As far as I'm aware most ASIC miners use cgminer or bfgminer .

I'm also pretty sure that you can not use GUIminer for ASIC mining.

Ok thanks a lot guys.  Guess I was pretty close then.   So around 850W .   I'll now go answer 2 questions in the noob forum to pay you guys back...

Subject title pretty much says it.  Can anyone give me a ball park number on how much power is used by mining system with 3 7950's?  

I'm trying to run some cost estimates on my power.  I'm using a Gold rated psu, have a hard drive, low wattage core i5.

Anywhere in the ball park is good. I'm thinking somewhere around 900w to 1 Kw .  Does that seem about correct?  Thank you.

(No Kill-o-watt guy here).

Personally I think it's good time to buy coins.

OP's points are valid and make sense but I see things differently. The payment processors shut down is a set back, but not 'the end', by a long shot.  For example, currently I can buy coins with cash quite easily through a bank deposit method. A couple of hours and Bitcoins.  If I wanted to sell BTC for fiat, I could also withdraw to my bank account or sell OTC locally.

I sort of thing the American gov' resisting Bitcoin will help the currency in some ways. And it's next to impossible to stamp it out.

Not sure about this one, but maybe with increased difficulty of fiat/BTC exchange payment processors, perhaps it will cut down on the market speculation as well, making the price of BTC more stable, which will happen it gain traction as a currency.

Maybe the OP is just (understandably) tired of all after 2 years.  Like if you look at it another way, BTC has come a long way, and is in much better shape, than it was 2 years ago.

Someone just went on a pretty big buy spree just now picking up 25 shares or so.  

It looks like there is a good chance of almost every share going to be sold out in the future; looks good

How can people be upset that their may be a price drop?

Sort of like being upset it's raining. Kind of childish. Understandable but not really productive..

Maybe you bought it at too high of a price then if you are upset about a price drop. For anyone who bought at <2 BTC a share, of which there are many, than they aren't too shook up about a potential drop from 2.5 to 2.4 a share.

No. This ship has sailed.

It's conceivable that BFL will offer further products and better price-to-performance metrics after they've gone through the very long tasks of satisfying existing orders and be able to ship'em in a reasonable time frame...but as it is now, they are really far behind in production, and there are many better investments for your money.

Ya give'em a break, perhaps .  2 days isn't so bad. They are probably crazy busy on top of receiving a crazy amount of emails everyday on top of (probably) being more guys who like working on hardware instead of answering-email types. 

Good idea. But you can't propose it in this manner and expect to reach more than.... 5% of folks (at the absolute most) buying & selling if this thread was a wild success.

Because your new OP, and the Butterfly Labs ads are always present, conveniently, on the most popular bitcoin mining calculator webpage, I just want to let you know, in case you haven't heard it yet, that any order from BFL will highly likely not be delivered in 2 months like the website makes it out to be.

Really bad news.

Apple does as much patent trolling as anyone so I easily see them leveraging their somewhat ambiguous patent as tool to shut down competing payment processors.

Not to mention, if they do follow through with it,  the hordes upon hordes of Apple fans who'll buy anything they sell because it's a style statement will end up perhaps negatively affecting Bitcoin's popularity.

 

edit: oh i got it. just really wanted to use my 'margarine or error' pun which i've been saving for a rare occasion where i can use it.

I have seen a lot of stranges things on the ole Internet, but I've never seen anyone post a picture of margarine before.

Don't see the relevancy...

...I guess that post represents some sort of margarine of error .

Hey did you guys see Yifu's new update / well post anyways / in the other thread?

He posted on page 2 and 3 on the 'Avalon 8 million chip payments' thread.

first post to save you a click : "somebody called and woke me up in the middle of the night for this, so I'll keep it short.

1a. see the conference video, I thought that's an update; for the lazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY1xgGiejIc
1b. also got cornered after the panel and somebody took this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVx26LlNXA
2. an update incoming in < 1 week, pretty exciting.
3. we fully understand there is problems with orders ( no way?! )
- we can not address these issues IF WE DO NOT SOLVE OUR PRODUCTION ISSUE then we can not DELIVER at all.
- so until that happens, get all your information ready and bump the ticket if it makes you feel better, or just wish to complain and blow off some steam. ( please do not create new ones though, usually looking at the support system ticket insolvency merging at least 5-6 other ones first... ).
4. this forum is a giant waste of time, get back to coding, go outside, hug your mother, do something,

lastly, food for though:"

KNcMiner seems honest enough, and has answered about 1001 questions posed to them. They look legit to me; open about their plans and details. I think their production schedule has to be a bit optimistic, but I think they'll pull through without a BFL-sized delay...

I don't see there past production as a huge red flag. It's something to keep in mind as a factor, sure. But every company has to start somewhere. I mean look, if Avalon went from basically nothing of a company, a few young motivated guys, to what they've accomplished, [insert another 10 examples here], then I don't think it's it is as far-fetched to believe a company positioned and as experienced as KNCminer seems -- to me --conceivably able to step up to the next level and expand their company, and deliver on their promises.

I think Klondike boards, Bitfury and KNC will all materialize, and folks are just a bit defensive these days (rightfully) because of all the scams... but ya, have to allow for the idea that things could be changing for the better when it comes to options for asics.

Yifu speaks!  Excellent.  Great to hear at least a bit of an update.

^^^^ daemondazz put 6 grams in there apparently, is what I heard.

Avalon units?

I can't think of much else this hashing-spike could be besides Avalon units.

I think it's safe to say ASICMINER has a lot of stuff in development    They've proven to be the most reliable asic organization by a long shot and they always seem to have the next 2 or 3 steps ahead well plotted out. I'd be really surprised if there was not a USB miner eruptor update from them coming in the future.