Uhhh... why are we at >1% stales?
Who invited that CPU-mining botnet in?

supposedly
1653 active WAN connections brought the WRT's CPU usage to 57%...
I'll do something more drastic when I have some time to spare. Stay tuned.

What you are missing is an obvious fact that the higher the intensity, the longer the uninterruptible busy cycles of your GPU are.
Hence, any attempt at communicating with the card is gonna have to wait until the device is done processing it's current batch of data.
The waiting low-level calls cause the parent code to "hang" as well while waiting for a response.
As a result the whole graphic subsystem becomes sluggish and unresponsive.
These are very much the facts.

DAT, unless you need to constantly route >10Mb of traffic over the WAN interface, any cheapo plastic router will do.

My old WRT54GL reflashed with DD-WRT is supposedly able to take care of 4k simultaneous connections...
The Buffalo mentioned recently is a beast. Were I to choose a new router today, I'd choose it over the old WRT routers for its Gb-E and N Wi-Fi.
Still, I've got a hunch that the elderly Linksys ain't going anywhere any time soon.

Even a P2 would of been fine. The only issue is energy usage. I seriously doubt your lappy is satisfied with 5 Watts of power which is plenty for the plastic routers.

Floeti, you are absolutely right with that Buffalo monster, except it's a total overkill as no mining farm will ever come close to such network utilization.
It's a great choice for a power user consuming sick amounts of bandwidth, no doubt about that.

Let's try not to get overboard guys, Gigavps has been running his massive farm over a lowly 6Mb/3Mb pipe.

That cheap WRT flashed with DDwrt/OpenWrt/Tomato will easily take care of all his badwidth and will be able to host a secure VPN server as well.

Gigavps, just be sure to turn the radio off if you're not using it, or at least tune the TX power down, lest your Wi-Fi should present a target.
Even if unable to breach the properly secured WiFi, some tenacious attacks are able to peg the CPU at 100% or even take the whole device down.
Don't ever use the WPS feature, a protocol weakness poses a serious security liability.
Neither is there any reason to choose the ancient and horribly broken WEP encryption.
Just tossin in my 2 Bitcents

That's just appalling...

As is there was ever any doubt about that
Hey, and it's free - as in free speech.

If only GPU manufacturers bothered to compile their utilities for Linux it would be a no-contest.
200MHash/s? Not too shabby. Just do be careful about the thermals on that lappy. Laptops were never designed with this kind of use on the radar and may overheat easily.
I suspect you're doing this as a stopgap until you build an actual rig?
Best of luck.

Hey, who am I to argue with a guy with two dozen posts under his belt...

Try that.
Worry about the flashed card, not the whole machine. It's not like it'll blow up in your face or melt down.
Don't flash until you have made (and verified) backups of your existing BIOSes. Use ATIFlash's -s switch for that.

12.1 drivers and Windows, lovely.
Try intensity = 9 && vectors = 4 && worksize = 64.

That PSU you listed is not exactly up to snuff.
"Efficiency >65%"? Run, efficiency should be >85%, you've gotta pay for all that wasted electricity after all.
No PFC and two 80mm fans make me feel like I'm back in the 1990s,...

Go for something 80+Bronze certified at the very least, like the XFX Core Edition 550W or PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 600W
If you can afford it, choosing a 80+Gold capable device can't possibly be a bad move. Rosewill Capstone 750W is very reasonably priced.

You already know about nVidia, right?
Grab the most powerful AMD card you can afford since you'll only be able to use two cards with that mobo.
If you find mining profitable, you can always purchase a second card later on.

*shrugs* how 'bout just following a guide like this one?
I never followed any of those guides, thus can't vouch for them but what Inaba wrote looks sensible enough.

Every guide boils down to:
(1) setting up the OS itself. That step is usually very easy and boils down to following the installer. Make sure to set up the ssh access here.
(2) installing AMD drivers and SDK, using "aticonfig --initial  --adapter=all" to generate a valid X configuration.
(3) setting up your miner of choice and its config file.
(4) enabling automation so that the machine can be run unsupervised.

There is no concept of a share when you're solo mining.
You either have or don't have the correct hash for current difficulty.

In pooled mining, shares are merely being used to measure miners' hash rate, hence their rewards.

So we're at Hetzner now, Doc? Nice, just 8 hops away.
Round trip time of 62 ms is nothing to be scoffed at.
Stales are looking quite promising as well.

Congrats on the expedient and painless migration.

Why do you assume that a bigger pool will be better for you? You'll make a tiny percentage of that pool's hash power and an equally tiny reward per block.
In the long run, variance should not impact your revenue at all.
Pool fees will always impact your revenue directly.

Mining at 220MHash/s your card won't even generate 1.1 BTC per week. That's just over 4 BTC per month. You mustn't expect higher rewards unless difficulty drops significantly.
Make sure those electricity cost calculations are ok.

Uhmmm... you've got it wrong: the Rv03 has only two pre-installed intake fans as opposed to Rv02's three 180mm fans.
Basically, RTFM  

No blaming, just pointing out that those are tough little buggers them yubikeys.
Cuz has experienced a very rare, catastrophic usb failure.

I believe MtGox is the only entity to be blamed due lack of a protocol (like contacting the user on a predefined phone number, asking a secret question, and then keeping an eye on the login IP address) for temporarily dropping multifactor authorization.
I thought I was clear enough on this.

To tell you the truth, Cuz, I've deployed Yubikeys in a couple of medium-scale IT systems and the only failures I encountered were user-caused.
You mentioned burning your mobo along with the yubikey by shorting out your USB mouse?

You can always purchase programmable yubikeys directly from the manufacturer.
Whether MtGox will give you the techie details necessary to configure it is another sack of ferrets though.

Frankly, that's the price you're paying for MtGox's flawed implementation: it's unthinkable that they should have no contingency plan in case a yubikey is damaged/misplaced. Being unable to use the device should never irreversibly cut the user off.

I've never been tempted to order the Gox Yubikey, I opt never to keep large amounts of funds there.

a couple generations of yubikeys...
...and the config utililty

Eesthetics mostly, I think.
I don't have a huge garage to fill up with rigs and since I can't totally hide them from sight, I want the rigs to look decent.
The days I enjoyed seeing naked PCBs and wires sticking out of open cases have long been gone, along with my teenage years.

The 69xx cards are running at about 77°C with average 55% fan speed. Acceptable temps and bearable noise levels if you know what you're doing.
The Rv02, with its rotated mobo, seems to be just good enough. Mind you, I've yet to see my first mining-related GPU failure.
I'd never use a traditionally designed case, though, as barring some serious modding the middle cards get no airflow worth mentioning.

Quite the contrary, in fact. Curing progresses faster in high temperatures. Just use the machine like it's supposed to be used, the temperatures will slowly drop by a few degrees.