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Guys,
Anyone from India? I want to gauge interest in $ / INR transfers through bitcoins. I have not noticed many people from India on this forum.
Thanks
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Just ordered 3.6GH/s worth of FPGAs a few days ago. When I started mining way back March last year, a 5670 could earn ~3 BTC/day and electricity was 17c/kwh.
Which FPGA hardware did u go for? |
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This is epic. Most mining rigs use ext. Powersupply anyways  |
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CGminer just switched back to eclipse. [2012-08-1X XX:41:52] Accepted fdc63791.c93704e4 GPU 0 pool 1 [2012-08-1X XX:41:52] Pool 0 http://us2.eclipsemc.com alive [2012-08-1X XX:41:52] Switching to http://us2.eclipsemc.com [2012-08-1X XX:41:54] Accepted afe6b602.03c418bf GPU 0 pool 1 |
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I would have the hard drive flat on a surface. Preferably screwed down. A $40 rack from Home Depot might tidy things up a bit and get you closer to the window.
Oh its a SSD, OCZ Onyz. Got it free with an Agility 3 from Newegg. |
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I think free market may choose currencies with Proof of Work that can be done on CPU /GPU / FPGA based computers, because minor tweaking in the crypto algorithm will not entail new hardware (read ASIC) investments and would not make a whole generation of devices worthless.
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very nice! Can I have them?  I'm hoping yes... I'm planning on releasing the source code I used to print these. Thanks a lot! |
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Fist time putting together a dedicated mining rig. I dont want to here about asic or fpga.
ASRock 970 EXTREME4
(3) Radeon HD 7970
SeaSonic 1050
8GB GSkill
AMD Phenom II X4
Corsair 16GB USB Flash Drive or 500GB SATA Drive (I wanted to run BAMT but it seems Win 7 has more tools)
Over spending in any area?
All suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
If need be, I am willing to spend BTC to get the best setup.
Do u plan to use windows or Linux. 1050 is a bit overkill. 750 Gold is what i am running with 3x7970 (Linux). |
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a friend of mine told me about btc around 2010, i downloaded the client by then but got bored to try mining. I didnt think bitcoin was something useful to care about. Silly me...
I read an article in Slashdot in late 2010, downloaded the client, and didn't care much, since the client was not able to connect to the network behind my workplace firewall. Then I read on slickdeals.net forum that 5830 was flying off the shelves in Jun 2011 because of mining. The rang my bell! And soon I ordered 3 6950 GPUs and got into the race. Unfortunately the difficulty was sky high last summer, but each bitcoin was selling around $20, so it seemed lucrative. |
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Don't be so sure about that, the competition isn't sleeping. And that's not the bottom line.
The bottom line if there is another fpga conversion asic before BFLs "extended" deadline people gonna be duped.
As I already pointed out, I'm glad the competition isn't sleeping because current FPGA's prices are absolutely outrageous. 1 to 3.5 gmash for $150 will pull correct the current FPGA price gouging. Except in the case of BFL it might turn out to be no ASIC of any kind but some next-gen FPGA like Kintex-7. That would even be consistent since BFLs main asset seems to be to be able to obtain mid-range FPGAs at wholesale prices. So they could have just made up some performance figures... you figure out the rest. (Mind you the singles were introduced to contain ASICs too.) I don't know whats the ETA for the next-gen xilinx FPGAs but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to coincide with the BFL deadline. I agree that completion is good for the market, the problem is BFL isn't playing fair, neither to the market nor their customers, Kintex is already available. I have seen FPGA computing boards with Kintex-7 in some tech show. |
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Thanks pooler! Saw improvement right away on a Core i5-3570 K. Thanks
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The scratchpad used for scrypt is 128.5kB, so a 256kB L2 cache is enough to not have to use the L3 cache. (except maybe when a lot of task switching is done)
For processors without cache or a very small cache you want lower latency more than a higher bandwidth.
It's 256kB but 8-WAY set associative, essentially 32KB per set. |
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i have allways 100% usage on cpu. how i can fix that?  Use latest cgminer 2.6.1 and run with --scrypt option |
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mining is fun again! ;-)
As is speculation! $12/BTC happens to mark roughly the point where I've doubled my speculative investment (were I to cash out at least...and I've zero inclination to do so.) FWIW, $60/BTC is where I declare victory on my gamble. At around $100/BTC is where I sell a little to recoup the funds I input. In the $1000's/BTC I start spending them for things I want. I continue to consider the most likely outcome for my speculative investment in Bitcoin to be total loss, but less and less so as time goes by. Almost 40K BTC was sold into the spike and nearby trades today.  |
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All,
Welcome to the club Billion.
Have fun.
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my guess, sometime between Oct 2012 and Oct 2013, more biased towards the latter than the former
bump |
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The charge is for both generation and distribution. Bill total divided by total KW used was a bit shy of $0.15/KW, but it would obviously go up with more mining since any more power used would be at $0.25/KW.
Grrr, this is a total ripoff. Probably SCE transmission cables are gold plated like Monster cables |
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I just gotta ask, why is it setup like that, or how did it evolve into that? Why not spend an hour organizing everything, and putting a big fan to help cool everything down?
The primary reason (Keep all the computers as near to the vent fans as possible). Here's the chairman Here's a side profile. I had to be parsimonious with the 110V sockets, thus I used 80mm and 120mm fans.
 Another view from the top. Since I am a very short guy, it was hard for me to get this angle yesterday. I stood up on a chair to get this.  |
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