Spike
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- Aug 27, 2001
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i'm hoping there are still some 5830's in the newegg pipeline left to be released. i have an ip35e board sitting idle and the pcie 16 and 1 slots are perfect for a 2 card setup. that way i can give my main rig a rest from the heat.
i wouldnt think it would be worth it to run a pair of 1 card rigs electricity-wise. 2 cpu, 2 psu, 2 cards, 2 sets of ram. probably better to run 2 cards in 1 machine.
Your probably right, it would use less power though on basically idle ram, cpu, and the rest don't take much power.
Anyone know how well the 4870 does at this? I have one of those sitting around as well in another rig. Hey, I could have 4 different rigs running this at once all underclocked. Would that earn me some award for the least efficient bitcoin mining operation?