Would that put too much strain on the Molex port on the PSU? because it seems like each card will have their own own 2 PCIe Plugs on the psu, Then the remianing 6 cards will have to share 2 each on a molex port is that bad?

That is such a good idea! VMWare! Quick question for you there,

Generally a powersupply will have 4 PCIe power cables, how can 1 run 8 Cards with 1 power supply?

I OC'd all my 6950s now to 840mhz and 20% extra power on the catalyst control center. I wish I can clock them higher, they are stable as a rock, I am getting between 300mhash/s - 325mhash/s per seconds on each card at these settings. Temps are high 60's-c Any way I can push them harder?

Is anyone else disappointed with BTCMine's payout?

You guys are so awesome in this forum.

I thought windows can only accept up to 4 cores, and linux up to 6 cores is that not true? If you can really run up up to 8 GPUs on 1 board how do I go about setting it up?

I am awaiting more awesomeness from this forum. Thanks guys

He did report back --- POWER SAVE MODE kicking in every 30 mins  ... I've been there !

I was thinking it was that as I read this. I knew it could not be the PSU, unless a faulty PSU, as I have an 800w psu with my 2x 6950 cards... that PC is primarily a gaming machine, though.

Look, I'll confess (anonymously), I pool hop and it works.

Pool hopping is not cheating - it is optimizing. It is the responsibility of pool operators to implement algorithms that are fair. I'd think of all people, cypherpunks like bitcoin miners would be the first ones to recognize this fact. If you place all your trust into math, don't suddenly complain about fairness if your math turns out to not be good enough.

Hopping away from a single pool (at 43% of mean round time) earns 30% more. Hopping between a couple pools (I have 4 currently automated) earns me 70% more. If you'd automate a dozen pools, you could earn more than 100% extra.

Slush's pool is not secure because he messed up his algorithm. I earn 20% more on his pool. Deepbit pool is not secure, because they got a large market share. If no other pool solved the block (which I know automatically), it was most likely deepbit, even if their statistics are delayed by an hour.

Pool hopping is not too common. I've analyzed the statistics of the pools I use, and less than 5% of users pool hop, so "unsofisticated" pool miners only loose 2-5% of income. After publishing this post, I expect hopping to become more common.

What I want to happen is for pool miners to implement mathematically-fair payment algorithms. This is the solution best for the community in the end, but not manually enforcing no-hopping rules or withholding information. There is a complicated score-based algorithm published somewhere on this forum (not slush's algorithm) that seems secure, though I didn't check it in too much detail. There is a much simpler fair algorithm though, which I want you to confirm: pay for all shares submitted in the last 1 hour of a round. If a block is found sooner than 1 hour into a round, then rollover the extra time and pay for the unpaid shares of the previous round, or the previous round before that (if the previous round was shorter than an hour as well), and so on. This way, each share has equal expected utility regardless of when it is submitted - early on or late in a round. Late shares in long rounds are subsidized by early shares in short rounds. You can use any time interval shorter than the mean round time. I'd recommend 1/4 of the mean time, e.g. 1 hour for a 130GHash/s pool.

I'll report back if it works.

Lol guys have you not seen that the problem is already solved?

Thanks, got any requests?

i dont believe in btcmine 0% fee

Yea that's right!

So I can just run it as is???

mmmmmm the stats got reset after mainteneance, along with my unconfirmed/confirmed bounty :S

i have this question regarding block confirmations.

when you say "51 until confirmed", what does the number 51 represent? hours? minutes? shares?

thanks!

I'm fairly new at pooled mining but, my Eligius pool stats seem to swing wildly.  I've got one HD5970 throwing a rock steady 700 Mhash/s with phoenix, hardly any rejects (0 to 2 a day) but my reported stats swing from about 680 to 715.  Is that normal?  My box will mine faster with poclbm (730) but Eligius reports that to be slower.

Also, would adding another computer/miner to the Eligius pool with the same 'pay-to' address slow the other miner down?

I believe that connecting the green wire on the PSU's motherboard connector to any of the black wires will fool the PSU into thinking that you've turned the motherboard (that isn't there) on. You can then use the PSU to power other devices as normal.

Interesting. I think you may have solved my problem too. Do you get any RPC errors with phoenix?