Topic: [WTS] 4 x 5870, 5 x 5970, 6 x 80+ Power Supply (Read 2165 times)

Hi fankih,

the fan needs to be replaced. I will send the card in to get warranty replacement, will let you know if it is available for sale again - most probably I will get the money instead.

How much you would be asking from XFX 5970 BE with faulty fan?

The fan is just making noise or it doesn't keep the card stable at all?

Hi,
I didn't get time to test it, I give up. But thanks anyway for your interest. I am going to send the card back to the shop to demand warranty.

Cheers

Any news on fan/voltage control of the XFX 5970 BE with a fan to replace ?

Shipping with DHL to the US including tracking and insurance is 16.9 €. As we are trading in Bitcoin it will be (Including packaging): 1.6 BTC

No problem. How much would shipping be to the U.S.?

Danke.

Hi Gladamas,

thanks for your interest. As you can see in OP I already promised to post pictures and didnt get time to do it, sry for that...I'm not at home now (where the cards are). I really try to get the pictures posted till the end of the week.

Cheers

If you post a picture of the Club3D 5970 with a notecard with your username and "bitcointalk.org" on it, I'll consider buying it.

Hi, I will post images in the next few days. Cheers

some pictures ?

9 BTC + shipping for the XFX 5870 1 GB and we have a deal.

7btc for 5870 fully working

Hi, didn't have time to fulfill your request this weekend. As I'm working abroad through the week I will only be able next weekend to check it hopefully.

It runs at 850MHz instead of 725MHz, yes.

There are several 850MHz 5970 models around : the Ares, Sapphires with Accelero, this XFX and some of these cards make a huge tradeoff in power usage to reach these frequencies (the 2 8-pin PCI-express connectors they all use are not there for show).

But there's no reason that the chip couldn't run at 0.95V underclocked though and I believe these overclocked card may be more efficient if they can be set to 0.95V than regular ones (all the 5870 I have get better results when undervolted if they overclock well too). A chip capable of 850MHz at 1.05V or more might run at ~750MHz at 0.95V and be one of the last bastions of GPU mining to fall

But for example the two Sapphire I have can't be set to 0.95V and this make them less fit for Bitcoin mining (this is why I sold one recently) this is why I'd like to know if 0.95V is possible.

i thought the black edition xfx 5970 was overclocked

OK will wait, some additional info/questions.

Fan control is obvious to check.

For voltage control there are 2 ways I can think of: check the power consumption at 0.951V and 0.95V, if there's a noticeable jump, the card doesn't fake its ability to run at 0.95V (drivers will happily take voltage values they can't handle). Another way is to read what cgminer advertises as the valid range when you try to change the voltage. If 0.95V is the range's bottom value it should be supported (at least it then works properly on all cards I tried).

It seems the fan on this model is the same than all other 5970/5870 reference fans (with the difference that its cable is longer to reach the connector). Can you confirm this?

If the voltage and fan control is OK and the fan can be replaced by a reference fan, I'll offer 190€ in BTC shipped to France (currently this is around 21BTC based on 24h MtGox average). This is just a bit more than I just paid for a reference 5970 shipped. The model is worth more than a reference model, but I'll have to replace the fan (which means making a reference fan power cable longer, replacing the thermal grease and depending on their condition the thermal pads too).

hi gyverlb,

I have to check that. But according to my experience with the card you can do pretty much everything, so there are no factory locks whatsoever. It's going to be the second half of the week until I can answer your question.

cheers

Does the last XFX 5970 BE Limited Edition (the one with the noisy fan to replace) give full control of fan speeds and allow undervolting to 0.95V with cgminer on Linux?

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Public announcement for the record of the following deal:
I have sold the XFX 5970 Black Edition Limited (including all
accessories) for 30 BTC + 1.7 BTC shipping to dobo79 today 14.10.2012.

I received the deposit of 21.7 BTC today
(http://blockchain.info/address/171Y2uFaAFFxnbz5tVpT2vNGGgYd6G6VN6)
14.10.2012 and I am going to ship the card 15.10.2012 with DHL if
possible and will provide him the tracking number. At the latest I'm
going to ship it 17.10.2012.

dobo79 will pay me the remaining 10 bitcoins after 5-6 days (to the end
of the week).

Kyoo

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I live in Switzerland if that's your question?