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Sammus posted:Jesus. I've never burned up a graphics card, and I know I pushed the lovely one in my old laptop well beyond its limits with just games. How can it possibly be more profitable to replace cards than to simply.. I don't know, cap their performance just a little bit below the burning up point? It's not a matter of overclocking them until they burst into flames - all hardware has an expected lifespan. If you were playing games that stressed your system 24/7 somehow, you'd see them failing frequently too.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 18:37 |
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Decrepus posted:Does anyone have that picture of all the graphics cards boxes piled up? They are stacked really neatly in a crisscross pattern. I am trying to show my friend how stupid people are but I can't find the pic with gis.  They're not exactly kris krossed. But I am jelly.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 18:41 |
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Tarranon posted:
I like the cheeseburger in that picture.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 18:47 |
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I like how the guy thinks you should be jealous of all those graphics cards. That's like not only having a really top-end sports car, but 40 of them and all in the same color. I mean, sure, I'd like one of those, but unless I'm selling the rest, it's a bit excessive. Of course, these are Bitcoin miners we're talking about here...
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 18:58 |
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What are the boxes in that picture that aren't radeons? Did the guy actually buy out the stock of some superior (in a Mhash/sec sense) videocard and then just buy a bunch of radeons on top of that?
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 19:23 |
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Those are HIS (as in the company HIS) Radeons. They're designed to run especially cool in multi-card setups (for what counts as "cool" in the gfx card business).
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 19:42 |
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It's fine guys my mom pays the electricity bills and I have plenty of extra space in my basement room. It's free money!
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 19:57 |
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spoon0042 posted:The hashing algorithm central to bitcoin is (in computer sciencey terms) a simple integer operation. Your typical desktop CPU can perform one (or possibly two, I forget) of these at a time per core. So you get something like 4 or 8 (times 3-4 GHz divided by however many operations the whole algorithm actually takes) for a high end processor. Graphics cards on the other hand run somewhat slower but are designed with thousands of processing units capable of all doing the hashing operation simultaneously. Christ. No matter how dumb bitcoiners are, the technical aspect of it all is fascinating as hell.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 20:59 |
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Smart Car posted:If BitCoin miners were sensible about making money, they wouldn't be mining BitCoins in the first place. And the mining analogy makes sense seeing how it's led to people getting injured. And both real world mining and Bitcoin mining take place underground. etalian fucked around with this message at Aug 12, 2012 around 21:59 |
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etalian posted:And the mining analogy makes sense seeing how it's led to people getting injuring.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 21:47 |
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Why do I always see HD5000 series Radeons? Aren't they getting a bit long in the tooth and outclassed GPGPU-wise by the newer 6- and 7000s?
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 22:09 |
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frodnonnag posted:I like the cheeseburger in that picture. 
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 22:10 |
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Why do I always see HD5000 series Radeons? Aren't they getting a bit long in the tooth and outclassed GPGPU-wise by the newer 6- and 7000s?
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 22:15 |
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Why do I always see HD5000 series Radeons? Aren't they getting a bit long in the tooth and outclassed GPGPU-wise by the newer 6- and 7000s? This is conjecture, but I'd bet their price for performance in this specific area is slightly better still.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 22:16 |
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Smart Car posted:There's a remarkable amount of similarities between BitCoins and a gold rush too. There's too high expectations of results from most of the miners and most of the real profit coming from providing (loans for) the equipment are the two biggest parallels. Of course an actual gold rush at least provides something of value, beyond the entertainment values that is. It goes even further. If you leave the fruits of your labour with the depository (exchange), the depository might get robbed or simply disappear with your deposits. You also never know whether holding or selling what you've mined is going to be a better option because the price is subject to wild fluctuations.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 22:20 |
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So when these miners consider their profits, are they also including the medical bills from treating heat stroke?
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 23:14 |
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Why do I always see HD5000 series Radeons? Aren't they getting a bit long in the tooth and outclassed GPGPU-wise by the newer 6- and 7000s? There was a thing where this one model of card was apparently the best for Bitcoin, even though it was a bit older. I don't know if there was any truth to it, but who needs truth when you've got Bitcoin?
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 01:13 |
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Since Goons have known about bitcoin almost as long as it has existed, I'm curious what the exchange rate was on the first day of the first SA bitcoin thread. Anyone happen to know that offhand?
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 01:55 |
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The BFC thread started before they were $1 if memory serves, the GBS thread was started by somebody who thought they were a good idea(yep) so I'm assuming it was around the time they were trading for a couple of dollars at least.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 02:16 |
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Zerilan posted:So when these miners consider their profits, are they also including the medical bills from treating heat stroke? I think its been well established at this point that bitcoin miners do not know the difference between profit and revenue.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 02:23 |
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frodnonnag posted:I like the cheeseburger in that picture. That is to show that the finished rigs run hot enough that he can grill meat in his mining room.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 03:06 |
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SG-83 posted:Probably cooked right beside the strawberries. Oh man someone post that picture again every time I see those dusty, moldy strawberries it perfectly encompasses just what BitCoin is
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 03:06 |
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Monocle Smile posted:Since Goons have known about bitcoin almost as long as it has existed, I'm curious what the exchange rate was on the first day of the first SA bitcoin thread. Anyone happen to know that offhand? I don't know when the first SA bitcoin thread was, but the first time I heard of bitcoins being exchanged for an actual item was when, on May 22, 2010, this dude traded 10,000 bitcoins for $25 of pizza: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?t...msg1195#msg1195 That would be 1 bitcoin = $0.0025 When Mt Gox first opened their site for bitcoin trading, the going rate was $0.05 per bitcoin; they opened that on July 17, 2010. Here's bitcoin price history from opening of the site to the end of 2010:  The scale on the left side is for the volume bars, it's the amount of US dollars being traded on the exchange for each day. The scale on the right side is the price of bitcoins in dollars, and the rectangle for each day is of course a standard financial "candlestick" display. Install Gentoo fucked around with this message at Aug 13, 2012 around 03:14 |
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Oh man someone post that picture again every time I see those dusty, moldy strawberries it perfectly encompasses just what BitCoin is Here you go, some nice dehyrdrated berries.  
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 09:16 |
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SG-83 posted:Here you go, some nice dehyrdrated berries. There's no way that would pass any sort of inspection.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 10:37 |
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slogsdon posted:There's no way that would pass any sort of inspection. And now you know why libertarians hate regulation.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 10:38 |
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slogsdon posted:There's no way that would pass any sort of inspection. Well then I have some good news about a libertarian country for you...
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 10:41 |
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Oh god, I never noticed the blueberries before.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 11:04 |
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Bieeardo posted:Oh god, I never noticed the blueberries before. Tonight is also the first time I've noticed the blueberries. Still less moldy than the raspberries I bought at the farmer's market last week :/
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 11:13 |
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sealed in this package is a bag of my neckbeard leftovers
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 11:23 |
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Going back a few pages, the news that Bitcoinica is being sued has reached the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19244210
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ellspurs posted:Going back a few pages, the news that Bitcoinica is being sued has reached the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19244210 Unfortunately, they've pretty much just regurgitated the ArsTechnica article which was a reprint of the Verge article. The original Verge article got significant facts wrong and made things sound less hosed up than they really are. None of these articles have highlighted the MtGox hack in July, let alone the connection of Zhou to that hack or Zhou's claims that some Chinese guy was responsible for the MtGox heist.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 20:54 |
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SG-83 posted:Here you go, some nice dehyrdrated berries. "These berries were dehydrated using filtered, recycled heat" in what way is that heat filtered?  Is he calling the screens the berries sit on filters?
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 23:18 |
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Through fans, obviously 
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 23:23 |
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Through the patina of neckbeard hairs, cat fur, and cheetoh dust built up on the vents of the computer cases.
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 23:33 |
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what does "filtering heat" even mean?
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| # ? Aug 13, 2012 23:36 |
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SixtySix posted:what does "filtering heat" even mean? It's between "blistering heat" and "scorching heat"
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 00:03 |
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SixtySix posted:what does "filtering heat" even mean? The energy used to generate the heat was filtered through power lines and retarded use of GPUs?
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 00:05 |
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are those food-grade unpainted window screens at least?
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 00:11 |
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SixtySix posted:are those food-grade unpainted window screens at least? If they aren't and you or your family dies, you'll know never to buy from that guy again.
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