I can guarantee there'll be guys like me(or at least me) who are just rolling weekly mining profits into these bonds. I rolled ~5 days of mining in to PPT.A and plan on rolling 7 days of mining in to PPT.B. This is a damn convenient option for those w/o FS&T accounts. It'll be interesting to see if PPT.A has as much of a frenzy about it during the initial offering.

I use Windows to test new cards. I run my small farm on BAMT.

I squeaked right in at 1.069  Make some money, money!

Search around for computer assembly guides. Computers these days are pretty simple to assemble. You'll likely waste more time dealing with software issues.

Also, you might want to follow those guides loosely. It would suck to assemble a 1 gpu rig and then realize you want a rig with more gpus in it.


You didn't even ask the guy what his plans are for the rig. You trolling?

I like a mix of 5970s and 5830s. I use the 5830 to load balance the breakers with my 5970 rigs. 1 5970 rig and 1 5830 rig per 20 amp breaker. Puts me right around 16 amps to keep in line with the 80% load rule.

I achieve 1.94 MH/w with my HD 5830s. 10 cards, 3 GH/s, 1550w from the wall. They aren't as efficient as my watercooled HD 5970 rigs which are running 2800 MH/s and pulling 1100w from the wall but they are cheaper per MH. I paid $105 per 5830 and they run right around 300 MH/s for 2.86 MH/$. The 5970s were roughly $425 with waterblocks and they run around 700 MH/s, so roughly 1.65 MH/$. This doesn't include the ~$400 in radiators and pumps that cool my 8 5970s.. The beauty of the 5970 rigs though are that once I got them setup they just chug along and I haven't had to worry about them. The 5830s however.. I have two with fans that will likely fail before the summer is out and I'm sure I'll have a few more fans fail that currently sound fine.

5830s will quickly get you MH/s for cheap. You'll pay through the nose in power but they sure do make nice heaters in the winter.

Is this 64-bit version publicly available? I've got a pair of quad 5970 rigs that I'd like to get on BAMT. I like the stat tracking in BAMT and I really don't want to have to roll my own Ubuntu iso.

Something I have found to establish confidence is to show that you're actually doing something productive with your loans. Loans to buy consumer goods to float you between paychecks aren't in the same caliber as loans to purchase mining equipment. Perhaps it'll help your case to mention your plans for the loan and provide some supporting information if this is a mining venture.


It's a shame that is the attitude within this sub-forum. Can't blame you guys though.

3.3v is the supply voltage and signaling voltage on the VRM controllers for these cards. Without 3.3v your VRM controller will not power on and switch the fets. Good luck running your GPUs then 

Tried flashing the BIOS to set the memory to 500 MHz since I can't get Trixx or AfterBurner to drop the memory below 1000 MHz. That  didn't end well, Windows BSOD and Ubuntu refuses to display video. That being said I was able to drop the voltage with both AfterBurner and CGMiner. Dropping from 1.176 to 1.1v let the card mine at 950 MHz with no problems. Dropped the temps a bit and dropped power consumption at the wall by 40 watts(Corsair AX750 is feeding it). Going to flash back to the stock BIOS and worry about downclocking the ram later.

Just started playing with my 6870x2(one deal fell through). Right now at stock clocks(950 core, 1050 memory) the thing is blistering hot. GPU-Z is reporting some component around 95 Celsius, scary hot. At 100% fanspeed the cores are in the 70s with ambient temps around 20C. Going to run the card a bit and then work on dropping the memory clocks. Before I take power numbers I need to move it to a different rig.. it is sitting in my desktop with a high strung 2600K and 16GB of ram  Just thought I'd update.

Politics, in the BFL thread? GTFO with your crap.

Be careful though. Sometimes, if the landlord traces it back to you, they might have the right to terminate your lease with very little warning.

Wasn't there a post going around of a college kid who suffered brain damage due to all his mining GPUs in his cramped dorm room? Be careful, you should probably just send all those GPUs to me.

My Sapphire 5830s are some of the coolest and most reliable GPUs in my farm. I have 10 of them running on a pair of 890FX-GD70s and those two rigs have run for about a month now without any intervention necessary. Not the best for MH/w but if I could bulk buy another 10 I'd happily do so.

I'm not going to add to that issue on eBay. It won't even play TF2 though as the VRM phase overheats at the loading screen.

I imagine there are a number of us sitting by waiting to see the number of shares to be released. This is a great opportunity for those of us that don't have BS&T accounts.

Contact isn't the issue. I've mounted a few too many 5970 HSF to screw it up three times in a row. Each time the pads had imprints from the VRM ICs also. I wish it was a contact issue.

Has anyone had a 5970 where one of the vddc phases for a core hits thermal shutdown at less than stock clocks? I'm talking, one phase at 115-120C and all the other phases on the card in the 50s. I remounted the stock HSF twice with new pads each time and I then mounted one of my spare EK waterblocks to the card.



Bottom GPU-Z, VDDC #2 is sitting at 72 Celsius with the core clocked down to 300MHz @ 0.95v just to keep it cool. At 375MHz and 0.95v it hovers around 95 Celsius. This card is at the end of a 6 card serially linked GPU waterblock chain so the incoming water is a bit warm at ~33-34C but compare the top GPU-Z. All my other 5970s look like that, cores in the 40s, VRMs in the low to mid 50s depending on where in the waterloop it sits.

The previous owner sent me a screenshot of the card running 800MHz on the core with an uptime of around 20 days right before he shipped this and another card to me. I trust that the owner didn't do a bait and switch. Just curious if anyone has seen this and if it is a sign that the phase is about to pop or if they've recovered it with something like a bake in the oven.

Cooling reasons. On my 890FX-GD70s I run 2 cards on the board and 3 cards on risers. That way all the cards are spaced out nicely.