You need to factor in that the entire 30d volume in BTC according to bitcoincharts is less than $12.5million, and that's probably >90% of all the money ever traded.  The market cap right now is $200M.  So much of this is just on paper gains at this point, which makes anything possible as far as price moves.

Anyone know of some good rackmount cases that can comfortably fit 4 5830s or equivalent cards?  Preferable without modding, but if it's the difference between a $70 case and a quick mod vs. a $400 case I'll do the mod.

I've got such a mess worth of parts and I should really streamline everything and get a proper rack.

Lol, I thought this was funny.  One buyer standing alone again all the sellers.

Everything bitcoin seems to be intermittent for me right now, including this forum, bitcoincharts, deepbit

Looks like people taking profit, eating up most of the bids.  There is a very wide gap between bids and asks now.

Why would knowing if you randomly solved some blocks help you decide if you should mine solo?  If you just want an estimate it's a pretty obvious calculation to begin with.  Just see how much you earned in BTC, add back their fee, and divide by 50. That's how many blocks you would have solved on average by solo mining.  

Just got these in.  Will have some work ahead of me tonight...

I'm just wondering what other people have done to keep cards safely separated when you need to cram them side by side on a motherboard and have no case to screw the cards into?  I had a machine go down last night when one of the cards moved a little and the fan slammed into another.  I don't think there was any damage that can't be fixed, but I obviously want to prevent this from happening again.  For now I stuck some pieces of a cardboard box between each card, but I was wondering if anyone had a more elegant solution?

I made backups of course, just thought maybe there was a signature specific to one card or something like that, and I would need the exact BIOS to flash it back.  I'm planning on having a lot of these so it would be a problem if that was the case.  That and voiding the warranty made me stop at flashing a few.

I'll look into that AMDoverdriveCtrl.

Bump in case anyone has a software solution that doesn't involve flashing the BIOS.  I flashed a few of my cards with RBE, but I don't like it.  Just worried I'm going to brick a card or have a nightmare unloading them later if I need to restore BIOS with specific signatures or something.

The pengo notes aren't as cool because they don't have all the zeros.  This is the 10^20 note, which is 100 quintillion or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Can 5850s really go to 375?  The stock was like 250 so that's a pretty huge increase.

Got two computers setup like this so far.



Worthless cases can't fit 4x gpus, so they get relegated to table status.

I'm getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./poclbm.py", line 3, in <module>
    import pyopencl as cl
ImportError: No module named pyopencl

When I try to run either miner.  I've tried repeating the steps several times but can't get anything working.  Just wondering if this is a common problem where it might be something obvious?

Edit: Got it working.  I had originally messed up one of the lines and redoing the steps couldn't fix it (unless there were instructions in the code whizzing by that I didn't read).  Anyway I did a fresh install and it seems to be ok now.

But remember if that's true then just buying BTCs is way better than investing in hardware.  Difficulty is growing at like 30% a week, if BTCs keep pace with that than it would be the best investment ever.

How much were those $100T notes worth when printed?  Seems like they missed a golden opportunity, with their ridiculous currency being worth more as a collector's item than a unit of exchange.  They should have kept printing them just for that.

If all those gamers found out about bitcoin, the hash rate could go to 5,000,000 Ghash/sec.

At this point it would cost tens of millions to seriously disrupt the bitcoin economy, and while the big banks obviously have the capital to do it and it may be in their interest, I just can't see anyone convincing them of BitCoin being a threat.  Mammoth corporations seem to be slow to move on things like this.  The only ones who would be able to put that kind of money in are hedge funds, and they will probably try to profit on a huge run up in price first.  If we start seeing multi million dollar trades I'd be worried, but for now it looks like all individuals so far.

The 20,000 is probably pretty close to accurate, so if the 16M number sold is accurate why has there been such an impact on the video card market?  You can't reliably find 5850s, 5870s, 5970s, or 6990s in stock anywhere, and even 5830s are going.  If we're only .1% of the market, it shouldn't have had that big of an effect.  Does that mean there is like 50k G/hash in cards purchased recently and still waiting to come online?

It's possible, and I know I'm part of it since I bought 27 cards in the past week 

Oh noes.  Anyone selling solar panels for BTC?  I just 600m^2 and some place to put them.