Would you be able to show a couple more pics just so I can see how you built it. Love the clean simple design.
Sure thing. I also responded to your PM. Left side:  Back:  Top:  Right/angle:  Only one thing I would change is to put another 10" long board in place of the ruler so the cards would have more support. The ruler does work just fine though, for anyone curious. |
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I would definitely be careful with this one. Pretty much brand new member, and he's using the bitcoin dollar symbol just like sylkyx/honorme/intercoin. I don't see many people use it, so it just brings up a red flag in my book.
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Lololol I see what you did there.
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I just want to mention that I use some of the ones included with the Sapphire extremes and have had no issues. Bump for you!
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Finally snapped a good shot of my rig.   Currently 2x 5870 and 2x 5830. I have a 5850 in the mail, and I'm trying to grab a third 5870, in which case I'll sell one of the 5830's. |
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I'm looking to pick up this soldering iron (or very similar) in the near future. If anyone on here already has one that is in GREAT (not good, GREAT) shape, then I will entertain those offers. Otherwise, I'll be looking for someone to either buy the item (items if I get extra tips and some solder) from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WLC100-40-Watt-Soldering-Station/dp/B000AS28UC, or to buy me a giftcard in the value of the items I will be buying (in either case, we can use a free escrow service). I have done a few transactions on here (bought a few steam items from Dando, pcie extenders from scifimike and some cards from chungenhung) as well as more transactions on computer forums (see heatware: http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=66694). I would like to pay all in BTC (approx 9-10BTC), so I will need roughly the same number of days to mine the coins I need. I'm just posting this thread now to see who would be willing to help me out. PS. If my credibility is still in doubt, I am willing to provide state authorized ID, as well as post the links to the threads which contain my transactions in BTC. Thanks in advance! -Chance Updated on March 7, 2013 to reflect new interests. |
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I can easily send you the "schematics" of the wooden case I made for my mining hardware, but the rig I setup is made to house 5 double-width gpu's. You honestly, could just throw the mobo on a small box (think USPS medium flatrate) and then pop the card into a pci-e 16x slot. Tuck it away somewhere and just make sure it's mining. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/ChanceCoats123/20120701_205446.jpgOnly has 4 cards in it right now, but the 5th is in the mail. Edit: And I realized shortly after taking the picture that my second PSU was off and only 3 cards were running. LOL It's back to normal now.  |
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Note to self: Dreamwatcher is a stand up member.
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Did you ever end up trying a new miner? I personally think that it's just a faulty extension (maybe shipping damage), but I would want to completely confirm my hashrate before putting more money into it. I think a new motherboard is definitely not necessary. That's an unneeded expense if you ask me.
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That or heatware (or both). |
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It was mentioned in another thread, but I'll mention it again in here as to why I chose "no."
When BFL came out with the singles, the only technology they designed and manufactured in house was the power circuitry. When it came time to release, which parts were insufficient to run the device? The power circuitry. In fact, their specifications were off by a factor of 4 and required a total rework.
Now you're probably thinking, "They've learned their lesson and won't make the same mistakes twice!" And that may be true, but now BFL is not just designing and manufacturing the power circuitry. If there is some kind of issue with the ASIC chips, a respin will be required. If that respin changes other specifications, then more work will have to be done in order to make the device functional. The fact that this company is now developing a process and technology that they have never delved into before just brings up potential issues to me. :shrug:
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The community honestly needs more people like you. Hell, even I'm just in it for the profit. I would love to do to help the network, but I just can't be throwing cash for the betterment of a crypto-currency.  |
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If you check the thread about ASIC order numbers, you could get a rough idea of the spread of orders. I know for a fact that there is one confirmed order for 4 SC Rigs already.
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Bitcoin will survive past December 2012 if the majority of it's users are interested in it as a medium of exchange, not source of profit. If majority are miners, wanting to cover their costs ASAP, selling btc, then it's doomed to collapse. Find ways to promote Bitcoin in your area, and if everyone does that, we should be safe.
Here in lies the problem! 95% of miners don't mine because they genuinely want bitcoin to succeed and the collapse of fiat currency to follow... They mine because anyone with capital and the knowledge to run simple programs and manage hardware can more than double their investment by sitting on their ass! When mining no longer provides reasonable ROI and profitably, we'll see a huge decrease in mining interest. |
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I The longer the blocks, the greater the effect on daily luck.
If you want to compare pool luck between different periods, you need to compare round length for a set number of rounds, not per day. Compare one sequence of 50 rounds with another.
Taking a daily average will make daily luck seem, on average, bad.
Snip Run a few sample calcs if you want. I did while I was setting up miner's insurance, and it's why I average over rounds, not days. At 30*D per day hashrate the calculated average will be 3.5% longer than it should be. I haven't gotten around to a proper proof yet, but I understand why. Snip If only proving yourself correct in everything were this easy...  |
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I'm not sure why you feel like making the entry cost to mining lower is going to drive less people to enter mining.
If current GPU and FPGA rigs/farms are shut off, difficulty will decrease and the profitability of mining will increase.
Low entry cost does not matter. In fact, that only means the network hash rate will grow even faster. My point is that people invest their money to make MORE imoney. If there is no money to be made from investing in bitcoin mining hardware (no matter how cheap), then people simply won't invest. And that is true about the gpu and fpga miners... at least until everyone grabs a low power ASIC alternative. At that point the network hash rate will be adjusted to the increase in production except now there are more independent miners with proportionally less mining power because the entry cost is so low and every greedy bastard on the face of the internet wants a piece of the bitcoin pie. Since everyone has such a small proportion now, profitability will drop and no new investors join. |
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snip...
currently bitcoin mining is in expanding and transitional mode, everyone investing into mining should realize that margins will only get tighter and at some point your new rigs will become obsolete.
So if bitcoin is currently expanding, and soon everyone's investments will no longer yield profits worth investing in (due too being obsolete), then won't bitcoin inevitably decline? Currently, there are folks investing large amounts of capital because profits can easily be made if you category plan your mining operation. But if profits cannot be made, very few people will invest and there will be large exodus of miners leaving the scene en masse. Edit: Or, are you saying that by the time any technology for mining becomes obsolete (and this is inevitable), then there will be new profitable technology available? Because in that case, forget my first argument. |
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