Want legit 7970 testing/benchmarking and tuning for cgminer and Diablominer? - page 2.

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Quote from: ssateneth on January 11, 2012, 03:31:30 AM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on January 11, 2012, 01:50:31 AM

BREAKING NEWS: I now have all the donations needed to grab that 7970, I should be ordering it within the next week give or take.

The last donation was big enough to help me cover that gap, and I think this wonderful person wishes to remain anonymous due to the size of the donation.

Gee, wish I got free stuff.

Spend hundreds of unpaid hours messing with internals of GPU programming (I guess at this point DiabloD3 knows parts of the ATI hardware better than the AMD engineers). Write one of the most used miners and a mining core that's used in other very popular miners as well. Also be supportive of it - answer questions, test bugs, do fixes and continue improving it until you squeeze another 1% performance, and another 1%, and another 1%. All this makes money for the miners using it and you're not getting paid.

Then you will get "free" stuff.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: DiabloD3 on January 11, 2012, 01:50:31 AM

BREAKING NEWS: I now have all the donations needed to grab that 7970, I should be ordering it within the next week give or take.

The last donation was big enough to help me cover that gap, and I think this wonderful person wishes to remain anonymous due to the size of the donation.

Great, I look forward to a new kernel for cgminer... though I expect I'll end up doing that myself based on your work Tongue

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Quote from: ssateneth on January 11, 2012, 03:31:30 AM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on January 11, 2012, 01:50:31 AM

BREAKING NEWS: I now have all the donations needed to grab that 7970, I should be ordering it within the next week give or take.

The last donation was big enough to help me cover that gap, and I think this wonderful person wishes to remain anonymous due to the size of the donation.

Gee, wish I got free stuff.

I'm pretty sure Diablo has put hundreds of hours into his mining code that most people use without giving him anything. If you consider a person's time free, then yeah... I guess it's free. If you are at all intelligent though, you would realize Diablo is someone who deserves donations.

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on January 11, 2012, 01:50:31 AM

BREAKING NEWS: I now have all the donations needed to grab that 7970, I should be ordering it within the next week give or take.

The last donation was big enough to help me cover that gap, and I think this wonderful person wishes to remain anonymous due to the size of the donation.

Gee, wish I got free stuff.

Queelis

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Sweet! Looking forward to what GCN can achieve Cheesy

DiabloD3

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BREAKING NEWS: I now have all the donations needed to grab that 7970, I should be ordering it within the next week give or take.

The last donation was big enough to help me cover that gap, and I think this wonderful person wishes to remain anonymous due to the size of the donation.

omo

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that's a good idea!

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Quote from: teek on January 10, 2012, 08:36:23 PM

OP - How about a virtual contribution? I have a 7970.. just got it today.. I might be willing to give you a linux box with full root access with 1 7970 installed for optimization purposes.. Is this something you would / have considered?

teek

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teek

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OP - How about a virtual contribution? I have a 7970.. just got it today.. I might be willing to give you a linux box with full root access with 1 7970 installed for optimization purposes.. Is this something you would / have considered?

teek

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Newegg has them for $550 now.

Sitarow

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Well their up for sell in Canada

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX37298

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Quote from: bulanula on January 09, 2012, 05:45:10 AM

LOL. We are doomed. Why all the signs of the antichrist over in the BTC world ?

$6.66 prices
666 hashrates

What is the meaning ? Grin

How about you get to share that 7970 with others through a pooled fund or something so we can get most optimizations done as a community ?

Because its too difficult to physically ship the card. There also is maybe three people in the world that would benefit from this, and one of them quit working on GPU miners altogether, and the other can probably afford to buy one straight out. Seriously, there simply is not that many people in the world that understand mining well.

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