How about 1/4oz shares but a minimum of 4 shares to convert out to physical silver.  That way you can stick with 1oz coins but the individual cost per share will be a bit less.

Since you state you've already have the coins, mind if I ask what they are? 

Arrived today, fantastic turn around time on this only 4 days from initial inquiry to cash out to coin arriving in my mailbox.  

Note, I'm in the US and i believe Random is as well so I'm sure that helped speed the shipping process up.

Way faster that using anything like coinabul, shipping was far cheaper.

There are already a few ongoing and a few in planning stage so the idea has merit. One thing I would fear pegging things at 1oz your share cost is going to be one of the highest on GLBSE.  Your share value is going to be greater affected by changes in BTC price and silver price which could be discouraging to some investors but it could also be attractive to others. 

Provide a few more details on your planned model, I started writing a question list but it was just so large it isn't worth asking.

+1 here, already playing with the existing silver/gold funds and am interested in new blood.

Being the individual giving this a spin I will say the process to cash out with RandomQ has been fantastic.  Total turnaround from my initial inquiry to shipping was less than 24 hours.  Many options were available for shipping, as well as rolling my share/gram value into the ship cost or paying the shipping separately.  The 11g was converted into a coin which actually has a silver gram weight a tiny bit over my actual share count (Thanks Random!).

Decently fun security to toss any bitcents you end up with after dividend payments etc, after a few weeks cash out into some big shiny coin, and seriously, how many other securities have 4 dogs and guns protecting them!

Yes'd for the sake of this, like the idea here. Also picked up a few shared earlier when they were available...

How's the verification coming?

Very true, even basic shipping with them starts at like $14, so unless you're buying a good bit you'll need to factor that into the costs, but either way its a decent baseline for someone to see you're not that far removed from "normal" values on these.

Go check a site like apmex.com or other online seller that does pandas  a panda in general trades about 20% over spot value in non-virtual cash.  Mostly it is due to mintage and the fact they change out the image on the coin every year, thus making them even more desired as people complete sets of them.  I'd expect to pay $52-55 USD for a panda right now retail so the pricing here really isn't that bad at all.

That being said, pending the results of someone else testing out the waters and reporting back I'll be in for a few at this price.

If a hop has happened recently, you might be seeing shares from miners still coming in from the previous pool, there is a window of delay there before the miners will all get new work from the newly hopped pool. 

Tossing this one out there for including in index.html, been annoying me for awhile. Sorts your users by username alpha on the stats page.


Also if anyone really cares, I can provide code for worker average % on shares and rejects etc though the mod is a bit more complex.

Random question here, if an LP new block comes in from a pool, should that not override anything the API is telling the scheduler?

Update:
I may have answered it myself after digging through lp.yc,  if the pool is set to mine_deepbit' and LP is going, ,it'll reset the shares count.

Get a toothpick, put a small piece of mylar on it like a little streamer.  Go around your case using it to look for any airflow voids, watch for it to flap around in the wind (the toothpick isn't conductive so you can poke it into unused slots) .  I had a situation on one case where how the HDD cage + cabling + cards were arrayed i had a HUGE airflow void across one of the cards that was causing major thermal issues.  Be sure to close the case up each time and watch it, dynamics of airflow with the side panel on/off are very different.

Ideally you want good flow over both the front and back of all cards. If your airflow seems fine everywhere, look at the "flow" of the air in terms of:  hot air vented from the PSU is then being sucked into the video card for example, do you have anything dumping its heat directly on to something else?

You still on target for 6-8 weeks from your initial post (so roughly about 2 weeks from now)?  Very interested in these.

Yes, its the codename for the GPU family.  They are all generally named after trees.

Run as admin. 

1-4 days seems to be the norm.  Sometimes a lot faster, other times slower.

So long as you got the confirmation hash over on gox of the transfer though you're golden and just need to wait it out.

Play with the 4way clients command lines, there are a ton of them.  Your numbers look like its only churning on a single core so adjust the thread count

Careful with DVI dummy plugs, if you short one of the resistors it can blow the video card itself.  The VGA guys are far safer, at worst you're out just the adapter.

This right here. 

Also think about "plans for the future".  Spending an extra $50 now for a larger PSU and a motherboard with an extra PCIe will save you a ton of cost/waste late if you choose you expand.  Keep in mind your future goals as well before rushing out to grab new stuff.

Include power costs in this, we're entering the summer months and large parts of the US (if you're in the US) have variable rates for the power that is FAR more expensive in the summer.

Also, when doing any math here, given how fast difficulty has been changing, you're going to have a hard time getting long term numbers.  For something kinda close, assume a 50% difficulty increase in every 2 weeks, its not really that exact and is almost a "worst case" scenario but it needs to be factored in.  You're also taking a huge risk in that the BTC price is going to continue to increase relative to the difficulty, if that fails to happen, your daily income is going to be massive degraded in the very near future.

Buying no hardware is not a sure thing, like any investment you're assuming risk, keep that in mind.  At least with BTC mining you have a physical item (PC, vidcards etc) that has a potential resale value if all of this goes tits up tomorrow.

My company has 4x of a simmilar product in our 3d render farm, speaking from experience, avoid these at all costs.  If we did not have as much $ invested in them as we did, I would have ditched them long ago, they are an IT nightmare.  In most cases, its a downtime issue that with mining will start adding up to some serious BTC, in other cases we had hardware itself go bad that required painful support processes to get fixed.