I have 8 cards coming in the mail each with an AMD Never Settle Forever Gold game code. If interested PM me and make an offer.

http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/never-settle/Pages/nsreloadedforever.aspx

Gold tier gets 3 games although you have to pick them at the same time. The promotion is good until December 31st this year and the games offered may change.

Hey guys I was wondering if it's ok to disconnect the power wires on a riser at the mobo connector side and just run the power wires out of the GPU connector side to a PCIe power connector such as is described in some of the DIY powered riser articles?  I'm asking because that effectively removes any power coming from the mobo.

Hypothetically if I did this with all cards I'm assuming that would put the least stress on the mobo and leave the mobo to only handle communication. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, just trying to verify as I've never built a computer for mining.

Another question I have is regarding whether or not all power connections to a GPU are used equally or if they come on once the connector before it is saturated. For example, typically you have 75w coming through the 16x PCIe slot and then say 2 6 pin connectors on the GPU itself for a 7950.  If the card is only consuming 50 watts, does that come from the PCIe slot or does it come equally from the PCIe slot and the two 6 pin connectors?

There are a few reasons for asking that question but the most relevant reason is to determine how to use 2 PSU's to run 5-7 cards.  You could split the load of each GPU between the 2 PSU's or you could split the total GPU's between the 2 PSU's.  Without ALL of the cards being on powered risers with the power isolated from the mobo, you could potentially have power coming through the mobo from the PSU hooked up to the mobo and power coming from the 2nd PSU through one or more of the 6 pin connectors and I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.

Title says it pretty much... WTF! I haven't been running around being a newb whore padding my post count to get out, I've actually spent decent time responding to people's questions to help to the best of my ability and contribute something worthwhile, what gives?

Edit: Total time logged in: 2 hours and 46 minutes... Seriously what the hell is this? I literally signed up so I could post a spreadsheet I thought would be helpful over in the hardware section.

Thought I'd post this over here https://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,2870.0.html and here's the link to the spreadsheet  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au-5jsYGHc29dG94ekRvbEl1WEUxcnFYMU14eDRRV3c&usp=sharing

Hopefully this gets moved to the Mining Hardware section...