Hi all,

Would like to purchase goxBTC with up to 65realBTC. @ .25
Have successfully done a deal with daburone.

Please PM if interested.

yea hopefully gox is finally circling the drain. . . this is going to be a messy month for bitcoin.

For BTC to really be long-term successful gox needed to either fix itself up (no evidence of that over the entire year of 2013) or shut down.
The half-broken state it's been operating under has been detrimental to peoples confidence not only in exchanges, but BTC itself.

After it's gone hopefully we will see new exchanges appear with better transparency and communication. 

Just want to say I completed a successful trade with Daburone for 24.5goxBTC. Very easy to work with, thanks!

Got the payment, thanks very much Inaba!

Regarding purchasing more shares, whats the ballpark current price per share so we can make fair offers?

You should buy the right stuff if you bought your hashing hardware and you care about how long it lasts on you

if you dont:

I used to do (and still do sometimes) dumb stuff like this too. I think the OP just wants to get more power up and running without having to spend a ton. Especially if you have a surplus of crap power-supplies already.

I work for a small custom computer assembly company, and we have shelves full of useless 300w cheap china crap PSU's that come with the cases we end up not using. they are sitting around wasting space. We use them for various personal purposes and testing and consider them disposable. They blow up, chuck it and grab another one.

check this link:
http://www.directron.com/2powersupplies.html

long story short, you can manually power up an ATX powersupply by shorting pins 14 and 15 on the 20 (or 24) pin primary connector.

If you want to rig up two power supplies for your computer, one for each power supply (or more if you are a lunatic) and power them up at the same time it *should* work. Or check the section where it shows you how to build a relay.

I would stick to one crap power supply per juice guzzling video card, 
if the powersupplies are very low quality do not run them at the rated load listed on them, stick to 50-60% (if it says 300w on the sticker and its a single 12v rail dont push it past 150)

I have a few Radeon 5770's and 4870's hashing, and I have had experience with running radeons with insufficent power. If the radeon looses juice from the 6-pin connector under a load, (has happened to me) the motherboard should error out and shut down the primary powersupply attached to the motherboard, some of the older ones also have wonderful beepers on them that will scream like a banshee if they don't have enough power. If you are in the building you will know it.

I take no responsibility for whatever crap you break trying to do this. There is a right way of doing things and the "get it done now for $0" way of doing things.

as for the health risks? Try not to lick the power supplies or any exposed wire leads while in your bare feet.

Good Luck

I also attempted to have WhileIdle run as a serivice to see if I could have it kick in if no users were logged in. (E.g. Windows updates @ 3am auto restarting the machine)
I was able to have it run as a serivice and activate poclbm, but it kicked in instantly (didnt want the 10 mins) and it was using the CPU as the openCL Device instead of the ATI card. It also did not seem responsive to mouse movements, it kept running instead of killing the process.

My dream would be a hidden, run as a service, remote reporting & managable bitcoin client that also had extra goodies built in like automatic memory clock frequency changing, thermal limits, fan speed controls, time of day settings, etc.

I know this question might sound like a n00b just got let loose from the newbie pen on the forum, but do you think the general trend for BTC value will increase overtime as the difficulty increases? I'm not talking short term, im talking 1-2 years from now.

And won't these BTC value increases compensate for the increased mining difficulty?

Jim

I have a Macbook Pro 15" 2011 Model that has a Radeon 6750M, It pulls about 65-70MH/s depending on if im using it at the time.

Don't plan on having it pay for itself by mining, but it doesn't hurt. Especially when I'm sitting at starbucks for a few hours at a time. 

 

I think that is just an example he used. The flags line (line2) is there to manipulate the command line executable of the program you specify in line one. I don't think it does anything to change the behavior of WhileIdle.

Depending on what Video card you are using check this chart to see what other people are doing to get your optimum speed. (Older Radeons don't like vectors, "-v", newer cards can handle larger worksize, etc.)

Mining Hardware Chart:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Poclbm Flags
http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4122.0;wap2

RPC-Miner Flags
http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=2444.0

Hope this helps
jim

Hi,

I am really a fan of this program i have it running on the family machines and it does the job.

On some machines (note some, not all) I have an issue where once the user moves the mouse, a random open application will crash. This is most easily replicated with microsoft outlook, but sometimes its explorer.exe or firefox.exe. The issue also does not seem specific to any one flavor of windows, I have an XP machine doing it with outlook 2007 and a windows 7 x64 machine doing it with Outlook 2010.

I'm wondering if WhileIdle is inadvertently targeting and killing other processes that it shouldn't?

Anyone else using this experiencing this weird behavior?

Thanks,

Jim

smells like a scam.

was not able to download the file. Lots of popup's and survey nonsense.

Again thanks for the input.

With bitcoin prices all over the place right now I'll stick to the cheap road for now and picked up myself a used 5770 on ebay for $80. If nothing else it will go in my desktop so i can relocate my stupidly loud 4870x2 to a dell poweredge in a closet. Those dell power-edges make enough noise on their own.

I'm not trying to be a millionaire from this, nor build myself a mining army anytime soon. This is just a fun side project.

Lol just tried searching for one at newegg. Guess I'm not getting one anytime soon.

thanks for all of the replys

the goal is to make some extra cash, ive done seti@home and folding@home with these pcs but bitcoin is the first one ive seen that I can actually get a little something back from doing this.

how are the 5830's and the 5770's noise wise?

a few of the dells are dell percisions and i think have decent psu's to get these higher end cards working.

just started with bitcoins this week.

I have a small office with 10 desktops all running intel integrated graphics right now, their powersupplies are around 300w, i think three of them are half height card only.
I don't have the budget to get monster video cards for every machine looking around $300 total to get started, should I?

1. Get older ~$50 radeons for a few just to get these systems up and hashing? (used radeon 4850's from ebay?) -- 6 of these would consume approx 600w and generate hopefully ~ 540MH/s. Anyone have these?

2. take the 300 bucks and just get something for my office machine, and do the others one at a time later. Maybe a Radeon 6950 with a new PSU? it would only pull maybe 300w (guessing) and ~300 MH/s?

3. get nothing because bitcoins will be worthless in a month? and I already pull in a steady 350 MW/h with the old/crap hardware i have floating around now. (2 x 8800gts-512mb, a 4870x2, a GTX 460se, my macbook pro 6670m when its sitting on my desk)

my only real requirements for the cards is they have decent bang/buck, and they dont have fans that sound like lawn mowers like my old 4870x2 does right now. 

just looking for ideas.

thanks,
jim