I run a GTX 470 with a 5870, it work well since few days without problems. That must not be so different with a 5830...

Thanks for the tip, but I have a problem when using MSI Afterburner:

Result didn't meet full difficulty, not sending
Kernel error: Unusual behavior from OpenCL. Hardware problem?

If I deactivate MSI Afterburner mining is working again. I tried multiple time. I'm new to MSI Afterburner so I probably miss settings tthat would solve that problem?

I'm new so I just started without special settings
I just started to use  -k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=7 I now have 353/355 Mhash

The temp go up to 82 and fan speed to 2431/40%

Hi,

Since my 5870 can't work with my old motherboard I tried it on my main computer. The goal was to see how that work and to give me time to decide if i will set a mining config with wich components inside it...

I added the 5870 as secondary videocard, to keep the GTX 470 as primary card.
But I'm surprised, the 5870 stuck in 274/276 Mhash when I though it was 300 to 313 by default (Without O/C or anything) ?

It is due to the configuration used? Or to the mining software choosen (GuiMiner with phoenix) ? I don't use Java actually so I can't try diablo miner but not sure it would change something?

I tried to play some games while mining but the Mhash is dropping to 200/220 Mhash. I think it's probably normal despite the games are only using the GTX 470..?

I also tried to set a miner for the GTX 470 but that was very hot, the fan quickly run at max in few seconds with a very scaring noisy sound so I immeditaly stopped the experiment, I though the GTX was to get an ugly heart attack!

Since that try I'm not sure how people can run a SLI of GTX cards?? Neither about a crossfire even if it's probably easier ? I though about setting a computer with crossfire but no longer sure about it?

Can I expect problems running two cards that are not compatible together?

Thanks for your answers

(Oops sorry seems i wrote the message in the wrong board section by error, i had a hornet playing close to me and didn't get attention to that)

Pour le wallet je ne sais pas.. Mais tu peux, si tu ne l'as pas deja fait, passer un petit coup de Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

Ne jamais croire les emails. Ne jamais installer un logiciel depuis une annonce email... Ne jamais installer un logiciel sans avoir verifie sa legitimite sur le net ET ne jamais installer le logiciel depuis une adresse email mais depuis un site web officiel... Je ne dis pas ca specialement pour vous mais pour les eventuelles personnes qui passeront par ici un jour

Coucou,

Soyons fous, soyons geeks jusqu'au bout... J'etudie une config pour aller avec ma 5870.

J'ai une Seasonic X 850 sous la main, clavier, ecran et souris. Je pense prendre une seconde 5870 et faire un crossfire, voir peut etre d'en ajouter une troisieme par la suite... Mais avec 3 il me faudrait peut etre une autre alim, genre 1000w ?

Quel boitier bien ventilé prendre et qui accepte les cartes video de grande taille?

CM 690 II Advanced ?
Une Antec P193 ?

Pour le reste peut etre

Corsair Mémoire PC Value Select 4 Go DDR3-1333 PC3-10600 CL9 (4go de ram put m'etre utile pour d'autres choses que bitcoin)
ASRock M3A785GXH/128M 3*PCI-E
AMD Athlon II X2 250 3GHz

Je ne vois rien d'autre..?

Merci pour vos reponses! J'ai effectue quelques tests pour determiner la cause du probleme... J'ai d'abord remplace l'alim par une Seasonic x 850 mais le probleme a ete le meme j'ai donc remis l'ancienne alim. Puis j'ai essaye la carte sur mon pc principal en remplacement de la GTX 470: boot sans probleme, acces au bios et a Windows 7...

J'ai bien verifie encore le branchement de la 5870 en PCI Express, avec le cablage voulu.. (Un pin 1x6 et l'adaptateur fourni avec la carte (2x6 pins to 1*8 pins) pour la M12, et 1x6 pins+1x8 pins pour la x 850)

Le probleme semble venir de la carte mere... Si tel est le cas je ne pense pas qu'installer les drivers change grand chose? Normalement je devrais au moins pouvoir acceder au bios.. Je crois que cette vieille carte mere doit deja etre flashee au dernier bios mais je peux toujours regarder au cas ou...

Pas de bol sur ce coup la

Thanks for your advices.. I tried with my main computer, replacing the nvidia gtx 470 by the 5870... No problem, it worked, I saw the bios settings and I was able to boot windows 7...

The problems seems to be related to the motherboard despite I though, like BinaryMage, that was backwards compatible accordingly to wikipedia...

Next step is probably to get a new motherboard, that mean to build a rig for bitcoin... I'm not sure it's very interesting to do since the quick increase of difficulty?

So unlucky !

If you see something other that I can try please tell me

Bonjour,

Ayant recu ma 5870 je l'installe sur mon ancienne config. Je remplace la 8800 gtx par la 5870 et ecran noir au boot. L'ecran LCD (en DVI) ne semble detecter aucun signal... Par contre il semble que le pc demarre, bien qu'il soit difficile de le verifier sans ecran. Si je remet la 8800gtx l'ecran fonctionne a nouveau.

J'ai essaye avec une autre alim (Seasonic x 850) mais le probleme est le meme!

Est ce la carte mere qui serait incompatible avec cette carte video?

Je ne vois pas quoi faire.. Que me suggerez-vous?
Merci de votre aide


Ancienne config:

AMD 64 4800+
GA-K8N-Ultra 9
Nvidia 8800 Gtx
Seasonic M12-700
Corsair TwinX 2x1024 Mo DDR PC3200
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA - 300
Antec P180

Hello,

I tried to find a way to use an old rig with bitcoin. So I bought an ATI 5870 card.

I replaced the 8800 gtx by the ati card. I set correctly the pci-e cables (6 & 8 pins, the 8 pins with an adaptator 2x6 pins to 1*8 pins) + 1x6 pins.

I boot: black screen, the lcd screen (DVI) doesn't detect a signal.  If I come back to the 8800 gtx it work again. I tried with another power supply (Seasonic x 850) but it's the same.

Maybe that card doesn't work with that motherboard?

What do you suggest? Thanks for your help

Old Rig:
AMD 64 4800+
GA-K8N-Ultra 9
Nvidia 8800 Gtx
Seasonic M12-700
Corsair TwinX 2x1024 Mo DDR PC3200
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA - 300
Antec P180

People will always have their fav linux distro but i'm sure debian would do it nicely! Debian is very easy to manage with apt-get, you can install and update any software with a single command line and i'm sure bitcoin has is own package ready... (But i never tried with bitcoin yet)

Tant que tu evites les tapis (decharges electrostatiques) ca devrait aller

Joomla ou Drupal ca se vaut a peu pres niveau securite si on s'en tient aux composants installes par defauts.. De gros sites web comme Linux.com fonctionnent tres bien avec Joomla (Ou The Economist pour Drupal...) Par contre installer des composants tiers sans examiner la qualite de leur code peut etre source d'ennuis, ce qui pourrait justement etre le cas (pour le moment) pour l'integration d'une solution e-commerce basee sur du bitcoin

Suite a vos conseil je viens de commander une 5870. L'alim est une 80+ standard de seasonic...
J'espere que le mining se sera pas totalement effondré avant la reception

120 Mhash/s sur une GTX 470 c'est pas mal! La mienne chauffe a 91 ou 92 degres avec bitcoin..

Si tu ne connais pas bien php ni html le plus simple c'est justement d'utiliser un cms... Parce que si tu debutes tu risques de ne pas maitriser les failles de securite, et que des projets comme Joomla et Drupal (moins simple mais permet une integration plus poussee des contenus) sont assez formateur!


http://drupal.org/project/uc_bitcoin permet d'integrer un systeme de paiement en bitcoin avec drupal 6, et il y en a aussi pour Joomla

I'd like to be whitelisted as well

What about the use of something like virtualbox with linux inside? Might use some cpu/gpu for nothing more?

I think the price can go up till september then with more people joining the difficulty can increase quickly and lost total interest for small mining...
With xmas the bitcoins can be dead.

Well, how virtual money might work if the world run in a worldwide bankrupt? Without real money i can't imagine companies still running power, computers, networks and without them how the virtual money might work? Outside such scenario governement are probably not liking such virtual money because it's propably easy to hide revenues from tax or to use it for controversial purpose... i suspect they might control or ban such virtual money in the futur because they might lose some control on people if they don't do it... ? i recently heard about qiwi money that is banned mostly everywhere but russia...

The system is automatic? because any spammer that know that would be quick to bypass it... I think it would be better to limit post to 4 (or few)per day with captcha for each post for newcomers instead... that would give immediat access to every sub forum instead to stuck in that place? but maybe i missed something...