I recommend it, mine run 70 with 30!!! ambient so that would be 60 for you... that's 15 degrees difference!

Also look at the placement of my side fans... that's important. I reduce the speed of my 4 top fans, they don't need to spin that fast = really really silent!

Finally place them lower and not in serial, now one is blowing it's hot air straight into the other.

Did you replace the thermal pad with paste too?

I have to start bfg then pull my redfury out of the USB, put it back in, then manually add it with bigpic:all from inside bfg.

Finally my 100GH/500W BFL are heating half the house silently. They almost already mined the cost of the Monarch I ordered on black Friday. This is my "ROI" concept, if the hardware can mine the cost of the next generation hardware it doesn't matter if it ROIs or not. Ofcourse you can't know that in advance but that wouldn't be any fun now would it!?

Now I just need a passively cooled 500W miner for the other side of the house, winter is coming!

http://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/12/theres-%C2%A360m-bitcoin-heist-going-down-right-now-and-you-can-watch-real-time

The process of making bitcoins unstealable is beginning. Today the chase is being performed manually in the future it will be automated. Mixers only work if you have enough people willing to mix, those will decline sharply once the tainting of bitcoins is automated.

Spread the word!

I don't think Coinseeker sees what is at play here, the really big (and relatively slow) players don't sit around and wait for this kind of opportunity to leave the station completely. Right now there are multiple billions at the gates waiting for some understanding of the stakes... when that barrage is lifted (might take 3 months but not more), we're going to be on the moon. Popular adoption is irrelevant but will enforce this trend.

To invent a new store of value is not something that happens often, in fact it's the first time in human history.

It will get easy, too easy, just like buying candy easy, but right now people with power want it to be hard.

Is this a serious question?

Hehe, what do you think happens to a government without currency?

The real problem is energy, so lets not go there but stick to global trade crutches.

For me it's not about value in terms of how much material crap you can buy for it, but how many governments it indirectly overthrows.

We need big changes soon or it will probably be famine and war I'm afraid, not for us maybe, but for our children.

It's interesting, most people are only interested in "making dough" and completely miss the real benefits and implications of bitcoin across the board of human life on earth. That said, it's not about the value of bitcoin, it's about the non value of FIAT. What a high price in USD means for bitcoin, is not that bitcoin is great, but that FIAT sucks.

You have to understand what money is to answer this question: FIAT is at the end of a very large global debt super cycle (the collateral is inflated and reused but ultimately worthless), so all players with non indebted FIAT will try to move parts of it into something "safer". Non debt FIAT will increase in relative value as the debt bubble deflates but there is a risk of FIAT failure* that anyone with half a brain can't ignore.

Things have to get ugly soon, nobody knows when, but bitcoin is catalyzing the peaceful process.

* Confiscation, Taxation, Inflation, Move of trust to something that politicians don't control = bitcoin.

Ok, last update I hope (is anyone even reading this crap?) so I now choke the two top fans (with resistors to reduce noise) and keep the side fan full speed. It seems the side fan position is the secret sauce to cooling these, it induces an airflow of fresh air between the heatsinks through the slim gap between the sinks and the top fans. Getting taller risers or cutting the sinks a little (need to keep pressure on the whole side of the PCB to cool other stuff) would maybe perform miracles. That did NOT work, hotter and more turbulent... Anyhow even more silent now and only 1 degree warmer!

Well, the mining rig photos thread has lot of litecoin in there too.

Why not just create 4 subfolders: CPU, GPU, FPGA and ASIC, that should cover it?

*secretly hoping for a FPGA coin with dynamic hashing, would QuarkCoin work?*

We need to take advantage of all those SPARTAN-6 y'know!

I remain there because the BTCMiner for zTex don't support stratum, It would be interesting to know why others stay. It's a luck thing I think, once per month we solve a block, kinda like solo mining.

I'm using my 2 singles for heating. You have to remove everything except the PCB + sinks, redo the thermal paste and add noctua fans; then its silent enough!

You can actually even use the supplied PSU if you're not afraid of electrocuting yourself, just remove the case from the PSU and apply your own fan, though I would not recommend it because the PSU is crap; but I had to use it for a couple of days and after 10 minutes of that really annoying fan I ripped it open.

Where can we find heatsinks?

So, they should go to prison instead?


+1, Small steps!

Today you can live off 100GH/s, so why not just reduce your load if things feel heavy. Don't quit completely, the journey has just begun!

About paranoia (both new hardware and getting it stolen) this probably mean you have some kind of requirement to perform, why not just see it as a hobby? You don't have to buy the latest hardware immediately or make sure it doesn't get stolen. Shit happens, life goes on.

Cryptocracy - When the currency is created by the people.

That's all we need really. Everything else will follow suit, just watch.

I think things will move fast from now on.