Would there be any point to running a 5450 on this? I have a 6850 as my primary, but would it be worth while to throw the 5450 in my system only for bitcoin?
Well from what I've seen 1 Mhash/s equals about $1/month, and the 5870 does 313 Mhash/s. Lets say $150 per month (electricity doesn't matter) - that's still $1500 per month for doing nothing?
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
A 5450 will earn you a tenner per month or so, it's better than nothing eh?
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will it run on a quadro FX/1500 or 1700 and at what sort of rate? maybe I'll just plug the 6990 in< rubs hands together> I'm thinking this could be an additional hardware revenue stream
So is thinking of investing in this to get my company off the ground to afford to work for myself and get a few SR-2s acceptable?
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Will this all work on linux?
I can get two 5770's for $130, is that worth it?
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Okay, you guys got me interested so I started doing some research.... this 44 page document on the legality of Bitcoin was a rather interesting read and I suggest that some of you take a look at it (just hit the one-click download link near the upper portion of the page and, if you aren't comfortable with that, I have the PDF): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=1817857
After reading that, as well as a bunch of other stuff this afternoon, I've decided that the Bitcoin mining thing isn't for me (mostly due to legal grey areas and how that could possibly have a negative impact given our household profession).
Perhaps they should ditch RSA for AES... I'd be a little more comfortable with that.
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Is there any extrapolation possible on how far into the future mining will be possible?!
If you buy two complete 4x5870 miners that cost maybe thousand € each then at the current rates (1600mhashes/s x2 equals 1693€) and my current energy cost (.19cent, 2kw load equals 1440kwh/month or 274€ in utilities/month) you'd need at least two months to offset initial costs.
Just started on bitcoin, lets see how it goes.
I don't even own a single ATI card. Would be nice to do nothing and generate cash..
I don't think I'd worry too much about legal ramifications as of yet. The author himself is seeking/allowing donations in his introduction. I would think as the author is just finishing up his law degree at Yale, I doubt he would jeopardize his becoming a lawyer if he thought there could be problems.
I just ordered 9 5870's and 2 5850's - German market is pretty much empty now except for a few overpriced old cards
Prices are going up every day BTW. I just sold 5 BCT today for 11€ each, whereas yesterday I only got 8€ per BCT.
Join while it's still going, and put the money to good use (cruncher hardware/utility bill etc)
Wow! I don't have the guts to do that.
I am very tempted to buy a handful of 58XX cards as well, I have the PCIe slots to run 10 total. I am just worried that as soon as I do that, the bitcoin bubble will then burst.
At the very least I am going to put my 5850 back on water cooling and OC it up.
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hmmm.... i have some horsepower here at work. i may give this a try. nothing like banking off free electricity eh?
maybe i can get my wife to let me buy some stuff at home if it pays for itself in a month or two...
will post up my endeavors eventually.
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Trying to get my two 5870s to work, but when I run the miner program it complains that it didn't detect any openCL devices. So I tried another version (2.2), which seems to work. How much extra performance will I get by using 2.1 instead of 2.2? And why isn't 2.1 working for me? Thanks!
TBH I had the same problem with most rigs. I'm running on 2.1 only on my main machine with dual 5870's, here's what I did (may or may not help you):
- I had Cat. 11.3 with APP already installed when I found out about bitcoin, so I went to control panel --> software and fired up the ati uninstaller. Selected manual, and only unchecked the APP SDK version 2.45xxx, rebooted
- then I installed the 2.1 SDK and it worked
Simply installing the catalyst w/o APP and the 2.1 SDK caused the same error for me on a freshly installed rig, for whatever reason.
my 5970 is getting 1Mhash/s per core. I installed 11.4 with 2.1 SDK. Kinda had a feeling it wouldn't just fire up
Yes, the 2.1 SDK isn't for everyone. In fact I now believe it rarely works correctly... you lose about 5% on the 2.4 so I recommend staying with that if you have problems or don't want to mess with things.
Just download the latest 11.5 cat, install, and run. Easy
1st post updated with some performance tipps and a new, completely free mining pool
Just use the latest SDK, it's really not THAT much of a difference...
By the way, I am trying btcguild.com. No fees is nice, but I am getting "Connection problems" every few seconds on both of my miners, so I think that will reduce the mining performance.
Also, I'm not sure, but do I need one worker per one device? What are they for?
Last edited by zalbard; 06-03-2011 at 08:02 AM.
Yeah well... no risk, no fun
Bobsama, I have no idea what could be causing this other than your router or software firewall.
Maybe try a different pool? The BTC guild is better anyway cause it's completely free, I just edited my 1st post.
Bobsama, I had the same problem. Gui miner was trying to connect and after 10 minutes of waiting i figured out there's something wrong
I uninstalled 11.5 drivers, replaced with 10.5 and manually installed SDK 2.1 from jcool's link
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