I'm happy with it, it has a few duff design features (getting to the ethernet ports is a bitch) but it's tidy and high-density.
haha, had me laughing cause i been there so many times with this kind of stuff. I'm strapped for cash at the minute but i'd love have a couple of K just to do a sick setup. Soon as i get back from india and get set up next year, you know im going build a kick ass 7 series 8 card beast
ARS BACK
Didn't find out that Ars had a pool till very recently - but I'd already switched to MMC who are a great bunch.
I was a fully-paid-up member at Ars before Condé Nast took over - spent a LOT of time in the Mac Ach. Fun times, the flamewars with BadAndy before he got banned were great fun. It was around the time when 'Apple going Intel' was speculation... some guys there had invested their entire career into Altivec optimisation and were pretty miffed that the PowerPC was going to be obsolete on their favourite platform (Mac OS X). Obviously, G4s are still used extensively in embedded kit (routers, etc.) but the market for hardcore optimisation experts shrank as a result...
Getting off topic! I did manage #1 in RAC on Seti using my quad G5 once - due to Altivec optimisations. If we didn't have GPUs like modern kit, I reckon the G5 Macs would be the best mining machines, due to the additional vector instructions in the CPU.
Actually... that's an idea... I wonder how much power the fastest of the G4s optimised for embedded applications consume these days? It can't be hundreds of watts, since you'd need a serious power brick for them. The G4s are used in routers... and have the Altivec instruction set. This is wildly off topic so I'm off to start another thread...
haha, brilliant
Just noticed MMC just, seems very interesting and i like there system. Just not a fan of PPLN. I donate 1.1 to ARS (Its not them thereselves, Its 1 guy called burningtoad) and .3 to CGminer so the 0.5 on MMC aint a problem but ARS asnt missed a beat for me and seems to pay better than anywhere else. My fallback server is bitcoins LC which i may change to MMC but i dont really want to move without a good enough reason. I donate to all the software i use personally but i do like MMC's concept... mmm
