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I just got a Saphire Radeon R9 290x for my custom built rig (Built custom for me, I did not do it) and it has a non modular power supply, meaning it has limited sets of cables, mostly molex 1 by 4 connectors. I have one molex available that I can see for sure that is not plugged in to anything, except for a fan leeching off of it, and besides that everything else is used somewhere. I need to know where I can pull from to power the 2 by 6 PCI-E (With one molex adapter attached to it) and 2 by 8 PCI-E (With two molex addapters splitted) and still get the total of 75 watt minimum for the 2 by six and 150 minimum watt for the 2 by 8. Thanks in advance.
SadisticMajor
October 21, 2014 1:11:05 PM
cst1992 said:
SadisticMajor said:
Bit mining makes alot of money, it's quite possibly chump change to him.Bitcoin mining with GPUs is a thing of the past. The algorithm's gotten a little too complex now, and I read someone saying that they could mine 24/7 for a year and only get one bitcoin.
You must have noticed a few months ago that retailers had bumped the prices to absurd high levels to benefit from the mining craze. That seems to have died down, and now NVIDIA have launched the 970 and 980, further forcing the prices of the 290 and 290x down.
Yea I saw the prices reduced greatly from the starting point of 650, to about 350 to 450ish. But for clarification purposes, litecoin/script mining is bit mining, right? I'm not knowledged in that field, but that's what he said he was doing, but I assumed it was bitcoin mining. From what he says, he used em in some industrial rig, and had pics of the cards (The ones he actually used) attached to racks connected to stuff. Then pics of unopened boxes, guessing he over ordered in case some died mining, hence the use and new offerings.
cst1992
October 21, 2014 12:49:05 PM
SadisticMajor said:
Bit mining makes alot of money, it's quite possibly chump change to him.Bitcoin mining with GPUs is a thing of the past. The algorithm's gotten a little too complex now, and I read someone saying that they could mine 24/7 for a year and only get one bitcoin.
You must have noticed a few months ago that retailers had bumped the prices to absurd high levels to benefit from the mining craze. That seems to have died down, and now NVIDIA have launched the 970 and 980, further forcing the prices of the 290 and 290x down.
SadisticMajor
October 21, 2014 12:36:15 PM
SadisticMajor
October 21, 2014 12:27:31 PM
SadisticMajor
October 21, 2014 12:01:42 PM
13thmonkey said:
wow, odd business practise. RAM the broken one back to the supplier, and perhaps you'll end up with two working ones?That's what I thought. I've never had anyone not want me to return their broken product, to see if I was was even correct about it being broken. But I'm not complaining either way. I think I'll do that, and see if I can get this one fixed. A free 290x, not sure what I'd do with it but hey, why not right? Lol. Still odd he didn't want it back.
SadisticMajor
October 21, 2014 3:56:59 AM
Well I contacted the guy I bought the card from, he was totally cool about it and all, and rather than me send it to him or anything he said keep the card and that he'll send me another one. He sold all his stock, so I'm assuming he'll just buy a different one and send it. He had like 40 of them on ebay, and I got two at different periods (Hence I didn't try the other in my troubleshoot process, it hasn't gotten here yet). Hope everything runs fine when they get here.
Vic 40
October 20, 2014 8:41:49 AM
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