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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Mining rig with wood?
by
bob
on 10/04/2012, 17:39:33 UTC
If you still have it, you could also try using the foam that comes in the box with the motherboard.  If you put that between the motherboard and the wood it will keep any solder points from have pressure on them, and will probably help keep the board from sliding around (which it might want to because of the torque from the power cable).

Also unless you don't plan on putting any cards directly into the slots, make sure you put the motherboard close enough to the edge of the wood that the end of the card sticks over and can get pushed down into the slot all the way.
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Re: Mhash/Watt for Complete Systems
by
bob
on 04/02/2012, 21:15:32 UTC
830 MH/s / 520 W = 1.6 MH/J

3x5830, 80+ PSU, 120V

measured with kill-a-watt
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Re: Mhash/Watt for Complete Systems
by
bob
on 04/02/2012, 21:10:35 UTC


TADA ....

http://www.toolorbit.com/image/Klein-Tools/Klein-Tools-CL2000-G0.jpg

Well I measured amps & volts.  Remember the two legs of 240V circuit in US wiring are out of phase so to read current you need to clamp just one conductor. 

They make adapters like this:
http://www.service.kleintools.com/Marketing/Catalog_Imagery/69400_ICON.JPG

but I have the rigs connected to a PDU using C14 to C13 cables and I doubt anyone makes an adapter so I modified one power cable which I use for testing only.

Did you take power factor into account when you measured volts and amps separately?  I'm running at PF about .9 so maybe that caused the difference if you measured different ways for 120 vs 240.
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Re: Getting the most out of a 6870
by
bob
on 18/06/2011, 17:59:16 UTC
what are you hitting now?
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Re: Regarding Taxes on Mining (USA)
by
bob
on 18/06/2011, 17:54:17 UTC
And just make sure you keep good records on your expenses.
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Re: worth it to build a mining rig now??
by
bob
on 18/06/2011, 17:19:03 UTC
yes.

But where will you get these parts?
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Re: 3 Radeon 6990, need Power Supply and proper CPU
by
bob
on 18/06/2011, 17:17:50 UTC
wait, you need a dedicated CPU core per GPU if you're running windows?!?!  wow.

Also, do you know if multithreading CPUs would count as 2 for this purpose?
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Re: Newbie restrictions
by
bob
on 18/06/2011, 16:32:47 UTC
argh I signed up in April but never posted or viewed signed in...I would have 1000 hours by now I'm sure!