Well shit, if that's your main reason, you should be mining scrypt!  Might I suggest (since it's kinda for your girlfriend and all)   Dobbscoin! The ONLY Crypto-Currency accepted on the Pleasure Saucers of the X-ists!  I just gotta say, nothing says SLACK like warming yourself with the cheery glow of a GPU or two.  "Bob" Approves!


"It's Intentionally Worthless!"

http://dobbscoin.info/

Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE your money back!!!

http://pool.slackprojects.org/index.php

Praise "Bob"!

Yeah, but I got more of them!  They're just different chips.  AMD out-performs Intel in some things, not in others.  Just now found out that the trick of running 7 individual threads bound to individual cores doesn't work with my 8350.  At 5 threads they all slow down a wee bit, and at 7 threads there's no real difference.  The most important thing though is that price difference.  Consider, I got chip and board for $400!  You can't even get a motherboard over $300 for AMD, top stuff for Intel is $500+.  There are a hell of a lot of people out there who probably wouldn't even have a system if it weren't for AMD's el-cheapo combos.  Essentially though, they're just different.

Whaaaaaat?  And I thought you Intel boys were fast!  $330 bucks for that?  Should get your money back.



Sorry, but you know that oh ok, 'certain' Intel users treat AMD users like 2'nd class citizens.  Couldn't resist.

*sigh*  Oh ok, confession time... Overclocked to 5Ghz.  Spexx miner, 7 threads, Win-7 64 bit.

Lately I've been playing around with some extreme ram clocks and timings (2133's taken to 2650 anyone?) and I'm pretty sure there's some sweet spots.  I've noticed better hashing with looser timings for instance.  So if you find it's sitting there and twiddling, maybe give it some slack.

It does all fit in this, but I'd like to do a desktop build, laid out all flat like this.   I just had to see all those rads stacked together though, just because.

Keep hammering at this!  It's not flash and doesn't reek of hookers and liquor but it's real and real important.  Any knowledgeable and sane person is revolted by the massive waste of computing power that is the Bitcoin network.  I can't imagine what that kind of power could do if harnessed properly.  (Actually, lots of Lattice QCD comes to mind)  Our hashing should have value, not just juggling numbers for the hell of it.

Refresh my memory... this type of pool just spits out coins via those addresses and into the open wallet, right?

Edit:  Yep, starting to roll in!

One thing, when I run the wallet it tells me I can't use --server option without name/pass being set, however name and password are set.  Set server=0 to get rid of that.  Same when run with --server option though.

Oh man have you missed a LOT!!!  (Um, google-fu mon, google-fu)

http://cryptomining-blog.com/2496-new-sgminer-fork-for-x11-mining-with-higher-performance/

And we're just getting started.

https://darkcointalk.org/threads/x11-algo-sgminer-with-separate-kernels-greater-hashrate.897/

We could go on like this for a bit but it all culminates in this...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632503.0

Front page too!  So what search engine y'all be usin' mon!  You know that Lycos inna dere anymore eh?  Ya lazy-ass bloodclaat! 

What error message are you getting?  I solo-mine a lot of things with a lot of sgminer variants. 

Ooof!  BIG!  But then I had a V-8 once, bigger.  Those things get so totally unwieldy, just too much bulk!  Believe me, get one of these and you'll never look back.  Look at all that room!  

http://www.overclock.net/t/1298561/various-thermaltake-water-2-0-extreme-all-in-one-liquid-cooling-system-reviews

Quite affordable too, if you consider the following... Those have to be stock clocks you're quoting there, but I get the same temperatures at 5Ghz.  You're basically buying another 20% machine!

My bad girl.  Nothing gets over 65C.
http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/media/Tech/BadGirl02.jpg.html

Great for modding vid cards too, that's my 7950 on top.
http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/media/Tech/BG_Detail01.jpg.html

Been tightening up and overclocking the ram lately.  RipjawsX 2133's, CL11.
http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/media/Tech/FastStable1.jpg.html

2133's at 2650?  AIEE!   Um no, it wasn't exactly stable.
http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/media/Tech/GoodLord2650.jpg.html

You'll never regret going to water-cooling.

I find the idea of renting a rig designed to mine one single coin pretty funny and ridiculous.  As has been noted, with how people have priced their rigs, you'd be basically doubling what they'd crank out on their own.  Just for kicks tonight I set up my Bad Girl for rental quoting 30Kh/s for 0.04/mh/d.  She cranks out 37+  though so the person who rented it paid me a quarter, and earned a dime.  Oy!  I'll readjust those numbers though to be at par.  Why not?  I mean, renting sha/scrypt/x11 rigs involves strategy, but this has as much strategy as flipping a coin, one with two heads.

Great interest in this though!  I gotta say that I just HATE false axioms, like "CPU mining isn't profitable!  Period!"  Um no, GPU/ASCI mining isn't sustainable, because the profit margin lies in being out in front of the pack in a headlong rush over an inevitable cliff.  Amazing, all these so-called heavy math jocks can't seem to do simple extrapolation.

But that's not what you asked.  *sigh*  True though.  Here's the hardware comparison chart which does contain some settings for your card if you want to see for yourself.

https://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison

As you can see, 20Kh/s doesn't even rate.  You'll take a full month to mine what I do with my 7950 in a day, and that's a fairly mainstream card for this.

Three words... Tiajuana Basket Job.

Ignore them.  Mine Magi.  It's a solid coin, good future.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735170.0

Well if 1+1=2 be strong words, so be it!    Math is so... definite.  I find it quite disconcerting that everyone seems to be ignoring the obvious.  For Turing's sake mon, this headline is from last year!

Forbes: Global Bitcoin Computing Power Now 256 Times Faster Than Top 500 Supercomputers, Combined!

In the past year that hash-rate has increased almost 100 times!!!  And then you get this...

Coming soon – Bitcoin Mining Supercomputers from Bitcoin Brothers.

Any guesses as to how long this can go on?

I vote for Coin Magi [XMG] Developer Joelao95 for understanding what distributed computing is all about.

This scene has accepted false axioms that will destroy it if left unchallenged.  

Extrapolating the course of Bitcoin leads to the inevitable conclusion... a black-hole of computation, essentially worthless.  It's inevitable.

Prove me wrong.  Arguments to be made using ZFC set theory.
 

I was kinda floored by the rates too.  Also wondering what those renters were thinking!  Margings are thin there on all the algos, gotta really be set up right, and ready to jump around, have your backups etc etc.

I'd like to post a rig or two myself, but there seems to be absolutely nothing online about how to set up, what's needed etc etc.  Info anyone?

Oh, and one reason I'd like to list, put a bit of realistic honesty into those numbers.

Edit:  And here once again we've got an example of the minimalist style of this scene... one bit of text, roll-over, not highlighted, pointed to, big shiny button, etc etc.  C'mon people, when it comes to information (and most other things) "Too Much is Always Better than Not Enough!"  We're supposed to be computer geeks obsessed with protocols and triple-checks.  I've got on more than a few nerves over the years (!!!) but it took me thirty of them before I finally accidentally formatted the wrong hard-drive.  (3 days sleepless, identical drives, bugger).

So, someone go and rent out my Bad Girl and take her for a drive.  Set way more honest price in the hopes that others will follow, then we'll recalc.

Thought that mined per day was a little low.  I get 16+ per day on around 35 kh/s.  I've set mine to 0.04 for now.  Slight profit but that 30 Kh/s is more like 35+.  Sooooo... anyone catch that pump today?  Joy!

It is so nice, so refreshing, to see that the top miner in the pool has hashrate only five times mine.  Time to move my machine to a nice cold place, I would like that 5.3 Ghz now please.

Thank-you!

I had three 6950's blowing on my shins all last winter.  Mmmm.... 6950's!

Helooooo?

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Is there anybody here???



Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........Echo!!!...........


Oh wow this is really great!


I'm gonna take all my clothes off and roll in the dirt!


Yeah that's better.  I'm feeling really groovy and free now.


Yeah, this is like, real easy man!  Like, difficulty 0.01564085 and all that.


But like, what's a network of one?  Hmmmm...  I don't know who to talk to...


Bummer.


^*Thanks Nigel Planter, you stupid hippie.

That?  Nasty?  Are you kidding?  You should see my scene.  You should also get out a bit more.