There's a point you're all completely missing.  CPU connectors for the motherboard are 4 pin or 8 pin.  PCI-E power connectors are for graphics card and are either 6 or 8 pin.  The 8 pin CPU and 8 pin GPU connectors have completely different wire arrangements and different shaped plastic housing.  They are not compatible with each other.

The other point is that most high end power supplies are single rail.  That means stealing power from the 12V CPU power connector with some wacky chinese adapter to put it into a PCI-E hookup is pointless.  All the power is coming from one 12V rail anyway.

I would simply buy the right power supply instead.

Darn, I'm not legendary but I am a certified egg xpert reviewer for Newegg.  They've sent me over $3k in free gear as long as I write a review about it.  They should have picked me oh well, probably going to buy one anyway.

I do have a question though.  You said you used 2x 750W total power supplies.  Since quite a bit of that wattage is in the 3V and 5V rails, the grand total of the 12V supply via the 6-pin connectors is well under 1000W, especially after the loss from heat that nobody ever puts into their PSU's numbers.  So what TH/s speed did you get with that limited wattage and were the PSUs spewing out tons of heat?

If anyone has an SP20 Jackson, I'm wondering what it REALLY pulls.  They said 1100-1200W in the specs.  Is that TDP of the unit itself?  Is that an at the socket measurement that includes at least 10% loss in heat by the power supply so you only need a 1000W power supply?  Is it a general recommendation of total power supply wattage that fails to take into account 3V and 5V rails?  Or is it the actual amount of electricity that you will need to provide on just the 6-pin graphics card style hookups?  I kinda need to know so I can buy the right power supply.

I just saw this news story on Slashdot and it makes no logical sense to me.  Let's say you have 33% of all mining at your pool. You have a 1 in 3 chance of finding a valid block solution before anyone else. So, you win it and do the exploit they say.  You hold it and secretly work on a 2nd block since blocks are based on the data before them. Now you happen to find a 2nd block that works before anyone else does since you got a "head start" (only probability-wise, no progressively). Finding one valid solution is unlikely but finding two before anyone else finds one is exponentially harder. Then they expect them to find 3? It would happen less than 1% of the time.

Now the other problem is they claim "as soon as another pool is about to find a valid block, you release yours." That's impossible. As soon as another pool broadcasts that it found a solution, the others check it, and it's already too late. Work is non-progressive so you can't tell if another pool is "getting close." So then it'd be a gambling thing. If you find a solution and start working on a second one without telling anyone and claiming your 25 BTC reward, you're more likely to lose to another pool before you find a 2nd valid block value. So you'd be holding it, holding it, holding it, oops you lost it and got 0 BTC.

Awww, so it's too late for "I bid $1, Bob"

AMD released and ships their products on time.  Btw AMD bought ATI and stopped calling it that a long time ago, lol.

First of all, 20/15 is the best visual rating.  I don't know what people say 20/20, as that's an expected average which doesn't imply very good vision, merely acceptable vision.  Secondly, I could dig up posts from a long ass time ago telling people that they're not going to ship on time.  You know who else said they're not going to ship on time around July 2012?  Butterfly Labs on their own website


And I think we all know the southern hemisphere is just a myth.  It is obviously not a real place.  For example, Lord of the Rings was allegedly filmed there.  Dragons and hobbits and Sauron do not really exist so obviously neither does the southern hemisphere.

Someone smarter than the guy who just sold about 30K bitcoins.

Seeing as how the block reward went from 50 to 25, 24 is the new 12.  We're just not there yet and people selling off BTC while the price edges higher is delaying it.  They really ought to keep it until 23-24-ish to make the most.

Yes, normal programmers go to college to get real world training from career programmers who actually know what they're talking about.  If you're just some nerd sitting in front of your computer with a textbook you got off Amazon, trying to learn it with zero guidance or on some forum full of arrogant douchebags who pretend they're professional programmers too, good fucking luck.  That's where garbage code with no standards, no comments, and no sense comes from.

If you want to know what kind of software comes from self-taught dumbfucks who are clueless about UI design standards and efficient programming, look at Fedora 18.  It's like me trying to write a symphony and not knowing shit about music, lol.

What a coincidence that the same exact people saying professional programming training isn't necessary are the same ones who talk out their ass about security vulnerabilities and make immature, misguided comments to anyone they view as potentially superior to them because they have no self esteem.  I guess dumbasses about programming are dumbasses about everything in life.

I feel like this exact topic was brought up like a year ago.

No, it's a bitpay copy with a prettier but much more vague landing page.

If everyone just puts it in their sig, you can just look up their profile and find it.  That requires no centralized maintenance.

If you go to spendbitcoins.com or whatever it is and then go to that jewelry section on newegg, you can get around 1.5 grams of sterling silver jewelry for 1 BTC   That's almost remotely close, lol.

Well it's simple.  You don't want to miss a sudden spike of high BTC prices cuz it was 2 hours long and you were at work when it happened.  You also don't want to set all your BTC to sell at $15 and then it turns out the spike was to $17 and you could have made more.

So waaaaaaay back in the day when I had a lot of BTC, at almost all times I had a sales order for 10BTC at $8.50, 10BTC at $9.00, 10BTC at $9.50, and 10BTC at $10.00 just in case.  That way I make money on a small spike, I make money on a big spike, and I don't lose anything if the price falls.  I actually had tiered buying orders too so I made money from a price drop as well, lol.

Quite a few people do that btw.  Way back when, there was a rich person on one of the exchanges was always leaving 200BC orders in like 8 steps.  They'd move them around but they were always there.

This seems obvious to me. The supply of BTC dropped from 50 to 25 per block and we're seeing the natural effects of less BTC supply.  It stalled for a while but a higher price has to kick in eventually. There was a delay because hoarders and long term investors might see $14.50 off of $12 for the longest time and say "hey, time to sell for a big profit" but eventually they run out of BTC that they're willing to sell so the supply side halving will catch up eventually.  That's what's starting to happen.

I meant ones who, like me, actually went to college to learn programming and database design.  Not just someone who attempted to sort of learn it on the internet and only learned the syntax then volunteered for a FOSS project like phpBB3 or something.  That reminds me of all the women in my web design class who knew nothing about computers or servers or the internet.  They just wanted a more modern job than fashion design so they switched degrees and now they make website without knowing what Redhat is or what JPG compression means.  Those people have no business working in IT.

There's no way this would work.  I could send all my BTC to wallet #2 and say they were stolen and they'd never know the difference.

It looks like...NOPE! lol.