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Hey. I usually don't head out of alts much besides lurkin' (but let me tell you, it is nice out here!)

So, I usually have a little BTC change hanging out between the wallets and the exchanges, a couple bucks, maybe 10 here and there. I don't like to send that all back to coinbase to sell because I don't like it sitting there, or ending up xferring it back out to use and paying a bajillion transaction fees.

And I don't really gamble, but gambling with a little BTC seems legal, and I'm essentially burning what equates to beer money; secondary income/investment income.

Can you guys recommend some good blackjack, maybe poker (except I suck at poker) where I can bet maybe .01 or .001 btc, for practice and fun with some real risk/reward involved? I don't want any of this blackjack pays 6:5 or 1:1 crap, and if it exists, blackjack that isn't "shuffles every hand/random dealing completely.

Again, I've only played blackjack among friends and such, so I'm just lookin' for a good place to give it a shot that isn't 100% straight burning btc. Ideally less than 1% house edge.

JK, JK, it was all, you know, a jk.

full disclosure: I'm a little pissy I didn't hedge my bets on RYC at all. I mined it for I think 15 days straight? maybe more? and amassed 3000 coins.

I am very frustrated these are worth roughly the same as a bag of old salty dicks.


So I'm curious, what set the two apart?

Is it honestly just the name? Are people that into the transact speed on WDC?

I've switched over to WDC hoping to ride the profit chain for a little while, but of course, I recognize it's probably a dump, anyhow. We shall see, though!

this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202030

Is getting just the worst hashrates.I've tried the guiminer defaults, a bunch of stuff from https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison#wiki-ATI_AMD_GPUs

And a couple things I found on reddit, like http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1cbg51/my_7950s_are_at_800k_somehowprt_scr/

And I am just getting dick for speeds. the ones on reddit almost work: At least, on give-me-ltc it reported 650+ spike for a while, but my computer slogged to literally unusable, to the point where guiminer froze and I couldn't move the mouse enough to stop the goddamn miner.

Can someone post settings they are using with this exact card to get into the 600s?

[PER SECOND OP POST: .5 LTC if you can get this bitch to or very close to 400kh/s. Easy, right?]

OK, two cards. 7870, and an older 6670.
A little more details on my rig:  the 7870 is my device for my primary display, of 6. the 6670 has 3 displays plugged into it, and onboard APU has 2 plugged in. Too many displays, for sure, work from home, blah blah blah.

Tried a lot of settings from stuff I've googled up. What I have now is, (using CGminer with guiminer scrypt)
No extra flags, thread concurrency 16384, worksize 256, intensity 14.
My RAM is set at 1450mhz. That's the max for this card, as reported by afterburner and CCC. GPU clock is set to 1100.
If I crank the intensity way up, it gets a bit of a way into the 300 mh/s, but at that point, I can't really even move the mouse.

What i'm looking for is the right freakin' settings for this bad boy, and if my unique setup might have any dumb caveats, here. Only one display is plugged into the 7870.

I also cannot for the life of me find settings that will work for the 6670, after a buttload of googling. Like seriously, my full time job is at least half googling, and I cannot find any settings that work.

I'd love to know what people are using for "I can still use the machine" settings, and overnight settings.

I know these are in the hardware comparison list, but the overnight settings crash the balls out of my videocard.

I'm also having trouble figuring out how to force an application to use a specific graphics card. I had assumed it will render with the graphics card the display is plugged into, but I'm suspecting some applications do not do that: I tried to pop a game on not-my-primary display, and it got pretty mad about it, soft-crashing my video driver.

And my final, hardly related question.
I've been mining on notroll.in. I'm having trouble understanding why this would be advantageous, besides that fact that it always pays: I am figuring PPS or proportional would be about the same, over a longer time, and I'm not sure if there is a better pool for me. If I can get both these bad boys crackin, I should do 400mh/s and 100mh/s each.


So, any help would be great.

PER SECOND OP POST: .5 LTC if you can get this bitch to or very close to 400kh/s. Easy, right?

Probably LTC. Coworker of mine makes a couple hundo a month less costs, and I'm still a little awstruck at the whole "make your computer print virtual money" thing. I've been reading stuff for a good ten hours, but I'm having trouble figuring out what'd be most economical in the long run, as there seems to be a lot of screeching about a bubble for bitcoins, which.... would probably bleed onto LTC? Or not. Honestly. I have no idea.

Here is my relevant setup bits:
Video cards, and the APU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150587
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125418
Mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131797
And 16 gbs of RAM. I run 6 displays, which is why I have the 3 stupid GPUs. I work from home in remote PC repair, and I'm pretty solid on general networking, and malware removal and analysis. None of which is relevant to this bitcoining magic.

What I want to know, is with my rig, would I be able to effectively utilize my two GPUs and my APU, or am I better off just building a rig for mining and throwing it in a closet?
Or alternatively, are these ASIC miners a better bet, in the long run? Can I BUILD an asic miner?

So yep. Hi all, first post. So, so many questions. These are the ones I can't seem to find an answer to, though.