Basically do you want to LTC mine for a year or BTC mine for a month.  BTC mining via GPU will be dead in a month.  If you're just going to go straight for LTC then get a 5970.

If you're gaming the 7970 is a no brainer compared to 5970.  5970 will be worth $50-$100 next year while a 7970 will still be at least $150.

Haha, yeah what's the point of BTC rate going up 2x if difficulty goes up 2x also.

The question is will the next difficulty increase come in under a week if all the Avalon units kick on and ASICMiner gets fully set up.  Either a bad string of luck or some GPU Miners already quitting since 1 day into this period and the estimate is a little down from current difficulty.

Not to be offensive but a little late to the party aren't you.  There is no point in trying to optimize any machine that pulls in less than 60GH now.  In 2 weeks your work will all be undone by a difficulty spike not seen since 2011.

Everything you are trying to do has been posted here before, and people have documented it to death over the past 3 years - use the search feature.

The lean green hashing machine is either called an Avalon of BFL (BFL being leaner but not available currently).  Look into one of those 2 and get on the buy list now.

PMs replied to

Canola or Olive oil is better.

PL's post is actually pretty useful and informative.  Lots of newbies probably haven't seen that chart before.

Hanging around these forums too long will age anyone though 

My favorite post of yours was the one about cooling the miners by leaving a refrigerator door open.  I hate you - had to buy 23 mini fridges only to find out it wasn't making the room cooler 

Did I just see somebody try to "correct" one of Bonkers' posts 

Well, you are the Betatester are you not 

Carry on then 

GPUs earn 1/2 or 1/4... I wish.  In one week ASICMiner has become 1/8 of the network and Avalon units are probably 1/20 right now.  In a month GPUs will be less than 1/4 of all hashing power.  In 2 months all the GPU miners would be happy to even get a combined 720 coins/day if BFL ships.

Anybody who has a GPU farm better work out the math to figure out when to cut and run.  I have free power and I'm trying to sell off over 100 cards now while the prices are high. What do you think a 6950 will fetch when 10k of them are listed on eBay over the next year lol.

Buy the 7970s to play games, don't bother trying to mine unless you have them in hand right now.

What I wonder is if you're not throwing $20-$50K into ASICs why you would be spending so much time posting in threads for an item that you don't even want.  I mean there's educating the public and then there's just making into a life goal.  The same can be said for people trolling in the Avalon threads.  Only reason I come here is to just get updates I missed without having to scan all the BFL forums.

What kind of jobs/lives must some of you have to be able to afford this much time online?

Try Anandtech FS/FT or HardOCP.

You wont find that board here.

I have a sealed copy of Windows 7 64-bit Full Retail version.  This is not the cheaper OEM or Upgrade version.  Most people on here do not need the full version, but for those who do... 4 BTC shipped USPS Priority.

I also have Win 7 Ultimate NFR (Not For Resale) which I got at the Win 7 launch.  I will include it with a lucky penny I have.  I belive it is a 32-bit key but can be swapped for a 64 bit key from MS.  6 BTC shipped USPS Priority for the penny (with Win 7 Ultimate thrown in).

For a single fan XFX with lifetime warranty (transferable) 6950 you'll get about $125 locally (+/- $10 depending on supply and taxes and stuff).  I have 3 dual fan ones currently.  I was able to sell one in SoCal for $150 locally because I had the original box/packaging, the card was in excellent shape, and I provided a receipt for warranty transfer.

A fair price to get them sold would be 4 to 5 BTC each shipped.

Nobody will pay 7+ BTC for a used single fan 6950 which only hashed 340 - they would instead buy a new 7870 LE for $210 which hashes almost 500 and would cost about $160 after selling the games.

Good to hear.

Got the code right after I posted #2 post.  Haven't had time to check it.  Payment 0.35BTC sent to 1Amc1hqzd5qCDJ9aFYGR8qyqEuGZrmf47f transaction 127f25e0a4cec1f3fc89b7c442563554edea03c4a6c169428a6af3e4be6543fe

Vanderbleek just bought a Bioshock/Tomb Raider voucher and sent payment right away.  Code sent via PM.

You joined less than 2 weeks ago so most people will assume you're trying to scam them unless you send the code first.  To avoid getting scammed yourself you can use a reputable escrow if you don't know who the buyer is.  Not to say that you are a scammer, but if you've been here for more than a month you would see your original post is set up like a perfect scamming post waiting for a newbie to just send over the BTC.

I'll take the code if you still have it.  If you want safety we can use escrow.  Otherwise PM me with info.

Converted about 900 BTC to USD (no BTC economy for medical supplies) and spent it on medical supplies for charity work I did in 2011 - that was the single largest transaction (back when the price fell to $8 from $32 high).

Learned a lesson from Pirate's BTCST at a cost of 510 BTC.  And a secondary lesson from Hashking that insured means jack shit (that was another 41BTC).