Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:
CGI-Quality said:
Pemalite said:
Got my 4x R9 290X's pre-ordered
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Oooooh, really now? Why do you need that kind of power?
* asks silly question that's asked of myself, only to feel like I shouldn't have to explain anything *
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To play gam.. Minecraft silly! :P
And, Folding@Home and Bitcoin mining. :)
Also, The R9 280X is actually slightly more expensive than the 7970's here, but that's all supply/demand they should be much cheaper by the time it's supposed to be phased out.
We should also get a cut down version of the R9 290X eventually so that AMD can make some money on 290X chips that don't pass validation.
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Off-topic: Do you get any money off of folding@home ? I don't think you meant bitcoin mining cause otherwise ASICs put every GPUs to shame there. ;)
Did you mean litecoin ?
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Of course I don't make money out of folding, I do it to potentially save lives and to advance the human race's knowledge of disease, if anything it costs me allot of money, electricity ain't cheap and my PC isn't exactly sipping it.
As for Bitcoin mining, I mean Bitcoin mining, yes ASICS like the one's from Avalon will out-perform me, I do about 2100 mh/s, where-as an ASIC will do around 60,000+
But, ASIC's still aren't common place so it's still very viable for me to use spare compute to mine some coins. (Which converesly ends up being donated to charity.)
Once ASIC's are more common, then Bitcoin mining is going to get more difficult.
One day I might build a dedicated PCI-E ASIC box for it, once Monarch BPU's are readily available.
The point of it is, I run a 7680x1440 screen set-up, nothing less than multiple high-end cards can push gaming at that resolution, but instead of when I am not gaming or working... I might aswell put those compute cycles to work when I am not using it.
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Doesn't it like take more money to mine with a gpu rather than using an ASIC to get more coins than using electricity ? ^_^
After all ASIC's are much more efficient at performing double SHA256 functions than GPU's ever could hope for.
If I were you I would move into litecoin mining because it depends more on memory subsystems rather than integer performance. Plus AMD still dominates there too since they have the better memory system too. :P
