Just plugging it is in fine, doesnt need to be turned on, what happens on the monitor is the exact same thing you're doing with the resistors, when plugged in it creates the loopback that lets things be detected, so if you have the spare monitor just hook it up and have 0 risk of anything going wrong.

Resistors seem fine, smaller wire size is a non-issue so long as one single part of the resistor is touching any part of the inside of the socket (pretty much impossible to not have happen).  As mentioned, trip them down a bit, and maybe use the alternate trick just to be sure they don't touch.  Worst case if they do is you blow the adapter, you can't really screw up the video card this way.

If you've got access to free power (work PC's or something of the like) it never hurts to just have a buncha CPU's mining.  While statistically low, there is a small chance one will generate a 50 coin block (we're talking seriously low, but every little bit helps).

Insert some statement about wasting power/hurting the environment doing this here....

Insert another statement about someone needing to offer carbon offsets for bitcoins so my soul is clean.

Once again, another fine transaction, only the best in elven silver for me!

All seriousness, great seller, smooth transaction, will continue to expand my coin collection with Current-C's help.

Finding a block on a 486 DX2 55mhz I was solo CPU mining on as a joke.  Not really a run, but the probability on it makes it rather "lucky"

-v -w56 did the best for me on one machine
-v -w128 did better on another, can't explain why.

Worst performance was with no -v, even with different -w's

You're just going to have to screw around and find the best setup for you i think.

Given all the costs you need for insane case, solid cooling, then the risk you're taking of slamming all of that heat/power into such a tight space, I've found it is smarter to just build out 2x seperate machines.  Decent off the shelf cases that are sub $60 can handle 2x 5970's rather well.  The asus EVO motherboard is fairly cheap but works great.  I spend about $100 more than you would spend trying to force it all into a single setup.

Also side bonus, if for some reason the box eats it, only 1/2 your mining power is down.

Many reasons, in some cases the retailer is selling the stock for the price they got it at, and other cards were purchased at a later date at a lower price and thus have a lower selling point.  You can see this on newegg pretty regularly, an older out-dated thing will be selling for a higher price than the new hotness.

Additionally, from one company to the next, quality of components/company come into play, capacitors/pcb's/everything has different grade levels, to save money and increase profit some reference manufacturers use the very very bottom end, this results in a card more prone to failure (generally if you cool them very well its a non issue, but if you don't, they'll cook themselves quickly)

Example here being Gigabyte, yeah they offer cheap priced 5870's, but they are cheap, RMA's are a nightmare and generally you're getting what you pay for.

And last but not least: "just because".  Weird pricing happens all the time

This, regular DDoS attacks, and college ending so kids having to pack up and go home might account for a good bit of this.

Fantastic gadget, great work. Little feedback to go along with my inbound donation:

Bug Reports:
As stated, when the API's for either your $/BTC or Pool are unavailable javascript errors occur, and memory leaks happen, eventually crash.
Limit refresh rate to something > 1 minute to prevent hammering pool/price API's from a ton of users, maybe 5+
Dialog size causes the connection error message to appear very strangely at the bottom, extending beyond the dialog bounds.

Feature Requests:
Add confirmation on clicking the BTC value before doing an API call, I don't know how many times i've misclicked that, and or add setting to enable/disable that functionality.
7 day historical graphs for the various values you're tracking.
Add "Total value" field below current price (BTC*PRICE)
Logging/historical of withdrawal
Ability to set background color (even at 20% transparent its clashing with my wallpaper, would be great to match that color so it "blends" and appears as part of the background)

Thats pretty bad leaving in the geotagging, and naming the second one scam2.  Not only do we know its a scam for sure, we know where the guy lives (or at least took both photos)

Stats will only show proportional payout #'s, if you're in PPS you won't see anything useful stat wise.  When swapping back, it can take up to 2 hours i've seen before you'll start seeing values in Stats.  In some cases its because you've swapped over mid-block and I think a quirk of the payout system keeps you as PPS for current block, then just the 1 hour delay on stats Tycho has in place.  

+1 to Current-C, great seller.

Do you have a monitor connected to the 2nd card?  If not, can you connect a monitor to it and see if it appears?

If that is the case, you will either need to have a monitor connected to it, or craft yourself a DVI Dummy plug as outlined on http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/384733-30-second-dummy-plug.html

If attaching a monitor did not help, could you provide some greater detail about the specs of the setup you are working with?

True story, I gained an extra 150 Mh/s from a 5830 once i got my socks!!!!

+1 here, works like a champ.

Also potential aftermarket mod option here if someone wants to start selling these, not everyone has easy access to resistors to actually make one, and based on the # of forum posts a ton of people are doing the "monitor swap" trick.

Math wise, the extra rejected are being massively offset by the increased speeds of the hashing.  Still seeing about 11% over just poclbm even with the rejection rates.

Seeing a much higher rejection rate here, most specifically when the LP hands off a new piece of work.   More than 50% of the time when that happens my first result is rejected. The same appears to be holding across 6 cards (5970 down to 5830's).  Copy/paste of results w/ pruning is as follows:

Kiv,  what are the odds/chances of a small API that would let you pull stats from your app?  I'd love to at least be able to poll the hash rates for the workers, but being able to start/stop specific guys to flip flop pools or some other form of "remote admin" interface would be great.

In my case I already had the board/CPU so going AMD wasn't going to happen since i already had everything cheap.

Quick note about cooling here, this machine is NOT in a case and is just sitting open on a piece of wood on a shelf that has multiple others and a large box fan in front of it.  My recommendation above and notes about 3x cards might not hold true if placed inside a case.