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    Thread: 6 x 7990's using ASUS BTC mining motherboard WPA2
Post: RE: 6 x 7990's using ASUS BTC mining motherboard W...

I've got a machine with a 7990. You need good airflow in the case, otherwise it will run hot. If you try to stuff 4 in one case good luck. I had two 7970's and a 7990 running in one case with a spa...
powderspecial600 Hardware 5 18,987 04-07-2015, 03:48 PM
    Thread: possible to spread load between CPU+GPU ?
Post: RE: possible to spread load between CPU+GPU ?

I used to think the same thing until I pretty much determined its not even worth the time and effort, especially if you have newer higher end AMD GPUs. As NBZ said you could give them separate tasks, ...
powderspecial600 Hardware 2 10,096 05-16-2014, 11:06 PM
    Thread: add feature to LM crack
Post: RE: add feature to LM crack

Oh and if you look at the top there is a link called trac, you can go there and register an account. Once you have an account you can put in feature requests such as the one you just proposed and the...
powderspecial600 User Contributions 7 24,842 05-16-2014, 11:03 PM
    Thread: add feature to LM crack
Post: RE: add feature to LM crack

I have a couple of scripts I run, which splits the hash into a first and second. Then I crack though all of them and compile in one file. Once I am done I run another script that reassembles them. ...
powderspecial600 User Contributions 7 24,842 05-16-2014, 11:01 PM
    Thread: ASRock Z87 Pro4
Post: RE: ASRock Z87 Pro4

Keep in mind you may need to leave a space as well between them for cooling depending on your cards and chassis.
powderspecial600 Hardware 4 15,842 02-21-2014, 09:44 PM
    Thread: Status alerts via email
Post: RE: Status alerts via email

That would require your server to be able to relay mail or send mail directly, both of which requires additional setup. However if you had that setup a simple bash script to run your command then exe...
powderspecial600 Old oclHashcat Support 3 11,671 02-05-2014, 10:49 PM
    Thread: Problems with Tyan Server
Post: RE: Problems with Tyan Server

epixoip Wrote: (10-31-2013, 01:31 PM) -- [quote='Corned Beef' pid='16378' dateline='1383186622'] If only they offered the Tyan's pre-configured with four 7990's instead of Teslas which are 3-4 times...
powderspecial600 Hardware 11 41,869 01-30-2014, 05:43 PM
    Thread: Tyan reseller
Post: Tyan reseller

I am looking to purchase a tyan solution in the near future. Can anyone recommend a good reseller to go through? I am in the US. I don't really need someone to assemble everything for me, but rathe...
powderspecial600 Hardware 0 5,539 01-20-2014, 05:52 PM
    Thread: gtx 780 ti x 3
Post: RE: gtx 780 ti x 3

Swap the NV cards for AMD R9 290X's and performance would be much better.
powderspecial600 Hardware 3 13,831 01-14-2014, 12:52 AM
    Thread: New Build - liq cooled 7990's
Post: RE: New Build - liq cooled 7990's

How will you be running the 8 card setup as that gives you 16 GPUs? The driver only supports 8 last I knew.
powderspecial600 Hardware 11 37,602 01-12-2014, 05:39 AM
    Thread: Review - AMD Radeon R9 290X
Post: RE: Review - AMD Radeon R9 290X

How's your power supplies holding up in that box? Isn't the tyan's ps output 2400 watt total? I see the 290x's are rumored to use around 295 watts per card at load, 8 of them appears as it would be ...
powderspecial600 Hardware 75 343,156 01-02-2014, 07:28 PM
    Thread: can't get more than two GPUs to work
Post: RE: can't get more than two GPUs to work

Yes it is kinda tricky sometimes to determine which bus id corresponds to which card.
powderspecial600 Old oclHashcat Support 4 15,217 12-26-2013, 11:55 PM
    Thread: can't get more than two GPUs to work
Post: RE: can't get more than two GPUs to work

I am using Suse 12.3 as well. I had some similar trouble as it appeared the xorg.conf file was not being modified correctly. I was manually writing to it as you are until I discovered I should delet...
powderspecial600 Old oclHashcat Support 4 15,217 12-26-2013, 09:06 PM
    Thread: Rent Super computer
Post: RE: Rent Super computer

The 8 GPU max is a driver max vs a hardware max.
powderspecial600 Hardware 4 15,656 12-18-2013, 05:57 PM
    Thread: Rent Super computer
Post: RE: Rent Super computer

4 - 7990's would actually be 8 GPUs and would leave no room for adding a 7970 & 7950 as it would be over the 8 GPU max.
powderspecial600 Hardware 4 15,656 12-18-2013, 05:36 PM
    Thread: Radeon HD 7990 Review -- Part 2
Post: RE: Radeon HD 7990 Review -- Part 2

Thanks, I am guessing mine second runs a bit hotter since I have the GPUs installed vertically vs horizontally. I am thinking the hot air from the first one is going straight up into the second one.
powderspecial600 Hardware 22 90,118 12-11-2013, 09:10 PM
    Thread: Radeon HD 7990 Review -- Part 2
Post: RE: Radeon HD 7990 Review -- Part 2

epixoip Wrote: (06-25-2013, 12:28 PM) -- We got a few more Tyan chassis in today, so we were finally able to test multiple 7990s in a proper server chassis. Our setup was simply 4x XFX FX-799A-XNF...
powderspecial600 Hardware 22 90,118 12-06-2013, 09:56 PM
    Thread: | attacks using hashcat-utils
Post: RE: | attacks using hashcat-utils

The combinator.bin process maybe combines dictionaries as fast or faster than we need. I ran it for one minute on my test machine combining two small dictionaries and it created a file 8.5GB in size w...
powderspecial600 Very old oclHashcat-plus Support 6 25,930 12-05-2013, 07:55 PM
    Thread: | attacks using hashcat-utils
Post: RE: | attacks using hashcat-utils

Agreed. They are two different things as stdin could be used in other fashions I am not listing here, so the special status screen still would prove to be useful. Just searched for both am not see...
powderspecial600 Very old oclHashcat-plus Support 6 25,930 12-05-2013, 04:52 PM
    Thread: | attacks using hashcat-utils
Post: RE: | attacks using hashcat-utils

Interesting. I will give pv a try, looks like it could help me get more info. Back to the enhancement portion. Instead of a special/limited screen for using pipes, what about building off of the ...
powderspecial600 Very old oclHashcat-plus Support 6 25,930 12-05-2013, 04:18 PM