The question was mostly rhetorical. Windows does the driver reset dance sometimes and I have a small related entry in the FAQ about it. I've had linux mining on the same cgminer instance for 6 months once. I'm led to believe that's impossible on windows.
Yes, running Windows 7. What's curious is the 7970 in the first slot keeps chugging right along while the 7950 in the second slot sits DEAD. |
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I would tread very careful about speaking poorly about BFL, Josh. Your namesake at Butterfly Labs will punitively cancel your order as has been demonstrated already. You now risk retaliation. There are three things of a Man that you don't mess with.
1.)His Ego
2.)His Woman
3.)His Money
I have 2 pre-orders for Asic SC Singles. I have had it with BFL and their shit. It is easy for someone to say "Oh well just get your refund".
1. I am upgrading from BFL Singles
2. I don't want a refund, I want what I ordered
Getting a refund would be loaning BFL my hard-earned money to do what they want with it, and giving it back to me at no interest months later.
I am tired of these Useless updates from BFL_Josh. They need to hire useful workers and equipment and release the product that so many of us paid for close to a year ago. I don't care if they lose profit, I don't care if BFL_Josh has to put some of his own money to make it happen, they were optimistic with our money, and failed to have a structured business plan. They should be penalized, not us.
And also, to all of the "I told you so" people with sigs saying BFL is a scam, I don't care what you say. You guys just started posting as the delays began and act like you predicted all of this months into the future. You guys aren't helping the cause at all, you all just piggy backing the next guy and putting the same crap in your sig and saying the same things wanting to feel accomplished. Reminds me of "Yes we can" supporters.
Josh
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*mumbles something about karma*
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You do realize that most of you, ASIC miners, will lose more BTC than you will make? I still salute you! Your sacrifice is very important for us all and is very appreciated.
Mining is integral to supporting the network. What do you suggest as an alternative ? |
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When BFL is firing and forcing refunds on their publicly vocal and frustrated early customers, it could be argued something is fundamentally amiss and should raise a red flag.
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Difficulty will soar because of them and by the time BFL gets a product out the door, if they ever do, they won't be worth running.
What will there be worth running then ? I'm looking for available alternatives. Have already invested in ASICMINER-PT and TAT-ASICMINER, bought 20 Erupter USB sticks to add to my farm, and hope to get in on an Avalon Batch 4 if they create one. Or do you think Avalon Batch 4's will be in customer hands before BFL ships in volume ? |
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If you check out the Avalon threads, you see that people are receiving devices that have been used for months. They are dusty with melted connections, damaged capacitors and broken parts. One person has an unusable device due to damage. Avalon doesn't respond to return requests. Pay several thousands of dollars and there's a chance they'll ship you electronic waste.
I've read reports of damaged or dusty units (Have you seen the air quality in China lately ?!), and returns that were repaired and sent out again, but have not heard anything about them being used for months prior to shipping out. Curious indeed. It would seem that there are small handful of bad/problem units, and for the most part, the bulk of the shipments were handled reasonably. Not getting responses to return requests is troubling. |
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Check this: However, I must warn you (Inaba), don't place trust in the wrong people and what they tell you; for when that moment comes you won't able to meet the advertised specifications, at no real fault of you own besides ignorance since you really believed BFL. Be ready to take the spear to the chest as you were their spoke person. I wish you the best of luck and hope BFL can ship on time for when that time comes this forum can go back into the ol' days of competitive spirit of reducing power consumption and increasing hashrate of each others product.
Amazingly prescient of BitSyncom at the time. It's clear who the pros are at this point. I should have spread my risk with Avalon in retrospect. Live and learn. |
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Butterfly Labs will punitively cancel all your preorders and refund your money if you speak ill of them, and they can link your forums account to their customer accounts.
Be careful with criticisms if you have preorders.
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IIRC, 6990s are clocked in a 880MHz per core stock. His miner is not configured well. He should be getting ~394 mhash per core at stock speeds. No idea for ltiecoins, probably he same # in khash. I don't mine scrypt.
These comfortably overclock to 900MHz and give you ~404MHs per core using CGMiner with Catalyst 13.1. ~350MHs seems about right for 880MHz... I think... |
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I have a 7950 in one of my rigs that is a bit "wonky", and every other week or so, it just stops hashing and appears as DEAD in CGMiner.
If I quit and restart the miner (q, up-arrow, enter), up comes the wonky card again for at least another week with no problems.
Thought it might be worth reporting as a curiosity.
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I was thinking it might be good to turn down the memory clock, but I wasn't sure if I'd lose stability due to the memory falling behind pace with the core. Also, I will consider the bench.
Not to worry. I don't even know if the memory on the GPU's is being touched while hashing SHA256. You can safely down-clock your video memory to 300 and have them happily mining away at much cooler temperatures. Now if you are hashing Litecoin/Scrypt, that's another matter entirely, and you'll need to keep your memory normally clocked AFAIK. |
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Bad joke. No one knows when they will ship in quantity. Butterfly Labs shipped on April 1st. You should be expecting your orders any day now.
Six weeks in the mail? |
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I've never complained via email. The only email correspondance I have had with them was strictly business; for the refund of my Single SC's, an FPGA single order back in ~Mar 2011, and an email for repair of a bad fan in the FPGA. Probably ~5-8 emails in total over my business relationship with them over the last couple years. The only places I have complained were here on these forums, and trolling Josh about the 1000 BTC charity bet on the BFL shoutbox before he silenced me. My email address starts with "xian" so it's not a far stretch to match that to their customer database after speaking to the fact that I had early orders. I was purposely hunted down to be punished and silenced. There is no other rational explanation I can think of. If you happened to bug the shit out of BFL via emails, then I could possibly see a slight reason for their actions. But if you're telling me that you only once or trice complained via email, but they reversed engineered your user account ID on this forum (and/or possibly their's) because of your critical posts toward them, then BFL has severe mental issues.
That tells me that they took the time and energy that could have been used elsewhere to punish you by refunding your money, and now they don't have to worry about the trade in you were planning on sending them (gleaned from your post history).
Please enlighten me as to which is the case: too many emails to them or they purposely hunted you down. Please be as straight up as possible with your answer, bud.
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Love the CM HAF X's. Have a bunch of them in my farm. Very roomy.
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7950. Don't waste your time with anything else.
FTFY Ok ok. I suppose you are technically correct in terms of bang-for-buck  I'm more a stickler for the extra hashes I can pull out of a 7970. A 7950 is the better value decision. |
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Nothing to do with Bitcoin mining. AMD has some good stuff lining up over the next couple years with their GPUs and I think the markets are finally rewarding their slow turnaround.
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Complaining about BFL can result in forced cancellations of your pre-orders.
Be careful folks.
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The Josh does not give a fuck.
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