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August 08, 2011, 05:27:28 AM |
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what else can the mining rig do while its mining?
can we like host some website
or sell backup space for someone
or what other suggestions
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lacedwithkerosene
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August 08, 2011, 05:35:24 AM |
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let you play minesweeper
act as a heater
blow hot air at you
act as a paperweight, coaster, or bookshelf
lull you to sleep with its hum
act as a conversation starter to anyone who dares enter your mineshaft
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Starlightbreaker
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August 08, 2011, 05:55:14 AM |
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space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
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nuke
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August 08, 2011, 07:12:28 AM |
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download pr0n
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dentldir
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August 08, 2011, 08:05:03 AM |
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Run trading bots.
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naypalm
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howdy
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August 08, 2011, 08:06:15 AM |
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Keep coffee warm. pop popcorn. Dry Hands.  |
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Caffarius
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August 08, 2011, 08:09:11 AM |
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File server, media center, web server, automated torrent bot...
Any file or cpu-based task that is easily offloadable, really.
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thirdlight
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August 08, 2011, 08:45:47 AM |
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Bitcoin node, namecoin node ....
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critical (OP)
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August 08, 2011, 09:10:13 AM |
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create vmware vps to sell is ok? lol
if pc is at datacenter
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KedP
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August 08, 2011, 01:56:16 PM |
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Anything where you dont need to use the video card
web server, file server, tor node, torrent, bot trading
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PcChip
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August 08, 2011, 04:44:29 PM |
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space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER? |
Legacy signature from 2011:
All rates with Phoenix 1.50 / PhatK
5850 - 400 MH/s | 5850 - 355 MH/s | 5830 - 310 MH/s | GTX570 - 115 MH/s | 5770 - 210 MH/s | 5770 - 200 MH/s
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Starlightbreaker
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August 08, 2011, 05:41:03 PM |
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space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER? Luckily, i can tolerate this houston weather. i can handle up to 110-115 before i get fried. winter, not so much, even it's only 40-50f.  |
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August 08, 2011, 06:22:09 PM |
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I use my dedicated PC for mining, browsing the net, emails etc, this takes a toll on my mhash/s. I am thinking about picking up a $35 ATI 5450 and use that as my main gpu, make a dummy plug for my 5830, insert my 5830 in my second pcix x16 slot. This way, the 5450 will take the load off of my 5830.
Just an idea if you are on one pc and do not want your mining gpu to take a toll for doing gpu accelerated stuff.
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SmokeAndMirrors
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August 08, 2011, 08:37:35 PM |
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space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER? Luckily, i can tolerate this houston weather. i can handle up to 110-115 before i get fried. winter, not so much, even it's only 40-50f. I live in Canada and my place of work has been reaching 120F average, it's been as hot as 148.2F a couple weeks ago (set new record of 118F outside (I work in a powder coating shop during the day with an oven the size of 2 cubevans running at 400C all day) Needless to say, on that 148.2F day, I was given the choice of whether I felt "safe" working that day or not. My answer was obviously a "Fuck no!" |
Help Bitcoins by buying clothes, technology, books, etc. through people/stores that accept BTC. This will increase overall value of BTC as well as mitigate unnecessary bank transaction fees.
My address -
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Starlightbreaker
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August 08, 2011, 11:21:42 PM |
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that sounds like plenty of fun  one day, i'm gonna move to canada. |
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ElectroGeek007
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August 09, 2011, 01:58:00 AM |
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You could run a Minecraft server. You know, so you can mine while you mine...  |
"And what the enemy will see, they will see the flash of our cannons, and they will hear the ringing of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brow and the strength of our backs and the courage in our hearts! Gentlemen, hoist the colors!"
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naypalm
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howdy
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August 09, 2011, 02:00:19 AM |
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You could run a Minecraft server. You know, so you can mine while you mine... LOL I was going to post this earlier as I already do this. WOOT |
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tritium
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August 09, 2011, 09:10:13 AM |
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one of my rigs was already my email server and download box running headless anyway. another was/is a file server and another my HTPC (using the onboard graphics as the main display). all of them were always on before I started mining
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PcChip
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August 09, 2011, 04:14:27 PM |
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That's a good idea to use it as a file server, if the motherboard supports RAID1 or RAID5. My problem is that the my dedicated rigs are all out in the storage room and it's HOT out there, when I touch the bare hard drives they nearly burn my hand, so I wouldn't want to put important file storage into that environment (I hear hot = bad for HDD's  ) |
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All rates with Phoenix 1.50 / PhatK
5850 - 400 MH/s | 5850 - 355 MH/s | 5830 - 310 MH/s | GTX570 - 115 MH/s | 5770 - 210 MH/s | 5770 - 200 MH/s
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August 09, 2011, 08:13:09 PM
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I actually put mine to work on World Community Grid doing research on things like cancer. (we call it crunching) In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this. come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG) Need more rigs and stuff??? Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you.... http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741 |
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