Quote from: pengram on June 23, 2011, 11:20:25 PM

Quote from: deepceleron on June 23, 2011, 11:13:17 PM

More experienced miners have already built much better mining systems, maximizing GPU power per watt. Read the forum more...

u talking to me ? if yes, based on what?
btw am i blind or the second image has only 3x PCI-Express slots connected?

The 'learn more about mining hardware' is directed at the original poster.

The picture does have a 1x pcie still unconnected to it's card, maybe the builder is waiting for his 1x -> 16x pcie extension cable. Mining GPUs can run off 1x pci express slots nearly as efficiently, they just can't plug in without an adapter or cutting the back of the slot off.

Here's the thread with extension cables so you can do this too: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=6128.0

Here's another optimized ATI GPU machine, Whitepixel http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=42. It can crack all the 8 letter or less passwords out of a MD5 password file in about two hours.