Donate it to my local school, and write off the full value on my tax return. Those lucky students get to enjoy typing up school reports on quad-core, tri-crossfired 6970 $2000 gaming rig.

Nice! looks like it'd actually work for mining rig too, though a brief search online indicates that it's unavailable everywhere? is it old?

laptop GPU is very underpowered, you can't compete with the multi-gpu desktop miners. Unless you get free electricity, then any mining done is a net gain.

I think you can expect 1 BTC every week for 24/7 mining on laptop with a pool.

How hard it is to create the SDK? I imagine NVIDIA must have noticed that AMD cards are selling out, and is trying to create a similar SDK

I think mtgox's bank account is US based, as it is required to obtain a dwolla account. Majority of their money has to be in the US bank account to facilitate dwolla withdrawals and deposits.

What is the reason behind this phenomenon? why does the top of the line NVIDIA cards perform almost 10 times worse than the top of the line AMD cards in terms of mining?

what exactly is pool hopping and how does that help mining?

I agree, one of the things I find missing is the balance showing on every page as on mtgox. Though the withdrawal was fast, as I just tested withdrawing $300 to dwolla, it happened in a matter of minutes.

Inaccurate, the GFW block searchs for Tor and the Tor website itself. But they can not block Tor traffic, it's impossible, unless they maintain a whitelist and block all other traffic coming in and out of China (which isn't unimaginable for Chinese government)

There is very little risk in keeping USD in mtgox, unless you don't trust mtgox itself. Since USD transactions are traceable. On the other hand, keeping BTC in your account is a bit more risky, since anyone can steal your password and transfer the BTC out, and it's gone for good, untraceable. So if you don't trade very often, it's better to transfer the BTC out to your secured local wallet.

We need to go out of our way to support any good competitor to mtgox, because a single dominant exchange is no good for the future of btc. Similar situation as the deepbit pool issue at the mining forum. One person gaining too much power over the btc network is no good.

Yep, I just tested the trade with 10 BTC on there, pretty smooth, sold all 10 BTC at a good price of $31, while mtgox price quote was at $29.5
I think there are still not many buyers though since it just opened to public 1 day ago, and most people's funds are not in the account yet.

I think there's no reason it won't. With or without the X, mtgox should know who you are with just the numbers.

Try tradehill, they are a mtgox clone and are pretty fast in withdrawing, offer a lot more methods than mtgox and much lower commission too. See my signature

You have to bear in mind the difficulty increase in a few days and also price of BTC may crash.

thanks

I saw a 7 card build somewhere. But they are really low powered single slot cards, that does like 60 mh/s

they "should" work, but in practice, there are often problems, YMMV

should make it a range instead of <

Thanks dude. For case I plan to go with http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ZM7YTA Cooler Master HAF 912
Is this a good case for the set up?