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June 06, 2011, 05:28:29 PM |
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Damnit i have been looking for about 2-3 days for the Radeon HD 6990... its sold out everywhere, or backordered! demand is crazy!!
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June 06, 2011, 05:31:15 PM |
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Damnit i have been looking for about 2-3 days for the Radeon HD 6990... its sold out everywhere, or backordered! demand is crazy!!
So nobody should say that bitcoin is bad for the economy...
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bcpokey
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June 06, 2011, 05:32:18 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
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June 06, 2011, 05:34:26 PM |
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I had better luck with 5870s as well as unlockable 6950s. You obviously do not get the same density however they are less $/h
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Jack of Diamonds
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June 06, 2011, 05:35:05 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing. Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better.
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June 06, 2011, 05:37:58 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing. Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better. two 5830 will get 600mh and thats only $220, but they sold out now too on newegg and chiefvalue
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mlouca (OP)
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June 06, 2011, 05:40:17 PM |
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3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?
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Jack of Diamonds
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June 06, 2011, 05:44:50 PM |
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3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?
Maybe at ridiculous overclocks that aren't stable for 24/7. I do run some 5870s in my miners but they are all within 5-10% of normal clock range. Not even nearly 500ghash/s. Somewhat better than 5850s though (but not enough to warrant the price difference+ power consumption) 5830's and 5850's are ideal.
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Coma
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June 06, 2011, 05:47:23 PM |
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Maybe GPUs shortage will keep Bitcoin from growing too fast. If this keeps growing soon we'll have mining dedicated cards, I don't like that idea at all.
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mlouca (OP)
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June 06, 2011, 05:49:01 PM |
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how many hashes do you get out of your 5850 at stock.
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June 06, 2011, 06:53:44 PM |
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3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?
1.0 to 1.3 is more realistic.
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June 06, 2011, 06:54:35 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing. Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better. Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy. And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people.
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Jack of Diamonds
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June 06, 2011, 07:51:05 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing. Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better. Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy. And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people. But it's horrible value for the money. I have exactly one; Due to using a massive discount at a retailer. Otherwise it would've been wasted cash more or less. Hell, you can get same hashing performance for two unlocked 6950's and those cost maybe 50% or less.
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June 06, 2011, 08:36:20 PM |
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3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?
1.0 to 1.3 is more realistic. Not so fast. Gigabyte 5870SO model kicks asses 24/7 with its 950MHz for 410-425Mhash/s depending on the miner app, but dual-fan cooling system is ... noisy. Jumps between 190 and 200W power consumption , but I'm lazy to check that with lowered memory clock (around 350MHz for stability purposes).
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TurboK
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June 06, 2011, 08:57:55 PM |
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I thought the best price/performance card right now was the Sapphire 5850 Extreme, which is 150$ for something around 300mhash.
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kr105
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June 06, 2011, 09:05:47 PM |
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I thought the best price/performance card right now was the Sapphire 5850 Extreme, which is 150$ for something around 300mhash.
You meant "was" $150. Or its on stock again?
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June 06, 2011, 09:07:22 PM |
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It is if you can find it in stock for $150
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TurboK
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June 06, 2011, 09:09:02 PM |
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Ah, I wasn't aware that they are already sold out. Damn, things change quick.
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June 06, 2011, 09:19:28 PM |
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Ah, I wasn't aware that they are already sold out. Damn, things change quick.
They've been out of stock for a couple weeks now.. I called in to amazon and if I remember right the rep said new stock wasnt expected until july 6th or so.
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bcpokey
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June 06, 2011, 10:31:44 PM |
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6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.
Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing. Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better. Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy. And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people. Either you got very lucky or you're full of s**t. The average 6990 goes nowhere near 990Mhz let alone 1050. Not to mention when overclocked the average 5870 (not a super special golden overclocker) can do 420MHash/sec. They game pretty well too surprisingly (for the same money you will probably get even better fps, though lots more noise and heat).
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