Let's see those Bitcoin farms!

[[XC] gomeler]

It's always fun showing off what cool toys you have. Feel free to brag a bit and show off your farm or lonely GPU and what clocks and MHash/s you are achieving.

I'll start off with my first GPU.

HD 5670 @ 900/1000 churning away at ~85MH/s in Ubuntu 10.04 x64 with the v2.1 SDK and AMD 10.12 drivers. I'm running poclbm-mod from 4-21-2011

[slaveondope]

Bitcoin has its own sub-forum already.

Look what I found after you'll bought the last 5830's for 140 a pop
That makes 8x5850's, 4x5830's, 1x5770.

[jcool]

Gotta fill those empty cruncher slots

[[XC] gomeler]

Gotta fill those empty cruncher slots

[artemm]

Building....





Also have 2500 MH/s with current hardware...

That may go up after this weekend

[shoota]

O.M.G.

Are those all brand new?

[don_xvi]

WOW! That looks like a mahjong puzzle!
I found the Blue in there...

[NKrader]

i wish i had a bagillion dollars layin around

[artemm]

i wish i had a bagillion dollars layin around

I got these discounted and I haven't spent much on hardware in a while. My bajillion dollars are still in the bank

O.M.G.

Are those all brand new?

Yes, gigas were cheaper, but have better cooling. I will run them directly side by side with no blocks.

WOW! That looks like a mahjong puzzle!
I found the Blue in there...

Blue is the only thing keeping me Canadian in this strange land, dude. They call it "Labatt" here. Typical exchange:
- I'll have a Blue, please
- What? ... ohh, a Labatt?
- Well, I'd love to have a beer company, but I'd just like a bottle of Blue, please
- ... wha?
- They make more beer than just Blue, you know
- Who?
- Just give me the damn beer, barkeep!

[kjeldoran]

Holy crap, you will get like 10BTC a day and at the current rate you would be making about $9000 a month!*

*Assuming the market stays around $30 per BTC and you produce 10BTC a day.

Feel free to send one this way!

[Sparky]

I'll admit the idea of being able to buy a nice card upgrade, pay it off with bitcoin, plus then fund my electric bill after that to keep crunchers going is tempting. But it feels too much like the lottery that I would end up in the hole and not make any income from it after all. Usually how my luck goes

If a 5870/6970 didn't cost so much I'd be more tempted but $300-ish up front is too much. Too bad they aren't priced like my 4870 was when I got it - $180 brand new at release was awesome

[artemm]

Holy crap, you will get like 10BTC a day and at the current rate you would be making about $9000 a month!*

*Assuming the market stays around $30 per BTC and you produce 10BTC a day.

Feel free to send one this way!

There are too many "if" points, my friend. I'm OK if the Bitcoin thing goes away tomorrow. I'm buying assets... I like this stuff.

However, if I can give 'er hell for a few weeks and make some green in the process for new rigs, that'll be alright by me!

I am setting up Sandys to go with the cards.

[WhiteFireDragon]

wow artemm you got some crazy investments in there with those cards + waterblocks. how much a pop did you pay for those, and how did you manage to find that many? i haven't looked around for those, but from reading all this new bitcoin chit chat, it's pretty hard to find a new 5870 here in the US.

[Sparky]

I found the best deal on a 5870.... right here.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-ATI-Radeon-...item4cf7acebcb

[artemm]

wow artemm you got some crazy investments in there with those cards + waterblocks. how much a pop did you pay for those, and how did you manage to find that many? i haven't looked around for those, but from reading all this new bitcoin chit chat, it's pretty hard to find a new 5870 here in the US.

Investments?

No, man, if I considered these as investments, I'd need to get my head checked!

I got these cards for reasonable prices and paired them up with nice Sandy mobos for WCG. If I can recover some cash in the process, that's great. If I can't, that's fine too. That's just the nature of our hobby.. it ain't cheap

Would I recommend for anyone to go all out and "invest" in hardware and make a "business" out of it? No way. You may lose big. BTC crashes, tons of HD5xxx cards hit the market, and you're stuck with a bunch of quickly depreciating hardware, a bunch of worthless currency and one hell of a power bill. Not worth the risk, IMO. But if you're buying hardware anyway... hey, why not ride the bubble while it lasts?

[[XC] gomeler]

Here's the first expansion on my farm. 5 HD 5830s running at 875/900 for ~260MH/s per card with a powerdraw of 920w for both boxes. Going to flash the cards to 1000/300 this afternoon and see if they stay stable.



Now debating on picking up another 4 HD 6970 and jumping up to 3GH/s

[stangracin3]

ive got 1 5850 @ 980, but i will need to redo my water loop soon

ive seen up to 416 MH/s

[p2501]

At last I found some time to put the miners in the basement. Right on time for returning summer heat around here. Now I just need two more 6990s to fill the remaining slots and then I'm done. This very small basement room won't keep up with much more heat, the normally slighty damp and cold walls are warm and dry atm...


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Maybe it needs some cable management?!

[jcool]

Here's the first expansion on my farm. 5 HD 5830s running at 875/900 for ~260MH/s per card with a powerdraw of 920w for both boxes. Going to flash the cards to 1000/300 this afternoon and see if they stay stable.

Gom, did you manage to fabricate a working bios for those 5830's? I got some Sapphire Extreme 5830's but as soon as I try to flash _any_ edited bios, all I get is atik... bla.dll BSODs while mining. I've had no issues with the 5850 and 5870's, but I can't seem to get a modded bios for the 5830 working using RBE. Looking closely, the 5830 isn't on RBEs list of supported cards... anyway, if you have working a 1000/300 bios for Sapphire Extreme 5830's I'd appreciate an upload

[Jen]

Gom, did you manage to fabricate a working bios for those 5830's? I got some Sapphire Extreme 5830's but as soon as I try to flash _any_ edited bios, all I get is atik... bla.dll BSODs while mining. I've had no issues with the 5850 and 5870's, but I can't seem to get a modded bios for the 5830 working using RBE. Looking closely, the 5830 isn't on RBEs list of supported cards... anyway, if you have working a 1000/300 bios for Sapphire Extreme 5830's I'd appreciate an upload

i modified my own bios for 5830 sapphire xtreme at 940/340 that gives me 279 mhash


Jen

[Dumo]

tons of HD5xxx cards hit the market, and you're stuck with a bunch of quickly depreciating hardware

I can use a couple or quad 5870s for benching 3Ds

Nice hardwares

[jcool]

i modified my own bios for 5830 sapphire xtreme at 940/340 that gives me 279 mhash


Jen

Using RBE? Or a different bios editor? As I said, every 5830 bios I've edited with RBE 1.28 causes BSODs after 1-2 minutes runtime (not immediately, for some reason).
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me your way of editing the bios, if it worked for you

[Jen]

Using RBE? Or a different bios editor? As I said, every 5830 bios I've edited with RBE 1.28 causes BSODs after 1-2 minutes runtime (not immediately, for some reason).
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me your way of editing the bios, if it worked for you

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

try this article for how to do , its what worked for mine

Jen

[jcool]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

try this article for how to do , its what worked for mine

Jen

Errr... that's just a lengthy how-to using RBE. Which I know how to use, as it works on all my other cards, and I've been flashing GPUs for 10 years. It's just some weird problem with those particular 5830's. Guess I have to do more testing and figure it out on my own - thanks though.

[Alpha]

just because you flashed and loaded a bios with a higher stock voltage, if the VR's dont support that kind of change (1 of my 5830's), i have to manually change the voltage with MSI Afterburner else its dies instantly. I have my 2 5830's at 1000/300 at 1.25v (thanks slaveondope!!).