Hehe maybe the 3dfx reference is apt.  But I don't know, the Voodoo 3 kicked ass  

Late '90's Voodoo 5 video card image for the <30 crowd:

IF BFL ships in a month. It's still uncertain if they will.

I think they will likely probably finally ship by the middle of next month. But it'll just be a few dozen units at first. It'll take them most of 2013 to fulfill their existing preorders is my guess, if their track record up to now has been any indication.

But hey. It's anybody's guess I guess. You may be right.

Thank you very much for your response. The detail is appreciated

Also found (didn't realize) that there are  graphs of that show both personal, and total pool,  production (available in the web portal) . So by checking that was also able to verify that the dips were pool-wide and not just for me.

I think I'm going to try my luck in a different pool as this one does not seem very steady (currently the entire pool-x.eu pool is actually down and has been for about an hour.)

Mining noob here. But IT guy as well.

As far as I would imagine mining on Win server should be no issue at all.  Should be no different at all than running from a regular Windows box.

The only problem is if your server is doing actual serving, you are going to want to reduce the intensity of your miner operation. But if traffic isn't too high I would imagine it should go smooth.

Signed up for our forum  a few days ago but did not receive confirmation email either. I'll try again tonight as "glendall2"

I want to vote for the 'moria' name

I'm a noob so no expert but:

1) Try 3 cards and see what happens.  It will at least help you locate the problem.

2) Try an intensity of 12 and see  what the affect is.

3) Could it be a network bottleneck? Again I'm a noob, so don't consider this correct, but more of a guess: if your network adapter for example is running at min 10Mpbs speed maybe 4 cards are overwhelming it.

I'd really recommend against it as well.

If it was a video card in a pc that had proper cooling, even if it was a crappy card, I'd say 'hey go for it'.

But in your case your more likely to burn out your integrated gpu at very little benefit (if any at all).

Integrated gpu's generally have little or no heatsinks and are not made at all to be run at 100% for extended periods of time.

Hi guys. Pretty new to mining.

Question:  does your hash rate generally fluctuate very much when mining in a pool? Is that normal?  i.e can you expect to mine at your card's max at a steady rate, or does it go up and down a lot ?

For an experiment I joined a 7950 to the Pool-x.eu LTC pool. It is a dedicated mining PC.

My mining rate is all over the place. I'm trying to figure out the issue. I think it is network communication to the pool that is messing stuff up, but not sure. For example, over the last 4 hours of mining, my rate was steady at ~600 k for the most part, but had 2 dips of about 10-15 mins to half that hashing rate.   6 hours ago, I had a dip all the way down to 50 KH/s . 

Is this normal pool behavior ? If not, should I look at joining a different pool, or look towards my own set up for the problem?

After following this all closely I now don't see how anyone could consider this bet won at all.  (Earlier I said perhaps).

Two basic things:

1) They did not ship.
Shipping means = stuff was transported in the mail. this did not happen.

2) Luke's unit is a prototype. It is not the final product.
They are '2 weeks' away from a final product  
The bet referred to final products shipping. Not prototype/dev boards shipping.

Ok strike'd out point 2, as I didn't realize the bet just referred to a 'ASIC unit' not the final product.

But you could easily argue Luke could be considered an employee, because he is getting early access to hardware in exchange for assistance.

...just the fact alone that BFL would go to that much trouble to fake fulfilling the bet is also a huge red flag for the company. Would it not be much more lucrative to work on getting the units going? Oh ya. I guess not. Because they already have tons of money.

Really, honestly I feel for all BFL pre-orders makers. They have every right to be totally livid right now.  

I believe this all goes against the spirit of bitcoin.

Let the market determine the rate. If it crashes, this is good.

Bitcoin is decentralized currency owned by the Internet.

The LAST thing we need is something like a Bitcoin Reserve Board.

That kind of manipulation only ends up enriching the people who control the board, and fuck up the balance of the currency.

IMHO TL:DR the B.R.B is the worst idea I have read all week.

Ugh why could it not just have waited one more day    !

Decided to buy a bunch on Thursday. Still waiting for the exchanges to process my deposits.

Now it's $4.5  . What an insane climb!  Not going to buy now... I was so so very close to making a great call there     

Ya the ever-present ad on the top-google search for 'bitcoin calculator' alone must sell BFL a bunch of hastily made preorders, I'd imagine:

http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

The claim (that has been there for at least a month) on the pre-order page that "Products are shipped according to placement in the order queue, and delivery may take 2 months or more after order. " is pretty irresponsible. It would be more honest if they wrote or more in bold, giant caps  

ACtually just looking over the bitcoinx site some more.  It totally just appears to be an advertising vehicle for BFL. Does anyone know if I'm correct in this assumption?

I'm pretty new to mining (besides a 2 week stint in 2010/11   so take my advice with a grain of salt.

You could get cheaper/more performance from buying new video cards. However they will take a lot more power (roughly x5 this amount).

So basically it boils down to whether or not you live in a place with cheaper power, I think.  This math you have to look at is that hashing rate versus the hashing rate of 3 video cards versus the price of power in your area.  Totally off the top my head as a ball park figure I think one PC with video cards supplying 1.5 GH/s would be somewhere around a 800W- 1000W total system drain but this is a total bar napkin-based estimate.

Hey fellow new miner.

Think I got the answer for you. Just picked up a 7950 the other day and had same thing. GPU dropped to 66% every so often.

Go into the Catalyst Control Centre software/console.  Go to the AMD Overdrive setting.  There is a power setting option. This sets the power threshold. Increase this to the max, 20% .

Basically by default these cards power down / reduce the clock if running at 100% to save power and GPU life.

After increasing this to 20% I'm maintaining  99% gpu activity at high 70's temperature.

I'm surprised how civil the majority of BFL preorder folks are.  Just knowing that if they bought BTC instead, or if the orders came even a few months late, how much money they would have made.

I guess if I had money in than I'd really want to believe that the units were always just around the corner. But from my outsider perspective, I can't believe how long people have been strung along with this perpetual 'we are going to ship 2 weeks from now' since, honestly, how many months? 6 ?

The latest April Fools no-joke "shipping" joke would be it.

At least to BFL's credit they are honoring refunds and seem to process these fairly quickly, so there is that.

Hi guys. Noobie question. Did a bit of Googling but could not find any good resources on this.

Basically, for litecoin mining, is the difficulty still low enough to make solo-mining reasonable?  By reasonable I mean to say it is pretty likely I'll be within +/-50% of what I would get from a mining pool in a month?

Is there a certain amount of kH/s that is a recommended min. for effective solo-mining?

Thanks.

That's a great way of putting it. That's the succinct version of what I was trying to say.

Geez man that sucks. Glad to hear you found out about the attempted theft.

As for vengeance   I doubt there is much to be done at this point. The dude who tried to take it most likely will read this thread.

If it was me I would have not made this thread and instead got the police or a vigilante involved! That is really bullshit and whoever pulls scams like that should be punished.

My 2 satoshi  on the bet:   Butterfly has not shipped, the product is not complete, they didn't win the bet.

However. I do think there is enough 'slimy gray area' in the terms of the bet that they I can dishonestly and sneakily say that they did fulfill it.

But the bets aside, the question for me (as a Ava. batch 3 preorder dude) is how far they actually are from shipping now.

It's tough to say exactly how much, but it does seem BFL is making progress now, and near the end goal.  I'm going to say they are actually going to be really done and really shipping in the first week of May. Having what they have is still a ways off of having the working production model and being able to build en masse.

Thank god I have no money in BTL or the bet. It's been amusing for me. If I had money in the BFL pot I'd probably be going absolute ape-shit insane!

My info looks good. 15.005 from glendall.

Thanks again for organizing this.

So guys... we each bought a share of about 600 gH/s . That's pretty sweet