Sure but you cant divide them without dividing their value too IOW, you can divide your coins all you want, but it wont affect mine. With dollars/euro's etc, some entity can create more and thereby affect yours.

I dont doubt the measured temps. My finger agrees . Besides, how else will you measure temps underneath a heatsink?


At what voltages and temps? Im currently at 875 Mhz with 1.1v and despite the rather elaborate cooling, Im getting near 70C on the GPU. To go beyond 900 MHz I need a voltage bump and just bumping my voltage to 1.15 causes my temps to rise to 75+C on the GPU as recorded by catalyst (which means 85+C on other areas of the GPU) and I dont like that. Im sure it will survive for a while, maybe even years, but it seems like a stupid bet for a few extra MH (particularly since the electricity cost increases disproportionately with vcore and higher temps).

Ive looked in to that, for fun more than anything. Its not a good idea. Oil has poor themal conductivity, mineral oil isnt all that cheap,  and you still need to circulate and cool the oil; plus you have to replace the oil (or filter it or both) as particles dissolve in them. It looks cool, but its not very cost efficient and even less efficient to achieve low temperatures. And its a nightmare for maintenance.

Im still tempted to build an "aquarium" file server just for the looks, complete with air bubbler and plastic plants or even fish , but for mining or main PCs, nope.

edit: for falconfour it might be a good idea though. No drama when it starts raining

 
Oh man. Sorry to hear.. but really, outside?
Anyway, you sure its not the powersupply that shorted? Over the years Ive done some stupid things with PCs, like dropping screwdrivers into a running rig or putting naked motherboards on metal boxes and powering them on and that sort of stuff, but somehow I never permanently damaged anything that way.

And another one! Let the good times roll

@deathandtaxes
I have noticed with phoenix and diablo I regularly get time out messages and my stales are much higher than bitminter. On the order of 1% or more sometimes (compared to basically nothing for bitminter). No idea if that is the same problem or not.

"Myvolition", I love you

I just started Dutch. Commiting a translation takes longer than typing it

Ill see what I can do for Dutch. But I suspect doing a proper translation is not so easy.

Rather than wasting your time trying to "convince" large corporations to accept something, it would be better to spend your time (and bounty) on more realistic targets and get sites or organisations to accept btc regardless of their size. Particularly sites or organisations accepting donations are a good candidate for this. Ive contacted Democracy Now and The Real News network. I have never heard back from DN, but TRNN has looked in to it, and recently told me they are likely to implement it. Do they make $100 million? No, probably not 1/10th of that,  but they do reach 10s of 1000s of viewers, many of whom might be sympathetic to an alternative currency.  Rome wasnt built in one day, but if organisations like TRNN start accepting BTC and spreading the word, thats a mighty big step in the right direction IMHO. Spamming Bestbuy or Wallmart will do nothing.

Updated generic banner PNG:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8317/bitmintergeneric2.png

Generic banner and speedo banner GIMP template:
http://ubuntuone.com/4mRHDJ8slKpNl4sZaQ46D3

(note: just hide the appropriate layer to get a generic banner or with speedo).

Slim banner GIMP template:
http://ubuntuone.com/5Ar7MbcegY1mkafS2Bf5Nj

(note: shadows are 2 pixel offset right + bottom, 80% transparency). Used the same Century Schoolbook font as you did on the website, 30 size

its called "AMD GPU Clock tool". Word of warning, it doesnt like other apps, dont use alongside afterburner everest, gpu-z etc, unless you like 1.65v vcore. It also reset fans to default whenever you change clocks

Good idea, I agree.
Now, you want to buy my bitcoins?

Some pics:






And some temps mining at 800 Mhz. Temps are even lower now I closed my case and the side intake fan is helping:



Is that awesome or what

@DeathAndTaxes I think what his friend meant is after a day the pool will have found and verified a block, so he'd get his first payment.

@OP, As for the returns, if it was as profitable as printing money, everyone would do it . The reality is, its not profitable (anymore) unless you have cheap electricity. It doesnt matter if you have 1 card or 1000. The revenue scales linearly but so do the electricity costs. You can calculate it fairly precisely here:
http://bitcoinx.com/profit/

All that said, these days are the worst days in bitcoin mining history; the price is down by a lot and difficulty has not come down yet to match the lower global hashrate. There is a delay. Its coming down, and who knows, with some luck price will go up a bit, but even so, its never going to be lucrative if you have expensive electricity.

Think you're right. Will do first thing tomorrow


Its not pretty to have shadow on one side an no shadow on the other. I dont know what you will use to generate the text, but does it support blur? Even if it does, test it because it might cause huge cpu load to constantly generate dynamic images with blur filter. Perhaps its best we use hard shadows. two pixel offset to the right, two pixels to below, pure black If you can do transparency, set it to 80. If you cant do transparancy, let me know. As above, Ill make the template probably tomorrow. Its made in GIMP, so Ill send you the source file if you need any minor editing. Ill send you the full size background as well if I can still find it, should you want to use it on the site. I grabbed it off the web, but it was free to use, no license.

Well, no one said the OP couldnt try selling them on ebay, but have a look on this forum, you wont sell many for $160 on this forum. Months ago I bought one for 105  euro new, 3 year warranty from a local shop

My thermal take VRM R5 arrived yesterday. Installing it in combination with my accelero twin turbo was a bit of a nightmare, as the VRM block doesnt fit underneath the accelero. Had to grind the R5 down, and bend the accelero a little bit to make room.

However, it does work incredibly. I havent even fitted a fan to the R5, and I likely wont as the VRM temperatures dropped 30-40C ! My VRMs are now cooler than my GPU. Awesome

My 5850 is now testing at  890 MHz, 1.1v, VRMs are 59C.  Me happy

To be fair, $120 is for (ab)used cards, not new. But since I doubt we'd have a lot of useful warranty on those cards, you might as well buy used cards

Im curious why you'd do this? Whether you get the BTC revenue from mining or someone renting the farm, i dont quite see the point? Unless you have a small pool, with 9GH you wouldnt see a lot of variability over the course of a month...

BTW, however got that 30 day contract probably did a good deal as difficulty is about to drop quite a bit.

I do. What alternatives am I missing?