Just wanted to drop in a "BAMT is good stuff..."
Got my rig finished building today, booted up, running right off the bat. Set config and pool files and bam... mining away no problems (plug and mine as someone else said).
Just have my 6850 in the rig so far, is is set for 1000/300 and is stable at 65 degrees, fan set to 65% (can't be heard in our bedroom at that level). Pulling about 273 Mhash, a 5% improvement over when I had that card in my desktop and about a 15 degree difference to the better. Tomorrow I'll drop in the 5870 to go along with it.
A couple of notes, if you try to set the temperature in the configuration file and use a preceding 0 (as in 070 instead of 70) on the fan speed, BAMT sets the fan speed to the last two digits minus 14. So I had set fan speed for 70 to start and was only getting 56. Just thought I'd mention that odd behavior. Also the following motherboard should probably go on the compatible list since there were no problems whatsoever booting from USB and getting running, didn't even have to connect a monitor and enter bios. I did the entire set-up for the BAMT
system is headless, caseless and consists of the following:
ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157280&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL050112&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL050112-_-EMC-050112-Index-_-AMDMotherboards-_-13157280-L0JAMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor ADX250OCK23GM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103904&Tpk=AMD%20Athlon%20II%20X2%20250%20Regor%203.0GHz%20Socket%20AM3%2065WKingston ValueRAM 1GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model KVR1333D3N9/1G (2 of these)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134657hec Zephyr MX 750 750W Peak Output ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817339002COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler Compatible Intel Core i5 & Intel Core i7
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065Thanks...
Thralen