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The grue lurks in the darkest places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
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dunand
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August 29, 2011, 02:04:29 AM |
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Nice. The only drawback : they are all refurbished.
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toasty
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August 29, 2011, 02:11:06 AM |
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Be very careful, none of their security/ratings logos are clickable. In the upper right corner, there's a McAffe SECURE logo. Real ones are clickable and go to the McAffe site to show the results. That one isn't clickable. Searching for them on McAffe's site doesn't return anything. Their resellerratings.com and "top rated by google" images don't go anywhere either. They also claim to have 488 5970s in stock (you can put 488 in your cart, but 489 says you exceeded their stock limit). It's kinda unlikely a tiny store like this could afford to stock a quarter million dollars of a single video card. We'd love to buy more of these (we're using cards for non-bitcoin related opencl work, bitcoin is what i'm doing in the off-hours), but every time I've looked at that company they've seemed too shady. I'd love to be proved wrong though, I'd buy a ton. |
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coinhammer (OP)
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August 29, 2011, 02:28:02 AM |
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Nice. The only drawback : they are all refurbished.
Not all... The ATI 5970 are new, and even the refurbished ASUS show a 3 months ASUS warranty, and the Visiontek appear to have 1 year Visiontek warranty. Be very careful, none of their security/ratings logos are clickable. In the upper right corner, there's a McAffe SECURE logo. Real ones are clickable and go to the McAffe site to show the results. That one isn't clickable. Searching for them on McAffe's site doesn't return anything. Their resellerratings.com and "top rated by google" images don't go anywhere either.
They also claim to have 488 5970s in stock (you can put 488 in your cart, but 489 says you exceeded their stock limit). It's kinda unlikely a tiny store like this could afford to stock a quarter million dollars of a single video card.
We'd love to buy more of these (we're using cards for non-bitcoin related opencl work, bitcoin is what i'm doing in the off-hours), but every time I've looked at that company they've seemed too shady. I'd love to be proved wrong though, I'd buy a ton. I bought from these guys before, although mostly hard drives. They seem to do most of their business through ebay and specialize in refurbs, got a 10432 rating store there with 99.5% sat http://myworld.ebay.com/unityelectronics.com/?_trksid=p4340.l2559 that looks pretty damn legit to me. Oh and here is their Amazon store http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/at-a-glance.html?ie=UTF8&seller=A1RITGMKOZCSA . I always recommend doing due diligence, its not that hard.
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Nicolai Larsen
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August 29, 2011, 05:12:42 AM |
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Anyone know if they ship internationally?
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BitVapes
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August 29, 2011, 05:27:05 AM |
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Be very careful, none of their security/ratings logos are clickable. In the upper right corner, there's a McAffe SECURE logo. Real ones are clickable and go to the McAffe site to show the results. That one isn't clickable. Searching for them on McAffe's site doesn't return anything. Their resellerratings.com and "top rated by google" images don't go anywhere either. They also claim to have 488 5970s in stock (you can put 488 in your cart, but 489 says you exceeded their stock limit). It's kinda unlikely a tiny store like this could afford to stock a quarter million dollars of a single video card. We'd love to buy more of these (we're using cards for non-bitcoin related opencl work, bitcoin is what i'm doing in the off-hours), but every time I've looked at that company they've seemed too shady. I'd love to be proved wrong though, I'd buy a ton. their reseller ratings. This is not an endorsement for unity electronics btw, I've never bought anything there. |
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August 29, 2011, 06:21:06 AM |
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We'd love to buy more of these (we're using cards for non-bitcoin related opencl work, bitcoin is what i'm doing in the off-hours), but every time I've looked at that company they've seemed too shady. I'd love to be proved wrong though, I'd buy a ton.
For what it's worth, I bought enough refurbished hard drives from them to build a total of three RAID5 arrays here over the span of about a year, and I had no problems with them, and no stolen credit card after. |
"MOOOOOOOM! SOME MYTHICAL WOLFBEAST GUY IS MAKING FUN OF ME ON THE INTERNET!!!!"
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mrb
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August 29, 2011, 10:16:42 AM |
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Amazon advertises Bitcoin mining, woohoo! Technical Details
ATI Radeon 5970 PCI-E / PCI Express x16 Video Graphics Card Radeon HD 5970
Dual GPUs (Graphic Processor Units) with a total of 2GB GDDR5 Memory
Superior Gaming and Bitcoin mining performance
Multiple Monitor Support - Dual DVI and Mini Display Port
DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2 Support
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mike678
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August 29, 2011, 02:10:54 PM |
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Amazon advertises Bitcoin mining, woohoo! Technical Details
ATI Radeon 5970 PCI-E / PCI Express x16 Video Graphics Card Radeon HD 5970
Dual GPUs (Graphic Processor Units) with a total of 2GB GDDR5 Memory
Superior Gaming and Bitcoin mining performance
Multiple Monitor Support - Dual DVI and Mini Display Port
DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2 Support
That's actually pretty cool. Maybe in the future they will be one of the first major retailers to accept bitcoins. |
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August 29, 2011, 02:58:04 PM |
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Wow, bitcoin in technical details!
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mike678
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August 29, 2011, 03:47:00 PM |
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Wow, bitcoin in technical details!
No need to be sarcastic. Clearly this is a step in the right direction if amazon acknowledges its existence. |
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Gabi
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August 29, 2011, 04:04:47 PM |
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I'm not sarcastic, i'm really happily surprised by that.
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mike678
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August 29, 2011, 04:23:45 PM |
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I'm not sarcastic, i'm really happily surprised by that.
My mistake I just tend to assume the worst. Most opinions seem to be negative here. Not many people are very optimistic. |
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August 30, 2011, 03:23:43 AM |
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Amazon advertises Bitcoin mining, woohoo! Technical Details
ATI Radeon 5970 PCI-E / PCI Express x16 Video Graphics Card Radeon HD 5970
Dual GPUs (Graphic Processor Units) with a total of 2GB GDDR5 Memory
Superior Gaming and Bitcoin mining performance
Multiple Monitor Support - Dual DVI and Mini Display Port
DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2 Support
Thanks for the amazon link!! just ordered 3 5970. these will be my first double gpu cards. should be able to get 2.6Ghash from one rig!!! |
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