Topic: Mining newb here, looking for rig advice. (Read 833 times)

It's not risky if you will do it accurate. Perhaps it is not even necessary on your MB, should first try without it.

Thanks for the tips, im just wondering how complicated/risky is the  process of shortcutting those pins? I dont have much hardware experience other than the only pc i've built which is the one im using now.

Ah i havent done this, ill have to try as soon as i get home (dang splashtop wont connect over super slow university connection)
Thanks though!

well i will try to help, with gui miner are you using the flags -v -w 128 ?, those are the flags used for most of the cards on the hardware comparison.

edit: darn, 50BTC beat me :p

Cards will work in pci-e x1 without problem, use pci-e raisers like this:

Also, you may need to shortcut 2 pins in pce-e x1 to make it work:

Try to write "-v -w 128" to extra flags field

I did see that other people were getting way more m/hash than me but i couldn't message them/reply to the thread because of my newb status :/

i do not know about the actual question, but i wanted to tell you that a 6950 should be getting at least 350mh/s https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison i would first look to see what others are doing to get the substantially more megahash than you

Hey all, im sort of new to this forum but ive been lurking for a bit.

Anyways, ive been running guiminer from my windows pc for the past month of august using a single card set up: Asus hd6850 overclocked getting my about 220 mhash which is mounted on my asus M4A88T-M. This set up has been very stable without any crashes or similar incidents although one night deepbit did crash (maybe ddos?) and i lost about 10 hours worth of mining from that before i realized.

Anyways anways my question revolves around my interest to upgrade my rig. My mobo is a micro edition of asus's higher up mobos and only has one pci 2.0 slot but two pci 1.0 slots. I want to get two 5830's that i found that are $99 but i want to make sure that they will run along side the 6850 i have and also make sure that they wont fry my mobo for any reason since its so small.

I've lurked a lot but i cant find anyone using the same mobo or how to properly set up a rig using different cards. Apart from that im sure ill have to upgrade my psu from the 500w i have to maybe a 750w or 800w but im not ready to upgrade my mobo and would rather see a small profit before january when the reward rate drops.

Any help/advice would be awesome, thanks!

**edit** said i had the 6950 when i actually have the 6850, lols