37% difficulty increase (55590 to 76193)

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Quote from: snedie on March 19, 2011, 03:51:43 PM

Quote from: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 19, 2011, 10:26:01 AM

What kind of PSU are you figuring in with that though? A good PSU is going to set you back and for those 4 cards you're going to need 1500watt or more probably.

My two 5970's draw 770Watts when overclocked to 900Mhz, or around 650 Watts when at factory clocks. So 1500Watts if left at factory clocks is going to be plenty, but two 1000Watt PSU's would give him the advantage of overclocking: Each 50Mhz yields 50Mhash/s boost on each card (25Mhash/s per core). So overclocking both my cards by 150Mhz to 900Mhz gained me 300Mhash/s more. However, your going to need some serious cooling to get these clocks (Clocking the memory to 500Mhz helps).

There are simple and cheap adapters you can get that allow you to easily use more than one PSU on your system: See here http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1919.html

I'm not sure about the best way to go about it though. The power isn't shared evenly by doing that right? Whichever PSU goes to the mobo is going to use 300watts for the pci-e (75 each right?) and the board / cpu. Then you've gotta split the cards up between the two PSU's. I'm guessing you could go with 1 card / mobo / cpu / other on PSU1 and 3 cards on PSU2. I'm just debating this or 1 big PSU, not sure which is the best way to go, 1PSU gives you better air flow etc.

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Quote from: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 19, 2011, 10:26:01 AM

What kind of PSU are you figuring in with that though? A good PSU is going to set you back and for those 4 cards you're going to need 1500watt or more probably.

My two 5970's draw 770Watts when overclocked to 900Mhz, or around 650 Watts when at factory clocks. So 1500Watts if left at factory clocks is going to be plenty, but two 1000Watt PSU's would give him the advantage of overclocking: Each 50Mhz yields 50Mhash/s boost on each card (25Mhash/s per core). So overclocking both my cards by 150Mhz to 900Mhz gained me 300Mhash/s more. However, your going to need some serious cooling to get these clocks (Clocking the memory to 500Mhz helps).

There are simple and cheap adapters you can get that allow you to easily use more than one PSU on your system: See here http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1919.html

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Quote from: aistto on March 19, 2011, 12:52:08 PM

Quote from: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 19, 2011, 10:26:01 AM

What kind of PSU are you figuring in with that though? A good PSU is going to set you back and for those 4 cards you're going to need 1500watt or more probably.

I think there is no psu more then 1500w

Ultra makes decent 1600watts and I think there might be a couple 2k. The problem is in the US with 110v you might start tripping breakers about there.

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Quote from: Jered Kenna (TradeHill) on March 19, 2011, 10:26:01 AM

What kind of PSU are you figuring in with that though? A good PSU is going to set you back and for those 4 cards you're going to need 1500watt or more probably.

I think there is no psu more then 1500w

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What kind of PSU are you figuring in with that though? A good PSU is going to set you back and for those 4 cards you're going to need 1500watt or more probably.

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Quote from: CCCMikey on March 18, 2011, 09:34:16 AM

Hmm, $800 to buy each. Not cheap

(5970s)

Used they go for 400~500USD ea. a pair of 5970s can be found for 800$, and with OC, achieving 1.2 GH/s isn't hard... now 1600$ worth of GPU gives you ~2.5GH/s, the rest of the system is like 150$ MAX, so 1750$ for a 2.5GH/s MONSTER

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Quote from: CCCMikey on March 18, 2011, 09:34:16 AM

Hmm, $800 to buy each. Not cheap

(5970s)

You may find the price comes down once 6990s start hitting the gamers' rigs and they start selling off their old 5970s!

What are the $ prices of 5870s like? I got a 5870 in the UK not that long ago, and there were some real bargains to be had if you were prepared to wait for them (I paid £130 second-hard from a dealer, but I've seen prices range from £110 to £210 on ebay).

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Hmm, $800 to buy each. Not cheap

(5970s)

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Quote from: CCCMikey on March 18, 2011, 02:41:32 AM

I'm not sure how GPUs perform in comparison - but would need to be about 8 times better than one 2GHz CPU @ 30 watts to be feasible.

Dude should actually figure out how much better GPU's perform in comparison... It is way better than that.

Two AMD Opteron 6128s will get you 32.4 Mhash/s: that's the best result for CPUs listed on the wiki's mining hardware comparison list. One AMD Phenom II X6 1055T will get you 15.84 Mhash/s. In contrast, 1 AMD 5870 GPU will easily get you 324 Mhash/s - 10x what the 2 6128s would deliver, and 20x what 1 1055T delivers. A 5870 is probably considered entry-level now for GPU mining - a 5970 will be almost twice as fast. And that's before you consider that it's relatively easy to use more than one GPU.

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My GPU is not supported in my media centre PC so I could not try.

How many khash/sec do you get on average from a good GPU, and at what wattage?

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Quote from: Jim Hyslop on March 18, 2011, 12:49:43 AM

Or it might pick up in Australia....

Not for me ;-)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/fxrse/generating_bitcoins_now_financially_impractical/

Unless I have the maths wrong too, I'll be waiting ten years...

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Quote from: Transisto on March 09, 2011, 01:25:42 PM

I bet it will drop once summer kicks in,

Or it might pick up in Australia....

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Quote from: theGECK on March 11, 2011, 01:14:27 PM

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So in a second, you're using 156.83*.688705234 Watts. That's 108.009642 Watts per second, or 388834.711 Watts per hour. Divided by 1000 will give you the kwh, of 388.834711 kwh. At $.11/kwh, that would be $43.22/hour, and you would expect 1.5 BTC each day at the current difficulty. How do people make money with this?

Clearly this isn't right, but I'm not sure how to calculate actual video card power usage, but where in the above are we off?

take your power usage and multiply by time.

for example, my computer, running both GPU (8800GTS) and CPU (core2 duo e6850) miners, draws 270 watts (2.25 amps at 120 volts)

270W*24 hours= 6.48 kilowatt-hours (not kilowatts per hour, it's a draw of 1 kilowatt for an hour or 500W for 2 hours or anything that multiplies out to that same product) per day or 194.4 kilowatt-hours per month. alternatively, 23.3 megajoules and 700 megajoules if you want the actual SI units.

at current electricity rates here (9 cents per KW-hr) that's $17.50/month.

ordinarily, not profitable for me (prior to the difficulty spike, i estimated i was mining about 12 BTC/month in the deepbit pool), but;

a. 170W of that is idle operation, as this machine is also a web server, so it already needs to be running 24x7, so it really only costs me an extra $6.50 per month.
b. I don't even pay that as my electricity is included in my rent.

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Quote from: error on March 11, 2011, 01:34:43 PM

Your friend used "watts per second" where he should have used "watts per hour". As a result his numbers are far, far off.

Watts per hour also does not make sense. As others have noted watts are a measure of energy per time already, so "watts per " would be some funky kind of energy acceleration measure that nobody uses Tongue

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It really is as simple as:
100 W = 0.1 kW

If we use 0.1 kW for 5 hours we would get:
0.1 kW * 5 h = 0.5 kWh

Don't feel bad though, I've even seen electricians getting confused by this

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I just realized how dumb I was - kwh would be kilowatts * hours. Or hours * watts / 1000. Wow - it must be Friday.

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Your friend used "watts per second" where he should have used "watts per hour". As a result his numbers are far, far off.

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Quote from: AmpEater on March 11, 2011, 01:28:51 PM

Quote from: theGECK on March 11, 2011, 01:14:27 PM

More (probable) math problems a friend and I are trying to do.

Looking at the 5770, you have a 156.83 Mhash/s, and based on the Mhash/w rate, that's .688705234 watts per Mhash. So, this is what the friend emailed to me:

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So in a second, you're using 156.83*.688705234 Watts. That's 108.009642 Watts per second, or 388834.711 Watts per hour. Divided by 1000 will give you the kwh, of 388.834711 kwh. At $.11/kwh, that would be $43.22/hour, and you would expect 1.5 BTC each day at the current difficulty. How do people make money with this?

So, I'm not sure how to calculate actual video card power usage, but where in the above are we off?

A watt is a joule per second.

It's not 108 watts per second, its just 108 watts. 108 watts for ten hours is about 1kwh.

So, it's sounding like you are saying that a watt is a unit that's already been converted to an hour. So, if I had a 1000w power supply running at full capacity, it would be using 1kwh.

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Quote from: theGECK on March 11, 2011, 01:14:27 PM

More (probable) math problems a friend and I are trying to do.

Looking at the 5770, you have a 156.83 Mhash/s, and based on the Mhash/w rate, that's .688705234 watts per Mhash. So, this is what the friend emailed to me:

Quote

So in a second, you're using 156.83*.688705234 Watts. That's 108.009642 Watts per second, or 388834.711 Watts per hour. Divided by 1000 will give you the kwh, of 388.834711 kwh. At $.11/kwh, that would be $43.22/hour, and you would expect 1.5 BTC each day at the current difficulty. How do people make money with this?

So, I'm not sure how to calculate actual video card power usage, but where in the above are we off?

with $43.22/hour, you'll end up with $29,000 electricity bill to pay, fortunately for your wallet, copper wires will melt in the very first 2 minutes Cheesy

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Quote from: theGECK on March 11, 2011, 01:14:27 PM

More (probable) math problems a friend and I are trying to do.

Looking at the 5770, you have a 156.83 Mhash/s, and based on the Mhash/w rate, that's .688705234 watts per Mhash. So, this is what the friend emailed to me:

Quote

So in a second, you're using 156.83*.688705234 Watts. That's 108.009642 Watts per second, or 388834.711 Watts per hour. Divided by 1000 will give you the kwh, of 388.834711 kwh. At $.11/kwh, that would be $43.22/hour, and you would expect 1.5 BTC each day at the current difficulty. How do people make money with this?

So, I'm not sure how to calculate actual video card power usage, but where in the above are we off?

A watt is a joule per second.

It's not 108 watts per second, its just 108 watts. 108 watts for ten hours is about 1kwh.

theGECK

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More (probable) math problems a friend and I are trying to do.

Looking at the 5770, you have a 156.83 Mhash/s, and based on the Mhash/w rate, that's .688705234 watts per Mhash. So, this is what the friend emailed to me:

Quote

So in a second, you're using 156.83*.688705234 Watts. That's 108.009642 Watts per second, or 388834.711 Watts per hour. Divided by 1000 will give you the kwh, of 388.834711 kwh. At $.11/kwh, that would be $43.22/hour, and you would expect 1.5 BTC each day at the current difficulty. How do people make money with this?

Clearly this isn't right, but I'm not sure how to calculate actual video card power usage, but where in the above are we off?

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