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[MiningBuddy]

This was my first one,

ran that baby in my bedroom which is in the loft/attic for just over 1 month, until the constant 35C in my room drove me to break out the toolkit and create this monstrosity,

[stryker]

my first and current rig... just waiting on another 5830

[maxll]

This was my first "high powered rig", circa August 2010

Where did you get the OpenCL-miner on August 2010? 

[stryker]

Finally sorted my 3rd card.  It cooked the original PSU so now I use what I got.  400w for the motherboard, 350w for the 5770, and a new 850w for the 2 5830s 

[Transisto]

I like stryker wood work.

simple / solid

[mrb]

This was my first "high powered rig", circa August 2010

Where did you get the OpenCL-miner on August 2010?  

I work for Apple in Cupertino and that's how I originally got involved with Bitcoin. A friend of mine, An Apple OS Engineer is one of the earlier adopters and got me involved. I used his version until the better ones came along. Contrary to what ArtForz claims he was not the first GPU miner nor did he ever control 25% of the network.

I know personally of a three 4850 rig in May 2010.

In May 2010, the hashrate of the global Bitcoin network varied from 70 to 150 Mhash/s: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png
3 x HD 4850 are capable of 225 Mhash/s with the most optimized miners as of today: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

So, assuming that this person he knows wrote a poorly optimized miner running at only ~2/3rd this speed, and was online only half the time throughout May 2010, he was contributing ~70 Mhash/s, which could explain the jump from 70 to 150 Mhash/s. BitcoinEXpress's claims sound plausible.