WHta is wrong with GUI miner? I have used it for over a year and it has served me well so far. It also is giving me 308mh/s at present with my new card. With extra flags it used to give me 207mh/s on my old hd 6770 which was very good for that card, my son has that one now. Do the other miners offer better than what I presently get? This is why I was looking for extra flags to push the hash rate up. Thank you for your reply and any further info you can share.

I just got a Sapphire HD7850 to go into my new build and was wondering if there are any flags to go with GUI miner yet. The rest of my spec are i7 3770, 8GB memory, and a 60GB SSD for my operating system backed up with a 500GB HDD for storage.

Over thirty hours without finding a block. Is there a problem or are we just being ultra unlucky?

We're back u[ and running 

Xmas seems to have been a bad time for the pool and now server 2 is acting up. I have been forced over to my backup pool I hope not for long.

Merry Xmas 

Congrats 

+2

But it is good to be back up and earning again. 

In the mean time while we wait I have moved over to my backup. Hope BT get's things back up and running soon and I hope he is alright as we haven't heard anything from him in a while/ Normally he posts somehting when there is a problem which is worrying that he hasn't. 

I wish I had three GPU's or even the money for them, lol. I have over the years thought of using linux but never done so. My son uses it for some things and he has tried to get me to switch but I like Windows Xp too much. It was the first windows I ever thought was any good, Before that I had an A1200 for years and only got a PC for the kids when they were younger. I am planning on upgrading when I have the money though that isn't easy when your on minimum wage.

As I understand computers any error in code can cause problems for the user and unexpected happening. Over the year I seen a few. From games causing system freezes to graphics fragmenting because of drivers not playing nice. Hashing is just another piece of software. Adding new code to can, just like all software, cause problems for some users. After all no two PC are the same if built by the user as mine is. Maybe it is the line or two of code that is added that just doesn't like my system setup. But I also noticed bitcoin mining seemed slower. Yes that could be down to the difficulty level or several other things. Difficulty though isn't as high as it was a few weeks ago and though Slush's pool was down due to a DDOS I had the feeling that things were slower overall mining bitcoins. Add that to my own downtime due to the problems I was suffering from which seems to have disappeared coming over to here. It may just be me as I said but it is how I see it.

I'm not going crazy just reporting my experiences when I encountered merged mining before coming over here. Those extra bits of hashing caused me problems. It may not be the same for everyone but it was my experience. I also know at least one other posted their concerns on Slush's thread and was shot down for dissenting as I am now it feels. You may not agree with me but I am only sharing my opinion. People can take it as they see it. But I for one would move to another pool if merged mining was forced on the whole pool as happened over at Slush's pool or I noticed that it was causing a slow down in bitcoin mining if there were was still a opt out for those of not wishing to get in on the early stages of namecoins.

As I said I was mining at Slush's pool until I notice problems after he introduce merged mining. At first only those that wish to do so was adding their hash rate to merged but then he announced that everyones hash rate would be contributing to merged mining and at this point I began to have issues when connected to mine at his site. I would have sudden system failures (bsod), internet connection problems that only happened when mining, and other minor problems that all vanished when I moved. So through my observations I would say it was due to the merged mining. As to the claim that Slush's pool lost people to goig merged well I was one so there is my proof and where there is one as the say goes, there are always others.

I don't agree that it is a win win. When Slush's pool started merged mining I found I had problems that is why I came over here to mine. I also notice BTC mining seemed slower. Though those doing the merged mining did get the bonus of extra earnings the rest of us lost out. Also many others like myself left Slush's pool because of it which affects the over all speed of the pool. Slush'e pool at one time was over 2400GH/s now it is down to 1200GH/s half what it was. Yes not all of that is due to him going merged but it is an added factor.

Sending BTC is done through your wallet. All you need is the adress to send it to.

Since merged mining began on site I've found my system has become unstable when mining btc. Is seems fine on my backup site for mining. I also have found that I keep getting connection problems. I am only mining btc and haven't set up a wallet for namecoins and with the instablility issues when mining recently at your site I'm not sure I want to. Recently you said the whole network is used though for merged mining could this be causing issues for those of us that aren't interested in namecoins? If it is why not offer an opt out from merged mining for those of us that don't wish to mine namecoins?

Glad to be back Slush.

I hope you find a way to come back from this Slush as I did like mining withat your pool. I've move over to Ars for now but it will take some to get used too. I keep tabs on this thread to see when your back up and running.

My miner keeps disconnecting slowing me down. Hope it get sorted soon.