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Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Anything but Trixx?
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on: September 29, 2011, 02:16:51 AM
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I replaced MSI Afterburner and Saphire Trixx (and GUIMiner) with CGMiner. My startup shorcut overclocks the video cards, downclocks the RAM, and sets the fans to the right RPM all in one shot. It could even set voltage if you want to get nutty. It can do this per video card or the same setting for all cards. It also monitors the fan speed, temp, and much more. Killer mining app IMO.
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Any way to get client startup faster?
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on: September 21, 2011, 04:49:12 AM
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It'd be better if it displayed some kind of startup screen instead of just staying silent
It would be better if it just created UI first and do the work later. Bitcoin-qt does this, and very well. It will be merged with main client in v0.5.0. I wish it was sooner, but I don't mind compiling bitcoin-qt every once in a while. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Google wallet.. good for bitcoin?
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on: September 21, 2011, 04:32:39 AM
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So far it only works with 1 phone, 1 credit card (plus the fillable Google card) and only at the newest NFC readers in select locations. Until Google can put updated NFC readers in every single spot there is a regular magnetic CC reader, and until they get all the credit/debit cards added to the app, it is just a dream.
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Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I'm not seeing miners leave in hordes...
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on: September 19, 2011, 05:54:51 PM
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LED lamps:
too expensive, price will come down.
many are poorly designed and lack of customization options, that is why DIY is still popular.
pretty darn butt ugly hanging above a tank in many cases compared to ATI T5 for example.
buying now means you are stuck with a model that may very well be improved in many ways in the next 1-3 years.
resale value will be poor as price comes down leaving you with undesirable older model.
but that is just my opinion. i still prefer ATI kits and bulbs. proven track record and stylish.
eventually i will go LED in the future.
I tend to agree with this assessment. LEDs on the whole, aren't there yet, especially for marijuana. I have never seen a halfway decent bud flowered out of LED, but they're fine for cloning and small scale vegging, especially if you are in a tight space. Plasma lights might fly for ganj, but their spectral output is totally wrong for aquaria. I am curious to see where that technology leads, cause it has some serious potential. I thought the graphs I saw for the plasma lights looked great. You could even change the spectrum by dimming it. So far I've only seen one person use it on an aquarium and they never reported back as to growth, etc. I know they use plasma on public aquariums, but I'm assuming those are fish only displays. I really want to see where plasma goes too. I've seen enough LED setups that just don't look natural due to multiple point sources creating funky shimmering colors. |
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Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: I'm not seeing miners leave in hoardes...
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on: September 16, 2011, 04:08:01 AM
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Growing coral is somewhere up in the mix as far as using electricity to make money. There is a lot of coral that goes for $200 a frag -- some only approx. 1 square inch. I'm about to get back into the saltwater reef hobby, but not to make money. Just a little 1.5 gallon pico.
These all go for $200+ and are just the tip of the iceberg. The disc they are glued on to is 1-2" in diameter.
Nice. Where would I find out more about this? Is there a hobbyist site? What is the connection with using electricity? The connection with electricity is that it takes extreme amounts of light to grow out coral. And it grows very slow. I dunno, just reminds me of bitcoins. reefcentral, nano-reef, and reefaddicts are the main sites I troll. I wouldn't recommend getting into the saltwater reef hobby. It's a very hard thing to do. I had anxiety attacks over my 50g, but I'm going to try again with a pico and maybe step it up to a nano like how I started. |
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