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December 21, 2013, 02:11:15 AM |
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Noticed that the availability of these GPUs has all but vanished from most major suppliers, and most of what we have is ebay and other user based market listing left. The average in the UK seems to be £350 per GPU, since it's being touted everywhere as the best low power for high hash rate card (and rightly so).
However as I'm upgrading my entire computer set up anyway and plan to buy 3-5 GPUs over the next year for it it's got me wondering if there are cards that are nearly as efficient at mining that are not as hyped and so are not as costly? Forking out £1000 for 3 GPUs seems like a bit much, or are they really worth their current value?
Also as a small secondary question, I have to run OSX on my PC as my uni course uses some software that is exclusively Mac (Logic Pro) and I've had a successful hackintosh running 10.8 Mountain Lion now for two years on these specs:
System: GA-Z77X-UD5H [rev 1.0] CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz Socket 1155 8MB Cache Graphics: Gigabyte GTX 560Ti OC 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Mini HDMI Out PCI-E
My trusty lil GTX runs away at 140 khs with cudaminer and the correct config settings, in windows or OSX. However since many motherboards are not very OSX friendly gigabyte seems to be the boards with by far the best native support for running OSX (my GTX GPU also runs natively with no MAC drivers needed!) so is there a gigabyte motherboard that I could buy for my next upgrade that would allow the attaching of 3-6 GPUs in anyway? I presume this is impossible with my current board.
I'm still kind of n00b about the whole multiple GPUs on one computer thingy. Thanks.
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