Because I was in a hurry to get mining and now that i'm overclocked and mining 24/7 my temps are fine so, why bother with it? 

Thank you, although I cannot take credit, my friend works at a steel shop, he easily cut it and smoothed it with a grinding disc.  I believe this case was 1/8" steel.  It use to be an old antec case.

Also I ordered like 4 different extenders from china off ebay for less than $20USD.  just search ebay for pcie 1x or 16x extender or riser although they are marked as shipped i do not know when they will be here.  usually stuff comes pretty fast from china, but who knows....

Awesome! Thanks for the replies.

To my knowledge it's never been touched.  It's in a plastic case and always has been.  I've taken it apart just to look at it but never touched it.  The case probably has some scratches from floating around my safe though. 

How does one go about getting something graded?  I may be interested in doing that.

Looks like someone moved it for me.  Thanks for the suggestion though

How can I determine the value of this coin?  I am thinking about selling it but I'm not sure what it's worth. 

Any help would be appreciated.

So they corrected their error in their next email.  They didn't account for my 25% voucher. 

It turns out no matter what option I choose I lose the 25% discount.  What kind of shit show is this?
They also said I only get 600GH of cloud hashing.

I have free power but I will still be taking the full refund and investing in another company. 

I have multiple BFL products that are still running solid since receiving but, at this point I have lost my faith entirely.

Because I will otherwise lose my 25% voucher, I am enticed to take this offer and receive a refund for the rest of my money. 

$850 for 2 monarchs is enticing.  Plus I will activate my cloud hashing so it is instantly online.

What do you think?  Ever make a ROI?  Or just opt for a full refund?

c'mon guys... he passed out vouchers... next week.

this is legit!

right now if i boot into window with a 290 and a 280x the 280x shows up as a generic vga in device manager

i manually install driver and it says successfully updated to r9 200 series

i got to device manager and it shows r9 200 series (my 290 which works great)
and the 280x shows up as a hd 7900 series and causes all sorts of crashes

i think i might need a fresh install of windows.  will try tomorrow

That is exactly what I ended up doing after digging a little deeper.
The correct package on that page (for anyone who might need this in the future) is LINUX driver for kernel 3.x and 2.6.x and 2.4.x

I'm running bamt 1.3 but first you must do this...


taken from https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=2924.msg75706#msg75706

works like a charm now.  for some reason windows would become unstable with my second card and smos has been pretty good to me so far.

(great now I have to register there just to say thanks) 

Can you tell me what kind of temperatures you're able to maintain?

I tried a new NIC.  The only one I could find which was PCI.  It worked for a while and then seemed to cause stability issues with the motherboard.  The thing is literally ancient so no surprise there.  It did work well for the time though which leads me to believe that it's just a compability issue with the built in NIC.  I can mine in windows 7 fine.  Haven't tried other linux distros yet because I like the simplicity of smos and the historical charts it gives.  

thanks for the link I haven't gone through those troubleshooting steps yet and have something to try when I get home tonight!

I am trying to run a single 7950 on a 990FXA-GD80 based miner. 
I can boot into SMOS linux just fine but the network is intermittent. 
Running a simple ping of google.com or 8.8.8.8 shows that the network works fine for a little while and then stops working.  It then resumes working and then stops working.  repeatedly. 

I would love any insight into what could be causing this issue.  Is it likely to be a motherboard firmware issue?

bump.  still battling this issue with this motherboard

So i've seen 2 confirmed shipments received.

Has anyone else received an order that can post pictures?  Just want to cover my bases as I am putting in an order.

are you willing to use escrow?  and what is the exact model number?

I'm confused.  The product you linked to is an R9 290 not R9 290X

sent pm as well

Can they be powered by a standard ATX PSU using a 12v lead?