Yes you could use it to mine. Just SSH into it (I assume it's running Linux) and set up like normal from there.

Managed to fix it by editing a profile and upping the idle clock speed from 157 to 400. It now runs as intended.

I think I may know what the problem is. The default clock speed is too low and I need to set it higher. You could easily do this in the old ATi Catalyst Control Center, but since AMD have released their own version of ccc (AMD VISION Engine Control Center) I don't know how to make profiles.

Can anyone help me here?

Hi there

I bought a new XFX 5870 1GB a few days ago and whenever I try to mine with it my whole computer locks up. The screen literally freezes and I have to restart my PC.

I had another XFX 5870 (which is now faulted too, but that's a different story) and that worked fine. I'm not running any extra flags, and I'm using the same settings as my previously working card of the same manufacturer.

My GPU idles at 157mhz core and 300mhz memory. There's also a number of green pixels on my screen, which seem to appear randomly, more so when the graphics card has to do something, like in a game, or attempting to mine. It seems that maybe the card is limited because games lag like crazy (and shouldn't on a 5870) and since mining takes the GPU from 0-100% immediately, I'm thinking that it has trouble adjusting and just locks up.

Any suggestions on what's going on here?

Why don't you guys just build your own with the same hardware as his? It's cheaper...

I think you would be better off finding friends to donate to you OP. The chances of you getting enough backing from here as an anonymous person with no reputation on the forum are slim. Maybe you can convince your parents, people at your university etc. to invest in you. They might not fully understand the cause as much as people on here do, but you'll get more money out of them.

Just make sure that you've worked it out properly and you can indeed pay these people back, because if you can't afford to do it on your own at the moment then I'm sure that you won't able to afford to pay them back if things go wrong.

Your replies look like poems. Stop typing like an idiot. If you don't like what this guy's doing then just don't reply to his thread.

It seems that the card is actually broken

Hey guys, having a little issue, maybe someone knows what's wrong. I've been mining fine for the last couple of days under Windows using a single 5870. Today my second 5870 was delivered and I decided to use Ubuntu. I can get my first card running perfectly fine, but the second card either crashes my computer or runs at very low khash/s

I followed the Ubuntu 11.04 guide and I can get my first GPU to mine perfectly, but if I change the device to -d2 (from d1, I've confirmed that the second GPU is d2) it either doesn't display anything and the terminal crashes, or it'll display a 653khash/s or so.

Does anyone know what's wrong with this?

That's insane. My single 5870 is at 60 in my case.

That's what I was thinking about. My 5870 is at 61 degrees in my case with 100% fan. I'd like to see that a little bit lower so I can run my fans quieter.

I've gone with MtRed. Thanks for the recommendation.

So do you think I should go alone once I have around 1.5ghash/s? That should be when I get my second rig.

No, I'm using command line poclbm.

Can you recommend a pool then? The botnet nature of Deepbit scared me away.

It's just the hash rate that's displayed, no errors or confirmations. Is this how it's meant to go?

What're the advantages? Don't you make less money in the long run in a pool?

I've maxed out my computers 2 PCI-E slots right now, so my next step will be building a whole new rig with a couple of 5870s. I want to cut down the costs as much as I can (Parts are relatively expensive in the UK) so I'm thinking of going for a caseless setup, with just the motherboard and relevant components on top of a surface.

Is anyone doing this at the moment? I've seen the guy on YouTube go caseless and he doesn't seem to have any extra cooling. The UK's quite cold at the moment, and it doesn't get nearly as hot over here as it does in other countries during the summer (Which will hit fully in a couple of months).

So I got my 5870 yesterday and I've had it going in Deepbit for a day (Previously had a 560Ti, just wasn't cutting it).

After reading the anti-Deepbit threads I've decided to try it alone for a month. I've just ordered another 5870 to double my hashing power and at current difficulty levels, calculators tell me it'll take 10 days on average to generate my first block.

How do I know that I've not done something wrong? Poclbm is happily mining away with a speed of 370mhash/s so I assume it's doing something. With Deepbit I knew it was working because I could see the results by the hour, but how do I know this is working?

Has Deepbit.net gone down?

Registrera and logga in?!? What the hell can this possibly mean?!

I'm a Brit and I'm quite interested in joining this away from Deepbit. I'll have to translate of course, but other than that there shouldn't be any issues should there?

It was more the perfect grasp of English than the location that lead me to think he was English. I'm sure that he's been in the UK for a long time, so I'd consider him English