Hopefully a load of suckers will change their orders - if they do hopefully my Jally order will ship this year.

I sold my older GPUs (the 5870 and 6970) which were pretty much burnt out after mining.  Both cards were bought used off eBay, and I got a year of mining out of them.  

The 5870's VRMs were stuffed (artifacting on the screen), but it was sold on eBay for parts/repair for £42.  I bought it for £85 a year previous.

The 6970 was still mining OK, but the heat and power use was high.  The fans were knackered, too.  Sold it last week for £112.  That's £20 more than I paid for it a year ago.  Yes, made a profit on the card, and I recon it mined about £300 worth of BTC in it's lifetime.

I still run a pair of 7950 cards, which are pulling 1.1MH/s - they're a bit noisy, but I have the machine behind the sofa in the living room.  It keeps the living room warm, so it'll save me quite a bit on heating oil in the winter.  I'll probably decommission them next spring.

I run a few Block Erupters (more on the way), and I've a Jalapeno on order.  With my solar panels, I've got free power (in fact the government pays me), and my ASICs were paid for using BTC gained from free GPU mining.  Every bitcoin I make is pure profit now.

847Pool is now running p2pool 13.3.  Happy mining.  

Edit: Also brought a 5kW solar panel online this week, so 847Pool is running on nothing but solar power (for the summer anyway).  Greenest p2pool node?  Possibly. 

Some skill there. 

You CANNOT run drivers off a USB stick.  It's not possible, period.

The morality is a totally separate issue.

I hope a load of suckers cancel their Jalapeno orders.  Brings the huge queue in front of my order a lot shorter.

I dunno, I run an Arctic A30, with the supplied fan (which only does 1100rpm full speed) cooling a FX8320 overclocked to 4.5GHz.  That chip pumps out a LOT of heat.  The fan is slow.  Adding a decent fan would obviously cool the heatsink a lot more than the silent one supplied in the box.

I think their ASICs would need to be pumping out a ridiculous amount of heat to overwhelm an A30.  It's a ridiculously big unit - mine is hard against the side panel of my Fractal Define XL case, that's how big it is.

You'll want to put cgminer in a folder on the root of C: - burying it in your user folder is a bad idea due to Windows permissions and path lengths and all manner of stuff.

Are you 'borrowing' the power you're going to be sucking, too?   

I posit that you are indeed the thing you say you aren't.  Grow up.

That's a stupid BIOS limitation in that HP model, where enabling the iGPU with a discrete GPU only works with nVidia NVS300 and NVS310. 

See: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA4-4148ENW.pdf

Furthermore, HP is limiting mixed graphics configurations to 2D graphics cards from NVIDIA, namely the
NVS300 and the NVS310. Customers who need
four 3D accelerated displays should consider the
HP Z420 Workstation.

My node was down for a little while, adding more RAM to the server, so Hyper-V has a bit more breathing room. SQL was eating most of the machine's RAM  - all back in action again.

That is VERY cool, nice job. Good luck with the sales.

Should work OK, but it'll be close.  I ran a 6970, 2x7950 and a 7850 off a 1000W Zalman and it was pulling just shy of 1100W off the mains, so taking it as about 85% efficient, I think that was about it.  I was running it with a Celeron G540, so very little CPU power use.  I wouldn't try it with a 125W AMD or a 77W i5.

Must depend on the BIOS on the card then.  My Gigabyte 7950 cards don't need dummy plugs.  Neither do my Asus 7850 and 7770 cards.  Yes, I still have a 7770 mining. 

Why not just run the Load Balancing option after you've set up the pools?

They're very naughty, that's why.

Need more info if we can help - perhaps post in the p2pool thread?

Some of the 13.1 drivers are still there then. 

Installing Windows, running Windows Update, and installing 12.8 ALWAYS works first time for me on multiple machines (7 Pro x64 with 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx cards).

This topic has been done to death.  I know I've posted how to get this working at least twice.  Search.

There's your problem.  Run the AMD driver cleaner, then install 12.8 drivers.  It'll work then.

7 ordered, TX 7a482416eaf12544a2ed9443f3abac1ee7c7de3fd15fa50a086e4c25d29b678e

Cheers matey.