Which Card Has The Fastest ROI? - page 2.

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Quote from: AndrewBUD on October 04, 2012, 04:52:42 PM

That's pretty sweet.^

All my 5830's are sapphire xtreme versions and they don't overclock very well IMO..

Oh, I forgot that the PSU is a huuuuuuge part too. I was using a 900W 80+ silver certified PSU which at 550W draw still measured at 12.15V. If your PSU is feeding in the power at 11.5V under load, your GPU is not going to overclock very high. The only problem is, paying for a high end power managing card and an amazing PSU costs about as much as just buying a much better GPU, lol. I got the PSU for $90 as a return at a local PC shop. It's worth like $175 or something lol. Btw it's for sale at the moment Cheesy

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6870x2 is more rare than a unicorn (including horses with toilet paper or paper towel cylinders taped or strapped to their heads)

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Quote from: AndrewBUD on October 04, 2012, 04:52:42 PM

That's pretty sweet.^

All my 5830's are sapphire xtreme versions and they don't overclock very well IMO..

Mine was a Sapphire Xtreme, the one that went to 980.

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That's pretty sweet.^

All my 5830's are sapphire xtreme versions and they don't overclock very well IMO..

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Lol, guys, come on. The GPU has almost nothing to do with overclocking. It's the power quality on the board and the manufacturer of the card makes the board. MSI and Sapphire for example will overclock so much higher than most others regardless of GPU model. My 5830 Sapphire Extreme Edition with better voltage control than the standard card ran at 1040MHz stable @ 61C for about 11 months then I sold it.

Apparently the new MSI Lightning 7970 poster that they sent my shop doesn't reside anywhere on the web or I'd show it to you. Anyway, it has zero voltage variance. That means no opening and closing of the circuit with a voltage regulator or passing along messed up power. You can overclock it to the freaking moon!

EDIT: FOUND IT! http://event.msi.com/vga/lightning/r7970.html#Unlocked

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I run one at 1080mhz..

all 6 of my 5830's have a max overclock of around 940-950

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They both have 1120 SPUs. The 6870 starts at 900mhz, while the 5830 starts at 800mhz (but can OC into the high 900s. I ran mine at 980mhz).

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I can get more mhash out of a 6870 vs a 5830.... I can also achieve higher, more stable overclocks.....

The way I run things anyway..

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Quote from: AndrewBUD on October 04, 2012, 04:06:19 PM

I would much prefer a 6870 over a 5830... They are better cards IMO... I have a few of each....

For gaming, sure, but for mining? They're not faster...then run cooler? Less power? Why do you prefer them?

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I would much prefer a 6870 over a 5830... They are better cards IMO... I have a few of each....

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Quote from: Desolator on October 04, 2012, 09:32:11 AM

Just for the record, if you take the number of pre-ordered ASICs from all companies, multiply them by the likely distribution of high end vs low end hardware, and adapt it to the current GH/s level of the entire system, the result is a 5970 making slightly less than 1 BTC per month and costing a ballpark of $30 per month in electricity.

Yeah, anyone buying any new GPU hardware right now is crazy. You'll never see any RoI on it.

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Quote from: GenTarkin on October 04, 2012, 11:02:50 AM

If you dont care about power consumption, a 6870x2 is probably ur fastest ROI =) .. can be had for 200$ or less and does around 650mh/s

That is quite an interesting card, but a 6870 is pretty much a 5830, and 2 of those can be had for ~160.

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If you dont care about power consumption, a 6870x2 is probably ur fastest ROI =) .. can be had for 200$ or less and does around 650mh/s

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Just for the record, if you take the number of pre-ordered ASICs from all companies, multiply them by the likely distribution of high end vs low end hardware, and adapt it to the current GH/s level of the entire system, the result is a 5970 making slightly less than 1 BTC per month and costing a ballpark of $30 per month in electricity.

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Quote from: tacotime on September 26, 2012, 05:58:48 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on September 26, 2012, 05:16:22 PM

Except I'll be the one laughing when my ASIC farm makes more money in 5 days than you've made in 5 months. Wink

You won't make much of anything if everyone else with an ASIC also decides to dump.

...except for maybe a good price for me to buy at.

I'm not too worried about that. If the price takes a dive, I'm holding until it stabilizes again.

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Quote from: crazyates on September 25, 2012, 10:59:49 AM

Quote from: eroxors on September 25, 2012, 10:54:39 AM

5770, hands down. 220MH/s for $50ish. Good re-sale value.

Except that the slot density for those is horrible. You'd need an entire rig of those just to get what 1 5970 can do.

and thus, need more motherboards, etc.

5970 is still King

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Quote from: SgtSpike on September 26, 2012, 05:16:22 PM

Except I'll be the one laughing when my ASIC farm makes more money in 5 days than you've made in 5 month. Wink

You won't make much of anything if everyone else with an ASIC also decides to dump.

...except for maybe a good price for me to buy at.

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Quote from: crazyates on September 25, 2012, 10:49:41 AM

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I think a 5830 probably has best roi. pretty easy to get 285mh/sec out of them, with free electric thats $35 a month.

But at 100W, that's $10 a month in electricity. That's only $25 a month profit now.

Those things draw 200w. Horribly inefficient cards.

Quote from: tacotime on September 18, 2012, 09:36:42 AM

LTC has been around for almost a year. It's not dead and it's probably not going to die. Like BTC, the algorithm is self adjusting so that it remains profitable to mine. The naysayers are welcome to sit around in a circlejerk waiting to profit from nonexisting ASICs they bought six months ago while I continually make money with a GPU farm.

Except I'll be the one laughing when my ASIC farm makes more money in 5 days than you've made in 5 month. Wink

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Thought the last time I did the math on this it seemed that the 6770 was one of the more efficient choices. You could push them to the max in Afterburner (~920 MHz or so). Granted 3 cards is probably the most you could fit in a system without airflow problems and even then you'd only be pushing ~650-700 mh/sec for slightly less than the used cost of a 5970.

I'd wager the 6770s would be easier for resale and also have warranty / be brand new, etc. though so that's good.

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Quote from: jjiimm_64 on September 25, 2012, 12:17:50 PM

Quote from: crazyates on September 25, 2012, 12:16:32 PM

Quote from: jjiimm_64 on September 25, 2012, 12:12:41 PM

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I think a 5830 probably has best roi. pretty easy to get 285mh/sec out of them, ~~with free electric~~ thats $25.50 a month.

FTFU

Umm no. Discounting electric, you will get ~ 35USD a month. After electric, it will be ~25USD. However, you'll have a 100day break even point: http://bitcoinx.com/profit/

ummm, yes, that is why i crossed out the electric

But he was correct. With free electric, it's $35/month.

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