I'm not sure what your question is - Windows already lets you reboot and shutdown, there's no magic to that.  It's literally just their app sending the command - it's not something special about their PSU.  If you could remote power ON the device, then that would be much more interesting, but also much more difficult. 

In the PDU model, you could configure the system to auto-start on power loss, and you can toggle the power on and off to the outlet (assuming it's a managed PDU).  This is radically different than what they're offering - it's literally just an app to allow you to remote reboot or shutdown your machine.  You could do that using TeamViewer or any number of other things...

Now they've also added monitoring of the PSU state, like voltage levels, fan speed, temps - and those are interesting, but at least in my experience I've never had a fan fail, and if I'm pushing a PSU, I'm not going to use some consumer grade one... So these are of marginal value (at least to my mind).

So Phil you thinking about 110 watts ISH for the 470?  How are the temps?  I just ordered a 8gb 470 Nitro so I am hoping the power figures are comparable to the 370's.

I wanted to get into mining some altcoins about a year ago and I really wish I did start mining Etherium.
It seems so risky now. After the fork, all the turmoil and everything that has happened...

Maybe mining ETC is still profitable but I feel like unless you can predict another alt-coin that will go up in value,
you are probably going to be making just a few dollars a month for a large investment, and the ROI will be a while.
(Depends on how much disposable income you have and how long you can wait to get it back I guess.)

Interested in Philipma1957 or someone with a similar setup on how long the ROI for your $1600 is.

I'd take a guess at next month

As interesting and appealing as this sounds, changing Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm seems pretty unlikely. That change is far more contentious than the other contemplated changes, like block size expansion.

If the PoW were to change, ASIC companies and the miners that have invested in them would resist it. There would be two Bitcoins, like Eth/Etc today. The original SHA256 algorithm would be much more secure because they would have way more hash power. That would only change if an overwhelming number of people adopt the new algorithm.

If the new PoW algorithm caught on, then the ASIC manufacturers would move to support it. I don't believe it's possible to create an algorithm that cannot be implemented more efficiently in hardware. If there's enough financial incentive, ASICs designers will find a way.

Basically this would be a replay of SHA256 with the only effect of a reset for a few years. But in the end there would still be two Bitcoin chains, end-user confusion, merchant adoption would be hampered, and there would probably be less investment from VC's because the double chain mess would make Bitcoin investment even more risky. Bitcoin's first mover network effect advantage might even be lost to an alt.

I don't see this happening at all. There's too much at stake for the current Bitcoin movers and shakers to allow this.

Instead there will always be alts, like Eth/Etc, some of which will be profitable enough to draw miners away.

I don't think it is possible to prevent ASICs from ever being used to mine. LTC was suppose to be mined by not ASICs however after a while, companies invested in R&D necessary to manufacture ASICs because there would be enough demand because the value of LTC was high enough.

I think the same would probably happen if the mining algo were to change for Bitcoin.

I "MAY" be color-blind, but the 100-block field is still black to me. Otherwise, various shades of green. Would like to see it ALL LIME GREEN! 

But to be diplomatic, it IS closer to a green-black than a red-black!

Don't go for 6 cards for your first farm. Too much trouble, really. With each card consuming in excess of 200W, you'll need a very expensive 1500W PSU adjusted for efficiency. Go for 3 or 4 cards and a high quality 1000W PSU. Those pro miners with 6-card rigs opt usually for two interconnected PSUs.

I like the way you think. 

If sufficient number of bitcoiners start running graphic cards in support of etc-eth (and they/we probably do this kind of thing already judging by some here), what may stop developers to release a "GPU only"-fork for bitcoin?
This is basically a sword of Damocles that they have over Chinese miner farms and pools.
People will switch their gear from etc-eth to btc if ASICs are ruled out, I think.
It probably would be the best, anyway.

I wonder if the spike in estimated difficulty has anything to do with the recent meeting between the Blockstream core devs and the chinese mining pools. At first glance (and if memory serves me correctly), it looks like the Chinese pools are possibly loosing market share compared to what they had very recently.

I believe that there were reports that the blockstream core devs were threatening to quit if the Chinese pools were to start supporting a HF that involves increasing the maximum block size -- or something along those lines (I am unsure as to the reliability of these reports though).

I wonder if the blockstream core devs are possibly running some of their mining equipment (possibly at a loss) on non-chinese pools (and solo mining) in an effort to show the Chinese pools "who is boss". If this is true, then I wonder how long this can, or will last.

can you easily pay from that Trezor thingie? The description is kind of open to interpretation and/or opaque.
I also looked at Ledger Nano S. Anybody uses that one?

I don't have any direct experience because I didn't use Bitfinex. But according to posts on Reddit it sounds like they're giving everyone a haircut in order to avoid bankruptcy.

I think I read that they're taking 36% of all user accounts, even those that were completely unaffected.

It's really quite a mess. Their customers are paying the price for poor security choices, but that's better than forcing them into bankruptcy and waiting 5 years to get even less back.

This is why I hold everything on a Trezor. I only use exchanges as briefly as possible to buy and sell coin.

i need 6 of these, how many you have for sale?

Is there a list or a way to tell if an AMD card can be undervolted before buying it?