Bears, this is the buying opportunity, right now. Smart investors buy when the market is fearful, not the other way around.

Put on your big boy pants, place your buy orders, grab your iron mallet and do some troll hunting.

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."

-Jimmy Buffet

So does this affect transactions in any way? No, it does not. I'll be kindly buying.

Even if they were so foolish, life will go on without Gox. Just look at the price difference now.

So, when are you buying in?

Ahh I see. Your risers have their own powered slot. The ones I'm used to seeing simply have the 12v line soldered directly into one of the 12v pcie pins on the ribbon cable.

PCIE specs dictate that a full sized graphics card pull up to 75w from the slot. Whether they actually do, I don't know. But it's there in black and white. Do graphics cards on a riser know whether they're plugged into 16x or 1x? If not they may try to pull that from the slot. Your findings indicate that they don't, which is good.

Electricity follows the path of least resistance, so once you plug a powered riser (or power boost) into the pcie slot it simply becomes part of the circuit. In that sense it's providing power to the pcie bus which in turn powers the card, not directly powering the card. That's why the power boost and powered risers accomplish the same task, even the the power boost is a standalone product that uses an empty pcie slot.

You can also use EVGA's power boost. It does the same thing as powered risers: stabilizes the PCI-E bus by providing it more current. Powered risers power the motherboard, not the card.

A full sized card, even on a 1x slot, is going to want to draw 75w. Yes, they are "rated" for 25w but can use as much as 75. All the power pins are near the front of the card so there's nothing stopping it from doing so--the card doesn't care if it's in a 1x or 16x slot. This puts more stress on the motherboard, which may or may not stand up to the load. Use a power boost or powered risers for peace of mind, at least. Nobody likes the smell of burning plastic.

Hey guys, looking good!  

Here's my modest machine, I use it for work and gaming as well as mining. My office is right next to the living room, and obnoxious whirring fans got the big thumbs-down from the wife. So I watercooled it.







Cards are 2x7990s, radiators are 1x120, 1x240 and 1x140. Case is a Lian Li midtower. The radiator fan shroud looks nice, but it does restrict the fans a bit. The mobo is an older model, and I had big stability issues getting it to run with 4 GPUs. I threw an EVGA power boost in the 1xPCIE slot and bingo, works perfectly. Individual GPUs are undervolted to 1.150, 1.145, 1.160 and 1.110v respectively. These are the lowest stable values I have found and it saves a few hundred watts at the wall compared to stock 1.2v.

Speaking of power, here we are pulling 1300w...



You'll notice my PSU is a Corsair HX1000. Funny thing about this power supply, it's actually a 1500w unit in disguise, but Corsair couldn't label it as such or else they'd lose the efficiency rating. I grabbed it for $70 from another forum member last year and have had no stability problems pulling 700w+ from each rail. The fan doesn't even spin up all the way pulling 1300w. I had it at 1450w for awhile before I undervolted the cards. The thing is a beast.

And the results are about 3.1Mh give or take, each core running @ 1100/1500. GPU0 runs the desktop, so it hashes a bit lower when the computer is in use. To game, I simply shut off one (or two). Interesting story about the VRM temps, when using the stock thermal pads on the EK waterblocks they were shooting up to 80 degrees or more. I replaced them with Fujipoly thermal pads and they literally dropped 20 degrees. I totally recommend them.

Happy (and safe) mining everyone!

They just want cheap coins, many of these guys probably own less than 5-10 coins and are desperate to increase their stash (which tells you how they really feel). Sad that many will end up with less than they started with.

Yeah, Cryptsy is uber slow. Best to deposit 12 hours before you need it.

As your interest in Bitcoin is purely academic and you presumably don't own any bitcoins, one has to wonder why the majority of your posts are in a forum thread consisting of mostly un-academic discussion between bitcoin owners.

To use an American saying, don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

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I usually explain it like it's a protocol to transfer value. Or a decentralized consensus system. That usually gets their attention.

Yes but we've seen much worse and lived to tell the tale. There are plenty of other exchanges that are trustworthy. Get your cheap coins now if you want them.

I hope Gox works itself out. They always have in the past, sort of like a Phoenix when everyone thinks they're dead, they rise back up.

Anyone else remember when their trading engine would lag beyond belief? Nobody could trade, and the market crashed at one point because of it. THE END IS NEAR people were shouting.

The end was not near. This is still the beginning.

Looking forward to this!

Guys, we need memes. I'm not great at making them but here's an idea. People love to anthopormophize their pets, especially cats, since we know they're secretly plotting against us at all times. When they're not kneading our stomachs (to check for weak organs), they're secretly planning their escape. One day, my cat will get out and "befriend" the family of squirrels living in the tree next door. It's just a matter of when. Kittehcoin could be our cats' chance for FREEDOM. Freedom from the oppressive humans, humans forcing them into lives of slavery, eating disgusting dry kibble and chasing fake feathers all day.

That's just one idea. You can really go anywhere with this, and Kittehcoin can make it possible. Marketing is not rocket science, just use your imagination

So, what will your cat do with Kittehcoin??

My wife works in digital marketing at a rather large firm (I wont' say who, but... Got Milk?) so I will pick her brain for a few ideas. I've been keeping her casually updated about the altcoin scene. She was skeptical about Dogecoin but understands why it's popular: It's cute, gimmicky, and has broad appeal. She did, however, think that a cat-based coin has more potential in the long run, and could co-exist right alongside of Dogecoin, if not surpass it in popularity. Let's get to work!

Probably sub $100. And I'd be buying all the way down.

Correct. Instead of, "Die Bitcoin, die," he meant "The Bitcoin, the"

^^^four troll posts in a row.

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