You don't need to have the client active to get paid. Are you sure it got sent to the correct address?

Yea, I've been doing the affinity thing since before it was in GUIminer. An old trick I learned way back in the day playing Dark Age of Camelot. I added some info to my original post and a link that should help with this!

Hah! Thanks. Gave me some morning chuckles.

If "fuck all" means nothing, then yes.

But I just forced mine to run at lower speed from the get go. Especially seeing that with more than 1 card I still get the 100% cpu utilization on 1 core, no matter the speed. I've attempted to fix it, but it never worked and I gave up.

Cheers to that! I had to make 6 dummy plugs. Radioshack loved me that day.

I haven't read across anyone doing this, nor did I do a specific search.

If you are using a dedicated rig or want to restart before you do gaming, you should consider underclocking your rigs.
I have 3 dedicated miners. As example one is using an evga 780i sli, core 2 quad 6600, and 3x 6850's (got a killer deal on them, but they kinda suck).
With that board I could disable the last 3 cores. I then underclocked it to 1.6ghz (I might be able to go lower, but that was easy) and undervolted it. My hashing did not change. It's a little laggier to VNC into it but I'll put up with that.

Next I'm debating about lowering the bus speeds and ram. I'm only running a single one gig module of ram as it is.

While I might only be saving a buck or two a month, the guys who are running some serious hardware and 10 machines will get much more benefit out of this.

Update:
Here's a link to determine your old vs new wattage!
http://extreme.outervision.com/tools.jsp

I went from 95w to 41w with 2400/1.25v to 1600/1v!

At first, the code was not nearly as optimized as it is now.
I don't have the exact proof, but I highly doubt this.
Cpu mining may use less electricity, but it's efficiency is TERRIBLE. As in... My 5870 gets 400mh/s for the (way highside)300 watts it uses. That's 1.33h/w.
My core 2 quad at overclocked to 3.2 must be using something around ~100watts and it gets about 12mh/s. That's 0.12mh/s.

It's not about how much you use, but about the efficiency.

My numbers are somewhat fuzzy, too lazy to look up hard data, but you get my point.

1)I believe in the cause of bitcoins. What it is attempting (and semi succeeding) to do. I haven't invested much, but I might pay a few bucks more for regular things (For example:I got some easymac off some site) just to keep the sites going. Where there is market, you'll find vendors.

2)I think the market is still going to be all over the place for a while. I believe the problem is all of a sudden SOOOOO many people went "Hey! I can make easy money!" and sell off their BTC. It's that whole supply/demand thing. Bitcoin is self-inflating (as long as there is a demand and people will slowly forget about their btc and/or lose it/). Once the wave of newcomers settles down, and they don't sell off their BTC evertime the market goes up 2 dollars, the prices will steady out.

You could use:
http://www.bitegg.net/
http://bitspend.com/

And a host of others, I just can't remember them all. I just searched for "bitcoin newegg"

But I, am the eggman.

Sell your old computer stuff for bitcoin? Or any other stuff for that matter. In all my craigslist posts I put "Will accept Bitcoin." I've made a few that way besides my gpu farm.

Cheers to keeping the spam, but here is another junk post to get me to 5.

This worked for me on all my cards. Roughly 2-4% on 3x 6850's, 5870, and 5770. Thanks!