what else can the mining rig do while its mining?

[Mousepotato]

Surf the web, or if I want to play a game, I take one card offline and use it for gaming.

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[ninjapug]

Turn off hardware acceleration and watch pr0n.

[Schleicher]

You could run a Tor node if your internet connection is good enough.

[Miner99er]

I'm Bot mining in Runecraft (cpu usage) making $6.5 a month per bot... think 1 bot per 500 Mhz/512 Ram * # of cores.

Makes your CPU profitable mining while your graphics cards are mining.

/queue Xzibit

[SupaDupaJenkins]

You can play Dragon's Tale Bitcoin Casino @ http://dragons.tl

That way you can gamble away all the bitcoin you just mined.. LOLOL jk XD

Seriously Though it won't effect your hashrate and it actually uses a VERY VERY low amount of CPU/GPU usage

You can play Facebook Games like Farmville Zynga Dominates the Market but there alot of other fun games like Monopoly Millionaires , Scrabble , Tetris , Pack Rat , ETC

[Harri]

I'm running a nonexit tornode and wuala generating me some onlinespace.

[triforcelink]

I download torrents on one, and I keep backup data on another. Setting up a tor node might be fun

[relmeas]

well i'm sometimes playing magic online on it nowadays. does not need GPU.

by the way, is anyone selling event tickets for bitcoins?

[mikethebodacious]

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

I find Bitcoin miners to be excellent cheese melters and food dehydrators.  Simply put an even larger rack over your video card rack and you're in business

[willphase]

Media server for xbmc. Torrent server...

Will

[Fiyasko]

Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350

[Pipesnake]

I'm Bot mining in Runecraft (cpu usage) making $6.5 a month per bot... think 1 bot per 500 Mhz/512 Ram * # of cores.

Does that cover the additional electricity used for the CPU?

[Reckman]

Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350

This is equivilant to not mining. Or very low hashing anyways

[Blackout]

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!"

WTF?  148 degrees in Canaada?

I thought you were our colder cousin!?

You need this son'o'bitch right here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MQBYYU?ie=UTF8&tag=bsb011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B003MQBYYU

It was 105 degress in my NYC basement studio apt now it's 68... even with full mining on 5 cards going...  ahhhh

[drgr33n]

My linuxcoin main rig also serves as a wireless router distributing my mobile broadband to all my devices, a distcc node, file storage, internet radio, VPS etc

[Fiyasko]

Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350

This is equivilant to not mining. Or very low hashing anyways

Indeed. Aswell as viseversa if you drop the -f to 40 (30 is default if you dont put a -f)

[chungenhung]

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

Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power.

[Pipesnake]

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

Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power.

Or a baldness cure...

[Fiyasko]

F@H=Better than fixixing balding

[vapourminer]

Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power.

+1

mining does not take much CPU and F@H (the SMP [CPU] client) is a low priority task, ie does not take away from the miner resources.