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NO way in hell Bonaire will hit 400 MH/s... 360 is a possibility and that's with the noted 7.4% increase due to arch and pushing the core to 1300.
Yea, once AMD releases new drivers and OpenCL stuff that targets the improvements in the architecture the increases will come. I'm with you though, I don't think it'll be more than about 10% clock for clock. But apparently they did manage to do some slight tweaks to get power consumption down. I really want TSMC to get their asses in gear and get the node below 28nm up and running.
when can we expect the 8 series to be out?
AMD screwed the pooch. As I understand it, the architectural changes that would have been 8xxx series are actually in the 7790. I'm not sure what they're doing or thinking. I would like to see something I can upgrade from my HD7970 to though. An 8970 would be the logical choice, but a 7975 with this "new" GCN1.1 would work too I guess. I game as much as mine, so any improvement is worthwhile to me.
Hope you don't mind a newbie question here! 
But does it still make sense to buy a Radeon 7850 for mining?
How long does it currently take for you guys to mine 1BTC with such a 7850?
Since I'm totally new to mining I run a test with my gforce at about 80Mhs and didn't make even 1 satoshi in days. So when I multiply times 3.5, which is about the performance of a 7850 (280Mhs), whats the gain? It still would take months to make 1BTC. Am I wrong?
But does it still make sense to buy a Radeon 7850 for mining?
How long does it currently take for you guys to mine 1BTC with such a 7850?
Since I'm totally new to mining I run a test with my gforce at about 80Mhs and didn't make even 1 satoshi in days. So when I multiply times 3.5, which is about the performance of a 7850 (280Mhs), whats the gain? It still would take months to make 1BTC. Am I wrong?
I get approx 0.1 BTC a day, but I also stop mining to game and whatnot at various time during the day. This is with an HD7970. I get another 0.01BTC or so from DVC/IXC/NMC merged mining I estimate. Depends on the exact rates on any given day.
I realize with the low CU count and whatnot it won't be a power card for mining, but does anyone who knows anything about the underlying microarch know if it'll up the compute performance at all? Anandtech just had an article on it, but it seems very similar to the old 7xxx series.
I'm in the process of buying a Modminer Quad, because
A) It fit's my price range
B) Super cool looking
C) It will still be profitable for a few more months
D) I have free electricity
A) It fit's my price range
B) Super cool looking
C) It will still be profitable for a few more months
D) I have free electricity
I don't know if you really understand this, but do you know that you "might" make about 7 bitcoins over the course of those couple of months. Totally not worth it unless you only pay about $120 for it. Just Sayin'
I'm not mining for profit. I like the whole idea, and I'll be helping out the network. TBH, I haven't seen any proof of ASICs coming out, so who knows - it may be more than a few months. And it may be profitable since the price of BTC can increase.
I'm with you. I used to do distributed.net back when they were cracking RC5, then folding at home. Now I mine bitcoins. The other stuff I did for free for science. This I do to help the concept, the fact I can make some small amount of money is a plus. I even run a Tor exit node to provide another service I think is needed, aside from helping the Bitcoin network.
I think he means a quad socket system with 16 core cpu's for a total of 64 cores.
yeah get an $800 motherboard and what; $600 cpu's and a 1000 watt psu?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151219
I think he means a quad socket system with 16 core cpu's for a total of 64 cores.
That is indeed what I meant.
3930k gets you 90khash if clocked right
I'd love to see what a quad socket 64 core Interlagos system would pull in. Not that it'd be efficient, a GPU would be far better, but just to see the numbers.
Offering this CPU on ebay now. $499 Buy It Now or make a bid. Several pictures, and a closeup of the seal still intact. Below is the URL for the auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271130816234
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271130816234
Reasons why I don't like offering first
1) I offer too little. *no response, I recheck over and over waiting, still no response.
User never responds ever again, Ignore mode. I lose 30 mins of my time, from rechecking the status over and over, and user could of let me known, and save me my time. (Which I don't get, why not bargain with me, and offer a higher rate? Why is everyone so scared of doing this?)
2) I offer too much. *You jump at it immediately, I am like fuuuu
And out a bit.
3) I offer just right. *happens rarely.
This happens in real life a lot, Craigslist, etc, well at least to me.
Now since I made my point across
You start with the first offer
1) I offer too little. *no response, I recheck over and over waiting, still no response.
User never responds ever again, Ignore mode. I lose 30 mins of my time, from rechecking the status over and over, and user could of let me known, and save me my time. (Which I don't get, why not bargain with me, and offer a higher rate? Why is everyone so scared of doing this?)
2) I offer too much. *You jump at it immediately, I am like fuuuu
And out a bit.3) I offer just right. *happens rarely.
This happens in real life a lot, Craigslist, etc, well at least to me.
Now since I made my point across
You start with the first offer
I'd say $500 shipped, in whatever that value would happen to be in BTC on the day of the transaction.
I just looked up a Deskstar datasheet, and it specifies 5C to 60C operating, -40 to 70C non-operating. WD Caviar is 0-60C operating. Looks like it would be best to not freeze your hard drive.
It sounds like if the fans stop working, that would actually be what you want to keep the system warm...
2. Materials generally lag tracking the ambient temperature, which means that the drive will be colder than its surroundings when it get warmer, so a shit load of water may condense out on the electronics/inside the drives.It sounds like if the fans stop working, that would actually be what you want to keep the system warm...
I'm pretty sure some of the drives I've split open have had dessicant inside. Dunno if it'd be enough with that much delta T though. Depends on the humidity too I suppose.
*popcorn* refers to people just poppin' in to check out the drama
Dam, I was making popcorn and chowing down each time we had a post like this. That's allot of popcorn. 
I've been popping vicodin and eating popcorn. My liver is fried.
The way some yeehaw cowboy law enforcement officers are, I wouldn't be surprised if they saw any indication of "crypto currency" and tried to classify you as a terrorist, jihadist, who funds god only knows what groups. Glad to know our(at least us Americans) constitutional freedoms have been un-guaranteed by all the post 9/11 legislation.
Can't get cgminer to run. Do you need to just create a conf on your own to enable scrypt in windows ?
trying to solo mine with vorsholk's guide.
trying to solo mine with vorsholk's guide.
or pass it the command line options to run scrypt
NOPE!!!
Twenty five years ago I worked on an ASIC design.
HC
YOU like nobody else deserve this image macro.
Obviously you have a comprehension problem.
Over 25 years ago I was a director of a company that worked opposite Plessey Crypto in wavertree technology park Liverpool.
I wasn't sure why he put that either.
This is my cgminer.conf for ltc
Code:
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "http://ltc.kattare.com:9332",
"user" : "user.name",
"pass" : "passwort"
},
{
"url" : "http://coinotron.com:8322",
"user" : "user.name",
"pass" : "passwort"
}
]
,
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "2",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "6",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "4",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "3",
"retry-pause" : "2",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "http://ltc.kattare.com:9332",
"user" : "user.name",
"pass" : "passwort"
},
{
"url" : "http://coinotron.com:8322",
"user" : "user.name",
"pass" : "passwort"
}
]
,
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "2",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "6",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "4",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "3",
"retry-pause" : "2",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}