Did you buy them from Newegg?  If so, you can try seeing if they'll refund you the price difference.  It's kind of hit or miss if they'll do it but I've told a friend to do it once and they refunded him like $10 on the external drive he bought the week before a price drop.

Too bad this sale doesn't work on all PSUs.

How's this Seasonic compare to the AX1200?

Yup, I actually changed it to 12 somewhere along the way, can't remember when or who told me to when I did but I've got very few stale shares on the pools I've tested out.

Got my 2nd 5970 sitting here now but I won't be getting the AX1200 until Tuesday or Wednesday... *sigh*

Was thinking about running to Microcenter and buying one to use 'til then and then returning it lol but that'd be a douchey thing to do.

Guess I'm just stuck losing out on like half a week of mining with this one...

Oh, and make sure the update includes easy setup for P2Pool please lol.

I doubt cgminer is that tough to figure out but I'm sure the pool would get a lot more users if it were easier to configure and use through someone like GUIMiner without the need for command line and scripts.

7970 has been out for maybe a week or so?  And the 7950s became available a day or two ago.  I may be a bit off but that's roughly it.

People are guessing that the 7990's will be out in March.

Depending on his budget though, the 5xxx series are still supposed to be a better bang for the buck as far as mining goes.  I've read that the 5970s can still easily run most games at high resolutions; not so sure how the 5830/5850/5870s fare.

The 7xxx series will probably be more energy efficient but you also pay the larger upfront premium for having the latest tech.

Sorry for the late response, I was away from the computer for awhile.

Went ahead and sent it, I'll just absorb the cost of the transfer fee.

Repayment address:  1GuMpDkNaBXjme53quiYFM3gGyyLmA4tt2

Repayment date: 2/10/12?

I'll take you up on that.  Sending payment momentarily.

Edit: Hrm, well there's a fee for an amount that small?

Ah I see.  Was just wondering how that worked.  The rate they pay out per share is as good as it gets from what I can tell compared to other pools but didn't know how the pay out works since it's in a negative buffer.

Was just curious on the delay in paying out but it must be good still if they've got over 300 Ghash worth of processing otherwise everyone would've already checked out.

Thanks for the response.

Do you foresee more coming in stock anytime?

Would be interested.

So is this pool still good to go considering it's in the negative?  If I mine then try to cash out it'll just put in a long queue where others are ahead of me waiting for theirs?

Having trouble connecting my GUIMiner to the pool?

host:  http://btcserv.net

port: 8335

Username/Password are the same one displayed under "Mining workers" in my account.

GUIMiner status just says "Connecting..." and sits there.

Both of those are fairly comparable so the deciding factor should maybe be based on how much you pay per kWh where you are.

Even then the difference between 80 PLUS and 80 PLUS Bronze is like 2% so you might be better off with the gaming PSU (think that was the lower priced one).

Just keep in mind that as you add more video cards the watt requirement can quickly grow.  I have a HX620W and it was good at the time and I was able to SLI with it but now that I have a 5970, when my second one arrives I won't even be able to use it until I get myself a bigger power supply (been looking for a used AX1200 but no luck yet).

Haha, no problem.  Earlier in that post you did link the right zip file I believe.  I got P2Pool running and connected just fine.  Saw that it had some 155 Ghash/s or so in the messages that scroll by in the command prompt.

Also, I saw mention of updating Git Head or something.  What's that?  Is that necessary?

And yeah, I've had several people tell me to get cgminer cause GUIMiner is old... Is there no way of using GUIMiner with P2Pool since I've already got it set up at the moment?

Then does anyone have recommendation for a site with a real time ticker that's more accurate?

Didn't do anything with a run_p2pool.py file or saw one at all for that matter.  Seems like it did autogenerate a pay address for me.

I pretty much followed Holliday's post on the first page of this thread to a tee except I'm not sure where he got the p2pool_0.8.1_c7feb00.zip file from (step 10).

And then I kind of veered off at step 13 because he uses cgminer in his guide instead of GUIMiner.

When I view that graphs page you linked it says "Install python-rrdtool!".

Will check tomorrow and try to figure it out then.  So tired and need sleep.

Read through this entire thread and didn't really any mention of setting up P2Pool with GUIMiner...

If I downloaded P2Pool from the original post, setup the bitcoin.conf file inside my appdata/bitcoin folder, am I pretty much good to go?

The username / pass match up with the ones I entered in the bitcon.conf:



Also had a receive address show up in my bitcoin wallet as "p2pool".  That was done automatically somewhere during this process?

Worked.

They hit 350-400 mhash/s now for each core.

Seems to settle in around 390ish mhash/s once it's warmed up.

As for the latest kernels, do they just come packaged with Phoenix 1.7.5?  (I just downloaded that and unzipped the contents into the GUIMiner folder)

Thanks.

Thanks will give the SDK 2.1 a try.

I did down the clocks to 850/300 @ 1075mV and switched the flag to

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=20 WORKSIZE=128

This seems to have bumped me up to ~700 mhash/s.

Do you think getting another 50-100 mhash/s is possible by trying your suggestions?  Or are those kinds of mhash/s from bumping up the clocks even more aggressively?  Would rather not if I didn't have to.

Just got my 5970 in the mail and got it set up and it's getting me ~550 mhash/s using GUIMiner (2 tabs of Phoenix miner).

Got MSI Afterburner and have it at 1075mV, 900MHz core, 150MHz memory.  Temps showing at ~70-75C @ 60% fan speed.  The profiles don't seem to save and set correctly but that's not a big deal, I'll worry about that later (disabled ULPS already).

The GUIMiners tabs are using 0-0 and 0-1 so that's not it.  CPU Affinity is set to 0, 2, 4, 6 and no CPU cores are hitting 100% so don't think that's it either.  Could it be GUIMiner?

Flags: -k phatk -q 6 AGGRESSION=11 WORKSIZE=64 BFI_INT VECTORS -a 1000 (Dunno, just did a bit of a mashup of flags that other people posted lol)

Current system (not a dedicated miner rig): i7-920 @ 2.66GHz (should I overclock it for mining?), 12GB (6 x 2GB) RAM, Corsair HX620W, Windows 7 64-bit

Got Catalyst 12.1 (read that SDK 2.6 isn't good but would it cause me to lose out on like 200 mhash/s?).

Thanks for any suggestions.  Got another 5970 coming on Friday so would like to figure this out before then.  That and I have to see if I can find a used AX1200 as well.

Yea, woulda mentioned that but I guess in my mind that was kind of a given lol.

Didn't wanna name particular brands because maybe there were good ones that were less costly since you might end up paying a small premium for brand name.

I got a Corsair HX620W myself and feel that they make solid PSUs.  Customer service is really good too (they overnighted me extra modular cables for free).

Recommended their PSUs to 2 friends and they've had no issues.  My next PSU will be an AX1200 probably.

From what I've seen, if you're in the US then Dwolla has the lowest fees. (http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/86684-dwolla-fees)

The funding time isn't as fast as other services; but the other ones charge quite a bit more.

Faster ones that I've looked into charge up to 5%.

So if you're just a hobbyist and don't NEED the bitcoins immediately and can wait 4-7 days for funds to transfer from bank -> Dwolla -> MtGox then Dwolla is best I would think.