My plan is to use a priority via usps as it tends to deliver faster in general because I'm on the west coast. I've pmed back with the details and response to your offer and my shipping location as well.

I just wanted to update the thread. I sold one of the two sapphire 5970 today locally to a fellow who I think is gonna mine with it.

So currently only 3 left for sale. 2 oem 5970 and 1 sapphire 5970. The Sapphire will come with original box if needed. Thanks for looking.

I do have boxes for the sapphire one if the buyer wants them.

I can also throw in 1 dummy plug for each card that I made. Have some xfire bridges as well. Just let me know and I will include them.

It depends on how you wanna run them and most all 5970 will put out the same Ghash at same clocks. Miners also play a role here a bit. As for me I just ran all of them at stock volts at 800/300. I think I was getting around 333Mhash per gpu core give or take a few. The cards should have no problem clocking higher with more voltage, but I just left them stock running at that setting as is. I can tell you they are 100% solid at my setting and have plenty more room as I was more heat/space limited.

I also took the liberty of taking the card out for a moment for a quick cell phone photo session. Forgive my out of focus cell phone picture.



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I have a broken eyefinity 6 edition 5870 that has a reference cooler on it working perfectly. If you are interested I can sell this to you for 16 btc you are offering. pm me if you are interested.

I'm planning on bringing down my mining rig that is currently running 4 x 5970s on it in couple days and decided to list them for sale. I don't really want to sell my miner, but I'm looking at deployment to a new location for a job in a week now. Maintaining this while away for few 4-6 months on the job is not possible for me.

2 of the 5970 are sapphire brand and other two are both oem plain looking ones without a sticker. All have been running great without any problems tucked away safely in the garage for many months now.

I will price each at $525 btc equivalent. If you wish to pay in usd contact me to work out a payment. Paypal will NOT be accepted. $20 discount per additional card ordered after the first for buying multiple. All reasonable offers will be considered, but lowball offers will be ignored.

I will ship the gpu's on Tuesday afternoon after the rig is brought offline in the morning. If they are not sold by Tuesday, I will ship next day or same day as payment to not delay your mining profits. I will also consider other methods of shipping if buyer specifically requires at additional cost to the buyer.

For upto date price agreement and payment offers contact me via pm. Thank you for looking and please keep any non related comments out of this thread.

EDIT: Price now changed to $525

EDIT: Looks like BTC price is moving so I suggest use the highest bid on MtGox as a guide instead of my prices if it is inaccurate.

EDIT: One sold locally, another currently pending payment at 115btc based on today prices. Two Oem versions left @ $525 each or 115btc.

I'm not sure if this is something you want to hear, but cpu mining should now be producing a net loss no?

I currently own a machine that has 4 x 5970  and I think going with dual gpu card is really the way to go if you are planning on future expansion. Personally this one rig served me well and I'm planning to sell it shortly before the next huge jump. But if I had to build rigs now, I would for sure go with a dual gpu cards from the start if possible. 

Are they really going for that much right now? I have been considering finding a good time to get most value out of my 4 x 5970 mining machine I have been running. This might be a good time to do it with a huge difficulty increase. Been considering just getting out of mining and enjoy watching my btc value go up and becoming more of an ambassador.

It's only going to get hotter, but you can always adjust your core clock and turn it down a notch if it must be. There are always options to keep it running within reasonable temp, but you just might not like the ghash out of it. Ambient really is big part of keeping temps low regardless of fan speed after a certain threshold.

Printing more money to pay off failing banks that never pay back is stealing from people? And you say because this devalues everyone's dollar they already have to do it? I never thought people would figure this out. Not that it matters because public education is so deteriorated to a point that it is impossible gathering enough educated people to care or initiate change in the US.

No comment.

I guess it nice to worry about problems that don't exist yet, but makes you feel good worrying about 

I would love to hear more updates on the discussions that take place. This thinktank could really act as an important guide to help bring the bitcoin to the mainstream in the right way.

We will have to see how the analogy really pans out, but it will be interesting to see a digital gold rush or coin rush rather.