As you may see in the article not all cards can be unlocked, some will refuse to do it and some have managed to brick their cards although it's unlikely. I have three 6950s which cannot be unlocked (XFX 6950 1GB A.3) no matter what I try, it's frustrating since earlier hardware revs of the same card can be unlocked.

If you are going to use that many cards I recommend, I haven't done a detailed look but you would be asking the board to potentially pull 350+W just for the PCIe slots, the wires will definitely get toasty as others have found.

Really looking forward to this, I have a thread over at techpowerup where I was discussing the flash and my initial attempts at bridging the switch. I don't have a reference card in hand so I went with some pictures online and thought I would bridge the normally closed position 1 for the switch thinking they essentially left it in "recovery" mode.  I didn't have any luck but then I didn't have a reference card (for reference ).

I moved with a couple of 120mm fans to help pull air across the cards, made a huge difference and things are running well. As said above the PS is your real issue, especially f you OC since you can get them pulling quite more then stock.

You missed it, over $19 again...

The value of BTC is driven primarily by speculation right now and that will continue to be the case, exerting fixed price controls for the "good" of the whole market, nothing like driving a strong monopolistic governmental concept into a market which tends to shed such principals.

Why would you assume people want to stay under the radar, I understand the overall reason from a tax point of view but it's certainly not a necessity, especially if one has multiple X the return on the initial investment.

Any insight into your water cooling setup for those of us that have never done it before? I understand the concepts, etc. but I have had a hard time getting my hands around the options available on the market for 1000W+ heat dissipation.

Lost his retirement money? I suppose I can see the greed take over and then see people get scared, did someone buy in really high and then decide not to wait it out?

The market depth just isn't there right now, as the number of coins grow things will stabilize more, that doesn't necessarily mean go down but make it much easier for the market to absorb these types of things. Someone with a reasonable (albeit not a small) amount of money can corner the market and play the game as they see fit. If more people are buying into the market this will make it a good time to get reserves up since demand will drive prices back to where they were last week.

The volume was staggering, I see the point of the dark pool (from the point of view of a large investor) and the decision one might take to move the market on the normal pool when the time is right.

Watching the market history over the last few minutes it looks like someone executed a massive buy at $23 causing the system to backup as it filled all orders up to that limit. When it finally completed the order all of those that got hot to try and jump on starting pushing, it was hard to get something in but if you did it right it was a quick 20%.

Great point, I was wondering about that myself and can definitely see why it causes issues. Applying this to the official client with an NTP flag for those running right time may be worthwhile. Some PCs are great at it while others are poor because of hardware and/or software.

Is there any sort of SLA for your investors? Asking because poor weather, moody ISP (personal line I assume with no SLA), etc. means there are many variables that may cause you significant downtime.

Did he pay for the fix, if so I find myself conflicted about whether or not it should be released. Maybe cover his cost plus what he lost and he should step up in the spirit of the community. You may want to go to the source of the fix and see if he will discuss since he posted his name earlier.

You are quickly turning this into a very impressive pool! I moved everything here a few days ago and I'm very glad I did.

Any reason for the cross fire bridges? I use the same setup you do (slightly different card model) and dropped cross fire since I wanted each card acting completely independent of the others. Each of my cards runs at the same rate to within 1Mh/s

Great way to fund playing the market, with the volatility be careful you do not get caught.

(obviously the above is an assumption based on the logic I see in the OP)

Commercial bitcoin mining solutions? I didn't know there was a solution built specifically for bitcoin mining already instead of an adaptation of generally available commerical products built for differing reasons. Please enlighten us..

EDIT: I misread the initial quote however I'll leave my reply as is because the general point is the same, nothing has been purpose built that is generally available to the community, in that sense it could be done.

I have a background in hardware driven SHA-* hashing for different reasons and there is a fair amount of good research available online as well as good performance analysis of different approaches, should be an interesting project if the details are released to the community (vs. Art's close hold)

Good choice given the nature of the thread thus far, I wish you the best with this and think you may yield some good results depending on the firm you hired.