If they are just down the street, why not buy it in person, or if you aren't interested in buying something, maybe someone else can buy it through you by proxy (not ip proxy, but ... you, proxy)?

Wow, amazing price on that starter rig. I'm mostly interested in the case itself. Great choice on power supply too (PC P&C), but shame that they started slacking on quality a little since Mark II (I have a turbocool 1KW and a 950W MK II, construction is like night and day, voltages are more on target with my turbocool).

Would it be possible to just buy one of those open cases? Or do you have only one and it's in the bundle?

Hmmm interesting. But I can't find any info on them. WTB someone who's good at researching into this sort of stuff (like my thread about insight.com)

Pictures with some sort of proof you have them? (piece of paper with name and probably a poorly drawn picture of a guy doing surgery on a PC?)
Any reputation?
Escrow?

These sorts of things options should always be included in the first post. Prices seem too good to be true.

free bump.

I don't think ramsinks are needed at any realistic speeds. ram voltage is likely static, and none of the IC should be in danger of catastrophic failure, even at full activity. It may when overclocked but eh.

I think I found a compatible VRM minisink at http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=447 but I can't find anyone that sells it in the USA. Maybe if someone could help me out?...

The reference stock heatsink + fan assembly is just one huge chunk of metal, heatpipes, and plastic. There is no seperate pieces for ram or VRM.

Here's pictures of the 5870 itself, the top of the HSF, and the bottom of the HSF. Yes there is white thermal paste on some parts because I had to take it apart once already to try to fix the fan (thought it might have been out of lube or something. It's just plain ol shot)

bump

Another person just getting out of newbie section looking to sell a lot of stuff. Probably a scammer, unless he provides legit info that he's .. well, legit.

Hmm, 29 posts, probably just got out of newbie section... I smell scam :/

You better have rep you can show in order to make users think you're trusted. Some of those prices seem too good to be true.

The fan on my radeon 5870 died, and it'll likely take asus 1 month to "process" and send me back a fixed one, and they won't sell me a fan on it's own, so I resorted to buying a new heatsink + fan. I already bought a ZALMAN VF1000 from a user on these forums, but it doesn't seem to have cooling for VRMs and I'm afraid of the card frying if I don't have VRM cooling, so I need to buy a VRM heatsink. I can pay in bitcoins.

If you aren't a trusted seller, then I'll have to pay with something that allows me to reverse payment in the case of a scam (I've already been scammed on these forums..) such as paypal.

I saw something like a thermalright vrm-r5 but that's awfully complicated for what I need done. I thought I could just get away with a chunk of aluminum with fins :/

Highly interested. I'll wait til the heatsink you sold me though gets delivered before I consider plopping down coins.

BTW, what temperatures can I expect on the VRM? Also is the memory temperature safe you think without any sort of heatsink on them?

your computer shop likely didnt give you any video cards capable of opencl (integrated video or something not current)

From what I understand, the OP's program will try to make your card hover around a certain temperature. This is NOT the same as msi afterburner or trixx where it'll set a certain fan strength at a certain temperature.

Say we're in the middle of the summer and your GPU is mining away happily, and you want your target temperature to be 70C. You can tweak MSI Afterburner/trixx til the line graph is close enough that it's about 70c while you just tell the OP's program what temperature to be at, and adjust fan as necessary (We'll assume you need 60% fan speed for this).

Now it's winter and much colder. Your trixx has the same graph, and now your GPU is at 60C, likely at a lower RPM than in summer. OP's program will still have the GPU targeted at 70C, and the fan needs even less RPM than trixx to achieve the target temperature, so it's kind of smart when it comes to different ambient temperatures.

I've found that only trial and error is the best process for overclocking. If you're underclocking memory, I've found that all 58xx have stability problems with memory 350-400+. Turn memory speed to at most 330 to get rid of "Hardware problem?" errors. The gain of 0.1 mhash isn't worth it. If you're scared about voltages, a small bump from stock (1.163 -> 1.175) can go a long way. I managed to push my 5830 from 985 core to 1016 with that small bump, and no hardware errors! Driver hangs and restarts are another thing, and seems to purely result from core problems (memory doesn't seem to affect driver hang+reset; it just causes "Hardware problem?" and bad shares). Core voltage and memory aside then, that just leaves core speed. I generally started around 975 and went from there, increasing by 5 until driver hang/crash, then when I get around to noticing it, i'll go back by 2 mhz, and keep doing that until I forget the card is even running because it's stopped crashing because of stability.

Well my 5870 fan is starting to take a crap. It still works ... ish, but it's not reliable and could die at any point now. Card in question is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121346
It's started to make a hum-like sound that varies in volume, and if it gets loud and rattly, it can "scream" and got from 4500RPM at normal 100% speed to 600RPM and as loud as a smoke alarm. Sometimes it squeals perpetually and I have to manually change fan speed, or it stop squealing after about a half second and goes back to normal speed.

Anyways, story aside, I need a new fan pronto. Just the fan would be nice, but I don't know how much a fair price would be. I'm new to the whole bitcoin scene, and my first "purchase" on these forums led to me being scammed out of 11 coins -_-.

I also don't have much for feedback on these forums since, like I said, I'm new, but I have an ebay profile with good feedback @ http://myworld.ebay.com/ssateneth

Compatible heatsink + fan assemblies, either reference or 3rd party (has to be 2 slot, not 3) will be considered as well. Finally, any sort of outside source that has them as well for fair prices would be nice too (Maybe a donation your way?... O.o)

evanbrowne94 scammed me out of 11 bitcoins, and probably one other person for the same amount too.

thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33139.msg414602#msg414602

scammer's bitcoin address that received my coins
1J7Me6F7Y4FiJpA3kLWGCmp115KTJuBrqm

Wheres bitcoin chargebacks when you actually need it :/

The behavior is as if it's not doing 4 nonces, but only doing 1 (i.e. no VECTORS option specified). My compute speed remained the same regardless of memory speed, which is exactly like your V1 result on the graph on page 1.

Ummm... I already sent him the BTC for this card. If you sent him BTC too, I think this is a scam and we both lost our BTC.