Thanks for the quick fix as always man.  Of course the pool had to go down right when I was putting my miners online and testing the temperatures lol...  But that was fixed within 10-15 mins, so again, thank you!

Jered, thank you for everything you have done.  It is unfortunate to say the least that this has happened.  Didn't see this in trading as I made a seperate thread for it, whoops.

  Greetings all,

  I was just following up with Jered in an email regarding a few checks I had taken some time to receive through January.  I thought it very courteous of him to make sure that I was getting all the funds I had chosen to withdraw though them.
  
  He randomly replied to me tonight stating a thank you as well as the fact that Tradehill had to "shut down trading today due to regulation".  I literally just got home from working on some systems so I don't know if this was already posted in another thread, if TH is going to search for alternative methods, or simply if their exchange is gone for good.

  If the latter is the case, I humbly thank Tradehill, Jered, and everyone else there for all the excellent service you have provided and a wonderful, easy-to-use website that existed for all of us Bitcoin fans and traders alike.

  Jered did mention that there was "plenty of backlog" for them to be working on so I feel that they will be honoring their commitment for any people who have outstanding balances / checks, etc.  At least, I hope they do for others who have funds in limbo - I am not representing them so again, I don't know for sure.

*edit*.

  Ok, looks like they may be down for now but they are working to get going again in the future once other things are taken care of.  They will be refunding all client funds, according to their blog.

http://tradehillblog.com/

I was in your position just a couple weeks ago myself.  I always run Nvidia but you know how that goes for mining so I wanted to put some ATI cards in my main system too. 

Put in a 5970 and nope, let their specific drivers install (downloaded) and rebooted and nope, no problem at all.  Afterburner or other temp tools might require a dummy plug or your monitor plugged into one or the other card to show all the temps sometimes but you can get it to work just fine.

If you're presumably going to be installing the ATI card in a slot below the first then shouldn't have any problems.  For my cooling and how my fans are placed, I had to swap out my whole PCIe layout to make it work.  Different case though.  My main NV card is for example, in slot #7 atm.

Good luck!

You guys are good .  Had me laughing at a lot of these points.  Gotta crack the room window here for sure.  My main system is fine by itself but I have one more miner here with 2 5970s that's being relocated soon.  With that cranking 24/7 too, I do have to vent the room sometimes. 

At least it's only been in the 20s-30s here in Michigan in winter.  I'd hate to know how hot this room would get in summer.

Wow that's pretty cool.  Good luck finding them cheap though.  Still $1,100+ on Ebay.

I think you're fine on the power but that's a pretty high core clock without any voltage increase on the 5970.  I'm only getting 825 (or for ease of config, 815) on mine.  Perhaps I have a few odd ones but I can't push them above 825 at all without a boost or the system BSODs pretty quickly (or more than likely the drivers just crash). 

I hadn't seen this but found the entire thread a worthwhile and insightful read.  Gavin, thank you very much for showing us your experiences with an organization most people would normally tend to fear or be wary about.  I think your presentation was very nicely done (or well, the PDF at any rate). 

Thankfully haven't had any problems with GUIminer and Phoenix on any of my cards here.  Both the CUDAminer (my Nvidia cards) and Phoenix (my many AMD cards) are working fine.  Too bad for others using the other miners though.

  Ok after checking one of my miners after 24 hours on wireless, it's showing a change of 31M bytes sent and 53M bytes received.  This would add up to ~84MB of data use a day (and is a little shy of the post before but the math is somewhat close).  Again this is just connecting to a pool and mining, not using the machine for anything else.

  Just thought I'd share in case if anyone else ever wondered.

  Hmm true.  I'd have to take a look at the bill to see just how many extra charges there are .

Ah gotcha.  Well at this rate I'll just check my packets unless I hear some other replies.  So far:

Miner #1 for example (had a power issue) so uptime is 1D 18H and has sent ~53,000,000 bytes and received ~89,000,000 bytes.  That'd be ~142MB every day and a half so if I'm correct on this I'm looking at ~2.5GB a month.  At least I think that's right.

  Hi everyone,

  Been mining great at home now but have made some arrangements to move my rigs to a cooler space that, unfortunately, have a craptastic wireless signal.

  Bought a USB modem to generate / boost the wireless strength so that should solve my ocassional connection hiccups.  The only caveat though is that the plan has a month to month personal limit of 5GB with an incredibly nasty overage charge.

  I figure since Bitcoin does not really show bandwidth, could I just note the packets transfered from Windows 7's connection properties to determine just how much bandwidth I'm using in a day for my miners?  Have any of you guys checked to see how much data transfer you're doing?  These are standalone miners so they are just connecting to the pool I'm on and sending over whatever hashing / share data that they have to do.  They *do not* have to download the blockchain thankfully, so that saves a ton of data use.  Thanks in advance.

$0.06 here in Michigan at home.  At the office though it's rolled into the utility payment so "free".

  Hey everyone,

  Just logged into my TH account today as I had an amount pending from when they originally had the bank troubles until fixing it recently.  Since I wanted to withdraw this amount I've been checking to see if checks had returned for us in the US.  A few days ago it was not so but today I do see checks able to be requested again.  Yay.

  Keep in mind though there is now a $5 charge for processing.

  Usually it's Windows updates or an occassional crash but my rigs have been up for generally at least two weeks at a time then chosen to reboot.  Pretty sure I've gone at least a month+ on my first rig but by then it's time to dust it out (sitting on a table at home).  My main not-always-mining rig will be rebooted once a week or so though just because I'm using it for a lot of tasks.  Thankfully so far (knocks on wood) that it's just more driver issues sometimes and now that I've dialed things in, not really heat as much anymore.

  All my 5970s are running in Corsair 500R cases and are OC'd to 815 / 825 core with memory in the 500s or as low as I can make it go.  Temps on all the cards and cores are right at 68-72C with fans roughly 60% (with one or two exceptions).

Saw a check pending from the beginning of January finally show a status of "completed" today.  While requesting pay by check is still not possible under Tradehill, I'm sure they're working on probably the thousands of backlog requests (maybe manually with their new bank).  I'm sure it'll return in time (or so I hope) but 3 weeks of downtime isn't good.

  Cool.  Thanks for all the different perspectives here.  Well I'd have to rewire one of my systems now if I wanted to do a 3-card setup due to the original system's PSU being not quite strong enough for 3 big cards I'd think.  Other PSUs I've gotten now won't have that issue.  Good to know it's more of a preference with temps and noise as opposed to a hard limitation.  Yay for driver fixes.

Afterburner should let you change each core just fine if both are being shown in your miner or config.

Settings > select the dropdown menu for each duplicate card (core) and clock away.

  Thought I'd chime in and say that thankfully my two have been alright.  One card at 825 and another at 815 with stock voltage.  The second card is a bit flaky but but unstable enough to mine with - it just likes to have a core disappear randomly on reboots and seems to throttle a little worse temp-wise than the other.  Then again maybe I just didn't have the fanspeed high enough (it was the lower of the two cards in the system).  Top one runs fine at 50s% but the bottom card requires nearly 85% fan to keep the VRMs cool enough.  Temps are upper 60s to mid 70s so no problems there.

  Will be moving them to better room shortly though (just in the bedroom for now which has a lot of temp fluctuations).