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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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