You will be fine. My rig with a 5850 and a quad core draws 290w at the wall.

GPU and possibly monitor have been found, still looking for hard drive

Still looking, post/pm with offers

Allow me to go point by point.

1)Governments are parasites:
Government spending is a portion of GDP which means that resources are not destroyed by the government, merely reallocated. Additionally, they address externalities which could not be handled by the private sector. While the proper scope of government can certainly be debated, and I might agree that it is currently too large, to dismiss all governments as parasitic is incredibly ignorant.

2) Governments have a monopoly of force:
There are currently 192 governments, which is no indicative of a monopolistic market. Rather, it in indicative of a competitive market with high entry costs. It is true that a cannot individually enter the "force market". I also cannot build my own cars. This does not mean that car manufacturers are a monopoly.

3) Countries are controlled by central banks:
First off, this isn't true. Second off, who cares?

According to the UN, at least 192 groups have successfully done that.

I am not aware of any entities that have a monopoly on force.

Which parasites?

Where would violence come from? Austrian commandos storming the Federal Reserve? A nuclear exchange between Mt.Gox and Paypal?

I don't see it.

No, there will not be. Bitcoin could become a major player in online currency exchanges. People who think it will spark a global currency revolution and become the world standard are nuts.

The issue is that pixel fillrate is related to the ROP's, which are not used in bitcoin mining.
http://www.gpureview.com/pixel-fill-rate-article-365.html

Thats why I did the complicated 3 step comparison to try and get shader performance number. I haven't been able to find any good direct comparison for shader performance between PowerVR and desktop chips.

Thats exactly it. They are much less complex, which means smaller chips, which means less power consumption. Mining is a very simple operation, most of the stuff on a desktop chip (high speed RAM, ROP's, Texture Units) is extraneous and wastes power.

But I agree, hard numbers are needed. I will try and get a dev board so I can test it.

That does look promising. I looked into the technical side and saw no reason why such a project wouldn't be possible. I was more constrained by lack of a test platform.

I think I will get on of those pandaboards and see what kind of performance numbers I get.

I suspect most people would say the same about a digital cryptocurrency.

GPU has been found, still looking for monitor and hard drive

I was mining, switched over to namecoin about a week ago

That might work. Do you know the model number?

I agree. I was engaged in active non trolish discussions, and this sort of retroactive punishment seems unreasonable. Also, trolls can just spam to 50 posts. This only deters people who are actually interested in bitcoin.

Hey all,

I'm looking for the following items.

1) A monitor with either HDMI or DP input and integrated speakers
2) A low end ATI GPU from the 4/5/6 series to run desktop stuff on while my GPU mines
3) A hard drive of at least 500GB SATA for dual booting.

PM me with offers. Thanks. I am willing to pay first for reputable community members.

No. At idle the 5800's underlock the memory to 300 anyway. Anything above that is 100% fine.

its like bitcoin, but used for registration of domains ending in .bit