Pooptacular
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how many 7970's could I fit into a mobo and use for bitcoin? I havent read about this stuff since bitcoin was at like 10 bucks or so. Am I right in thinking 4 is the max?
Because it seems to be $10-$20 overpriced when I look at the ladder of gaming cards. The 7770 is about $100 on sale, and the 7850 is about $150 on sale. The 7790 seems like a $130 card, not $150.Whys that?
I'm not sure what your issue is, but never really liked GUIminer. You should get much better performance with diablo or cgminer. You can find startup strings for various miners on many support websites (e.g. mtred help page), or you can try a few pages back where I posted an entire cgminer.conf file that should work great on a 7950.Im pretty new to bitcoin mining but i have ran into some trouble with guiminer. I am mining in the eclipseus pool and i use an opencl miner. Whenever i get the long poll: new block message in the console window my hash rate goes from 500 m/hash to xxx k/hash and stays down in the k/hash range till i stop and start it again. I have searched everywhere for an answer to this but can't find one. I am running 1 AMD 7950 and i have the computer plugged into my tv for a display at the moment. Any help would be great thank.
also i see that my gpu usage goes to 0 after long poll:new block
Because it seems to be $10-$20 overpriced when I look at the ladder of gaming cards. The 7770 is about $100 on sale, and the 7850 is about $150 on sale. The 7790 seems like a $130 card, not $150.
how many 7970's could I fit into a mobo and use for bitcoin? I havent read about this stuff since bitcoin was at like 10 bucks or so. Am I right in thinking 4 is the max?
Debating whether I should start mining.
Would it be worth it to start now? About how much could I net a month with one 7950?
Should I go with Bitcoins or Litecoins?
Hard core miners use these PCI-e risers to plug in video cards into PCI-e x1 slots.I wonder what the cheapest Mobo that can do 3 is...all it needs is 3xpci express at atleast x4 right?
I sold off at $122Wasn't watching the bitcoin markets for a bit, so I was kinds surprised...
$125
25% gain in one day, maybe $200 isn't so far away?
wbynum with the 7950 at I=13 I am getting the same rate in cgminer. But using reaper at 20 I am getting 520KH/s.
Setting up litecoin mining for me has been a lot more experimentation than BTC mining. I spent the evening messing with cgminer vs. reaper with my 7850 and finally, settled on reaper where it's getting 360kh/s and my two 7950's I'm using reaper and they are getting 560kh/s each. It was pretty finicky to set up and my concurrency settings are nowhere near what the documentation recommended. But it's pulling shares from the server and I don't have a lot of stales and the throughput looks good. So I think that's it for tonight.
Crazy, $139 now, peaked at $147 last night.
I bought some LTC to get onto that train while they were raising, but decided to take my profit and get back into bitcoin. At least bitcoins has a real developing market with major companies accepting them, I felt like the litecoins I bought were worthless except as a speculative toy. Bought 550 LTC for 15 BTC yesterday, sold 500 for 21 BTC today. Not bad, $834 net profit if I sold the 6 net bitcoins and another $200 for the 50 LTC I am holding on to.
I left one PC mining bytecoins overnight. Mined 22 blocks, 2 rejected, and sent 25 bytecoins to a friend, 975 left in my wallet. I think these are even more of a speculative waste of time than anything else, but I am learning a bit about how the early days of bitcoin must have been.
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Does anyone else feel like BTC-E is the shadiest website ever? I hate dealing with it, and refuse to leave money in my account.