If you think you need a new GPU, run a CPU miner.

If the CPU is faster, you got problems.


(My overclocked 4xxx series pulling 36 MH/s, CPU miner sitting pretty with 41*)

*Note that this rig was not built for mining, it was built 2 years ago for gaming.
Will be fitted for mining soon with 5770's

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2005, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 1995, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1429, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1660, in parse_config
  File "json\__init__.pyo", line 267, in load
  File "json\__init__.pyo", line 307, in loads
  File "json\decoder.pyo", line 319, in decode
  File "json\decoder.pyo", line 338, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

That's what I get in my log file.

Either that, or I'm running the equivalent of some low-level star in my bedroom.

Apparently, my Radeon HD 4xxx series card has a shader core temperature of 2,147,483,520 degrees celsius.

I find this oddly hilarious.


Any other funny stories of faulty hardware?

A year ago (or some amount of time that seems appealing to you), I sat down and created five of the most mismatched pieces of music I have ever decided to bundle together.

The 5-track EP (entitled 'Thought') features album art (also made by me), and the 5-tracks that the title 'Five-track EP' implies.

1: Starfall.
A 44 second clip of me playing around with a twinkly synthesizer. Would not be out of place in a childrens TV show.

2: Life on Another Planet
7 minutes and 42 seconds of me playing with a saw wave, and a hardware delay controller.
Experience the horribly tearing sounds of what I interpret outer space to be like.
(Outer space is a truly headache inducing place)

3: Aquares
5 minutes and 8 seconds of a seemingly square synthesizer with heavy delay. Played live, and played in such a fashion that the track seems to swirl around your ears in mono-instrumental style.

4: Euclidean Bullet
3 minutes and 12 seconds, and the first non-live track of the EP.
I created one 4 beat pattern (I think, might be longer patterns. Probably not.) at a time, completely independently, and then slowly piled them onto each other.
At the high point, where all patterns (mostly composed of near un-distortable sine waves) I apply a light distortion, and flail it about randomly, fading the grinding in and out, faster, slower, or just leaving it for a few beats.

5: I Am 4 r0ckst4r
2 minutes and 37 seconds, this is also not live, and the most normal song on the track.
It's simplistic electro rock, with a not-quite amazing drum solo somewhere in there.
It fades out into an ear-grinding bus, ending with a soft bleep (the kind you hear on old movie reels when they're counting down)




All this can be yours!
For a one time payment of (however much you're willing to give me under 1 BTC*)!


PM me if interested.



*I don't want you to be too upset when you realize it sucks.

That my hashing power is nothing compared to most everyone's.

Currently getting 33.4 MH/s off my HD 4670, and it's the best graphics card in my house.

It seems I'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel for awhile.