why shouldn't it be realistic, i'm mining with 1.4 gigahashes pooled and last 24 hours i earned about 2.35 bitcoin, thats 73 dollars at actual rate of 31 dollars per BTC - devided by 3 it would be 24 dollars a day, so i dont see how it's NOT realistic.

why are there so many conspiracy-theories going on with pooled mining....oh no, deepbit is getting too big and he will unleash mighty cthulhu to destroy us all....cmon guys seriously, i know you shouldn't trust everyone on the internet but this whole "pools are dangerous" thing is way overrated.

well the only thing i ever really turned into smoke was a PSU, i hardly think it's possible to turn the video card into smoke, just for the lulz i clocked my 5970s WAY TOO HIGH and the only thing that happened was that at about 105°C the computer shut down to prevent itself from harm. maybe there wars dirt or smthn on your card/bord/cpu ?

dem würde ich so nicht zustimmen, die chance, dass der preis sich festigt, seher ich als sehr gering an, denn mit steigender difficulty würde das minen von BTCs unrentabel werden, dies würde zu einer verkleinerung der community und zum totalen absturz der kurse führen. der kurs wird SO LANGE konstant weiter in die höhe gehen wie die difficulty steigt, stagniert der kurs, dann platzt die blase und alle die dann noch BTCs in der tasche haben, haben verloren.

thank you, now i got it, but its not yet confirmed, but i guess that will happen soon

so let me get it straigt, i have three computers, A B and a mining station: the bitcoin client (my wallet) is on computer A, this computer was not turned on during the transaction, so if i turn it on now and let it load i should still get my coin after some time of wating?

So I started pooled mining today, set auto payout to 1BTC and when it was reached it just vanished and did not appear in my wallet.
does the wallet have to be on the mining station, or can you just have it on another computer?

but wouldn`t lowering the voltage also lower the hashes, cuz that is not what i want, cuz mining is of course still profitable but with energy prices THAT high, i mean i dont know what you pay in the US or elsewhere but here in germany energy prices are SERIOUS business....

So I set up my rig yesterday, set everything up and started mining right away.
one thing i immediately noticed in the ati afterburner tool, was that my GPU temperature is very high, atm i run the card with

cpu clock: 875 mhz
memclock: 1300 mhz

and the temperature after 10 hours of straight mining is at a constant 93 degrees celsius, but even without overclocking the temperature is at 88 degrees celsius.

my question: is that too hot, i mean 88 degrees withou OC sound high to me.

side note: atm i'm pulling 828 megahashes, thats more than the hardware comparison told me.

just buy a very cheap dual core cpu like i did, bought the cheapest amd athlon dualcore available for like 40 euros and it does not feel like a bottle neck for me.

THIS is what i thought when i purchased my hardware at all, its a nobrainer, even if i would not earn one single dollar with all of my efforts i still got AWESOME new hardware i needed anyway, the only thing i would have wasted is a little bit of money for electricity, but that really does not matter, despite the fact that its about three times more expensive here in germany than it is in the us so for one mining rig with dual 5970s you gotta calculate about 140 dollars electricity or so, but if i make 1,5btc per day (was also my calculation btw) and sell thos 45 coins at the current price of 19 dollars each it would be still a huge profit. anyway, my workday is over now, gotta get home and get the rig runnin'.

thanks for all you guys who answered my post, great, active and helpful community.
see ya guys, i'll stick around.

deep inside i know you are right but as i have not seen a single dollar profit on my bank account yet i hesitate to spend more....probably i will sell my first bitcoins asap ( will do pooled mining btw) and buy another card then. so that might be within a week or so. and would you really say it's getting less profitable? a 30% dificulty increase and a 100% price increase, doesn't sound too bad for me.

well, so i recently purchased hardware to build my first rig, i know it's a little late and i hear a lot of people talk about the bitcoin bubble bursting soon etc. but I really did not invest that much money so basically I know it's a gamble but i don'r care.
anyways, cuz i'm not a complete dumbass i took a look at

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

before purchasing anything and after a little bit of thinking i decided to buy ONE HD 5970 and maybe a second one later if this project turns out to be success....

my question is: was that the wrong card to buy, i mean all i see in the forum is ppl talking about their 6990 (or dual 6990) miners, whereas the 5970 is way cheaper and, according to the chart, will get
approx. the same megahashes/s.

so tell me, did I fail, didn't I fail, and if a wanna buy a second video card should i buy another 5970 or a 6990.

sorry for my crappy english, it's not my first language but hopefully you can still understand me.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

unter dem punkt cluster gpu instance.

allerdings hab ich keine ahnung, was das kostet oder ob der betreffende service wirklich schon live ist.