If the block eruptors do not work with diablominer its not a big deal, I'm putting them on another desktop anyway, I'll use whatever is best for them when I get them in the mail.

I have case like this, except the fans are even larger and that mining box is down in my second basement/wine cellar. (yup, with wiring in the floor coming and out to my desk.


Thanks for the info, I might just put the BE's on another of my desktops then. To the person pushing CGMiner....I haven't tried it in windows yet, but in linux it results in massive slowdown of basic computer usage (browsing, banshee playing music) and is unable to go past 299mh/s.I'll see in windows but the very faq here about video card models specify diablominer being ideal for these 7850's.

It's too late for me to go back and by something from the 79xx series, those Sapphire Radeons HD 7850 were 230 dollars (199+tax).

Now if only I knew what's happening to Slush's Pool and why suddenly my rewards are half what they were 4 days ago. I guess some rich leech with Butterfly Labs dongles decided to use a pool made for noobs, if I had that power I'd just mine solo 

CGMiner, at least in linux, isn't getting to the performance I can get out of Diablo in Windows....right now Diablo in linux is giving me 315M/hash x2, cos I got my second 7850 (keep in mind that once I upgrade to better things, I needed better gpu for the few games I am playing these days). I just bought 4 Block Eruptors on ebay, which ill get pretty fast, in my province in canada. Yeah I'm glad not to be american, I'll be using Gox as there is no other alternative right now.

As for the heat, I got a case...well I don't know the name of the case by heart, but it has 2 large fans on both sides of the case and the box's sides is full of holes like a window screen, these 2 mining at 315 right now in linux are staying at around 52 celcius.

I'll have to go mine in Windows unfortunately, the amdutils and the gui for it isn't able to do like the Sapphire Trixxx software, I can't overclock the gpu over 1050, I overclock to 1150 in windows and I get 347.

These Block Eruptors, if I get a hub and fill it with the 4 BE's, will the hub crap on me or I should be using the regular USB entries on my box ?

Thanks a lot guys.

I don't know where to get one of them 150 dollars ASIC's by the way....i've looked around (for brand new  ones) and they were all 1000+ dollars devices and that is just ridiculous for me now, I'm not done with pharmacy school

Did something change lately ? I went from getting 0,00010000 to 0,00025000 payments for every successful job and since 3-4 days it has become that I get the "amazing" 0,0003000 to 0,0007500 or so max in payments, for a while I didn't mind because I had very high Luck % but just now it's become to maybe making 0,00100000 a day.

First, thanks to the person finding me a linux overclocking tool.

Secondly, Yeah, I understand the pessimism, but aren't the different kind of coins totally useless to buy things on the internet ? With my now..0,088 amount of btc, there is indeed stores that will take that without me having to turn it into real cash.

MtGox is a joke with all the real life identification and the alternatives (the 2 of them I found) are closed, so I won't be turning any digital currency into real money anytime soon.

The Block Eruptors....is this just like an Asic card ?Nevermind, they are usb devices eh ? Can you point me out to a reliable source for these ? I'll take all what's needed, I can still do a lot regarding btc imo with the free electricity. Someone on irc told me about 150 dollars ASIC cards being slightly more performant than this 7850. It doesn't matter much to me...right now since I already have another 7850 coming in the mail right now to crossfire and have close to 1GHash/s once I get the cooling optimized in that box, it'll be a piece of cake to overclock both of these cards to 1300mhz and I know it's safe, I've seen setups (which I am trying to copy) do that.

I know I have joined late, I knew about btc since a couple years now but I didn't expect them to amount to anything.

I know about the Asics, unfortunately I joined late in this thing. Sorry for replying to a post a year old but it was one that was relevant to my post, I prefered to do this than create another thread. ASICs so far seem hard to get, I've read about how the "best" manufacturers send the card 6 months after payment and other things like that. Like I said, I'm just doing this for fun and learning since I have free electricity in my condo. Two of those cards together with proper cooling will get me 1Ghash/s and I'm fine with that. I've made 0,7btc in a month of pool mining with Diablominer (the best miner for this card by far), it's surprising how just such a small amount of btc can actually be used to buy things.

Now if somebody can answer my former post instead of just talking about other things. Is there a .deb for an overclocking program for linux, mostly for AMD cards obviously.

I got a Sapphire Model of that card and I downloaded the Sapphire Trixx overclocking tool..figured I might use the software made for the hardware.

I overclocked the GPU Clock to 1150mhz, but that would end up with blue screens and scary behaviour. Reduced it to 1133mhz and kept the memory clock at 900mhz (also reduced it when I tried 1150/900.

I've read about how one could overclock it to 1200mhz, but I'm afraid it's a cooling problem, my motherboard is a bit cheap...there's only one plug for a chassis fan, this is an older desktop case and it is made to have one fan push air in and one at the top with air out...this was happening before I had to change motherboard due to a fucking electrical problem.

Anyways, I get 340/Mhash second, so far I seem to be the one with the best performance with this model.

I'm gonna buy a 7870 (I understand there is no 7890 and that the crossfire thing allows for different models of the same series (78xx). Or maybe just another 7850, the performance of the 7870 doesn't seem that much better. I gotta find a way to have my top fan functioning...I've seen power cables for hard drives have a split for fans on other desktops before (hell, I think it was the way things were on my old motherboard).

I've made 0,07 in a month...I'm just doing it for fun right now since I have free electricity, but with 2 of those I imagine I'll get a much more worthy use of Diablominer (I almost forgot to mention I use the same miner as you).

If someone could help me out on how to overclock this card in linux i'd be grateful, I expect even better performance in there...I installed all it needed for guiminer to detect it (Pitcairn) in LMDE so..