I'd be interested in it at that price but I have no idea how bitmit's escrow works. How do I know its a good gift card number and not stolen? If I could wait until amazon marked it as shipped before paying I would be more willing to buy

haha no one told me that part. Thanks again
bamt, latest cgminer, stratum, pool hopping
don't think I can get much better than that for now

Here's my update script if anyone wants to use it
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65763458/updatecg -O /bin/updatecg;chmod a+x /bin/updatecg;updatecg

I get this message "STATUS=E,When=1364014383,Code=25,Msg=Missing pool id parameter,Description=cgmin                          er 2.11.2|192.168.1.115"


what do i need to do?

so thats a call to cgminer itself to go to the next pool? do you have to specify that port in your config

whats the best way to switch pools on a bunch of rigs at once? I think the developer of bamt recommended rsync. Can someone explain how to use rsync or anything really to sync a cgminer config file against several rigs?

I've had a few vrm's fail in my 5830. I believe they only have a 3 phase vs 4 phase with 5850/5870 so I stay away from 5830's now

PCI-E bandwidth should not have any noticeable difference in performance with bitcoin mining

The red light comes on when there isn't sufficient power to use the card. My guess would be a failing voltage regulator. It could also possibly be a bad cable/connector so check that first. Make sure all pins are still getting good contact with the power connectors on your video card. But more than likely you would need to replace the mosfets on the card. You may be able to mine on just one core without fixing it though

Well I found out the problem. I was using notepad++ which although doesn't do the spaces like a default windows notepad does still does the line return windows way (with default settings). Basically it worked for bamt.conf and pools file but no other files. I guess bamt must ignore the carrier returns. So if you use notepad plus you can "Edit: EOL Conversion: Unix format" and resave and it worked

Reference Fans fail often. Sapphire fans fail often. Those are my biased opinions since I own a lot of sapphire and reference cards. Do not buy 5830's at this point no matter what. They will probably only last two months. Have some extra fan's ready. Reference are easier to find, and the reference design makes it easier to exhaust heat out of a room but they are much louder. They blow majority of the heat to the front of the card unlike the others which just blow out. I also have a couple powercolor cards that work fine.

People are still buying gpu's, this idea that gpu's are a for sure loss is a lie. Anyways if you want something the most efficient you should go with 7970's and undervolt them. Reference style coolers will be loud though so you will have to get a dual fan model. Set to around 900mhz and around 1.05v should get you about 550 mhash for around 100 watts each card.

stratum server works fantastic just spent a day and a half updating about 20 rigs but it was worth it. Stales are between 0.17-0.30% how awesome is that. Also adding the merge mining code to the stratum server I assume will just take some extra time right? Its not like stratum isn't compatible with the alt chains

Well there are a few things
For example PPCoin is almost 4 days to confirm. Your PPCoins could be worth nothing in 4 days.
People who mine BTC at low profit levels do so to hold and sell later.
If your bullish on Bitcoin its still somewhat easier to mine them then buy them
Bids on particular alternate currencies are usually much lower than what is listed on that site. If you aren't patient and dump your coins you won't get the percentage listed. Also bid walls are usually very shallow
If you are a big time miner say 50G/H or more you can likely double a currency's difficulty on your own
Some people have job/lives outside of bitcoin and aren't willing to check profitability several times a day in order to change their pool files every time.
TRC coin for example changes to 2x or more profitability several times a day but it never lasts for more than about 45 minutes. Which almost requires you to use a higher fee PPS pool. Variance can kill you if you are pool hopping for only minutes at a time
LItecoin is harder on video cards and creates more heat. It is also harder to configure for optimal results
mmpool mines BTC NMC IXC DVC currently about 1.3x bitcoin profitability

Need some help uploading a bash file from my Windows computer to my BAMT mining rigs.  I really don't know how to use the file transfer thing on ssh so I've been using wget and dropbox as a go between. This works fine for uploading bamt.conf files. But when I upload bash files I get this message on execution "-bash: /bin/updatecg: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory" This happens I believe because when I try to edit it with nano the file says converted from dos format. I am using notepad++ on windows and saving it with the unix batch file option but still it must be formatted incorrectly. Can anyone help. All the commands appear to me perfect when viewing in nano. I can copy and paste the commands directly in a new file and the script works fine.

I can't get the mother hack fix for bamt working my cgminer must be updated it will mine on stratum but only for a few seconds. Can someone help. I did the steps on replacing the mother file. but the first set of instructions didnt work for updating cgminer so I did ckolivas and that worked but mother still restarts cgminer every ten seconds

edit huh I dont know what I did but it eventually took lol after the 3rd time

BAMT is much easier to control remotely then any windows box. Does linux have a learning curve yes, but even if you would rather have a remote desktop instead of command line that option is there as well. Now setting up the config files is a little confusing your first time but BAMT is so much more reliable in my opinion that if you don't think you can set it up have somebody else do it for you. I'm sure others would easily help you for a small fee. They can probably get you mining in about 4/5 lines you can copy and paste into a terminal to get started

biostar 870 with 2 16x slots 2 1x slots or MSI 970 with 2 16x slots 2 1x slots
two 1x to 16x ext cables
amd 130/140/145 sempron
cheapest 1g or 2g ram stick you can buy
up to 4 radeon 5770, 5830, 5850
rosewill 650w, corsair 650w power supply
2gb flash drive with bamt installed

thats the cheapest system I can make your still talking about $600 for that with 4 5850 cards
which will make you about $5 a day mining btc at current rates after 10c/hr power
I'm not getting into whether thats a worthwhile investment at this point. Just telling you what will work well at the cheapest price point
People have been saying gpu's were a bad investment since about last june and have been wrong so far.

mt gox had disabled btc withdrawals
we will see below $30 before the night is over

He's not the only one either. Why else would cards be going for $20-30 more on ebay than they were in June of last year if that wasn't the case. I would invest in gpu's still if the price is right. At least until I max out my 30amp 240v circuit which won't be too much further. It will probably be end of summer at least I imagine before asic are in the mainstream. Most of these asic companies are pathological liars. There's no way in hell bfl (or anybody) is sending out thousands of miners in a couple weeks

or you can run them at 900-925 at 1.1v, they usually run very cool