I have 6 game cards with unscratched codes. I know the codes work in the US and Canada, but unsure if they work in Europe or outside of that. If you order outside of US/CA, I will not refund your BTC if it turns out it won't work in your region, so please check elsewhere first.

http://www.totalwar.com/shogun2

Look forward to your PM  

What shipping method is used for orders in the same country?

Source code is in .zip

I should probably be seeing something other than this?


Win7 x64, .net 4.0 installed

Very interesting idea. I'll definitely be using it.

How are you handling shipping? If you subscribe (there's a free 30-day trial, too) to Shoprunner for $80/yr I think it is, you could offer us free 2-day shipping.

[1] A temp of 90+*C is  too high. 100+*C is when you'll probably start to see performance problems, instability, and possibly damage to the card. The fan is meant to run at 100% without problem, but the graphics card is not meant to operate at such high temperatures.

[2] Generally, yes, assuming you are not increasing the voltage. There is a risk of your computer becoming unstable and crashing if you overclock too high, but I'm not aware of any case (in cards of the past few years) where the driver doesn't just simply reset itself and go back to stock speeds. You'll be made aware of when you've overclocked too high when your screen blacks out for a second

[3] That's a reasonable hash rate for that card. poclbm's hash rate is comparable to pheonix's. You should try it out, though, if you're interested. You could also try out some of the different settings others used with your card model posted on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Try fiddling with (or removing) the -f flag, too. Try out -f 150

I should've noted "when overclocked 200MHz+"

My PC's pulling 480w from the wall with an underclocked & down-volted 3-core AMD CPU running @ 66%, with no peripherals, one SSD, and just one stick of RAM, which I take to mean almost the entire power draw is coming from the two 5850s I have in there.

Still, OCing that little bit may have pushed his PSU over the edge.

Some power supplies have very significant output degradation with heat increase. Simply cooling the PSU better may correct the problem the OP is having. It's a very common problem in laptops, and not impossible in desktops. The intake fan/vent gets clogged up, heat builds up, and output deteriorates. Many owners of gaming laptops find their laptop starts giving BSoDs after a year or few of ownership when it worked perfectly fine originally, and it turns out just giving it a good cleaning fixes it. If it is that problem, it could also be from the days getting hotter depending on where he lives.

What? If "its" = "is" then yes, 950 MHz core speed is pretty decent. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

This is possible. Each 5850 consumes roughly 200-225 watts at full load when overclocked. The 5830 consumes slightly less. That comes out to ~600-650w power consumption on the cards alone. After including the CPU, MoBo, RAM, & whatever peripherals you may have, you'll probably want at least a 850w PSU.

Bitcoin mining is becoming more popular as more people are hearing about it (for example, I stopped paying attention to Bitcoins long ago but heard about it again a couple weeks ago which, along with potential profits now, sparked my interest in it again), and because of the price of BTC is way above the cost to produce it in USD (for example, I'm making roughly $45/day off of a $500 PC). Bitcoins themselves are extremely volatile and at a very high price (very possibly a huge bubble) which I think restricts the typical person from considering it as an alternative to their country's legal tender, leaving only the miners and speculators to be very involved in BTC.

People are mining more because mining is more profitable which leads to a higher difficulty. I don't deny that - but, if the price of BTC did not increase with difficulty, people would not continue investing money in mining, which would mean the difficulty of BTC mining would increase much, much slower.

Absolutely. I believe that the mining difficulty increase signals to people that BTC will become more valuable because BTC will be mined at a lesser rate for the same hardware in USD. This requires BTC to increase in value over the USD because BTC will cost more in USD to produce. Smart traders recognize this, and realize the FV of BTC makes it well-worth buying up BTC at its current prices because difficulty will continue increasing, increasing the USD cost to produce BTC, and thus leading to an increase in the price of BTC.

Consider this: You produce toys (or, BTC). Let's say commodities (may help to think of them as video cards) to produce toys is limited (for example, only 21m toys can ever be produced with the Earth's reserves of resources). As commodities become more and more scarce, and thus more difficult and expensive to harvest, they will increase in price. The toy-makers will have to respond by increasing their own prices to keep a decent profit margin while cost of production increases. Traders, with knowledge that toys (and the commodities to produce them) will become increasingly difficult and expensive to produce, buy up the toys and commodities creating a speculative bubble where toys become outrageously expensive to anyone not holding or producing the toys. However, those trading and producing toys know commodities are ever-still becoming more scarce, and continue buying up toys & commodities to produce toys, creating a self-contained market where kids looking to actually use the toys either fork over outrageous sums of money, or just decide against using toys.

You have it backwards. The price began skyrocketing right about the time of (when everyone knew it would be imminent), and even moreso AFTER the last difficulty increase. The market is adjusting (and over-compensating) for difficulty increases, not the difficulty adjusting for the market prices (though that may happen indirectly).

This suggests nearly the whole of Bitcoins' value is based on how difficult they are to produce and not, for example, its adoption as a currency.

This again. 150 views and not a bite? Anyone mind suggesting why? I can't imagine it's the price. Is it because I'm relatively new on the forum? Perhaps because Nvidia cards are poor @ BTC mining and I'm selling to an audience where that's a major factor for most people who'd consider?

Always do  Get a fair portion of alcohol, coffee, nutmeg, and cheese before I go to bed for the most interesting dreams.

Bump for reducing price beyond just adjusting for BTC->USD rate.

You need a decent card brand, first. I was only able to get 700+ MH/s on ASUS cards because nothing else would OC high enough. I tried some Visiontek cards, but I was simply unable to get past 600 MH/s because the cards are low-quality.

I was wondering about PCI-e bus lane multiplier reductions, too, but it turns out it isn't an issue in mining.

To get 710 MH/s, I used the poclbm miner with flags "-v -w128." Overclocking's dead-simple in Afterburner. I was able to increase my core clock speed (and this is where brand's very important) up to 912 MHz on one card, 925 MHz on the other I'm using. I also downclocked my mem speed to 319 MHz (see here). Your max OC will vary depending on how lucky you get with the quality of your particular card.

Cards become unstable beyond a certain point regardless of temperature. I could be using dry ice to cool my cards and (if it didn't ruin them...), they still wouldn't get beyond where they are now.

1 bar up here from an N router (6.5 mbps allegedly), still 100% efficiency.

Dunno if I'm going to get any hate for this, but.... maybe you should consider not using a case at all. They often restrict airflow, which can be good for certain parts, but getting good airflow over the important parts is really a task for an expert. Instead, you could simply set up your MoBo on a desk and run a high-velocity fan over the whole thing. Especially for gfx cards with big heat pipes jutting out of it, it can be dramatically more efficient than a smart airflow design in a case. It can get messy, but a modular PSU will help out a lot. I'll post a picture of my setup when I have the last three PCs finished when my shipment of graphics cards arrive. Need to clear off the empty beer bottles, too 

A mining PC has no use for more than one hard drive (and possibly not even that if you run Linux off a flash drive) or anything like a CD-ROM drive, so clutter isn't really that big of a deal. Mid-range+ MoBos also often come with power & reset buttons right on the MoBo so you don't have to manually bridge the power pins to turn the PC on.

At the very least, it looks very interesting.