I don't see why it wouldn't [with Windows]. However I'm running Ubuntu desktop 11.04 x64 on this rig.



I've been running it for 2 full days now with the3 cards, and so far no issues. It turns on and all 3 cards are in the default "1" BIOS postiion, so each GPU core is mining @ ~ 330 MHPS.

I turned them to position 2 as a test and was able to get ~365 out of each GPU - though my temps began to rise noticeably, so I bumped them down again. I'm not sure on the power draw as I don't have a kill-a-watt yet.

I'm a firm believer in trying to cram as much power into a single rig as possible. Buying (4) 5830's is cool and all - and yes the 6990's use more power and generate more heat - but if I can get the same BTC generation power out of two cards (versus 4) - why not go for it?

Yup - right around 1980 MHPS with 3 6990's, and 2 more on the way!

I'm considering this to be a geek investment. I enjoy overclocking and building high performance computers, so I figured why not. If the market ever were to crash, I'm always able to resell the graphic cars on eBay etc. Though if I invested money in buying in actual BTC, then I'd be screwed. (and they would be worthless)

My one rule is to NEVER buy BTC - only buy hardware to mine BTC.

Pics of my new triple 6990 caseless rig. It's been running with dual 6990's for about 3 weeks now, and I just added a 3rd 6990 yesterday. I also have 2 more Sapphire 6990's coming in soon, and will put those into my desktop rig, which I use everday.

MyOpenPC Stackable case (with rear vertical board removed)
Corsair AX1200 PSU
MSI 890FXA-GD70
(2) 2GB Corsair RAM
AMD Phenom X4 840 CPU
250 GB SATA HDD
(2) 120mm Fans (~72 CFM each)

(2) Diamond AMD Radeon HD 6990's
(1) Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6990

Adapter 0 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 76.00 C

Adapter 1 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 80.00 C

Adapter 2 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 75.50 C

Adapter 3 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 72.50 C

Adapter 4 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 69.50 C

Adapter 5 - AMD Radeon HD 6990
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 74.50 C

No argument there - 5830's are definitely a better "bang for your buck".

I actually need to pick up another PSU soon so I can run my new cards. My "desktop" machine has a Corsair 750w in it now - so I'll probably pick up another AX1200. (I'd only be able to run 1 of the new cards as it is now)

Are you referring to the photos of the green case that he quoted? (my post) If so, I used my iPhone 4 with HDR on.

- 250GB HDD has Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop x64. I'm switching it to 10.04 Server x64 soon though.
- 3TB HDD is used for network backup. I'm going to create a Samba share and backup my main desktop (Win 7, i7 920, etc) to this drive over my LAN.

I actually purchased a 32GB USB flash drive to run this rig driveless. I ended up not doing so since I found an old drive lying around. Though if I end up picking p a MyOpenPC case - I'll swap to driveless just to save room.

I've heard that Ubuntu persistence is nice - but that it can be slow at times.

p2pool.io has been moved back to forrestv's p2pool/p2pool@master branch. (The original P2Pool)

I have updated p2pool.io to use jtoomim's 1mb_segwit fork. p2pool.io:9332 is still based on Bitcoin core.

I have also deployed ltc.p2pool.io:9327 for Litecoin mining using the same fork and have plans to add several more coins very soon.

I can look into possibly adding a master seed node to one of my servers. Let's bring TAKCoin back!

I've been running P2Pool in a Docker container for over a year now with great success so I've decided to make my Docker container public. Nothing super special here, but this should allow you to easily run P2Pool Core regardless of what platform you're on and not have to worry about binaries. (As long as you have Docker installed) I currently have a tag up for 17.0 on Docker Hub, but can add more later once future releases are made.

https://hub.docker.com/r/acejam/p2pool/
https://github.com/acejam/docker-p2pool

The p2pool cluster at p2pool.io has been updated to support v17 shares.

This is unfortunate - Armory is one of the best wallets out there in my experience.

Not sure if this helps, but if anyone is looking for inspiration: https://github.com/acejam/BitcoinArmory/tree/ffreeze

I'm having trouble understanding why this is an issue to begin with. Isn't DNS peer discovery one of the ways in which Bitcoin works? Why are hosts sending out notices claiming Botnets and other malicious activity? Excessive connection attempts?

It looks like one of these SIPA DNS records may have mapped to one of my server's IP. Why is that my problem? I can't control how others configure their DNS records.

I have reduced my connections from 50 down to 15. However I don't want to have to setup any type of proxy, especially a TOR one, as that will just create a slew of new problems to deal with.

I believe I'm currently running with maxconnections set to 25.

However I'm not running the above bitcoin-seeder app, so I'm not sure how that PR would do anything for me. (I'm only running bitcoin core and P2Pool)

I also just received one of these letters from my host. I have been running a full node and P2Pool for years now.

Any ideas on how to prevent these? I'm very confident that my server isn't compromised, but my host thinks it is.

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Looks like p2pool.org:9332 and minefast[2].CoinCadence.com:9332 are both down.

This is why a high availability P2Pool cluster like http://p2pool.io/ is better.   (for those who need to use a public P2Pool node)

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rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
OR
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1