You'll have to use an escrow.

This is the exact model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150605

I have two for sale. They were used for mining and ran at a safe 80c on an open-air case. No artifacts and such so they remain usable for gaming. Each achieve 340 KHs mining scrypt on stock clocks (~80C). 410khz overclocked(90C).

I'm in no rush to sell. Asking $230 each. GPU's are also listed on Craigslist. Best offer wins.

Thanks.

I thought it was relevant.

It sucks 250 watts on full load with two HDD's, and a low profile GPU. 100 watts idle. (My mining rig draws 85 watts idle. No big deal.)


This isn't for mining. Duh. I have two 7870's for that on my mining rig. This is just for regular work. Everything other than mining. (Blender rendering, running servers, etc) And it does it damn well.

I have a powered riser.

I didn't really want to make money. I just wanted a fast computer. Faster than any other I've had. As for OS requirelemnts... what OS requirements? I've been running regular ol windows 7 64bit here just fine.

(Also, It was 130, but shipping costs bump it up to 180.)

Cool! That's perfect. Any Nvidia recommendations? Blender has no support for OpenCL unfortunately. Only CUDA.

If openCL is so open, why can't it be included in the open source drivers?

#illuminati

Try to lower the aggression. Make sure your thread concurrency is correct. Make sure both are at equal clocks. make sure the power lines for both are secured. Try mixing and matching the cables. If you are using windows, then if the second GPU isn't connected it won't be initialized. Either connect it to a monitor when booting or use linux.

Hey guys.

What's the best GPU I can find that fits in a single slot? It also has to be able to pull all it's power from the PCI-E slot, and ideally only take up only one slot in the case.

Recommendations are much appreciated.

I've found that my 7870's draw ~140 watts of power via the PCI-E molex connectors. That leaves 10-20 to the PCI-E connector. I think I'll be fine, although It might vary with other cards.. Your best bet to tell is if your GPU works on an unpowered riser well. If it does, most goes through the PCI-E plug. Otherwise. It's probably split more evenly.

Dang. Guys. You gotta TEST your stuff before you buy them on craigslist. If you do this, You will be as safe as buying from a retail store.

Ask questions. "Where did you get it? How long have you had it? Why are you selling it?"

When buying desktop parts. Bring a desktop with you in your car and run it off of a power inverter. It's just 20 bucks and you'll love it whenever you want to have a laptop on in the car.  Don't have an inverter? Then BUY ONE. Don't take risks! They aren't worth it.

From this I have gotten a lot of gems on craigslist at wonderful prices.

That's because you're one of few people who are aware of such rack servers. To get that kind of performance on desktop hardware everyone is familiar with, you'd need to shell out $300 at the least.

There is no standard for linking mobos, but some high end servers allow it. That being said, it's proprietary, undocumented, and obscure. Unfortunately, there is no good way to link mobos. Your best bet is getting two 16GB flash drives, and using that to host the OS, so you don't have to have two HDD's weighing you down.

Hey guys. Look at this screenshot.



It has two Intel Xeons 2.5 GHz, each is quad-core. Total 8 cores. (Not visible) 16GB of RAM. No HDD's included though. (But regular SATA drives work)

Now, Guess how much it costed. (The whole rig)

500? Nope. 400? Nope. 300? Nope. 200? NOPE.

$180 with shipping!


It's because it's a rack server. Dell custom built for some company. It's a few years old. (Core 2 Duo  DDR2 era) They bought them by the thousands, Used them a while... then they declare it depreciated and then sell it off. Ebay Listing URL: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271225747786 (Click the relisted URL, They have hundreds...)

Just a cool thing I thought I'd share with you guys, as I'm sure it would interest you. It does get loud though. I intend to modify the cooling system, as well create my own custom case for it, and use it as a desktop. (For fun.)

It also has one PCI-E slot, however it doesn't fit a mining-grade GPU inside the case. Does fit a regular size GPU that doesn't require external power, though.

I can also take detailed close up pictures of all the internals, if anyone is interested in seeing if this would work for their use of it.

I'm loving it.

Cheers!

Re~

Luck isn't something that determines circumstances. Circumstances are what determine if you are "lucky" or not.

Problem solved.

BTCE is dead. All your money is gone forever.


Erm, Sorry, The trollbox wore off on me.

It's not trading, it's facilitating a purchase.

Oh. Sorry. I was mentally estimating there. Pretty damn close, but alas, no cigar.