What GPU clock, memory clock, and voltage are you running at?

I was watching some Sc-fi about a space debris team in which they're thought of as easily replaced, lower income workers compared to the rest of the space operations. It made me wonder if there are any jobs we have today that would simple amaze someone from, say, the 1900's, but we today would think is boring. Any ideas?

That's not a bad idea, and would be rather easy I bet. Just simulate a POST to where the form tags submit to ever few hours. Spam bots commence!

Is this when you close the laptop lid?

There might be some power saving issues popping up since Windows really likes to mess with power saving on laptops in general.

Temperature and stability. My XFX5850 won't go above 850Mhz stably when being used as a "normal" computer and running a miner.

Have you tried "re seeding" the card, as in pulling it completely out and putting it back it?

You might also want to reformat and reinstall the OS again, since isn't isn't too much of a hassle sine you just did it.

If you can wait a few months for your card to return a profit, then it might be worth it. But with electricity rates, you might want to realize that profit may be a few dollars, unless the trade prices really increase. Do remember that it takes a lot more electricity to run a computer with a 100% GPU load 24/7 than a "normal" computer running 24/7.

Remember, mining is a risk investment. If bitcoin prices tank, then you might be SoL. On the other hand, if they skyrocket, you might make a pretty penny. It comes down to your choice.

It might be the hardware's component's tolerances coming into play rather noticeably, since you have a lot of identical systems set up.

If you don't know what I'm talking about: All electronic components have tolerances that they operate under, since it's very hard to make them perfectly. Take a 68 Ohm resistor with a 5% tolerance. This means that it'll have a resistance of 68 * +-.05 when measured, giving it a range of 64.6 resistance to 71.4 Ohm resistance. What's happening in your systems might be that the processors, GPU, RAM, HDD, mobo have tolerances that they operate under, and they're adding up and being easily found since you have so many samples to look at.

It's not uncommon for identical electrical systems to run differently. That's why you see computer advertised with hardware, rather than benchmarks (eg 3.0GHz process rather than "opens firefox in 1 second").

Memory size of graphics cards shouldn't matter when mining, since no textures are being cached while mining. If the factory clock speeds are the same, then it should have nearly same hashing speeds.

You're never going to get anything with that speed, and will just waste electricity. CPU mining is worthless at the mining difficulty we're at.

To put speeds in perspective, a ATI 5830 can put out 275Mhash/s (275,000Khash/s) depending on overclocking settings, and that's one of the cheapest "mining" cards out there.

I wish there was an option to disable images in signatures (I thought SMF had it, but it's just a general disable signatures), since most images are annoying, especially that Goxed one. It's always nice to see small text signatures, though, since it's a good way to promote bitcoin related sites.

They probably don't want to have any association with bitcoin, especially with the way the news is spinning the BTC stories. It's probably not in their interests at all since the average computer OEM consumer doesn't know much about bitcoin other than what major news tells them (drug trading, money laundering).

Great advice. I don't know why you'd want to rent mining rather than straight up buy. It's not like the bitcoins magically appear with 0 overhead costs.

Can't tell when a guy is joking?

I think the main difference between America and Canada is that America goes to other countries to steal, destroy, and deface them. And our riots overseas last 10+ years. Top that Mr. America's Hat! 

I think the Day of the Trolls was not as bad as all these ongoing Mtgox rant threads.

I like to clean my eyes with the Mining sub-forums, they're so much more tame than Bitcoin General.

Strangely, listening to music has an opposite effect for me. I usually focus too much on programming when listening to music, so much that many hours will pass and I will not realise it. It was a good thing when I had an 8-5 job.

Just because Canada can't handle losing a sports game doesn't mean the rest of the world is 4chan irl.

I feel like there may be more to the story, since it's not too much in human nature to tell the whole truth when things like this come up. It's sorta like if your mom gave you $5 (she's so generous) for your school lunch, then you going up to her and asking for it again. She gives you another $5 through error, and now when you say you have $10 to your friends, you might say that your mom forgot and gave you $5 twice. What you really did was trick her into giving you more money than she intended, which is quite a "small" detail.

I'd also like to throw in that Japan is like 14 hours ahead of Central time, so the real enemy of churches is the time zones and the fact that the earth rotates. I don't remember much from the bible, but didn't it say God created this earth, and so created this whole time zone fiasco? So really, the enemy of church is God himself. This God guy sounds like a real bastard, playing tricks like that on you.