Over 1ghs? Cool! I actually just put an order in for a 2 backplanes and 5 plugin cards. I have plans to order a few more too.

Earlier in this thread there was talk of these possibly running at 1ghs. How likely is this to happen? Im new to bitcoins and all this, however I am pretty interested and if each Quad can do 1ghs I would be much much more interested.

Im fairly sure the mobo is causing the problem. I have not check for bulging caps but I do know that I ran it overclocked its entire life and most of the time at 100% cpu usage. The chipset fan stopped spinning quite awhile back which allows the heatsink to get pretty hot to the touch.

In any case I want to be on the look out for a new one...

EDIT: Yes it is a 939 socket, Im pretty sure it used DDR ram too. Thanks kinda why I was asking. I may be able to find a newer mobo/cpu/ram for the same price an older 939 mobo.

In in the USA with a budget of cheap! As it sits now I have $510 invested and I would say I might be willing to spend another $100 but i really dont want to.

Thank you, Can you move this or should I just copy/paste it?

Im new to bitcoins and have decided to throw a small amount of money into it just to play around with. I have plans on building a new computer soon and plan on turning my old one into a mine rig. Currently I have a DFI Lanparty CFX3200 with an Athlon 4800+ X2, HD4850 and 2GB ram. The motherboard has 2 PCIe 16x slots and 2 1x slots.  I get about 90mhs now with the 4850 and ordered 3 5850's from ebay to add to it. I also ordered a 1050watt PSU with 8 PCIe connectors.

Now, I have had an issue with this system before in that it sometimes will not turn on and I never could figure out why... After pulling out hard drives, cdroms, etc to install the video cards I ran into this issue again and it wont boot... What would be a cheap motherboard to replace this one with? I wanted to have a 1ghs system for $600 or so...

Would it be better to find a socket 939 board to use the existing cpu/ram or buy something lower powered?

I would like to be whitelisted in order to post on the rest of the forum. I have nearly 5 hours logged in here and have read a lot even before registering. I have recently converted an older gaming system into a mining rig and have been deciding where to go next.

thanks!

hi, Im new here... First post but I have spent a fair amount of time reading even before registering. I look forward to learning more and making my first purchase with BTC.