

Yes from the description of the software I think only 7xxx and above are supported.

ASIC quality?

I am a 7970 owner with 1x 7970 and 1x 5850 for mining.

What exactly is ASIC and ASIC quality?

So.. $8 or no?

I'm no economist or speculator, just a simple miner 

Oh I see.. we're in the bearish trap stage of the epic price bubble. 

Well it appears that he has competition from other pools with slush at 12%, Deepbit only at 9%.

Also appears to be a large amount of "unknown" miners.

Hello,

I am currently mining without OC and plan to never OC.  I am currently on Windows with CGMiner. 

I would like to know what the benefits of mining in linux is.  My system is also headless without a monitor, keyboard, or mouse.

How easy is it to administrate from another computer? Currently I am using windows remote desktop since the miner is Win 7.

Yes the electrical should stand up to power the rig.  My neighborhood is a higher end neighborhood, with basically zero crime rates here, so no worries about that.

Thanks for all the advice.  Moving it into the garage very soon  

Hello,

I currently have my miner already but it heats up the area quite fast, and is a miner that is mining in an open area where the heat can dissipate to the rest of the house.  This is my concern because I don't want to pay extra for AC and therefore reducing my profit from mining.

I would like to ask if the garage will have any bad effects on the cards.  I already have the case fully enclosed so there won't be issues with bugs and whatnot.
Would the garage ambient temperature be bad or not?

Thanks,

Aqrulesms

What is the average power consumption of a 5850 + 7970 mining together?  How many Mhashes do they produce?

I just ordered a 7970 from Newegg which is yet to arrive.  Going to find out myself, but I was in the same situation you were when I first was looking into the mining.

With the block halving approaching in December of this year, I would say the 7970 is the way to go.  The BFL singles take 2 months before they ship due to slow manufacture and high demand, and the 60 days could be crucial time that is needed to break even before the half.

However, your electricity rate may simply be too high to go for GPUs.  In that case, definitely go for the BFL single.

In most cases, if your electricity rate is < $0.15 you should be good to go.  Electricity can be a huge factor in the profitability.  Just go look at the mining profitability calculators and plug in the numbers.  It's EXPONENTIAL. 

It's best to plug in at least 2 7970 or in conjunction with another card.  That would give a more efficient MHs/w than just a single 7970.

If you have solar panels, by all means mine away with the 7970. $0.00/kWh beats everything 

You and I think alike.  I hate when people use wrong grammar.

I only get 347 Mhash/s at 900 MHZ. 

What software does everyone use?
 - SDK version
 -Catalyst version

Yes, as soon as I break even I will sell off my 5850 and add another 7970 on, just in time for the block halving.