I'll give the board a go and see how it does. 

I can always repurpose the board for a Freenas server if it ends up being a problem child.

Thanks mate!

Had a motherboard fail on me today and I have been hunting around for a replacement.

I saw the Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 mentioned on Tom's Hardware and thought I would ask here to see if anyone had tried it for mining.

It has Expansion 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 (x16, x8) and 3 x  PCI Express x1 so potential of running 5 GPUs.

Thanks!

I was using cgminer under xp and it didn't complain about having 960 MHz for it's setting. 

I also had Sapphire Trixx running (Sapphire's over clock tool), but it was not being used to do the over clock.  It was installed on the from when I was using other mining software.  I wonder if having it running was what was allowing cgminer clock high.

Guess I need to start reading up on how to flash the BIOS 

Thanks for the help!

Thanks Kano, I followed your linux-usb-cgminer guide today and got a working system with 4 x Sapphire 5830.

I was previously running win xp, but the install was getting flakey.

With the linux-usb-cgminer setup I am unable to get the clock speed over 900 MHz.  It ignores my command line option and picks 900 and when I try and change it in cgminer it tells me I am outside of the safe range and asks if I really want to and then says it can't do it when I say do it.

The cards all ran at 960 MHz under xp.

Can anyone point me in a direction?

Thanks in advance.

Have done two deals so far with Jeremy, both of them flawless.  I can happily recommend him.

On a side note: thinkgeek.com and Edmund Scientific might be good additions.

Currently I am paying $0.0985 KW (New Brunswick, Canada).  Soon to go up

I'd like to get off the kiddies merry-go-round ... please.

Phil's scrotum

The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.

Suzie Smith stood and walked to the podium.

She said, "I have a praise. Two months ago, my husband, Phil, had a terrible bicycle wreck and his scrotum was completely crushed. The pain was excruciating and the doctors didn't know if they could help him."

You could hear a muffled gasp from the men in the congregation as they imagine the pain that poor Phil must have experienced.

"Phil was unable to hold me or the children," she went on, "and every move caused him terrible pain." We prayed as the doctors performed a delicate operation, and it turned out they were able to piece together the crushed remnants of Phil's scrotum, and wrap wire around it to hold it in place."

Again, the men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncomfortably as they imagined the horrible surgery performed on Phil.

"Now," she announced in a quivering voice, "thank the Lord, Phil is out of the hospital and the doctors say that with time, his scrotum should recover completely."

All the men sighed with unified relief. The pastor rose and tentatively asked if anyone else had something to say. A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium.

He said, "I'm Phil."

The entire congregation held its breath.

"I just want to tell my wife the word is sternum."


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I can happily recommend Jeremy and spendbitcoins.com as well.

Old distributed computing hack coming late to the bitcoin party.  Wish I had found it earlier.