The fastest HD 69xx miner. 250 BTC. - page 5.

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Quote from: Grinder on April 07, 2011, 03:24:09 PM

That's the problem with selling it, there's really no way to set a good price. Running a pool is more work, but he could probably earn 100-200 BTC each day if it really is 5% faster. Slush's pool gets 2000 BTC each day. If he charged 4% or less he could probably get a much higher hash rate, because both those who already use a pool and those who currently mine solo would earn more by switching.

look at poclbm-mod from bitcoinpool... everyone can use it anywhere.... if he makes everyone in his pool use it, everyone could use it elsewhere...

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That's the problem with selling it, there's really no way to set a good price. Running a pool is more work, but he could probably earn 100-200 BTC each day if it really is 5% faster. Slush's pool gets 2000 BTC each day. If he charged 4% or less he could probably get a much higher hash rate than Slush, because both those who already use a pool and those who currently mine solo would earn more by switching.

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Noting that, for someone with two 5970's that better miner software would be worth maybe an increase of 20 to 30 coins a month. So if you charged 50btc the buyer MIGHT get most of that back after two months. Or you could have sold it for 10btc and sold many many of them.

nster

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If mining solo or pool, you'd break even only at 8000BTC mined, if benefit is 5%. Not even Slush mined that much.... He actually only mined HALF of that.

Now that difficulty is over 82K, this would take a long time... Even if we say in a month it will not rise, to do 8000 BTC in a month, it would take 22Gh/s. And this is being on for 24/7 no fault, and assuming the difficulty will stay stable. All this just to break EVEN = 0 PROFIT. 1 month of 24/7 mining with 22Gh/s.

That would take 30x 6990s, divided into at least 8 PC's. Each with either MONSTER PSUs or 2 BIG PSUs. 4* 6990s on 880Mhz stock would take about 1500W alone, not even including the rest of the system.

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There is no "5% increase over best publicly available miners" anymore, at least for 5970, because with m0mchil's poclbm git HEAD version, I get 569-570 Mh/s on stock 725 Mhz (-f 1 -v -w 128, Linux, Catalyst 10.12, SDK 2.1). It needn't to be HEAD, the improved OpenCL kernel was introduced in early February. There are other reports of 560-565 Mh/s for this card at stock frequency.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

mrb

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I am happy with my current business model & price.

Grinder

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Very few people would benefit enough from a 5% increase to justify paying 400 BTC. I think the only viable business modell is to set up you own pool and lock your client to it. If it really is 5% faster you could take a 4-5% fee and people would still earn more than from the other pools.

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I actually measured 746 Mhash/sec on a Radeon HD 6990 at "880MHz" (BIOS switch at position 1). This is higher than the theoretical 723 Mhash/s I would expect for this clock due to AMD PowerTune constantly dynamically adjusting the clock which averages higher than 880MHz.

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hdminer is only ~5% faster than the best publicly available miners nowadays, so in a sense, it is not worth 400BTC if you are a small-scale miner (less than a handful of GPUs). However I plan to implement optimizations soon (have been wanting to for a while), which should bring another +5% improvement or so.

Bumping this thread because I tested it on HD 6990 (see original post for perf numbers).

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Quote from: grue on March 08, 2011, 07:00:32 PM

how much improvement (in %) does this software have? by the replys im seeing, it seems to be very minor, and i think the buyer should lower the price significantly. maybe 20 BTC?

You guys do realise this thread is 1 month and a half old? back when 569Mh/s for a 5970 at stock was HUGE?

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how much improvement (in %) does this software have? by the replys im seeing, it seems to be very minor, and i think the buyer should lower the price significantly. maybe 20 BTC?

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Quote from: nster on March 07, 2011, 08:53:51 AM

Quote from: qed on March 07, 2011, 04:48:03 AM

Quote from: dingus on February 25, 2011, 08:14:00 PM

With poclbm I get ~270 m/h/s with both cores at stock speeds. I am not sure this is worth 400 btc.

Are we talking about 569 Mhas/s insted of 540 Mhash/s garated by poclbm? It's 5.3% improvement for 400 btc...

5.4% xD well 5.37 that round up to 5.4% if you wanna keep one decimal, but I'm just nitpicking Tongue

This is making an huge difference having not less than 1Mhash/s as absolute error, due to the presenation of the hashrate, and there is an ~ in front of it.... Oh look, someone just lost the chance to shut up. Tongue

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Quote from: qed on March 07, 2011, 04:48:03 AM

Quote from: dingus on February 25, 2011, 08:14:00 PM

With poclbm I get ~270 m/h/s with both cores at stock speeds. I am not sure this is worth 400 btc.

Are we talking about 569 Mhas/s insted of 540 Mhash/s garated by poclbm? It's 5.3% improvement for 400 btc...

5.4% xD well 5.37 that round up to 5.4% if you wanna keep one decimal, but I'm just nitpicking Tongue

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Quote from: dingus on February 25, 2011, 08:14:00 PM

With poclbm I get ~270 m/h/s with both cores at stock speeds. I am not sure this is worth 400 btc.

Are we talking about 569 Mhas/s insted of 540 Mhash/s garated by poclbm? It's 5.3% improvement for 400 btc...

nster

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At STOCK speeds he's getting about 285 per core, so this miner is about 5~6% faster than poclbm. Not worth 400BTC now though

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Quote from: RulerOf on March 06, 2011, 02:57:29 PM

Quote from: bitjet on February 26, 2011, 03:55:34 AM

yep. Im getting around 315 per core overclocked.

Overclocked to what speeds? I see about 300 per GPU at 810 MHz, but I'm on f=120 right now. f=1 seems to be worse.

310M @ 825 MHz, 320 @ 850Mhz both @ -f 5.

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Quote from: bitjet on February 26, 2011, 03:55:34 AM

yep. Im getting around 315 per core overclocked.

Overclocked to what speeds? I see about 300 per GPU at 810 MHz, but I'm on f=120 right now. f=1 seems to be worse.

bitjet

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yep. Im getting around 315 per core overclocked.

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With poclbm I get ~270 m/h/s with both cores at stock speeds. I am not sure this is worth 400 btc.

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so whatever happened to the super miner? poclbm seems to match these numbers.

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