I feel the same in enjoying building rigs and doing it for a geek investment, but there is one thing that still worries me. If the BTC market crashes, *everybody* will be selling their equipment. And the price for all those low-end cards will plummet following the value of BTC. 

I'm not so sure about this. Why not buy if the value goes down? But then you are like any Wall Street trader, I guess. 

anarchystar hangs out in IRC if you want to contact him. Try ##mtgox-talk on freenode to find more audience for your ideas. I think not many people here care about gox anymore.

Haven't heard of this one before. I don't think anybody is already doing this. Not a bad idea IMO.

lol, right. I sold mine *broken* for $250 just a few months ago

Although eBay+PP charge about 12% in fees, because of the number of people bidding in that environment, you get much higher return in the final price. Check for "completed listings" on eBay to see the prices you would get. I tried listing a brand new Sapphire Xtreme 5850 here, but all I got was a low-ball offer.

I do have a used Sapphire Xtreme 5850 that I want to sell, but not trade  I have enough cards I want to get rid of. Actually I can sell 3x 5850s to you if we can work out a cash/btc deal. PM me if interested.

Although I have another one of these, which is a bit used. I can give a better price. PM or write here please.

Looks like there is not much interest here for using 5850 cards for mining any more.

IMO, it's still a great GPU for general purpose OpenCL work. Anyway, it's now listed here.

Shipping from US. Atlanta, GA, to be exact.

Update: Card is now listed for sale here.

This is an NEW item in its SEALED BOX. I bought it a while ago planning to put it in one of my rigs, but several hardware problems stopped me.

The Xtreme 5850 is a great card, a repackaged version of the original Radeon 5850 with a better and quieter cooling.

You can see this guy reported 1000MHz Oc with the card:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97498.msg1073141#msg1073141

He asked for 15 BTC at the beginning of August, but I am asking 14 BTC including shipping to US+Canada. Shipping from Atlanta, GA in USA.

I don't have too much rep in this forum, but look for same nick in eBay and Heatware.

I will require using an escrow service unless you're willing to pay me upfront. PM or write here.

I can ship international if you're willing to pay extra for shipping.

Some pictures:

sent pm. $170 shipped for 1x XFX 5870.

Yes, that was low. I wonder why the bidding ended early?

I just suffered from the same problem. If your DISPLAY is set to ":0.0", clinfo only finds one card!!! This is dumb.

You can correct it by setting it to ":0" as suggested above.

I found the solution haphazardly from here: http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/140667

I've been having problems with the US servers in the past few days, I'm using Phoenix 1.x and haven't changed my configuration for a while now.

I just switched to 3%... Thanks Inaba! I hope you are making enough to keep this going...

Inaba, I like the changes you made in the notification emails. Being away from my rigs or preoccupied with other things, it helps to get some info in the emails.

Actually, I was going to ask if you can also include a bit more information in the "block found" emails, like the pool's total hash rate and my own hash rate. Basically same info we get from the mobile stats page. This way I know if any of my cards are stalled just by seeing a decline in my hash rate.

Thanks again for the service.. BTW, I read the whole drama with the new prop pools. It was funny, but it's good everything is settled in the end

You can run an IRC bot as a regular process and it will login to freenode as a normal user. There are many bot programs, but LambdaBot is one we use our own channel with my friends. It's probably a little more advanced than what you need.

I think you may be able to modify a simple bot program to open a pipe to the IRC process and just write your announcements into it. I found this program, ii, with which you can do stuff like this:

Tell me about it.. I still have two 5850s lying on the floor, too. To get them to work, I have to replace the capacitors on one motherboard 

You need wood? You wanna go out chopping some? 

I use screen to keep a tab on my miners, so no need to save them to files.


Why not use linuxcoin? It's based on a minimal Debian system, and it is really minimal. I do understand that you already made a lot of scripts that work and you just want to share them. I do feel the same way, now that I have things running quite stable. However, like Inaba, I don't have automated startups and I like to watch my rigs manually. Not sure if many people would like that. Too much automation and things go out of hand. Although, it *is* on my to-do list.

Where is Inaba's guide by the way?

Something definitely changed, it switched from $-5 to $+2. Was a problem with the calculation before? I didn't change my $/kWh setting in the meantime.

Hardware problems always bound to happen as we're pushing these to the limits. I have a 5970 that is throttling for some reason too. I opened the cooling block and put more thermal paste on it, but still no difference

Nice, it looks like I'm making $-5 per day (if I was paying for power).