Hey

I see a lot of talk on these boards about the differences between the various ATI chipsets (6990, 5970 etc.) but very little about the various models by different manufacturers, even though there are large price differences between these.

For example, here is a three way comparison between the gigabyte, MSI and HIS versions of the 5870. I suppose miners would be overclocking their gpu's themselves so the clock speeds are irrelevant, but are there any other advantages from buying a more expensive version of this card, or just buy the cheapest 5870 gpu you can find?

Hey

The wiki on suggested mining rig hardware is very useful but it's very us-centric. Anyone out there got some good suggestions of hardware and a good vendor to buy it in the UK.

I was hoping to build something like the dual 5970 rig described in this thread (he's getting 1.2Ghash/s - 700 watts). I might buy the rest of the system (case, psu etc.) new and then try and buy the video cards on the cheap second hand.

cheers

cmon people!

I thought the bitcoin 'scene' was full of tech experts. Is it just bunch of dodgy speculators?

great! who do you know who can help me with this?

I've seen the wp-ecommerce work and it is impressive but not relevant to me.

Basically I wanted to make a plugin that provides a widget for the wordpress sidebar which says something like 'if you like this site please consider making a bitcoin donation' (or whatever custom message), has the site owner's bitcoin address, and has a link with something like 'what is bitcoin?'. The bitcoin addresses are really long and don't fit well on the page so I am trying to use the copy-to-clipboard functionality of zeroclipboard so that the user can hit a button to copy the address directly to the clipboard.

Everything else works fine, just can't get this copy-to-clipboard functionality working. I have posted on SO and the wordpress forums and been on the wordpress IRC numerous times. This shouldn't be that hard but I haven't managed to get anyone interested enough to have a look at it.

I could easily have written this statically on my page but I did a search on the wordpress plugin database and found nothing like it; and though that it would help spread the word about bitcoin.

ps. am I missing something? how the hell do you subsribe to a topic on this forum ?!??

Hey

Been reading about this bitcoin thing for a while and I want to make my contribution to the community. I am writing a (very simple) wordpress plugin for taking bitcoin donations and I have hit a technical problem that I can't get my head around.

Are there any decent coders out there who would like to give me a hand? It's a javascript/flash/php issue but it is probably not very complicated.

cheers