Sounds good mate, Well done on getting it all going. I recon you'll squeeze a bit more than 3 with CGminer over GUI miner, there a topic about flags (1st page) in hardware, Should be near top as taxesanddeath and p4cman have a grudge about me giving advice and help because 'BTC's' are not worth mining. Maybe not in there world
Nobody has a grudge. You just foolishly tried to defend how mining at a loss makes sense because you can double your money and assorted other nonsense.
Taxes - 8 5850's Oc'd like mine will beat 4 5970's/6990's, at less than 1/3rd of the price. Why cant you accept that haha. Nevermind 5870's. They wont need OC'ing! No offense to the OP cause its nice see someone get 4 of them cards working. Hence why i help but finacially there a silly buy. Specially with the new lower price. It's because of people like you who whore your coins that they go down in price, and yet you moan the loadest... noticed that
As it has been pointed out to you 5970s have be found in the past for $400 new and easily obtained used for $300 - $350. You did not find 5850s for $50 ea so your claim is false. Nobody is building rigs out of $700 GPU (except in your mind so you can "beat" them).
3x5970 = <$1000
MB, RAM, CPU, USB drive, LinuxCoin, 2x 120mm fans = <$240
1200W PSU = $250
Total <$1500 for 2.3GH/s and higher electrical efficiency than 5850s (a pair pull 300W+ without overclocking making them horrible for power efficiency).
BTW still waiting on that 10 BTC you promised for finding you a 5970 (the card you thought didn't exist) for sale.
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