If I had not lost my full time well paid job, be sure I had grab a bunch of those cheap GPU availlable..
Those bastard, they fired me while on sick leave.. Enjoy Capitalism 
Topic: I miss GPU Mining - page 2. (Read 4863 times)
I'll keep mining with my GPU, until 30M diff or so, cause I'm in for the long, and truly beleive BTC will worth much more within few years..
If I had not lost my full time well paid job, be sure I had grab a bunch of those cheap GPU availlable.. Those bastard, they fired me while on sick leave.. Enjoy Capitalism
If I had not lost my full time well paid job, be sure I had grab a bunch of those cheap GPU availlable..
Those bastard, they fired me while on sick leave.. Enjoy Capitalism 
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...I will keep mining, unlike others, I see the big picture and I'm in for the long run... so if I make 1 btc or 20 today, I don't really care...
worst case scenario I'm upping my electricity bill and lowering my heat bill so... maybe in 10 years when I have 10,000 - 15,000 BTC then BTC might be worth more than $10...
if heater is gas that's much cheaper than heating via gpu
I really don't see the difference between having a GPU you could sell for $200 but choose not to in order to mine Litecoin/Vanity addresses, and investing $200 to purchase the same GPU for the same purpose. Either way you're giving up $200 in order to mine.
Yes, $200 = $200, but that isn't the only cost.Cards don't show up at your door and start mining. You have to do some setup and probably play with clock speeds. If you've already done this for a card for BTC, transitioning the card to a new purpose is less work than setting up a brand new card.
I think I'll miss GPU mining less than I won't miss GPU mining
Days of being excited to get new hardware, set up new miner rigs and watching my GH go up and up will be missed.
Days of trying to keep 40 GPU's running on 9 machines, 8000 BTU Air Conditioner still barely keeping the room at 95 degrees F, $800-$900 electric bills, crazy noise & heat, and tripping over extension cords won't be missed.
Days of being excited to get new hardware, set up new miner rigs and watching my GH go up and up will be missed.
Days of trying to keep 40 GPU's running on 9 machines, 8000 BTU Air Conditioner still barely keeping the room at 95 degrees F, $800-$900 electric bills, crazy noise & heat, and tripping over extension cords won't be missed.
I agree 100%, it was a wild and crazy ride, that I enjoyed a lot; but I literally barely slept for months, it was like a dry-sauna 24/7 in my room, I'm pretty sure I permanently damaged my hearing from having so many fans running full blast, and trying to convince the people I lived with that the Feds were (probably) not going to break down our door searching for a "Grow" house due to power bills that could only be explained as normal if we were a 10 bedroom mansion in antarctica was a bit exhausting.
Lots of good stories and memories though, so that's something.
I think I'll miss GPU mining less than I won't miss GPU mining
Days of being excited to get new hardware, set up new miner rigs and watching my GH go up and up will be missed.
Days of trying to keep 40 GPU's running on 9 machines, 8000 BTU Air Conditioner still barely keeping the room at 95 degrees F, $800-$900 electric bills, crazy noise & heat, and tripping over extension cords won't be missed.
Days of being excited to get new hardware, set up new miner rigs and watching my GH go up and up will be missed.
Days of trying to keep 40 GPU's running on 9 machines, 8000 BTU Air Conditioner still barely keeping the room at 95 degrees F, $800-$900 electric bills, crazy noise & heat, and tripping over extension cords won't be missed.
Try turning your core clock down and the aggression up, I get higher hashes on a 7770 with 915 core / 1360 mem and aggression 19
For some reason high core clocks result in not being able to use high aggressions
You should be able to do 915 core with 965 mV too
For some reason high core clocks result in not being able to use high aggressions
You should be able to do 915 core with 965 mV too
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MSI AFTERBURNER:
Core Voltage (mV): 1137 from 1174
Core clock (MHz) : 1100
Memory Clock (MHz): 1375
Fan speed: 60%
7970 Temp: 85 C
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571 KHSAH Mining Rates:
Here's a more OC clocked version, its stable, though
I don't run it at this, as its too loud, 54%-60% it goes up 10X in sound.
But here it is
MSI AFTERBURNER:
Core Voltage (mV): 1137 from 1174
Core clock (MHz) : 1100
Memory Clock (MHz): 1375
Fan speed: 60%
7970 Temp: 85 C
-------------------------------
571 KHSAH Mining Rates:
Here's a more OC clocked version, its stable, though
I don't run it at this, as its too loud, 54%-60% it goes up 10X in sound.
But here it is
I really don't see the difference between having a GPU you could sell for $200 but choose not to in order to mine Litecoin/Vanity addresses, and investing $200 to purchase the same GPU for the same purpose. Either way you're giving up $200 in order to mine.
LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.
? That's completely false, I get 524 K-HASH 24/7 Stable.
If anything 7970 is one of the best for litecoin mining.
I am using reaper. Btw increasing the aggression above 13
lowers the hash rate I noticed this, though if you put it
as a second card, and a different card as main,
its possible to get higher aggression, and yield more hash rates.
Here are the settings:
(litecoin.conf)
host ltc.kattare.com
port 9332
user xxxxx
pass xxxxx
protocol litecoin
worksize 256
aggression 13
threads_per_gpu 1
sharethreads 16
lookup_gap 2
gpu_thread_concurrency 21000
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MSI AFTERBURNER:
Core Voltage (mV): 1049 from 1174
Core clock (MHz) : 1000
Memory Clock (MHz): 1375
Fan speed: 54%
7970 Temp: 84 C
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524 KHSAH Mining Rates:
Do note I found a article some where, don't remember, but they
state that AMD cards can run almost indefinitely at 90 degrees.
and their limiting temperature is around 105 degrees.
I even undervolted to 1049 from 1174, as well as overclocked.
Its a good card.
I will say this - I'm looking forward to being able to shut some windows in next winter... If only asics arrive before then 
I wish I would have found bitcoin sooner. I'd love to have built up a massive 10+Gh/s mining farm! I always wanted to do this for Folding@home but could never come up with the funds to do so. Doing this a year or more ago would have paid for itself if bitcoin mining.As it is now, my 2.3Gh/s of GPUs will JUST pay for them selves by the end of the month.
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...I will keep mining, unlike others, I see the big picture and I'm in for the long run... so if I make 1 btc or 20 today, I don't really care...
worst case scenario I'm upping my electricity bill and lowering my heat bill so... maybe in 10 years when I have 10,000 - 15,000 BTC then BTC might be worth more than $10...
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...I will keep mining, unlike others, I see the big picture and I'm in for the long run... so if I make 1 btc or 20 today, I don't really care...
worst case scenario I'm upping my electricity bill and lowering my heat bill so... maybe in 10 years when I have 10,000 - 15,000 BTC then BTC might be worth more than $10...
LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.
They work okay, but they get about the same kh/s as 7950s.
I'm gonna keep mining until I feel like stopping. Free electricity for some work I do
I miss them too, I used to heat up the kitchen with one rig very nice.. now siting in the cold smokin' cigarettes
Stop smoking cigarettes
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
Thanks for you to finally notice, I am from the future
LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.
That's interesting. I'd love to see what 7990 could do. or even if NVidia's next chips will be compatible
LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.
I'm still mining away on my cards. Even though a few will be getting the first pre-orders, I don't think the majority of everyone will be getting theirs until January. Or at least, I'm not expecting mine until then.
It looks like I won't have to heat my small apartment this winter. I plan on using the rigs for LTC. Hopefully I can get about the same heat out of them.
It looks like I won't have to heat my small apartment this winter. I plan on using the rigs for LTC. Hopefully I can get about the same heat out of them.
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here... 
Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.
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