I have to say I'm jealous and feel like small potatoes now ... I've been building cases for friends and have seriously been considering announcing on the forums to sell a few. Maybe 5 to start, then ramp up from there, maybe a submission to kickstarter or indiegogo like Red Harbinger did, but after seeing this it just solidifies my fear that all it takes is someone who's pro job it is to make cases or do industrial design and ... I'm finished. Although being a small time case maker in the US does have it's advantages -- I can ship fast and cheap.

I will admit to seeing the Red Harbinger site and being inspired to grab SolidWorks and KeyShot for future case designs and renders. I'm a big fan of SketchUp but that's hobby shop stuff compared to what a pro can do in SolidWorks.

I think they may be misleading a tiny bit as well. I'm going to guess that a prototype DOPAmine has not been built yet. What you see on their site are renderings from KeyShot; very, very nice renderings and an awesome inspiration for design. But not the real deal. I'm WAY out of my lane here, but a finished product of that quality would need a few tooling go-rounds by the manufacturer till you saw one in real life. I'm still blown away by how awesome that case is and hope they get their Indiegogo done and everything built by April, but I'll keep plugging for the little guy who wants a 6-gpu case below $100.

Finally, after a good 2 weeks I've got my rig setup and stable for once. If you have this mobo, it is very finicky with settings after you put the cards on 16x to 1x risers. Had no problems with my 2 290x's on the mobo directly, but after going to an open rig have had nothing but issues. This mobo isn't the best at telling you what's wrong (not to mention there is no onboard power switch and if, like me, you've been using a tiny pin connector to turn it on and reset it, I feel for ya) and you've probably been pulling your hair out trying to get it to recognize cards and stay up for more than 45 minutes in cgminer with "stable" settings in your conf.

After doing some digging, it turns out that with the R9 series cards you need to set the PCI slots in BIOS to "Gen 2". DO NOT leave it on "Auto", that won't work. Props (and tips for the help) for discovering the solution goes to Vyker over at overclockers.net.

I also am using the modded and "fixed" for R9 series cards cgminer on Ubuntu 13.10 from OhmPie; if you haven't come across it yet, using the --gpu setting in cgminer for the R9 series cards can cause some to crash, have blank screens, freeze, etc. He gives a pretty good breakdown of why cgminer has issues with the new R9 cards and what he did to fix them.

However, YMMV with the settings you're familiar with on the cgminer 3.7.2 build as OhmPie uses 3.7.0 cgminer. What I can say is since I moved to the OhmPie cgminer and Gen 2 on the PCI slots is that I've been very, very stable over the past 24 hours (for once).

I'm also pretty sure this is the last MSI mobo I buy for mining ... 

1. A DVD drive
2. Payments to those who've worked damn hard to figure out mining issues
3. Paid for online roulette on 22, black, even, 2nd 1/3rd ... and it HIT.

I honestly understand the "this-is-an-investment-I'll-never-spend-these-coins" people out there -- but unless you're willing to help adoption and foster the currency as a, ya know, ACTUAL currency, you're missing out. Do I hope to get lots of $$$ out of BTC? Sure. But I'm much, much more interested in BTC as a new world changing currency and network than I am if I can "get rich quick".

I made 2 very nice aluminum rigs for my friends out here and requested they pay me in LTC or BTC. But they wouldn't. They simply would not do it. Their thinking was that if they paid me (and this was just today) 4 LTC, so about $80, for their open rigs and in 6 months LTC hits $50, they just paid $200 for an open rig ... NO, NO, NO, NO. You paid $80 for it. That's how currency works. It's value is set to whatever the hell it is RIGHT NOW. Speculation and hoping for that big swing in the spot price is just that: wishing. If you are going to change your BTC for actual, real, physical goods, then it's worth is only as good as the price you're willing to pay RIGHT. NOW.

My issue is that if they're unwilling to actually use the currency as such, then where is their faith that it has real value? We know its a REAL currency now, that debate is over; I just don't think it's helping the widespread use and inherent value of crypto currencies if you're unwilling to spend them.

I got mine here: http://www.hashratestore.com/

Very nice quality and powered ...

 

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In my heart of hearts I just hope that Dogecoin goes from being a weekend joke into surpassing almost all the other coins save for LTC. However, that may end up putting cryptocurrency back a bit as proof that a "joke" and any digital currency can turn into something real.

Honestly it's seeing 5,000 of ANY alt-coin in my wallet that will be awesome and if the ice cream place down the street takes Dogecoin in 5 years, then jokes on me. 

Currently running 2 LEPA 700w bridged together ... think I paid about $85 each and the bridge cable was $5. So for 2 80plus Gold PSU's at $170 for a guaranteed 1120w of juice isn't too bad.

Big fan of Kraken for LTC, although they take a goooooood 3 weeks to get you certified to do USD transactions.