. Not familiar with MoneyPak but I'll look into it. Thanks.

Thanks, I'm thinking I'll just deposit from my bank and sell the bitcoins to recoup the money.

Paypal is just my preferred option, it's much more convenient for me. I can always deposit into my Paypal from bank or do exchange -> bank -> paypal (I think this is possible but not entirely sure. I'm guessing someone will correct me either way), but I liked being able to send it straight to my Paypal in 5 minutes and being able to buy x right away.  The whole point of mining for someone like me(ie gamer making use of their gaming hardware when it would otherwise be idling) is small purchases like this through Paypal. Can't use things like Dwolla and Coinbase because I am in Canada.

I've never looked into LocalBitcoins, can anybody let me know if this assessment from a Reddit user is correct? "1) Someone makes an offer to buy your bitcoins 2) You send the bitcoins to localbitcoins 3) When you get the cash, you send a text message to localbitcoins, the bitcoins are instantly transferred". I found 1 person looking to buy in my city.

With Bitinstant being down, are there any other sites that offer this service? I just want to move what I sell on the exchange to my Paypal. In the midst of the Steam summer sales, I've found myself with $0 left in my Paypal balance. This is an enormous crisis, I still haven't picked up the Skyrim Legendary edition. Please... I beg of you all. Help me.

Thank you for the response. I can't find a version number anywhere in the GUIMiner files, but entering D under the intensity does work and it also brought my hashrate to the 20s (down from 600+). I've noticed intensity has no effect on gpu usage, doesn't matter what I set my intensity too, my gpu usage stays at 97-99%. I've also found that I have to bring the intensity to 12 or under to stop the slowdown of my pc and it's still very noticeable in videos. I think my problem stems largely from this. I'm wondering why the Bitcoin clients actually leverages usage and the LTC ones don't.

Going to try out CGMiner/CGWatcher combo tomorrow. Although I spend a lot of time at the computer, and since I have to drop the intensity so low to avoid the lag I'll have to look into how much that drops the profitability of LTC compared to BTC. If I can't find a solution, I think I'll end up changing to CGMiner/Watcher for BTC anyway.

I asked this in another subforum, but haven't gotten any answers so I'm going to post again here.

I'm trying to switch over to LTC mining with my 7950 and GUIMiner scrypt. I ran into a problem regarding the intensity settings, as I'm a very casual miner using the single 7950 in my main pc, I use my pc throughout the day and the miner slows it down dramatically. I notice my GPU usage stays locked in at 99%, with the BTC variant of GUIMiner it scales the usage dynamically. It's much more convenient then manually adjusting the intensity everytime I want to open something on my computer, are there any scrypt miners that do this?

I'm trying to switch over to LTC mining with my 7950 and GUIMiner scrypt. I ran into a problem regarding the intensity settings, as I'm a very casual miner using the single 7950 in my main pc, I use my pc throughout the day and the miner slows it down dramatically. I notice my GPU usage stays locked in at 99%, with the BTC variant of GUIMiner it scales the usage dynamically. It's much more convenient then manually adjusting the intensity everytime I want to open something on my computer, are there any scrypt miners that do this?

Thanks for all the responses. It does seem that the profit is about the same with either currency, I think I'll stick to BTC because it is more widely accepted (Humble Bundle accepting BTC now ).

I'm just wondering if I should switch over to LTC mining with my single 7950. I'm making about $70/month with the current prices, how could I calculate potential LTC earnings?

7970 is the top gpu miner, and a very good card for gaming too. You can buy two with that budget which should be 1ghash+.

Just updated to 13.4 drivers that were released WQHL today and it seems to have fixed all of the artifacting. My hash rate dropped about 10% though  .

Forgot to mention I'm using GUIminer and also briefly tried CGminer but saw the same kind of artifacting.

I think I'd rather keep the extra hashrate, I was just curious about this and was hoping there was some easy fix involving the miners. 

Meant to say driver issue, but yeah. It's a Gigabyte windforce, stays at 60c or lower. Like I said, it's completely fine in games/stress test software (some of which probably push it harder than mining, for example: Mining vs Kombuster both max the usage at 100% but Kombuster is a consistent 5c higher in temp at the same ambients) so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Not sure what this could be but I don't have the unresponsive problem. Mine works completely fine, and if it wasn't for the artifacts I wouldn't even be able to tell the miner is running. It's just annoying when I'm reading something and I can see the twitching black squares in the corner of my eyes. Try a different miner maybe? I would be trying to fix the unresponsive issue first.

AMD isn't writing drivers with mining in mind so I think it's reasonable we run into issues like this, still hoping for a fix though.

Whenever my miner is running I get artifacting on my taskbar and the top (where your browser tabs would be) of my screen. It tends to be more extreme around the taskbar, looks like a bunch of black squares/lines twitcing and they'll increase over time if I'm not actively using the computer to the point that the icons on my taskbar are mostly blacked out. If I'm actively using it the artifacting keeps to a minimum for some reason. Also if I drag my mouse across the taskbar/top, everything will clear out and I don't get any artifacting in any full screen applications or anywhere on the actual screen (which is why I've been able to deal with it). If I screenshot it doesn't display the artifacts, but if you take a screenshot of your taskbar and just scribble all over in black that's kind of what it looks like when it gets to the point that it blacks the icons out.

I'm using a 7950 at factory stock 900mhz, I've had this card for ~3 months now and it is completely fine in games and stress test software, Heaven/Kombuster/OCCT. I'm on 13.1 and I'm thinking this could be a driver issue, any thoughts?

Just to chime in as a 7950 owner, mine is @ 900mhz and it's usually at 460 Mhash/s in GUIMiner -f 60. Not sure if the flags affect performance but more details.

Hello everyone, just a gamer/pc enthusiast trying to make a few bucks out of his expensive hardware... Bitinstant is currently the bane to that though, going to plug the thread where I ask for help on that in case someone here knows what's going on. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170913.msg1777312#msg1777312.

Hello everyone, first post here. So I'm trying to move a small amount of USD from my MT.Gox account to my Paypal but it failed instantly. The event log went as follows, "Quote for new transaction", "New order", "Gox coupon deposit failed". I'm fairly certain I didn't do anything wrong, followed all the steps, exactly coupon amount, etc. I did mark my location as Canada if that makes a difference, I used USD because I read they don't accept CAD. Should I just email them?

Edit: Just tried it again after waiting a few hours, it didn't fail instantly, and I received a recent transfer email from them. Refreshed while typing this and it says that the order is complete but it hasn't shown up in my Paypal yet. I know Paypal can take awhile to display received payments so I'll update this later tonight.

Edit 2: Close to two hours now and the money still hasn't shown up in Paypal, should be there by now. Getting a little concerned...

Edit 3: Okay, it went through! I guess they might be having trouble filling out orders because of the recent price spikes.