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June 13, 2011, 05:27:21 PM |
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Hi again - I can't help you with your Guiminer/6870 problem, I highly recommend to open an own thread with a meaningful subject for this and answers will start coming.
As for the Linux/Windows discussion, I agree with you, in terms of Usability I would chose OSX first, then Windows 2nd and Linux last. However, I invested time and effort in Linux since 2002 and even own some certifications. Therefore I was able to set up the whole mining game in 1-2h on Fedora15. It doesn't make sense for me to go back to propietery software for me now. I -LOVE- the fact that GNU is a political movement and Linux is the biggest community effort I have ever witnessed. Making money isn't the top priority and that's why Linux matures over time and doesn't get worse 8except maybe Gnome3, lol). The endless number of tools that come preinstalled with FC15's KDE made my jaw drop.
There are 200 distributions - and you should try a quite a few. Enterprises tend to use RedHat or Debian and at the moment of writing ArchLinux, Fedora (RedHat) and Ubuntu (Debian) are the most favored amongst end-users. This can change anytime as Gentoo or SuSE were really the Linux OS to use in the last decade. For mining, Ubuntu is the most well supported - so I recommend that one, there are also some pre-compiled VRAM / Voltage tools around in this forum that you can install in Ubuntu w/o compiling.
If you settle down on Fedora or Ubuntu it is mandatory that you buy yourself a book about package management with RPM, DEB, YUM and APTITUDE. Without having profound knowledge of package managment of your chosen distribution you will be absolutely lost.
If you really want to start with Linux now for the purpose of mining, prepare for a rough ride. You will learn a lot and probably start hating Linux - but it will pay off later when you get a $90K+ offer by Akamai w/o ever having attended University. =oP
Now... back to topic - I found out that all P67 and Z68 boards by ASUS have massive bugs, like sleep modus won't work and the multiple boot bugs. This seems still to be the issue with latest Rev. 3 boards, also for Z68 - so beware of ASUS! After having read a lot I would recommend these manufacturers for the 1155 socket, on the top of the list being the best (I did no research on Gigabyte, since I do not like their lack of UEFI Bios):
(1) MSI (Stable / €160) (2) ASRock (Very bad cooling on MoBo-Bridges, shld upgrade w. Zalman / €140) (3) ASUS (A lot of bugs! / €130)
Any more thoughts on the topic of "1155 mining"?
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