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fatslob-:O on 13 October 2013
Pemalite said:
Serious_frusting said:

Also sli ready motherboards tend to be better than crossfire motherboards.


It's a good thing pretty much every motherboard sold today supports both Crossfire and SLI.
It's not like a few years ago where you had to go and check to see whether the motherboard supported SLI or Crossfire.

fatslob-:O said:

I know your not running with an nvidia gpu but mining is also unprofitable with an AMD GPU too because each time you mine it only gets harder and harder to make profit since the complexity of mining itself increases too. 

The problem with that though is how will they solve the issue of heat. 

I'm aware. Today as it stands, I actually make a profit, having one of the best Power Supply units on the market with it's high-efficiency helps a great deal in that regard.

Holy shit your one of the more luckier guys that can still make profit on a GPU! LOL Alot of other bitcoin users haven't being able to do that and it's likely that you will stop making profit after 6 months because the complexity will start to get out of hand after that. :)

That is amazing that your still able to make profit.



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Pemalite on 13 October 2013
fatslob-:O said:

Holy shit your one of the more luckier guys that can still make profit on a GPU! LOL Alot of other bitcoin users haven't being able to do that and it's likely that you will stop making profit after 6 months because the complexity will start to get out of hand after that. :)

That is amazing that your still able to make profit.


I don't doubt I will stop making a profit soon with my 7970's.
But, I shouldn't have the 7970's for much longer anyway, so my Performance per watt will increase, just not sure how much yet!




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fatslob-:O on 13 October 2013
Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:

Holy shit your one of the more luckier guys that can still make profit on a GPU! LOL Alot of other bitcoin users haven't being able to do that and it's likely that you will stop making profit after 6 months because the complexity will start to get out of hand after that. :)

That is amazing that your still able to make profit.


I don't doubt I will stop making a profit soon with my 7970's.
But, I shouldn't have the 7970's for much longer anyway, so my Performance per watt will increase, just not sure how much yet!

Your performance per watt should increase by roughly 9% which is pretty pitiful.



Pemalite on 13 October 2013
fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:

Holy shit your one of the more luckier guys that can still make profit on a GPU! LOL Alot of other bitcoin users haven't being able to do that and it's likely that you will stop making profit after 6 months because the complexity will start to get out of hand after that. :)

That is amazing that your still able to make profit.


I don't doubt I will stop making a profit soon with my 7970's.
But, I shouldn't have the 7970's for much longer anyway, so my Performance per watt will increase, just not sure how much yet!

Your performance per watt should increase by roughly 9% which is pretty pitiful.


I'm under water, I should get some healthy overclocks. :)




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JEMC on 13 October 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Captain_Tom said:
CGI-Quality said:
Vasto said:
As long as they perform is all I care about. R9 280x will retail for $299 and that's cheaper then any 7970GHZ. Are there any benches out for these cards?

The 280x? Haven't seen any as of yet.


There's plenty.  It seems to perform about as well as a 7970 GHz.

Link 'em here.

Anandtech has made 2 reviews, one with the R9 280X Toxic from Sapphire, and another review with 2 cards: Asus' R9 280X DirectCU II TOP and XFX's R9 280X Double Dissipation. The XFX one is the only that runs at stock speeds, so it's the one to look for when comparing the 280X with the 7970 GHz.

[H]ardOCP has reviewed the Asus one and Tom's Hardware has gone with the reference cards.



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Captain_Tom on 13 October 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Captain_Tom said:
CGI-Quality said:
Vasto said:
As long as they perform is all I care about. R9 280x will retail for $299 and that's cheaper then any 7970GHZ. Are there any benches out for these cards?

The 280x? Haven't seen any as of yet.


There's plenty.  It seems to perform about as well as a 7970 GHz.

Link 'em here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-280x-r9-270x-r7-260x,3635-9.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/17.html

 

It really depend on the factory overclock, but in general the R9-280X meets or beats the 7970 GHz and the GTX 770 for only $300!



Captain_Tom on 13 October 2013
Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:

Holy shit your one of the more luckier guys that can still make profit on a GPU! LOL Alot of other bitcoin users haven't being able to do that and it's likely that you will stop making profit after 6 months because the complexity will start to get out of hand after that. :)

That is amazing that your still able to make profit.


I don't doubt I will stop making a profit soon with my 7970's.
But, I shouldn't have the 7970's for much longer anyway, so my Performance per watt will increase, just not sure how much yet!

Your performance per watt should increase by roughly 9% which is pretty pitiful.


I'm under water, I should get some healthy overclocks. :)

So what core and memory speeds is yours running at?



Pemalite on 13 October 2013
Captain_Tom said:

So what core and memory speeds is yours running at?

24/7 it sits at 1.2ghz on the core and 1600mhz on the memory.
That's with a voltage of 1.28.

If I push the volts up to 1.35, I can eek out 1.25-1.3ghz on the core, but then power consumption becomes a concern as each 7970 would be drawing an extra 100+ watts from the wall.




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Captain_Tom on 13 October 2013
Pemalite said:
Captain_Tom said:

So what core and memory speeds is yours running at?

24/7 it sits at 1.2ghz on the core and 1600mhz on the memory.
That's with a voltage of 1.28.

If I push the volts up to 1.35, I can eek out 1.25-1.3ghz on the core, but then power consumption becomes a concern as each 7970 would be drawing an extra 100+ watts from the wall.


So have you tried overclocking the memory higher, or am I just lucky mine overclocks so well?  I get massive gains from it...



Pemalite on 13 October 2013
Captain_Tom said:


So have you tried overclocking the memory higher, or am I just lucky mine overclocks so well?  I get massive gains from it...


I haven't been game to push the memory harder as there is no heatsinks or active cooling on them. :P




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