I kinda want an R-Type game (top down shooter) with upgrades purchaseable for LTC...might be a bit easier for me to code than the farmville thing.

My Turionx2 in my old HP would run at ~90C frequently. Granted that particular model of laptop had a TERRIBLE CPU/GPU/Heatsink engineering flaw, but it still worked (at least for a couple years).

Older, larger processes could take more heat.

As to the OP, if you're using Pooler's newest miner, you're going as fast as the rest of us.

I don't see one available on digikey -- Xilinx might be able to cook something up, but I'm willing to bet it would cost quite a bit.

Hey tom10122, any chance that you can time when you last stop using it, and when it stops responding (by an email alert from the pool, or something)? If it's happening reliably every x hours, it's almost definitely a setting you missed (there always seems to be one). If it's happening after random amounts of time, it's a driver failure, lack of power, or some other hardware problem. You haven't seen any BSODs have you? You have an AMD proc, right? I've gotten an error about the hypertransport goofing up before, and has caused similar effects.

So have the vaccines approved by a college before you take them? Similar to Snell ratings on helmets -- the DOT rates them, then an independent agency rates them too, just in case you want other verification. FDA approval doesn't mean it can't ALSO be approved by a private agency.

I'm not saying I trust the FDA -- but statistically, things like the elimination of smallpox weigh pretty heavily in favor of vaccines.

Oh, no, I'm the same way. Personal moral code and ethics, blah-blah blah. I'm just giving a bit of a cautionary advice -- if that's the type of girl you're looking for, look out. High percentage of troublemakers have the qualities you described.

Go volunteer at a women's penal facility -- if you want a wider pool of "eligible ladies" with your listed qualities.

Oh, and don't forget that while vaccines save thousands of lives, they might cause occasional, mild, mental problems. 

How/where would you like me to send it?

I found the message option on the site. Sent you screencaps of the questions, along with the "Question ID" for them.

wise168, I also added a couple questions, but they don't seem to be displaying properly -- is there a word/character limit?

Yeah, as you've probably figured out, mining on a GeForce like that won't give you very many bitcoins. ATI cards are where it's at. Good to hear you're still mining LTC though -- you're using Pooler's newest miner, right?

I've had this happen -- from what I can guess, the graphics driver failed, and was unable to restart. Do you have your cards overclocked? Typically this happens to me when they don't have enough power coming to them. The fans and LEDs and such stay on, but no response from the computer itself.

My guess would be power or cooling -- if you're mining on a pool, can you check to see when if the miner is inactive when the screen is black?

You can run them in the same computer, but--

Two cards do not need to be crossfired to operate in the same motherboard, and many miners do not run their cards in xfire.

You could xfire them (the 5970 is two 5870s, and you can xfire any 58xx cards together) but you may actually see a performance decrease, since the 5970 will downclock to match the 5850.

Are curious as to what purpose the calculations have, or what the calculations actually are, mathematically?

The purpose is to secure the network, the mathematical calculation is a SHA 256 hash (2 rounds of it, I believe) that must result in a low enough hash-value to meet the difficulty.

I think most people don't have any problem with sharing bad ideas -- the real question is, do you care about humanity enough to share the good ones?

You can mine Litecoins on a PS3 -- I think Pooler wrote a SCrypt miner that runs on the Cell architecture.

Glad to hear I was able to help. Just be warned: you may catch the mining bug, and find yourself wishing you could add "just one more card." 

http://allchains.info/calc.html

Should answer your questions. If everything stays the same, your rig would make up the deficit in ~70 days. That seems about normal, it's usually around a 3 month repayment time for hardware, or so it seems.

So the only thing stopping you from cramming 4x 5970s in there is heat dissipation? 4 dual slot cards will physically fit though, right?

D&T, doesn't the GD-70 let you run a card in 1, 2, 4, 5 (numbered PCIe-2.0 slots)? Looks like there's enough space there, so you could run 4x 5970s and max out your 8 GPU limit. That's not really relevant to the original post though.

What he says about the Mhash/W is very true -- I do not pay for power, if I did I would not be able to make very much profit (about $0.70 a day).

The upside is, if you replace the Sempron with a Phenom II, and add more RAM you could sell it off as a gaming box pretty easily.