*Sings* Can you dig it? WE CAN DIG IT! Can y'all dig it? WE CAN DIG IT!! hahaha Whoomp there it is!

Edit: soz for double post much excitement, very not thinking clearly :|

It's back up again, 3.2GH and coinmine hovering a little over 3GH... on a side note tho, registrations have been disabled a few moments ago...

All your Reddcoin are belong to coinmine LOL!!!

im enjoying my ride with dedicatedpool.

well i withdrew my doge from crypsty so it will take a millennium to the power of infinity for it to reach my wallet... tho im happy just to watch the market atm. i'm not game to buy or sell with all this crazy rabies going on.

gimme all ur doge, it's 2pm here so i'll *watch* it for you trolololol!

i've been meaning to leave for a while, they've been pretty laggy since i joined a few weeks back anyway. might take this opportunity to pull out while i can

yeah it just disappeared for me as well, my balance is missing from my account also. i hope it's just a pause or i want my woof woof back

I can still view the graph through the direct link... lol im thinking of pulling my doge from craptsy

True, but it's just a hobby for me so i don't mind the power costs. tho i've been tossing up while waiting for the jally whether or not to turn off the gpus and put them to some useful gaming use. now that i have the jally it's more a case of what day i'll be motivated enough to take the rig offline and pull it apart.

I do occasionally buy and sell coins i made a nice profit in the recent btc spike, like wise with ltc.

Got my jally yesterday. I'm stoked to fuck! Pre-ordered March 18th 2013 so got it for $149 + the $100 2Gh/s upgrade + regular shipping (express shipping is a con and not needed even for me in Oz!) and thought I'd never see it. It took 6 days to get here after it was shipped and I got the tracking info. It sat at a "fulfilled" state for about a week prior to it being shipped and getting tracking info. ROI or not, I'm never turning this bastard off. I pay $0.27 KWh and I also have 2x 7970's mining LTC non stop for the past 8+ months. If anything I should be crying over electricity costs.... Here's a screeny, quite pleased I'm pushing 9Gh/s and occasionally it does hit over 9Gh/s which makes me think should I even bother reflashing it? Seems much of a muchness to me...



To put things into perspective a little clearer... My 7970's pull just as much if not more power than the combined total of all my household appliances and we regularly have PC's on 24/7 streaming to TV's/Media Centers around the house. My power costs increased 2 fold when running these cards so the jally is by far the clear winner in this scenario. Crypto currencies are akin to slot machines gambling... You win some, you lose some. Point being you can't always win and those with that mindset play too many PC/Console games and have lost touch with reality.

I'd imagine if my 7970's had more than one sensor it would read the TS0 sensor instead of the Thermal Diode. They're only the Ghz versions so no sensor on the VRM's. I think the 5770 is dying tho cause I just came back from the old's place after a few hours there and cgminer was reporting it DEAD. Weird electrical smell hovering around but neither of the cards are emitting that smell. *shrugs* if it dies, it dies

Perhaps for BTC but have you checked out the alt coins lately... GPU farms are already switching to alternatives that ASIC's can't touch. I myself am planning on another GPU purchase in the coming days not for BTC mining tho...

Oh I see, I thought cgminer read the same info. Clearly I was wrong so thanks for the clarification.

I just checked the reading with MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 10 and it's showing the Thermal Diode and not the TS0 sensor temperature.

**Edit**

Comment is irrelevant, I just thought it was weird seeing a different reading through cgminer

**Edit 2**

Come to think of it, I'm using 13.6 beta drivers so perhaps the issue is there rather than CGMiner. As you said the application is getting only one value from the display driver so perhaps the driver itself is reporting incorrectly, although why is MSI reading the thermal diode straight up.... If the library was spitting out an incorrect value wouldn't MSI also show the same value that CGMiner is showing?

So, I decided to slap in my old 5770 (flashed to 6770) along side my 2 7970's and after some mucking about having to hook up external power to one of the powered risers hosting one of the 7970's, I have the 7970's hashing away at full speed. A voltage drop caused the primary card to slow to a crawl, 2 cards with no power to the risers is fine but add another card in and I definitely needed more power than the board was giving...

Anyway, getting off track a little.. I'm using the latest version of CGMiner (3.2.2) and whilst tuning clocks on the 5770, I noticed that CGMiner was reporting a different temperature reading than what HWiNFO was reporting, a discrepancy of 12C! The GPU core seems hotter than what CGMiner is reporting. CGMiner is reporting correctly for the 2 7970's but not for the 5770... I'm wondering if this is a bug?

See for yourself. Check out the 5770 (marked out in a RED box) and compare it to the value reported for the Thermal Diode in HWiNFO... Disregard the fan speed, I dropped it to a low enough value so I could compare the temperatures easily. I have the fan on 85% atm and the temperature in HWiNFO dropped to 73C but there was no drop in CGMiner.

The molex is connected to the riser, so as well as having your 6 and 8 pin PCI-E power plugs to the cards themselves, you plug another molex power plug from the PSU to the riser's molex connector. Easy peasy japaneasy

...I wouldn't worry about utilizing the molex's for 2 GPU's.. you should have more than enough power delivered from the mobo to the cards. Still get the powered risers for future proofing

Glad it's all working out for you in the end man - take some rest and let your baby hash away for a while

Haha yes it's a nice feeling when collecting coins considering the price of LTC just went up but so did the difficulty If you're planning on running 3 GPU's or more on risers, then you'll probably want to make one of the GPU's use a powered riser. You'll avoid burning out the mobo and possibly the cards in the process from all the power draw. 2 is fine tho, mine are on powered risers but I have not utilized the molex connector on them at this point in time and they seem to be doing great without them. When I do add another GPU I'll definitely be plugging one of the molex's in, the last thing I'd want is to ruin 900+ bucks worth of hardware over a silly power overload

700kh/s is a great rate to start off with, you'll be even happier once you get all your gear out into the open and are able to sail past 730kh/s with ease. If you're really keen, repaste the GPU Heatsink and you would probably squeeze a bit more out of the card.

Quite simply, because risers have a fixed length and the cards would only extend a few inches above the mobo anyway and the longer you make them, the less likely the cards will hash properly or even be detected by the mobo. I read somewhere on this forum that 30cm's is the limit to a PCI-E riser cable. Anymore and the resistance is too great and the card underperforms or fails to be detected. Some people have reported success in daisy chaining a couple together, tho personally my powered risers wouldn't allow the PC to boot if I daisy chained them (2 x risers together). My risers are about 18.5cm long each from tip to toe so going by the 30cm rule, it made sense that the cards failed to initialize correctly despite powering up. This and the fact I'd get ALOT more air flow if i had everything out of the constraints of the case with proper spacing.

As for the differences? Well, I'm no expert and without googling the actual answer I'd hazard a guess that it's just transfer rates and shouldn't impact mining speed whatsoever since it's the GPU's themselves that are doing the computations. There is actually a thread or two talking about this since there are a few people wondering how long you can make a riser cable. Maybe someone more knowledgeable in this area could chime in but for the most part, I'd already ordered x16 risers so I chose to stick with them for now. I still have another 2 x4 PCI-E slots available and 2 x1 slots on my mobo for future expansion should I decide to go that route. Having said this, I tried to throw in an old 5770 (flashed to a 6770) in one of the PCI-E x4 slots and both my 7970's hash rate dropped to ~500kh/s. I haven't investigated this any further as of yet but plan to see why this happened eventually.

As a side note, moving air cools and stays cool alot quicker than still air. So as long as you have some kind of air movement along with everything out of the case, then temps will be a non issue for the most part. Infact, take a look at the https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7216.0 thread. Lots of mining rigs there both open case, rack mounted or full tower setups. I go jelly when I view that thread

^^This

...also I wouldn't trust anyone that doesn't know how to spell virgin