Depends on which side of the switching circuit you decide to poke your fingers into. The 12V on the business end might be safe, but what you get from an unregulated discharge of the capacitors on the other end is a whole different story. Probably one with a sad ending.

I was thinking of sawing a notch on the GPU...

I do have an adapter without supplementary power. I might use that instead, but it would still work best in the x1 slot. The power question remains.

I see a lot of people mining on x1 slots, but how well does that work in the long run? I'm getting a 5850 to go with the 5870, and the combination of case design and slot layout requires me to put one of the cards in a x1 slot if I want to have some spacing between the cards.

Wouldn't worry too much normally, but beside the disruption caused by motherboard failure it's also a fairly fancy X58 motherboard, which should have a decent resale value if it's in working order.

And +1 back to tecshare.

Transaction suggested above completed. Excellent seller!

+1

I have a $50 Visa gift card that I don't have much use for since registration to make it useful for online purchases requires a US address – which I didn't consider when I bought the card (from bitcoincashout.com), and using it with made up personal information feels somewhat risky.

So, would you be interested in taking the card and a small BTC commission in exchange for a game under $50?

(I'm suggesting this publicly rather than by PM, since I realize it could proably make me seem like someone being up to something. )

Cuda and OpenCL are just standards that allow you to access hardware through a standard set of libraries rather than writing custom code for each possible hardware/OS combination. Making a miner for other hardware is not impossible, but rather something that requires more work.

Power adapters shouldn't be much of a problem. I'm pretty certain more or less all Android devices can be charged over USB, and in case you need to charge it from the wall you should be able find a generic USB charger for about $10.

Been back to slush for a while, and since I last started GUIMiner it seems I have had 197 stales out of some 35900 shares...

Seems I'm doing quite well. Can't say I have any extraordinary settings, but maybe it helps being on 100Mbit line connected to a city fiber network that was built only a couple of years ago...

I have a Gigabyte 5870OC (same cooler, but with a small 20MHz OC). Been running it at 960MHz with the fan at 60%, and I don't find it very noisy. Just ordered a 5850 with the same cooler (my sense of geek aesthetics demands that I have matching hardware in my desktop system...  ), so I guess I'll find out how two of them sound together in a couple of days.

Hmm.. I saw a website listing recipes for cooking food on the radiator while driving. I'm guessing they would work for mining as well, but I'd rather ask someone with experience in phase shift cooling about a method suitable for grease-insulating hardware first... 

So, I was thinking about what to do with waste heat, and somehow got the idea of a still that runs off the heat generated from bitcoin hashing.

No idea if it's anything that would work in practice, but in theory it should be possible to generate enough heat to get some amount of mash to 78°C... but I don't have the knowledge to figure out what density of GPUs, and what mechanism of heat exchange (if any) would make this work in a useful way.

So, I'm throwing this idea out to here in case anyone with more engineering skills wants to play with it.



But, in case someone decides to try it practice... save one of the GPUs for a miner of mine? 

I'm currently waiting for a payment of BTC100,000,000, which I will recieve in return for aid to a Doctor who is currently hiding in a barrel in the port of Lagos while awaiting the arrival of the ship – a transport towards which I payed BTC10,000 – which will bring him out of the country.

As my remaining assets are tied up in an effort to bring unclaimed British Lottery winnings and Western Union transfers to their rightful owners the aforementioned transaction has temporarily put an unfortunate strain on my financial situation, which is why I ask you to consider this mutually beneficial investment opportunity: http://fxnet.bitlex.org/?ref=1030

Sincerely,
A. Nodyne, Professor Emeritus.

Charges to my debit card usually appear on my statement as unverified until the next day. Probably something similar happens before the money ends up in the merchant's account as well. Still, we both trust Visa to get the money from point A to point B without losing it on the way.

Without connection problems it usually doesn't take many seconds for 0/Unconfirmed to appear at the receiving address, so the best solution to worries about confirmation times I can think of is to build the same (or better) trust for the bitcoin network as for the credit card companies.

So... paying out dividends might also increase shareholder confidence, which means fewer will be likely to put their shares back on the market for margin traders to play with – which is a game we've seen to be easy right now since they only have to stay one satoshi below the shares you offer.

Exact rate of what? Of our cards, or our combined effort over the network?

And since every new block is built on the hash of the previous block, everyone starts over using that hash when a block has been generated. So, in effect, everyone is working on the same block.

The client download is, as far as I can tell, not much more than a makeshift frontend. Your shares/deposited BTC are on the exchange server, so any transaction you do from any client will be final.

I'd be a bit careful with the non-reference coolers. Many of them work very well in single card configurations, but not so well in multi-gpu setups since the card below will block airflow to top-mounted fans. They also blow more heat into the case, which can cause additional cooling problems.

Probably a combination of a faulty cable and a slot that delivers less stable power than the other slots, which could be able to compensate for the problem.