Hmmmm, the list looks eerily similar to my MSDNAA subscription 

Moved over from Slush because I got tired of seeing 5 and 10 million share blocks repeatedly.  Looks like I made the top 30 - once I see how much stable it is I'll be happy to donate at least 0.5%.  Just can't figure out why my stale rate is 3.5% using GUIMiner 8-24 OpenCL 

I'm in SoCal too.  Yeah just letting a single 6870 run 24/7 on my main PC bumps my electric bill from $25/month (I live very cheaply with wife, mother-in-law and 2 babies) to $63/month (Tier 4 at $0.33).  If I were to build just 1 farming rig with 4 6870s I would hit Tier 5 and be losing about $5/day   

I saw one of you other posts about it so I did a quick forum search and only found three posts including its name and one of the post mentioned lack of fan speed control.  Happen to know where it is? 

Yes - synchronize similar GPUs is unchecked.  I have Catalyst 11.8, MSI Afterburner, and Trixx 2.0 installed.

I was able to tilt the large fan down towards the cards and get the temps down to the low 70's, so I bumped up the core frequencies a bit, but I would still like to be able to lower the memory clock.

So from my past experience when I install Trixx on it's own it's not able to modify anything.  I just reinstalled a Win7 rig with a single card last night and cannot get Trixx to control the card. When I launch MSI afterburner and then Trixx I am able to control everything with Trixx.

When I went from 2 cards directly plugged in to 4 cards on risers on this 790FXA-GD70 board I lost all ability to memory clock (I'm assuming because the MSI afterburner driver crashes at boot).  I can control the core frequencies and fan speed, just not the memory clock 

So I finally got 4 16x risers and wanted to see if I could make a decent multi-card setup (up until now have been running only 1 card/rig with mostly 6950s).  I got a MSI 790FXA-GD70 that I broke in over the last few days.  I was able to run 2 6950s in there spaced at the 1st and 4rth slot I believe.  I used MSI Afterburner and Trixx.  I noticed when I used Trixx alone it would not let me control memory clock, but if I launched MSI afterburner then Trixx would allow me to take the memory down to 400 and keep my temps down below 85c.  Oddly I was only able to drop the memory on the top card which is the one that ran hot.  Ended up running it 850/400 and the lower card 900/1250 (couldn't get MSI afterburner or Trixx to control it).

Flash forward to today.  I thought 4 6950s even with risers would just be too much heat in one area and decided to alternate 6950/6870/6950/6870.  I did get all 4 cards to boot and get detected (which after reading on these forums appears to be a feat in-and-of itself).  When I run all four cards at stock (just to initially try to see what temps I was getting) the top card was hitting 91C which I was not comfortable with).  I used a cheap wire rack to lift the card out of the case and placed the case in horizontal position.  I put a big 20 inch fan right in front of the case to clear the heat but the top 6950 was still smoking at 91c (this is with no OC).  Room temp is about 70c with AC running (my wife's work office where I have free electricity but AC only runs during the day).

Here's the problem. MSI Afterburner fails to load its driver at boot - says driver failed to load so I can't launch it.  When I launch Trixx 2.0 and run 4 instances (one for each card on the pull-down) I am able to set the fan speed of both 6950s and both 6870 all independently of each other (I tried 49/50/51/52% just so I would know it's working).  I used 4 instances of GPUz to see the temps since Trixx was off on temps I think.  No matter what I tell the memory to downclock to - whether it be 650, 500, 400 - GPUz shows the memory never downclocks.  I can downclock the core, but that defeats the goal of higher hash rates.  Maybe I don't know what I'm doing with Trixx (couldn't find a tutorial) but I couldn't get the memory clocks on any of the 4 cards down.  The same 2 6950 when planted directly into the board just 1 hour earlier - well I was able to get one to downclock as mentioned before.

Is there something in the ATI Catalyst center I need to do?  In MSI Afterburner I typed that consent message and set the 2nd field to 2 (which I guess allows the memory downclock).  Trixx also lets me lower the slider for the core voltage but again I have no idea if it's doing anything (think I lowered from 1125 to 1100).

I was hoping to consolidate my 9 rigs into 2 or 3 "efficient" rigs.  It was actually cheaper to setup the 9 rigs since I was using leftover boards, chips, RAM and PSUs.  For those 4 card setup I bought the board for $175 and the PSU for $60 (LEPA 850 deal at Newegg).

Any pros have any suggestions, tips, or can point me in the general direction for something to read?  OS is Win 7 64 bit.  I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to linux (only tried Backtrack to crack a WEP before) but it seemed like people were having more trouble with multicard rigs in Linux.

Over 10 million shares for this block  That's about a 1/4000 chance at the current difficult and slush only has about 7500 blocks  

With 2.4-2.7GH/s I'm not even getting 1 BTC per day.  Lady luck has my balls in a vice clamp.  I was at BTCGuild for 2 weeks only to have those horrible bad luck days (only 1 day was positive).  I bailed and went to slush only to see them go negative for the last 2 days and BTCGuild of course is now running some insane 200% luck since I left.

I'm going to go lay down on the freeway now 

I downloaded the upgrade patch from 0.6.4 to .5 and when i tried to run upgrade it game me an error saying the bspatch was not found.  It went ahead and renamed the cherrypicker.jar file to old.  Do I need to install BSpatch to use this upgrade?

Need some help.  Installed the files, configured a few pools (up until this point I was using only BTCGuild so I had to make a bunch of new accounts), and keep getting what seems like a connection error.  When I try to manually launch guiminer and have it mine it connects fine and the sites are reporting the work turned in.  When I try to use CP I get this:

14-08-11 06:55:51
================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:51                        CherryPicking Pool Hopper - v0.6.4
14-08-11 06:55:51 ================================================================================

14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 0arsbitcoin.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 Pool 0arsbitcoin might be configured correctly. It has been initialized anyway.
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 1bitclockers.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 Pool 1bitclockers might be configured correctly. It has been initialized anyway.
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 2bitcoinlc.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 Pool 2bitcoinlc might be configured correctly. It has been initialized anyway.
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 5eligius.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 One or both of the regular expression strings needed to parse round shares are empty.
Ignoring pool
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 7mineco.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 Pool 7mineco might be configured correctly. It has been initialized anyway.
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 Attempting to parse 13slush.cfg
14-08-11 06:55:53 Pool 13slush might be configured correctly. It has been initialized anyway.
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:53 * Updating difficulty
14-08-11 06:55:54 Difficulty is: 1888786.7053531
14-08-11 06:55:54 * Updating pools
14-08-11 06:55:54 * 0arsbitcoin
14-08-11 06:55:55 * Error occured while trying to communicate or open a connection to https://arsbitcoin.com/api.php
* sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
14-08-11 06:55:55 * Update error or pool considered invalid (lagging or down)
14-08-11 06:55:55 * 1bitclockers
14-08-11 06:55:56 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:55:56    Type: PROP
14-08-11 06:55:56    Hash rate: 188.264 GH/s
14-08-11 06:55:56    Round shares: 1161108
14-08-11 06:55:56    1.429622071744675
14-08-11 06:55:56 * 2bitcoinlc
14-08-11 06:55:56 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:55:56    Type: PROP
14-08-11 06:55:56    Hash rate: 506.264 GH/s
14-08-11 06:55:56    Round shares: 4198769
14-08-11 06:55:56    5.169762706447046
14-08-11 06:55:56 * 7mineco
14-08-11 06:55:57 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:55:57    Type: PPLNS
14-08-11 06:55:57    Hash rate: 111.318 GH/s
14-08-11 06:55:57    Round shares: 6217885
14-08-11 06:55:57    1.3378509780399475
14-08-11 06:55:57 * 13slush
14-08-11 06:55:58 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:55:58    Type: SCORE
14-08-11 06:55:58    Hash rate: 1878.304 GH/s
14-08-11 06:55:58    Round shares: 3748841
14-08-11 06:55:58    19.84787900812321
14-08-11 06:55:58 * Most efficient pool is: 7mineco
14-08-11 06:55:58 1.3378509780399475
14-08-11 06:55:58 * Cherry Picking!
14-08-11 06:55:58 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:55:58 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:55:58, Setting pool bitcoin @ 127.0.0.1:8332
14-08-11 06:56:01 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2
14-08-11 06:56:03 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2
14-08-11 06:56:05 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2
14-08-11 06:56:05 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
14-08-11 06:56:05 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:56:05, No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.
14-08-11 06:56:05 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:56:05, Setting pool bitcoin @ 127.0.0.1:8332
14-08-11 06:56:09 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2
14-08-11 06:56:11 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2
14-08-11 06:56:13 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2
14-08-11 06:56:13 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
14-08-11 06:56:13 * 7mineco seems to be lagging
14-08-11 06:56:13 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:56:13 * Updating difficulty
14-08-11 06:56:14 Difficulty is: 1888786.7053531
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Updating pools
14-08-11 06:56:14 * 0arsbitcoin
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Update error or pool considered invalid (lagging or down)
14-08-11 06:56:14 * 1bitclockers
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:56:14    Type: PROP
14-08-11 06:56:14    Hash rate: 188.264 GH/s
14-08-11 06:56:14    Round shares: 1161108
14-08-11 06:56:14    1.429622071744675
14-08-11 06:56:14 * 2bitcoinlc
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:56:14    Type: PROP
14-08-11 06:56:14    Hash rate: 506.264 GH/s
14-08-11 06:56:14    Round shares: 4198769
14-08-11 06:56:14    5.169762706447046
14-08-11 06:56:14 * 7mineco
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Update error or pool considered invalid (lagging or down)
14-08-11 06:56:14 * 13slush
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Pool update done
14-08-11 06:56:14    Type: SCORE
14-08-11 06:56:14    Hash rate: 1878.304 GH/s
14-08-11 06:56:14    Round shares: 3748841
14-08-11 06:56:14    19.84787900812321
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Most efficient pool is: 1bitclockers
14-08-11 06:56:14 1.429622071744675
14-08-11 06:56:14 * Cherry Picking!
14-08-11 06:56:14 ================================================================================
14-08-11 06:56:14 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:56:14, Setting pool bitcoin @ 127.0.0.1:8332
14-08-11 06:56:17 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2
14-08-11 06:56:19 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2
14-08-11 06:56:21 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2
14-08-11 06:56:21 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
14-08-11 06:56:21 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:56:21, No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.
14-08-11 06:56:21 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 14/08/2011 06:56:21, Setting pool bitcoin @ 127.0.0.1:8332
14-08-11 06:56:25 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2
14-08-11 06:56:27 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2
14-08-11 06:56:29 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2
14-08-11 06:56:29 [Miner0] 127.0.0.1:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
14-08-11 06:56:29 * 1bitclockers seems to be lagging




and I'm not sure what's misconfigured with ARS here:
Type=BACKUP
Host=arsbitcoin.com
Port=8344
JSON=https://arsbitcoin.com/api.php
HashEx1="hashrate":"\d+
HashEx2=\d+
;SharesEx1=
;SharesEx2=
Div=1e3
Miner=username pw


So I'm not sure why it's getting those RPC errors and not connecting 

Bloody, I ran into the same problem.  You just need to add the Java dir path to the windows paths- this should help you out: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_stop_the_error_%27java%27_is_not_recognized_as_an_internal_or_external_command_operable_program_or_batch_file

I know a lot of the miners are from the tech "deal" sites like Anandtech, ARS, HardOCP, etc.  I found out about BTC through Anandtech (man if I was back in my 20's I would have been mining last year but with a family....).  Most of the hardware traders on those forums rely on heatware to see a person's rep.  Heatware can be compromised if the hacker has the same password you use there as your mining site passwords but as a rule Heatware rep is pretty reliable.  Until a decent site is up with BTC addresses I'll use Heatware as my guide for any purchasing I do.

Looking through their top 10 trader list - I've traded with 9 of the 10 and haven't had a problem with any of them.  Makes me feel warm and fuzzy knowing I'm still in the Top 100 traders by rep and I haven't traded in 2 year I think.

Oh here's the link to Heatware if you plan on trading a lot: http://www.heatware.com/index.php

Argh the wait is killing me.   Was going to join a PPS pool but couldn't post, so I had to make an account.  Spent 8 hours reading here yesterday without an account - now mindlessly wandering around reading Bonkers posts about leaving fridge open to cool the room 

Not a good day to be trying out BTCGuild for the first time - once this next block comes in the 24 hour luck will be around -65% - roughly only 8 blocks in 24 hours! 

Hello.  Started mining a couple of weeks ago but the $0.26/kwh here in SoCal is killing me.  That's only tier 4, I think tier 5 shoots to $0.35.  Fortunately I'm mining at work

Lurker long enough and got a question so gotta get the ball rolling...