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Sell your rigs, buy an air conditioner. Totally worth it.
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64-bit Linux is limited to 8 GPUs, 32-bit is limited to 4.
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I am shocked, shocked, to find out that the operator of a Ponzi scheme turned out to be untrustworthy.
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I'd recommend looking over mrb's blog, particularly these entries: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=44It sounds like you might be drawing even more power than his setup, so overloading the motherboard's 12v lines may be a concern. If you don't want to power-mod the extender cables yourself, Cablesaurus sells them pre-modified: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6128.0You shouldn't need to power-mod all your cables. I ran a setup with 1x 5970, 2x 5870, and 2x 5850 for a while, with all but the 5970 drawing directly from the board, and I never felt any extra warmth coming from the motherboard's 12v lines. I was probably pulling around 1500watts from the wall with 3 PSUs. I had problems at one point with tripping the overcurrent protection on my power strip, but I solved that by splitting the PSUs between two power strips. Never managed to trip the circuit breaker, though you might get there with your setup. |
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Updated the original post. We need more users with 200+ reputation, so I posted some tips on how to gain reputation.
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I thought the goal was for a "real user/merchant support site".
Merhants want to know how to make money easily right now.
Not programming, not poliics...MONEY...NOW.
We are not looking to direct merchants to the Bitcoin Stack Exchange right now, because there is no site for it yet. All that exists right now is a PROPOSAL to create a Bitcoin site on the Stack Exchange network. In order for the folks that run Stack Exchange to turn this proposal into an actual site, they require a certain minimum number of people commit to using it. The point of this thread is to get current members of the Bitcoin community to sign on the proposal, so that when the site does launch, and all those merchants show up asking questions, there are plenty of people ready to answer them. This will happen IN THE NEAR FUTURE, NOT RIGHT NOW. |
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Which needs some topics to get things going  There's been just one new topic since I committed to it a couple of days ago and I'm more of a responding than asking question for the sake of asking kind of person  The Bitcoin Stack Exchange isn't actually open yet. What we've got right now is a proposal, and we need more users to join before the site will actually launch. We especially need established Stack Exchange users with 200+ reputation, as that number is lagging. |
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I like this too other than the fact that this forum is labeled "Bitcoin Forum". That alone makes it sound like it's the official one.
It reminds me of how we call our moon 'The Moon', even though there are millions of other moons.
This forum maybe needs some kind of unique name instead.
Yeah, I didn't know what to do about that, so I just left it as-is. We could call this place "The Sirius Forum" (heh). It would fit with "The Satoshi Client". |
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Well frankly if they want professional merchants to trust or use the site then they should strongly consider renaming it to "staging area for new sites" or something sensible.
Very few merchants have a sense of humor when it comes to handling their money.
ಠ_ಠ This is why I think that a SE site maybe not the best idea. SE has historically had a very specific audience (programmers), only recently branching out, and anyone that finds the site now essentially just sees a frozen site where they can't ask any questions....
That's exactly the sort of audience that tends to be interested in Bitcoin, though. Really, I can't think of an easier audience for us to appeal to, except maybe libertarians. The question is just how to get the proposal seen by more people with existing SE accounts, either within the current Bitcoin community or otherwise. |
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I was going to sign up until the comment about area 51. I deal with enough kooks now as it is.
"Area 51" is what Stack Exchange calls their staging area for new sites. It has nothing to do with aliens or conspiracy theories.  |
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yeah we def need more established SE users to join up....
Any ideas on how we can promote it to them specifically? |
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There's already a link to the wiki, which links to the forum, and can be edited to link to any number of additional forums.
I just went ahead and did this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/ForumsThe "Forum" link on the front page of the wiki now points there, and I listed all the Bitcoin general discussion sites I could think of. |
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In the future, I'd like most of the links on the bitcoin.org home page to be google searches, including the "download bitcoin" links (I think we'll see some great new bitcoin clients released over the next six months or so).
I don't think this is such a great idea. Like others have mentioned, page rankings can be manipulated. Also, Google itself is massively centralized; I'm not sure how making all the links point to Google is supposed to decentralize things. It's possible to go overboard with wanting to decentralize. I think it's better to just let bitcoin.org be associated with "the Satoshi client". Remember bittorrent.com? Does anyone actually use "the Cohen client" anymore? Eventually bitcoin.org will matter a lot less, because like Bittorrent, Bitcoin will just be thought of as part of the internet. In the case of the forum, the Google link doesn't do enough to dissociate it. There's already a link to the wiki, which links to the forum, and can be edited to link to any number of additional forums. That should be good enough. |
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I see the forum as existing for its own sake.
You are not "locked in" unless you incorrectly view this forum as an "official arm of the project".
Then it doesn't belong on bitcoin.org. It's probably already settled that forum.bitcoin.org will move to bitcointalk.org, but I'll post my argument against the move anyway. Bitcoin.org has no claim to being "official" other than it being the only Bitcoin domain that Satoshi ever owned.
bitcoin.org isn't official in the sense that someone decreed it, but it is the de-facto face of the project. It's where everyone goes when they first hear about Bitcoin and want to know more. This won't always be the case (remember bittorrent.com?), but for now it's the reality that we have to deal with. On the other hand, if you feel that bitcoin.org is so insignificant, why are you so concerned that this forum remain on it? |
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You could buy a few barges, string them together somewhere in the middle of the ocean and call it bitcoinland, I guess...
Or you could call it "The Raft". |
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I'm gonna cross-post this here, because you didn't answer me before and I really want to know why you can't leave this alone: If Bitcoin becomes successful, down goes the tyranny on money. If nobody can control the wealth, very little can be controlled.
Why not just be content with that? Promote Bitcoin as Bitcoin, not as something that validates your ideology. Even if you know that it does, you don't need to push that on people who are going to react negatively to it. Know your audience and have some tact, otherwise you're doing both Bitcoin and your ideology a disservice. |
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If Bitcoin becomes successful, down goes the tyranny on money. If nobody can control the wealth, very little can be controlled.
Why not just be content with that? Promote Bitcoin as Bitcoin, not as something that validates your ideology. Even if you know that it does, you don't need to push that on people who are going to react negatively to it. Know your audience and have some tact, otherwise you're doing both Bitcoin and your ideology a disservice. |
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Also, remember to link your existing Stack Exchange accounts to your Area 51 account, so that we'll get credit for your reputation on the other sites.
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