This was nothing to do with you Chris was it?
I have a bunch of RADEON 5870 graphics cards for sale due to dismantling my bitcoin mining setup.
Choice of nine, various brands - Gigabyte, Powercolor, XFX, etc. PCI-E slot of course. Two DVIs, an HDMI and whatever the mac one is called (display
port is it?)
Some have boxes, some have not. I have a couple of matched pairs too with cross-fire cables, etc.
A little long in the tooth now but can still do a reasonable job with modern games.
Prices £60-75 depending on brand, condition, etc. U2u me if interested with your requirement and budget and I'll see what I've got.
Also I have a Powercolor 5850 passive cooled card that I'm tempted to part with. Ex my desktop PC, completely silent running, just make sure
your case is well ventilated if you intend to push it hard. £75.
Chris
[Edited on 27/11/2013 by ChrisW]
Bitcoins!!
This was nothing to
do with you Chris was it?
No, lol. I bet there will be plenty of pikeys there today though digging through the rubbish! For a £4m pay day it's probably worth it!
Chris
Yep, you're probably right there Chris 
Interesting that you're dismantling when the price of bitcoin is surging - I was even thinking of building a farm, but going asic instead.
Yeah ASIC is the way now. GPUs are dead in the water for Bitcoin. I hear they still work ok for litecoin though, not looked into it to be honest.
Chris
Bitcoin is starting to get very interesting, but we're at the spot where there are people creating DC installations to do this, and I can't
help wondering if we're getting into a Douglas Adams place with bitcoin and litecoin, where he was talking about there are only two major
galactic currencies out there - "the Trianic Ningi and the Pu. The conversion rate of 9 ningis to one pu is simple enough, but when a ningi is a
giant rubber coin 40000 miles on a side, no-one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. And anyway the galactic banks refuse to deal in fiddling
small change".
I can see litecoin filling the gap - after all why wouldn't there be multiple digital currencies?
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Originally posted by ChrisW
Yeah ASIC is the way now. GPUs are dead in the water for Bitcoin. I hear they still work ok for litecoin though, not looked into it to be honest.
Chris
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Originally posted by Fozzie
Blimmin 'eck! I was just about getting my head around Bitcoins .... now I 'need' to know about ASIC !?!?
Soooo much catching up to do! ....lol...