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October 30, 2013, 02:32:49 PM
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It's readily available...
I suggest waiting for the r9 290, should draw less power and be slightly slower, whilst costing $100 less.
Any idea when they launch this card? I always though they launch it together with R9 290x... Last info 5th november. http://www.techpowerup.com/193497/radeon-r9-290-non-x-launch-pushed-back-a-week.html |
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SquallLeonhart
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October 30, 2013, 02:35:40 PM |
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Thanks for sharing, was waiting for an answer before this... |
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Noruka
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October 30, 2013, 05:53:41 PM |
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I guess people didn't notice me emphasising bitcoin in my comment.
i think people just assume you weren't talking about wanting to go back to GPU mining of bitcoins. |
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forevernoob
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October 30, 2013, 09:20:42 PM |
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Yeah why the hell would you wanna mine bitcoins with your GPU anyway?
Current difficulty is just too high.
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RandomQ
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October 31, 2013, 04:08:31 AM |
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Thanks for sharing, looks like I will pass until the price of the GPU drop.. I got a 280X and I'm able to get ~740KH/s @ 1100/1500, I love this card and I want to order 10 more! Running @80C at maybe 30DB, its almost silent. I really want to get a 270 and see if I can get 700KH/s, because its almost 100 USD cheaper |
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ivanlabrie
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October 31, 2013, 04:29:18 AM |
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Thanks for sharing, looks like I will pass until the price of the GPU drop.. I got a 280X and I'm able to get ~740KH/s @ 1100/1500, I love this card and I want to order 10 more! Running @80C at maybe 30DB, its almost silent. I really want to get a 270 and see if I can get 700KH/s, because its almost 100 USD cheaper 270x is a 7870 ghz card...you won't get more than 350-400 with it. 280X is a 7970. |
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RandomQ
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October 31, 2013, 04:41:57 AM |
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Some power consumption numbers
6 Core AMD CPU
SSD drive
Watercooled GPU and 1 80mm fan
2 monitors hooked up
167 Watts at idle
415 Watts @761Kh/s @1085/1500
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Wipeout2097
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October 31, 2013, 04:47:43 AM |
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The card as it is now ($550, 300W, 95ºC, stock cooler) is a bad deal for mining. Better get 7990, 7950 or 280x
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ivanlabrie
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October 31, 2013, 05:30:25 AM |
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The card as it is now ($550, 300W, 95ºC, stock cooler) is a bad deal for mining. Better get 7990, 7950 or 280x
Who said it's bad that it runs at 95c? It's a safe temp for those chips... As far as power draw, the guy who posted results reported 270w+- for 900kh/s, which is pretty decent imho. The 290 non x should draw even less power and run cooler since it sports less SPs, and will probably overclock more. If you undervolt a bit you should be set with a par of em, at 400usd. |
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Samir_H
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October 31, 2013, 09:42:00 AM |
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I read somewhere about flashing 290 with 290X bios, that could be interesting if it's possible...
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October 31, 2013, 10:43:59 AM |
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I read somewhere about flashing 290 with 290X bios, that could be interesting if it's possible...
That's probably just pure speculation...how can someone know that already  It could happen tho, we have seen it in the past. R9800->R9800 pro or 6950->6970 comes to mind. |
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ivanlabrie
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October 31, 2013, 10:52:27 AM |
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I read somewhere about flashing 290 with 290X bios, that could be interesting if it's possible...
That's probably just pure speculation...how can someone know that already It could happen tho, we have seen it in the past. R9800->R9800 pro or 6950->6970 comes to mind. I guess AMD learned from those mistakes... |
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Klubknuckle
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October 31, 2013, 12:29:40 PM |
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The card as it is now ($550, 300W, 95ºC, stock cooler) is a bad deal for mining. Better get 7990, 7950 or 280x
Who said it's bad that it runs at 95c? It's a safe temp for those chips... As far as power draw, the guy who posted results reported 270w+- for 900kh/s, which is pretty decent imho. The 290 non x should draw even less power and run cooler since it sports less SPs, and will probably overclock more. If you undervolt a bit you should be set with a par of em, at 400usd. Wow, 270w is really good for that hash. Might get few if Alt-coin price go up... |
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Radelderth
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November 01, 2013, 12:50:40 AM |
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I read somewhere about flashing 290 with 290X bios, that could be interesting if it's possible...
Are they using the same chips? |
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ivanlabrie
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November 01, 2013, 01:17:53 AM |
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I read somewhere about flashing 290 with 290X bios, that could be interesting if it's possible...
Are they using the same chips? Not the same chip, laser cut probably...AMD won't make the same mistake again. |
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November 01, 2013, 01:42:55 AM |
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Thanks for sharing, looks like I will pass until the price of the GPU drop.. I got a 280X and I'm able to get ~740KH/s @ 1100/1500, I love this card and I want to order 10 more! Running @80C at maybe 30DB, its almost silent. I really want to get a 270 and see if I can get 700KH/s, because its almost 100 USD cheaper Which one did you get? I tried MSI TwinFroz OC Gaming (which failed after a week of mining) and HIS IceQ X2 Boost. Both freshly released 280X. - MSI was silent and performed around 700KH/s at stock 1000/1500 with temp 80/81 C, really like this card, compact - IceQ same performance at 1000/1500, silent but at a max of 68/71 C (+1 from me), only thing it's huge at 31cm length, but solid and hopefully long lasting Haven't overclocked nor undervolted yet but if anyone could post their CGMiner settings for the same kinda cards maybe of help, I'm sure I can squeeze a little more out of them. I use -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --shaders 2048 Looking forward to see price and availability of 290 and 280 non X versions but as per the 290X it's a nono cos of the noise that thing makes! |
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JessicaSe
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November 01, 2013, 01:52:28 AM |
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The card as it is now ($550, 300W, 95ºC, stock cooler) is a bad deal for mining. Better get 7990, 7950 or 280x
Where did you see 95C? I don't think with nice settings it would go that high right? |
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pontiacg5
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November 01, 2013, 01:59:15 AM |
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Thanks for sharing, looks like I will pass until the price of the GPU drop.. I got a 280X and I'm able to get ~740KH/s @ 1100/1500, I love this card and I want to order 10 more! Running @80C at maybe 30DB, its almost silent. I really want to get a 270 and see if I can get 700KH/s, because its almost 100 USD cheaper Which one did you get? I tried MSI TwinFroz OC Gaming (which failed after a week of mining) and HIS IceQ X2 Boost. Both freshly released 280X. - MSI was silent and performed around 700KH/s at stock 1000/1500 with temp 80/81 C, really like this card, compact - IceQ same performance at 1000/1500, silent but at a max of 68/71 C (+1 from me), only thing it's huge at 31cm length, but solid and hopefully long lasting Haven't overclocked nor undervolted yet but if anyone could post their CGMiner settings for the same kinda cards maybe of help, I'm sure I can squeeze a little more out of them. I use -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --shaders 2048 Looking forward to see price and availability of 290 and 280 non X versions but as per the 290X it's a nono cos of the noise that thing makes! I have two sapphire dual-x 280x cards, both manage right around 750kh/s with these settings. -setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 -setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp:// -u -p -I 13 --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 --worksize 256 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1080 --gpu-memclock 1500 |
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Wipeout2097
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November 01, 2013, 03:22:47 AM |
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Who said it's bad that it runs at 95c? It's a safe temp for those chips... otoh, who said it is safe? The company releasing a card with crappy cooler and wants to sell hardware? It's up to the end user to determine if he wants to keep at 95ºC a piece of hardware that costs him $550. As far as power draw, the guy who posted results reported 270w+- for 900kh/s, which is pretty decent imho. 900 Kh/s at 270w is indeed decent. What is not is getting 900 Kh/s at 270W after paying $550. Compare with getting 750 Kh/s at $275 and ~180W out of the 280x or 650 Kh/s for $200 out of the 7950. |
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November 01, 2013, 03:53:03 AM |
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Thanks for sharing, looks like I will pass until the price of the GPU drop.. I got a 280X and I'm able to get ~740KH/s @ 1100/1500, I love this card and I want to order 10 more! Running @80C at maybe 30DB, its almost silent. I really want to get a 270 and see if I can get 700KH/s, because its almost 100 USD cheaper Which one did you get? I tried MSI TwinFroz OC Gaming (which failed after a week of mining) and HIS IceQ X2 Boost. Both freshly released 280X. - MSI was silent and performed around 700KH/s at stock 1000/1500 with temp 80/81 C, really like this card, compact - IceQ same performance at 1000/1500, silent but at a max of 68/71 C (+1 from me), only thing it's huge at 31cm length, but solid and hopefully long lasting Haven't overclocked nor undervolted yet but if anyone could post their CGMiner settings for the same kinda cards maybe of help, I'm sure I can squeeze a little more out of them. I use -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --shaders 2048 Looking forward to see price and availability of 290 and 280 non X versions but as per the 290X it's a nono cos of the noise that thing makes! I have two sapphire dual-x 280x cards, both manage right around 750kh/s with these settings. -setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 -setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1 cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp:// -u -p -I 13 --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 --worksize 256 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1080 --gpu-memclock 1500 Nice, and do you have to have a have a watt tester? |
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