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      thectspot last edited by

      Bad Luck

      [img]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2889/11309307333_323a7336bb.jpg[/img]

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        thectspot last edited by

        Parts are ordered:

        1 - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 (CC-9011030-WW) Black Steel / Plastic ATX High Airflow Cube Case
        3 - XFX Double D FX797GTDFC Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video …
        1 - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard
        1 - Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold - 1200W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Gold Certification and Semi-Modular Cables
        1 - AMD FX-4300 Vishera 3.8GHz (4.0GHz) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4300WMHKBOX
        2 - Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KVR16N11S8/4
        1 - SanDisk SDSSDP-064G-G25 2.5" 64GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

        Total Cost: $2588.

        Thoughts anyone? Has anyone used the XFX 7970s? BTW, those were the only in stock.

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          colsteel last edited by

          so do you actually need 8gb of memory? one of my machines has 4gb and seems to run fine

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            angloblaxon Regular Member last edited by

            its cheap enough and i do it just in case. I had a few machines give me weird errors that went away when i increased it to 8. I also disable my paging file because of SSD which leads to more memory required.

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              angloblaxon Regular Member last edited by

              [quote name=“thectspot” post=“42547” timestamp=“1386693496”]
              Parts are ordered:

              1 - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 (CC-9011030-WW) Black Steel / Plastic ATX High Airflow Cube Case
              3 - XFX Double D FX797GTDFC Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video …
              1 - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard
              1 - Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold - 1200W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Gold Certification and Semi-Modular Cables
              1 - AMD FX-4300 Vishera 3.8GHz (4.0GHz) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4300WMHKBOX
              2 - Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KVR16N11S8/4
              1 - SanDisk SDSSDP-064G-G25 2.5" 64GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

              Total Cost: $2588.

              Thoughts anyone? Has anyone used the XFX 7970s? BTW, those were the only in stock.
              [/quote]

              cant say on the xfx. but there are a few mixed reviews on them.

              [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112287]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112287[/url]

              case is nice but openair is best. i promise! I really like this case above. i have modded it for my config. see below for example.

              [url=https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=1725.15]https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=1725.15[/url]

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                RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

                [quote name=“thectspot” post=“42547” timestamp=“1386693496”]
                Parts are ordered:

                1 - Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 (CC-9011030-WW) Black Steel / Plastic ATX High Airflow Cube Case
                3 - XFX Double D FX797GTDFC Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video …
                1 - GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX AMD Motherboard
                1 - Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold - 1200W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Gold Certification and Semi-Modular Cables
                1 - AMD FX-4300 Vishera 3.8GHz (4.0GHz) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4300WMHKBOX
                2 - Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KVR16N11S8/4
                1 - SanDisk SDSSDP-064G-G25 2.5" 64GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

                Total Cost: $2588.

                Thoughts anyone? Has anyone used the XFX 7970s? BTW, those were the only in stock.
                [/quote]

                How much are you paying for the 7970s? The XFX 7970s can be a bit of a struggle to get above 700KH/s there are a lot of posts on poor performing XFX 7970s hashing scrypt.

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                  thectspot last edited by

                  $499.99 I would have purchased something different but this is the only thing that was in stock that would have high rates. I did read some of the reviews and hopefully they can be good for me.

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                    angloblaxon Regular Member last edited by

                    man… just a month ago i was getting 280x for 299.99… all these miners coming in are killing me!

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                      thectspot last edited by

                      Just got an Auto-notification 30 minutes ago for a R9 280X. Just checked and it’s already out of stock. Crazy!

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                        thectspot last edited by

                        Step 1: Got the parts in
                        [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/11403638395_e0ca16e78b.jpg[/img]

                        Step 2: Get it installed
                        [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7395/11403638785_c1d8fd7822.jpg[/img]

                        Step 3: Get it off the kitchen counter to keep the wife happy and start mining
                        [img]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3753/11403749833_08c129c8d3.jpg[/img]

                        Currently mining at about 1800 KH/s

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                          svennand Regular Member last edited by

                          soo getting 600khash from em
                          should be 750 but then again its xfx(hate em, and think theres a reason they are still in stock) fans on all my xfx 7970 died after 1-2months. and max i could pull was 600khash each.

                          gotta say im amazed that they dont overheat there. whats your card temp?

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                            thectspot last edited by

                            [quote name=“svennand” post=“45062” timestamp=“1387208317”]
                            soo getting 600khash from em
                            should be 750 but then again its xfx(hate em, and think theres a reason they are still in stock) fans on all my xfx 7970 died after 1-2months. and max i could pull was 600khash each.

                            gotta say im amazed that they dont overheat there. whats your card temp?
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                            Pretty much. I’ve got the top pushing a little over 700, middle around 650, and the lower a little bit less. Probably will put a box fan to get a little more air but the wife wouldn’t let me steal it out of our room last night. It dropped temps 5 Celsius each card when I tried it.

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                              DARKANGEL6415 Regular Member last edited by

                              lol @ #3

                              [quote name=“thectspot” post=“45056” timestamp=“1387207737”]
                              Step 1: Got the parts in
                              [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/11403638395_e0ca16e78b.jpg[/img]

                              Step 2: Get it installed
                              [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7395/11403638785_c1d8fd7822.jpg[/img]

                              Step 3: Get it off the kitchen counter to keep the wife happy and start mining
                              [img]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3753/11403749833_08c129c8d3.jpg[/img]

                              Currently mining at about 1800 KH/s
                              [/quote]

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