It seemed to have stopped exactly at 3 AM global middle time, according to the bitcoinwisdom trade updates anyway.

Nice, thanks!

Yup, that's what I did, though it took until now for the payout. Problem resolved either way.

Is there a way to force payout? I have some 0.11 btc on this pool, but I haven't been using the place since over a year. I don't mind if my account is deleted due to inactivity, but only after I retrieved the remaining bitcoins.

I tried underclocking my 6950 with MSI Afterburner, but it seems the memory will not underclock at all. At 1v and 700/1250 mhz the card is mostly stable but sometimes rarely it hangs up. I'm running it at those speeds with 1.025v, seems stable so far. Load temps dropped a good 10c (using a scythe cooler + noctua fan).

At 0.975v the card ran fine for about a day before locking up. At 0.950v it locked up outright when I launched a game.

I'm aiming to reduce my power bill as much as possible, without having to part with this awesome card and without giving up too much of its performance.

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I'd wager Afterburner, since custom clocks are blocked by the driver.

I'm interested in your wattage too, I run a 6950 and it would be nice to cut back on the electric bill. It's for gaming though, so memory runs at full clocks.

bump.

Does anyone have any experience with SEPA withdraws at intersango? Mtgox only does international wire which charges 15-25 usd per withdrawal.

At least they didn't have both email *and* passwords leaked, unlike mtgox.

If only! Everything that doesn't run full speed on my end is capped by the CPU. (e6550 3,2ghz, radeon 6970)

Mining pulls significantly more performance than games do, and only slightly below Furmark. ~250w with overclock sounds correct for mining.

Is that the one where if you input "@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg" (quote included) and press Delete, you get sucked into the internet?

If you count the 5870 at 950mhz then you should count the 7970 at 1125mhz (at which it should do close to ~500mhash judging by the numbers). And that's with an unoptimized miner for a barely available card that was released, like, five days ago, smack in between christmas and new years eve celebration seasons.

Assuming that, with an optimized miner, the 7970 can do the same speed PER SHADER as the 5870, then the card could do ~520mhash on stock and ~620mhash overclocked. This is without looking into further enhancements made possible by the new architecture itself, if there are any.

Mining itself is a fools errand with the extreme high difficulty and $4 dollar per btc. Unless you can run clusters of videocards or fpga, AND you have free electricity. And even then, the initial investment required is huge.

6970 is an ultra-stuffed card that was pushing the limit of the 40nm node. 7970 is brand new design, and it's a simpler design due to the 28nm nodes being so new and relatively immature. It's like the 5870 before, which was also a new entry at the then-current 40nm node, and could overclock to then-unheard-of levels.

Just look at it here:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-7970-overclock-guide/1
The default settings in CCC allow for a 200mhz speed bump (from 925 to 1125). That's default voltage, default everything.

Add to that more efficient coolers that'll happen with 3rd party vendors, better software support in overclocking apps like afterburner, maybe even factory overclocked models, and we got ourselves a monster.

It would stand to reason that if per-shader-performance can be maintained on the same levels as with the VLIW hardware, then the 7970 should be 25% faster than a 6970.

With all the improvements GCN makes, I wouldn't be surprised if mining performance could be improved beyond. But I wouldn't be disappointed if it cannot be improved either, as I'm not familiar with the practices required for writing a mining application.

And 7970s can be overclocked a LOT. Though I imagine that could shoot up the wattage as well. Regardless, I'd wait for optimized kernels before believing any benchmark scores.

When the payment arrives for my videocard. So, next week at latest.

Well, I never got tears like that. Only semi-broken vsync.

We don't know that. They still have the sheer shader count that makes them more effective than the 5870/6970 in mining.

That is of course unless the new shader architecture does not incur significant performance loss in password hashing. Given how the bitcoin fiasco pretty much cleared out the 5k/6k generation of cards ultra fast, they'd have to be stupid to not make their new arch mining-friendly. And since the shaders are now far more powerful each, for all we know they may end up with higher mhash than a 5k/6k with equal shader count.

We will see in a few months.

I wouldn't brag about those, the fans are running at 3000-4000 rpm. That shit sounds like a vacuum cleaner.