They are up elsewhere as well.

£245 each is more than a fair price, i'm not in a rush to let these go as they can go in the misses gaming machine and i'll use her 270x to mine in the meantime.

Or £500 for the two.

I have two Gigabyte Windforce 3X HD7970's for sale as I'm getting two 290x's.

One is a Ghz edition and one is a non Ghz edition.


£260 each. Will accept BTC, LTC, bank transfer or cash on collection in the South West.

Sorry to OP to go slightly off topic here but has anybody else from the UK ordered any of these? If so, send me a PM if you are going to be making nanofury boards as well, I was wondering on your quotes and the potential to get some assembled in the same order to lower production costs.

Odd, my old post never appeared.

I have paid for 50, sent a PM and am just awaiting shipping cost info.

Nurse, I've dropped my colostomy bag!

One more stick for me please.

I'll take 2. Delivered to the UK.

You've got me watching this one too and on a side note you've got me thinking about the Artix7 FPGA. I'm wondering how well something like this http://www.enclustra.com/en/products/fpga-modules/mars-ax3/ might perform with Scrypt and how well it may scale. For $650 for the starter kit it might be worth me a fiddle.

Again, slightly off topic with the Scrypt but the modules provide an interesting different approach to FPGA PCB's.

Extremely detectable in the form of network traffic

Have you been back to the bank you wired it from and got any transaction details from them?

Standalone network and ethernet seem to be the winners so far. Something with a choice of the two would be the winner then.

Yes, that's what I was thinking when I wrote standalone. Something with ethernet/WiFi with an embedded OpenWRT/DD-WRT set up.

Aren't people are "constrained" by the number of PCI-E slots when mining with GPU's too? I can't see much of a thermal issue with ASIC based PCI-E boards, nowhere near as much of a challenge as GPU's in a gaming machine. Where do you see the issue with spacing when you consider double-spaced GPU's?

I agree with the "professional" miners desire for scalable kit. I put PCI-E in their solely down to the fact that there are thousands of miners with PCI-E GPU's sucking wattage right now that a PCI-E ASIC could directly replace.

Yes, agreed a standalone would replace all kit surplus to the GPU also.

I don't think there would be that much of a consumer demand for rack mount kit to make it a viable commercial option for anybody though? Maybe that's another topic.


I suppose in a perfect rack mount world PCI-E could be scalable and realistic if somebody designed an embedded ARM based main-board with say 8 PCI-E slots. The PCI-E boards could get replaced just as GPU's do at present when newer generation ASIC's are produced. In a perfect make believe world of course.

Hehe, now now. Don't jump the gun.

When it comes to ASIC miners. What would be your preference?

Would you prefer to spend your money on a standalone network device?

Would you prefer to spend your money on a PCI-E device to directly replace your GPU's?

Would you prefer to spend your money on a USB device requiring external power?

Myself, I can't quite decide between PCI-E or Standalone. I suppose as a standalone device it would be dedicated and as such could be located wherever I please, online all the time out of the way. A PCI-E card has the benefit of being able to sit in your main household PC's or directly fit in to any custom ATX chassis you've loaded into your garage.

A usb one... well I don't know, if it looks good on your desktop and can be carted around with your laptop if that's your only online option then it makes sense.

What are your views?

Depends if it's going to be used as anything else really? Otherwise keep it small and simple. DSL or Arch will do.

Are you running it from a Live CD? If so and you want to use more than basic features try something with greater out of the box driver support like Ubuntu/Debian.