I bought it knowing it was a highly anticipated product. I expected some type of mass backup. But, I won't de-rail a thread, so I'll just leave it at here. Thanks again for answers.

Just ordered a butterfly jalapeno

Alright, thanks.

That site doesn't list the GTX 650 Ti. Also, avast detected CGMiner as a virus (specifically the file "scrypt121016.cl" and im very sure its not one, going through that file's source) so should I just make an exception for it?

Hello, I have a MSI GTX 650 TI PE/OC and here's the chart in gpu-z:

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/13/02/21/63y.png

I'm able to amp the shader's and the core some, but the base clock on this comes at 993 MHz (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127704)

Anyways, for this card on GUI miner, what should I use for flag's?

So i read through some of the links listed and this is what im understanding: There's a guy named pirateat40. He has supposedly 500k BTC. People lended him money. There's a large group that calls him a scammer...
I'm still not getting the full picture  

whatever happened to the economy being driven by speculation and people happily mining away.. lol

this is exactly what i want to know lol, who is pirateat40? I'm just recently getting back into this and ive missed a lot.

I think this is the right forum.. though not sure 100%. I have decided to get back into bitcoin mining again, and I had lost my wallet after reinstalling my os (no biggie, only like 1 BTC on it).

Anywho, what is the best setup for my rig? I am running an i5-2500k with a MSI GTX 460 Hawk edition (not hawk talon attack). I want to know what i should set my settings to in msi afterburner, and what the best flags are that I should set in guiminer. I am running the flags -v -w128 -frames 70 and using the rpcminer -cuda atm and I... (gpu *just* crashed as i was typing this) well.. was getting around 75 Megahaches until it just now crashed.

So any suggestions as to the optimal settings i should use? Also where can i learn a bit more about flags at? i remember -v and -w i think, but that's about it.

edit: any way I can make my cpu work with my gpu to do combined cpu and gpu mining in guiminer? I think that would help as well considering I can OC my cpu with 1 button.

edit 2: oh and dont worry about temps.. thats not an issue here at all

 just do what rubic said

no I mean as in if I have 0.08 BTC in my wallet (Which I do) and 1 BTC is worth $10.50, how much is 0.08 BTC? How did you get the answer?

I alwasy wandered what a formula is to hand convert any amount of BTC to USD is based on the variable exchange rate.. what Is it anyhow?

Ok, at the moment I run a GTX 460 Hawk that runs about at 915 MHz so I can do some other things. This allows me to be at about 55 Mhash's. If I bought another GTX 460 OC card, and SLI them, would that make any profit at all, or just a waste of money?

edit: also, is it better to mine in smaller pools such as bitcoins.lc or bigger pools such as slush's pool (I currently mine in that one)?

oh ok. what do you mean it died months ago though? Is it really just absolutely pointless to run a solo bitcoin miner? :S

nonono I mean as in a solo mining tool, not a pool miner. Sorry

Is there such a thing? To the maintainers of the official bitcoin miner: Can you please consider making the mining application 64 bit and utilize all 4 cores that are on my i5-2500k? I would like to be able to run this program the fastest I can possible. Thanks

Ok I have another question. On my profile at http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ it says i have Unconfirmed award: 0.02558796 BTC

What does this mean? How do I aquire those bitcoin pieces?

yeah but still, how much do you think that I will make with using that in a pool though? atm im at 64.5 Mhash/s

ok but with that, how long will it take me to find a bitcoin runing in a pool?

thanks guys now I know what to do

edit: this is what im running atm:

http://i54.tinypic.com/2hxrtys.png

I just want to be able to solo mine by myself using poclbm as a gpu miner. However, I can't seem to get it working! It keeps on telling me that bitcoin is downloading blocks.. and at the bottom right hand corner it says '114649 blocks' and the number is rising. What does this mean? Also how will I know when bitcoin is done downloading blocks so I can generate coins? I'm so confused, thanks in advance!

Also what does it mean 'error connecting to RPC server'? I get that a lot too.

edit: sorry, i think i posted in the wrong category :s