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Stickers would be nice. Something small like the size of your palm to hand out at OWS and other functions.
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Last night my hash rate dropped 16% and my rig seems to be running fine. Any ideas?
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I guess part of the question behind "stale shares" is the question of how long it takes the miner to work through a single job. Am I correct in understanding that a miner will work through all the possible combinations in the job it is working on before it "comes up for air" and checks to see what the next job is going to be? If it takes more than a couple minutes to work through a job, then there's a possibility in that case that the miner might submit a share that was declared invalid minutes ago. This would become more likely with a reduced time between blocks (10min for bitcoin) and less likely with a reduced difficulty (more likely to get an answer and abort the job early) and reduced job size (work through a single job faster).
As for GPUs, I think the biggest limitation of having them show up to miners is whether you have the necessary drivers (and card) to run arbitrary non-graphics-related programs on there. Both ATI and nVidia have drivers (that don't come with the GPU, you need to download them separately) that are used to repurpose the shader processors or something to have them running bitcoins rather than polygons.
[Edit: read previous post]
As far as I understand, please correct me if I'm wrong, the mining program requests new work as it send out work. So, if you are running a 5870 which would average 4-6 shares per minute and mining solo, running bitcoin -server, you would never submit a 'stale' share, rather an invalid share, because the gpu would never fall behind. The reason for shares being stale is because of the pool servers script failing to send new work in as fast a manner as it is received from the worker. |
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Portal 2 I'm checking into this.
I believe I own 2 copies on steam. What would you pay for a key?
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do you possibly know of a tutorial to install a gpu?
GPU (Graphics processing unit) is simply "better graphic card", something like ATI Radeon 5870. Slush just hinted to you the most initially cost effective GPU on the market. You can get a used 5870 for 175-200 ad it cranks out 350-400 MHs consuming ~188W of power |
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Alright so another question, say i got a new desktop (made in 2011), would it have a GPU included, or would i have to buy one separate.
Not one off the self, at least not one that would be cost effective 58xx 59xx & 69xx series from ATI is where you want to be |
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I suppose this is a good idea. I'd be very cautious about adding and liquid to anything attached to my rig, plus my fans all have sealed bearings so oil would really have no positive effect
I would be really surprised if all your fans have sealed bearings. It's not terribly common. http://www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htmMineral oil isn't a conductor, so you can splatter it all over everything and it won't cause a short.  Good to know! Thanks for clarification |
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Honestly, it won't be worth it. If the computer is that old, you probably wont even be able to put in a GPU that would be worth while either.
EDIT
You'll need an available PCIe slot to install the GPU and it may not even have one.
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I'd love it, but I'm in the US and shipping liquids here, especially alcoholic, seems to be an issue
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Do you have a GPU in your computer?
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I suppose this is a good idea. I'd be very cautious about adding and liquid to anything attached to my rig, plus my fans all have sealed bearings so oil would really have no positive effect
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Nope, you are mining with your CPU. Change in the drop down menu labeled device to your GPU
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I am currently mining on the deepbit.net pool and I left my guiminer (puddinpop's i beleve) to run overnight, when i came back, i had no shares accepted yet. My khash/s rate is around 250-300.
If you're mining with a cpu it will take some time to have a valid share accepted. My buddy tried with his MacBook Pro and the most he had was 8 shares in a day |
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I'm adding another 2GHs rig tomorrow and will donate it for the day.
Thanks for the great service BurningToad
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Why add a second powered riser? I've been curios as to what these are used for.
I'm really curious to see what would happen in the long run. Touch the single 12v wire going to your motherboard connector to see if it's hot, It may be providing ~45 watt per GPU, or 30 amp on one wire. (rated for ~8amp) (45w according to http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42 using 5970) I personally use powered extender when going past 5 gpus. I'll check it out when I get home, you've got me curious now. This board does allow me to run 2, 8 pin 12V ATX power. I don't have the second plugged in right now, never thought about it |
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Has anyone else's stales gone way up?
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Could you send me pricing on Alprazolam, Valium, and redbull?
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