^^ This.

I know I didn't lose it as it still shows in my confirmed rewards, but if I can't get it payed out to my client, it's effectively "lost" isn't it?  Sure I can accumulate at least .01BTC again, but then anything above and beyond .01BTC (unless you magically hit right at .01BTC) is again effectively "lost".

It's a moot point though, as eleuthria has stated that BTCGuild will support full precision payouts here very soon.

Thank you for the clarification.

So why doesn't BTCGuild pay out all of your confirmed rewards?  Just another way for this non-fee pool to get a few more "involuntary" donations?  BTW, I already donate 1%.

Example:
Confirmed Rewards: 0.05029424
Hit the Pay Me Now button
Paid out: 0.05
Confirmed Rewards: 0.00029424

Why?  Why not pay me out all of my confirmed rewards?  Granted, we are talking fractions of a BTC here, but still...

Yes it is.  It was formerly called Phoenix Rising.  I believe the reason he recommended that you try it is because it now has over/underclocking functionality built into the miner.

FWIW, I mine with a single 6870 and AB works fine (just as it does for you with 1, 2, or 3 cards).  I don't overclock, but do underclock the memory to 300.  AOCLBF is the miner I use, and it's an awesome miner, but I am unable to underclock the mem to 300 with it.  I suggest you give it a try, it might work for you.

Or ASIC.

Sure, mining is affecting *certain* video card prices.  All of which are essentially out of production (except the Sapphire Xtreme series, AFAIK).  You have a situation were free money (or at least extremely optimistic money) is chasing an extremely limited supply.  Not too much unlike what created the housing bubble.  

I agree with you that it is in fact affecting prices for the higher end of the 5xxx line.  That said, I do not *currently* see it affecting the 6xxx line at all, and I doubt it will until the 6xxx line goes out of production and inventories have been depleted.

I've been around here for about a month and a half and signed up recently.  I've spent untold hours reading posts here.

It amazes me how many of you consistently attack the OP (you rarely attack his arguments, you generally just attack him).  We're all entitled to our opinions (isn't that kinda the point of forums) and most of what the OP says is spot on, at least IMO.  Yeah, he's still buying gear, but mostly he is saying he's trying to do it smartly at the right price.  What's wrong with that?  And to whomever pointed out that he made an offer on one of the cards from the farm someone is selling.  So what.  The OP offered what he thought was a fair price for the card, the seller refused.  If the seller thought it was a lowball offer, don't accept it and move on. 

And btw, I also think $160 for a 5830 is ridiculous.  Apparently most of the people on this board are blind optimists, at least when it comes to bitcoin.  The fact of the matter is difficulty is increasing, will continue to do so, and it's a race to the bottom.  If you wish to continue adding gear, especially at inflated prices (IMO), more power to you.  I respect your opinion just as much as I respect the OP's.  To each their own.

Anyways, flame on boys!

I have a single 6870 and use MSI Afterburner.  Here's what I had to do to be able to clock the memory down to 300.

In the MSIAfterburner.cfg file the UnofficialOverclockingMode option has to be set to 2.  If it is set to 1 PowerPlay (AMD's power saving feature, like Intel's SpeedStep for CPU's) is active and will not let the memory downclock from 1050 to 300.  Once that is done, you will notice that PowerPlay is still working as the core clock will be 300 and the mem at 1050.  As soon as you change the mem speed though, you will notice that the core clock goes to 900 and stays there, and the mem speed is whatever you set.  Close/open AB as many times as needed to get to the mem clock you are looking for.  Once done the core clock will be at 900 (unless you are OC'ing) and mem at whatever you selected.

At that point you can do whatever you like (run miners at 100% utilization) and the mem clocks will stay at whatever clock rate you have set.  They will not jump back up to a higher clock.

Try disabling hardware acceleration for flash (right click on the video, settings, leftmost tab) if you haven't already.

You will only see "accepted" if you actually find a valid block.

From personal experience, Sapphire and PowerColor make great cards.  XFX cards aren't the best, as they tend to run hotter and overclock less than others.  I have no experience with ASUS or EVGA cards.

Tominator speaks the truth! 

And yes, that makes 5!

Not sure but maybe you misread the post?  It states that Windows is clearly able to accept more than 4 GPU's, but that it's currently unable to mine with more than 4 GPU's.  I know of many Windows based rigs out there with 4 GPU's and all 4 are mining at optimum speeds.

It's possible that it might be as OS issue, specifically a 32-bit OS issue.  Your 4 GPU's alone have 4GB of memory, which is the addressable memory limit of a 32-bit OS.

Ganstarap is right, it does not matter which slot they are in.

Join the club.     Been lurking, reading, and learning for about a month.  Decided to start posting.  Hope to get out of here soon.

Couldn't agree more.  I've been lurking here for almost a month now, reading everything and learning.  I decide I'm now informed enough to intelligently contribute to the conversation, so I sign up and go right to posting.  Oops, nope.  LOL.

Oh well, sooner or later I guess.