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Re: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service
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crochetg
on 30/05/2013, 04:02:28 UTC
Very very interested in this!
I'm thinking about doing 6X 20chip boards and arranging them (stacked three tall) side by side in the neat assembly you have pictured on page 1 Smiley

If I were to receive the chips required for this in about 3 weeks and get them to you with around 2-4 day shipping, are things still on track enough that we might be able to receive products by mid July?
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Re: ASICMINER Blade Sales
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crochetg
on 29/05/2013, 21:18:37 UTC
Just sent an email to  asicminer.blades@gmail.com and fnnirvana@gmail.com asking for payment instructions and I included my address.

Is this the correct protocol to order? Sorry, that was a little unclear to me, so I just sent the same email to both of those email addresses.
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Re: Just how dead are graphics card miners?
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crochetg
on 29/05/2013, 07:03:17 UTC
GPU minning is not dead

It's alive and kicking!

ATM you can mine alternative crypto http://dustcoin.com/mining with decent return

After you mine them you can sell/exchange them and EASY earn 2 times more

You can also sell GPU miners on ebay and easy get your investment in hardware back in a month

So after a month you can mine for example LTC and get 100% returns even if electricity in your area it's not cheap

BTW I think LTC will soon sky high like BTC

BTC started at 2009 and in 2012 you can buy it for 10$ now in 2013 for over $120

LTC started at 2011 and then you can buy them for few cents now it's at 3$ and in last few months more and more GPU miners from BTC switch to LTC so price will rise VERY SOON

With 2Ghs/s GPU miner you can mine about 2,5 BTC/month BUT over 3 LTC/day

You can build 2Ghs/s miner yourself for 2000$

You can also BUY 2000 LTC or more now and wait till 2014/15 and made easy money

This is how I do it...


Those are all good points. I need to look into litecoin more. But if it was to follow in the footsteps of BTC then buy up a bunch!
Im now interested in these BLOCK ERUPTER BLADE's 10-13 GH/s I just saw are selling actively now.
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Re: Just how dead are graphics card miners?
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crochetg
on 29/05/2013, 06:29:59 UTC
I would actually be interested possibly!

Im interested in doing one of two things.

1) Finding a decent deal (What they paid + some) on taking someones spot who isnt that far away from receiving a BFL unit.
2) Getting an order of ASIC chips from the SebastianJu batch orders and then send them to Burnin who is making custom boards with them.

Basically whichever results in reviving something the fastest. While the custom board seems like it would be slow, the Burnin guy really does have the capability to produce the boards fast. The slow part would be waiting around in the actual chip group orders =\
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Just how dead are graphics card miners?
by
crochetg
on 29/05/2013, 06:17:37 UTC
So I have become absolutely fascinated with bitcoin mining operations. I wish SOMEONE would have told me about bitcoin many years ago I would have certainly been all over things in the good old mining days. Im surprised its taken me this long to really come to learn what bitcoin is.

Im mainly posting this to get up to 5 posts so I can start talking in the threads I really want to talk in (Avalon ASIC threads). But from what I have seen am I correct in saying the days where one could buy a ton a high end graphics cards, fill a room and turn a decent profit are long gone? When were those days exactly I guess up until 2011ish?

It seems to me if you aren't on-board (and at the front end) with all the new ASIC processing units, like those from BFL then there is really no hope for you in terms of mining, am I correct? 



I would like to hear peoples opinions on just what is going to happen when the vast majority of these back ordered machines start powering on all around the world. Are small time guys dead right away? If you are lucky enough to get one of the BFL units in one of the latter batches are you still going to be drown out by all those in front of you? Just how bad will it be?
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Re: Verification failed, check hardware!
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crochetg
on 29/05/2013, 06:04:01 UTC
Thats a quick solution too!
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Re: Verification failed, check hardware!
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crochetg
on 28/05/2013, 15:32:06 UTC
Interesting I fixed my problem by installing version 12.10

However now my HD 6870's are at 190MH/s per card when they were in the 240MH's with the 13.4 driver :\
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Re: Verification failed, check hardware!
by
crochetg
on 28/05/2013, 13:45:03 UTC
This is your GPU returning invalid hashes from it's kernel. This is because new drivers are crap for older cards.

- Uninstall AMD APP SDK

- Uninstall AMD Catalyst Install manager: choose "uninstall all software", make sure you have only a VGA driver after restart.

- Manually remove these files not removed by the installer; any other obvious ATI files with the same file date:
  C:\Windows\System32\amdocl64.dll
  C:\Windows\System32\amdoclcl64.dll
  C:\Windows\System32\OpenCL.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\amdocl.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\amdoclcl.dll
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OpenCL.dll

- Install just the Catalyst 11.11 driver package (no SDK is needed; the AMD APP runtime is included with driver)

- Mine just a bit slower on your 6870 than a 5830 would.

Better:
- use cgminer
- set phatk worksize to 256 and underclock GPU RAM to 300MHz for best power efficiency and higher hashrate




As i had the exact same problem as the first poster I followed this guide exactly with good faith it would be a cure..

Unfortunately, after restart from 11.11 install  I get a blue screen of death that will never go away Sad any ideas on what I can do? Sad


** startup repair worked and rolled back my old video drivers as well. Interestingly I tried one more time and now the blue screen is triggered during the instillation of the 11.11 drivers. (Before it was only after restart) might this shine some light on whats going on?