One of the main reasons I bought from Cablesaurus was the fact they offer express shipping.

I'd rather pay $30 and get my cables in 1-2 days internationally, than lose out on 2-3 weeks of mining income with 'cheap' shipping.
You actually end up losing money by waiting so long to get your cards online.

80-90c is okay, but 50-79 is ideal.

If you profit on a stock sale you are forced to pay US dollars as tax.
If you profit on a gold bar sale you are forced to pay US dollars as tax.

If you generate any sort of economic activity involving any sort of tangible or intangible goods (such as Tibanne Ltd that exchanges bitcoins), you are forced to pay US dollars as tax (or in the case of Mt. Gox, Japanese yens).

Failure to pay those taxes gets you dragged out of your house at gunpoint if necessary, and imprisoned.
How is that not forcing people to transact in, and own fiat currency?

Not really. The motherboard, fans, and HDD consume about 30W max. A sempron processor will consume 45W.
A 6950 consumes roughly 200 watts while mining at stock clock frequency so a 380W PSU is more than enough.

The requirements on the package are just a suggestion.
Hell, it says on the 6990 box that you need a 750W power supply to run the card which isn't true. It takes 375W stock.

Even an OC'ed core i7 system with top components doesn't take 750w with a 6990, not even 600w.

It's entirely untrue.

Difficulty will go down if less than 6 blocks per hour are found on average during a 336 hour span.

If people find more than 6 blocks/h difficulty will adjust upwards.

Haha, true. Brilliant.
I love it when people say they are into bitcoins for "fun" yet they are as hostile as a deprived swarm of bees, spread negativity and stress about price fluctuations every day.

(Which is 95% of the forum. Nearly nobody just relaxes and takes things as they come)

Maybe "fun" is just a nervous substitution for "I just want to scrape any $$ left and get the hell out of here, out of my way idiots".

Coercion and credible threat of force/violence.

Bitcoin is not backed by any state or entity with access to taxing power, central authority or a military,
so there is nobody to protect it or forcing people to use it.

BTC price against fiat currency is solely determined by demand (and speculation).

lol @ the lawsuit. I can't believe Apple actually sued them.
As for the topic, my wire transfer withdrawals have recently taken about 7 to 10 business days, but always arrived.

Made one today as well, prob. will arrive next Wednesday with luck, maybe Friday.

Have to pay for electricity and hardware costs, so when those surpass BTC value, no more mining.

Doesn't mean I'll sell of all my BTC, just means mining wont be worthwhile.
I estimate this to be around 8-10m difficulty if price stagnates

Usage drop to 0% indicates likely thermal throttling.

What is the temperature on the other GPU?

You said you didn't OC, but did you touch the memory?
 I had that happen on a 4x 5830 rig because 1 card didn't like the memory being underclocked.

Bumping it back up to stock fixed the issue.
At lower memory clocks the system would artifact and lock up instantly after starting a miner.

Maybe 50 hash/s (or 0.05khash/s)  if you program an OpenCL wrapper for the drivers.

In other words it isn't suitable for mining.

lol @ the fake usernames on the comments.

Nearly everything is in two words each capitalized, like CheBerry or ConfusedUser.

If you're going to go bipolar then at least do it right

Yes, and Lanimret is terminal backwards.
Using an advanced dictionary attack that also takes in account the use of symbols and numbers as substitutes for words, passwords like that are easy to crack using multiple GPUs.

What you need to use is completely random, non-repeating ASCII characters that make zero logical sense.
Here I would agree with Vladimir; If you can remember your password then you're doing it wrong.

Depends on the quality and brand.
The higher series Corsair, Seasonic and Silverstone PSU's practically last forever even at high load due to the very long-aged components under the hood, unless you drive over it with a bulldozer.

The "downside" is that they cost $200-$300, more than some casual users' entire rigs.

Damn. I'm paranoid now.
Thanks for the heads up though, hopefully it's just a statistically (%) expected failure.

Do you have magazines or 5.56mm/7.62 ammunition for BTC?

I meant figuratively speaking.
Probably nobody besides the two parties involved 'really' care about a few percent haggles that ruin good sales.

More power to them if they deem it worth their time.

One would think adults don't have the time to wait for 3-4 weeks just to save 10 bucks on a purchase though.
If I need something this week, I don't really care if it costs 150 or 160 bucks as long as the item is as described.

But each to their own.

Did your adapter have the extra molex cable injected in the ribbon?

I wouldn't use one without it tbh.

What pisses me off more is unflexible buyers and sellers who have to stretch every penny as a matter of principle.

Ex. 1: You wait 2 weeks for somebody to offer $450 for your TV, nothing. 3 days later, a guy emails you and says he'll pick it up for $440.

Seller insists it's too low and doesn't sell; Losing what might be his only prospective buyer ever at the $400+ price point.
Just to "save" 10 bucks on a used item, & watch it depreciate even more as no more offers come in.

Ex. 2: You are looking for a GTX 580 graphics card for $380 bucks, a guy is selling it for $390.
You try to haggle and insist the price is too high, while it's the lowest offer on the market. Somebody else buys it in front of your eyes, and the next best sell offer is at $430.

It seems the average Joe never counts in opportunity cost. You are losing much more in wasted effort and time by refusing to spend 10 dollars more on a great deal.

You are not saving money.