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Quote from: MaGNeT on June 06, 2011, 01:53:44 PM

Quote from: mlouca on June 06, 2011, 12:40:17 PM

3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?

1.0 to 1.3 is more realistic.

Not so fast. Gigabyte 5870SO model kicks asses 24/7 with its 950MHz for 410-425Mhash/s depending on the miner app, but dual-fan cooling system is ... noisy. Jumps between 190 and 200W power consumption , but I'm lazy to check that with lowered memory clock (around 350MHz for stability purposes).

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Quote from: minerX on June 06, 2011, 01:54:35 PM

Quote from: Jack of Diamonds on June 06, 2011, 12:35:05 PM

Quote from: bcpokey on June 06, 2011, 12:32:18 PM

6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.

Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing.

Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better.

Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy.

And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people.

But it's horrible value for the money. I have exactly one; Due to using a massive discount at a retailer. Otherwise it would've been wasted cash more or less.

Hell, you can get same hashing performance for two unlocked 6950's and those cost maybe 50% or less.

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Quote from: minerX on June 06, 2011, 01:54:35 PM

Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy.

And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people.

What miner and/or flags are you running? Windows 7? CrossFire?

I've got two 6990's @ ~330 Mhash/s per GPU. Stock clocks, GUIMiner, switching to a dedicated Ubuntu rig tonight.

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Quote from: Jack of Diamonds on June 06, 2011, 12:35:05 PM

Quote from: bcpokey on June 06, 2011, 12:32:18 PM

6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.

Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing.

Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better.

Wha? I get 850 mhash/sec on stock voltage on my 6990. It's overclocked to 990 on both GPUs. I could probably hit 1050 easy.

And the point of the 6990 should be to have an awesome gaming rig AND hash. But I don't think that's the case for a whole of people.

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Quote from: mlouca on June 06, 2011, 12:40:17 PM

3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?

1.0 to 1.3 is more realistic.

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how many hashes do you get out of your 5850 at stock.

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Maybe GPUs shortage will keep Bitcoin from growing too fast.
If this keeps growing soon we'll have mining dedicated cards, I don't like that idea at all.

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Quote from: mlouca on June 06, 2011, 12:40:17 PM

3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?

Maybe at ridiculous overclocks that aren't stable for 24/7.

I do run some 5870s in my miners but they are all within 5-10% of normal clock range. Not even nearly 500ghash/s. Somewhat better than 5850s though (but not enough to warrant the price difference+ power consumption)

5830's and 5850's are ideal.

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3 5870's would get atleast 1.5ghash?

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Quote from: Jack of Diamonds on June 06, 2011, 12:35:05 PM

Quote from: bcpokey on June 06, 2011, 12:32:18 PM

6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.

Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing.

Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better.

two 5830 will get 600mh and thats only $220, but they sold out now too on newegg and chiefvalue

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Quote from: bcpokey on June 06, 2011, 12:32:18 PM

6990s were sold out before bitcoin became a craze. They were a limited production line top end card. They're also a terrible $/hash buy for mining.

Exactly. These are gaming cards and probably a very, very small minority has been purchased for distributed computing.

Not to mention they cost $700 to $800 for about 600-700mhash/s, you can get two radeon 5870's for $300-$400 bucks at the cheapest & achieve the same or better.

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