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Video Card Anti-aliasing -- can a video card smooth out the pixels on old sims?

In theory something like this wrapper would allow for it to work nicely, but it's incomplete (although reports are it might work a little bit with JFA -- worth a shot at least). Given that's JFA is a native DX5 title I doubt anything modern AA forcing would work, although maybe FXAA or something...
- bob32768
- Post #14
- Dec 17, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Name your favorite desktop x86 cpus

My Celeron 300A was still running (at 450 Mhz) as of a couple weeks ago. Amazing chip for its day.
- bob32768
- Post #24
- Dec 15, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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GTX 970/980 owners thread

My 970 SSC had no coil whine, but my 970 FTW was very noticeably whining right away. It may have gotten better over the last few days, and with the case sealed up I can't hear it over the fans anyway. I need to work on better airflow at the moment as the two cards get rather noisy and I'm not a...
- bob32768
- Post #728
- Dec 3, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Bent CPU pins.

That what I used years ago when I bent some pins on my (IIRC) Duron 700.
- bob32768
- Post #10
- Nov 13, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Cryptocoin Mining?

If you're still in the black, sell everything now and sit this one out. You can always buy back in later but it doesn't look good in the near future.
- bob32768
- Post #12,133
- Apr 10, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I'm going to mine until my next payout with scryptguild and then call it a day. At that point it will almost have been 6 days since the last payout -- twice as long as usual (scryptguild was amazingly consistent for me compared to middle/clever/waffle). Even with my low electricity costs it's...
- bob32768
- Post #11,912
- Mar 23, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Didn't Doge also had a very good launch by most standards? No pre-mine/IPO, pools ready, wallets stable, silly humor, etc. ? Also, to some degree I think the large block rewards made it more "fun". It was cool in the early going to get 10's and 100's of thousands of DOGE compared to other altcoins.
- bob32768
- Post #11,811
- Mar 18, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Everything sucks lately and average profitability is down around 50% in the last month. Take a look at the profit graph on Clevermining as an example of what profit pools face now: LTC is 40% lower, and the scrypt-altcoin mess has dropped 60%.
- bob32768
- Post #11,807
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV

That's appears to be close to 5 slots, based on the dimensions of the DVI port.
- bob32768
- Post #5
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Since mid November (the last big spike): -BTC difficulty is up ~6x -BTC total network hash rate up ~10x (!!!!) -LTC difficulty is up ~4x -LTC total network hash rate up ~4x Despite all the alt-coins in the interim, that's a massive amount of hashing power to drive the difficulty up so...
- bob32768
- Post #11,704
- Mar 11, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

It's not clear how much viability is left with the profit-switching scrypt pools. Wafflepool, Clevermining, and Middlecoin are all essentially trending right with LTC lately (sometimes worse, sometimes better). If there was a variant of cgminer which could switch hashing algorithms when...
- bob32768
- Post #11,567
- Mar 6, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Wow, people are falling for this? Convince enough suckers to pay in, and you make 20%.
- bob32768
- Post #11,565
- Mar 6, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Wow, first time I've seen the Tri-X in stock in Canada for more than a few minutes.
- bob32768
- Post #11,541
- Mar 5, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I use Electrum for BTC (because of the block chain), and official clients for everything else.
- bob32768
- Post #11,323
- Mar 1, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

He was pulling 9-10 BTC per day for a while there. If he can cash out cleanly it's a nice chunk of change.
- bob32768
- Post #10,946
- Feb 21, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Yeah, I've switched to CleverMining.com and while it's fluctuated a fair bit the profitability is still better than straight LTC mining (150% as of now). I really like their graphs and trends -- much more informative than Middlecoin. The pool hash rate has gone up almost 10x since I started...
- bob32768
- Post #10,782
- Feb 19, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I wish Middlecoin had the pretty stats of CleverMining. I tried mining there for a few days and initially it was equivalent to Middlecoin for earnings, but profitability vs LTC has taken a dive recently and is now below 100% (i.e. their attempts at arbitrage ended up worse than just mining LTC...
- bob32768
- Post #10,326
- Feb 13, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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CPU Temp Monitor for Macbook Air 2013

smcFanControl be able to probe the sensors as well.
- bob32768
- Post #3
- Feb 9, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Cryptocoin Mining?

They're usually announced in the Bitcointalk forum for alternative currency announcements. There's also twitter and a few other places (reddit). The BTC forum can be a bit much to wade through (lots of launched coins still have threads there, so it's hard to see what's new). On the other hand...
- bob32768
- Post #10,025
- Feb 9, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I'm having no luck mining with my 6950 on Virtcoin. Best I can get without hardware errors is around 125 kH/s, or roughly 1/4 what I get with regular scrypt mining. I've probably got a bad card for this algorithm as underclocking seems to help a bit, but otherwise anything above intensity 12...
- bob32768
- Post #9,665
- Feb 3, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I found this statement from that thread to be interesting: I've never heard of Cex.io, but is it true they amount to that much hashing power on the network?
- bob32768
- Post #9,663
- Feb 3, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Wow, profit pools are raking it in! Middlecoin @ 450 BTC in a single day, others with similarly high takes.
- bob32768
- Post #9,240
- Jan 21, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Dogecoin (or something) is proving very profitable even for my lowly rig on middlecoin. My per-day payout is nearly double what it was a few days ago.
- bob32768
- Post #9,208
- Jan 21, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I'm sitting on almost 12 LTC right now and am contemplating moving it to BTC. I've watched some of the exchange rates and there is a bit of movement, but trying to figure out when to sell would be tricky.
- bob32768
- Post #8,955
- Jan 17, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I've wondered if the flat BTC balance at times is because he's deliberately waiting for values to fluctuate before exchanging. At 3% fees, he's getting 3-6 BTC per day. Not a bad racket.
- bob32768
- Post #8,912
- Jan 16, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

If you don't care to try the arbitrage game the manual way, you can just get a bitcoin address (make a free one at blockchain.info) and then mine with middlecoin. No registration required, just start mining with your BTC address as the username and it automatically pays out. Middlecoin, like...
- bob32768
- Post #8,893
- Jan 16, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

The top user on Middlecoin is creeping up to 1 GH/s of scrypt mining (moving average is still around 850 MH/s). http://www.middlecoin.com/reports/1M3jtksp1upR33SX1VzeCfH5x9fc6zKykR.html Just bouncing the currency around, but mined over 100 BTC since December 31st...
- bob32768
- Post #8,850
- Jan 15, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

The stats on DOGE are crazy. Total market cap is fairly low, but the volume of transactions is very high (almost 2x BTC): http://bitinfocharts.com/
- bob32768
- Post #8,803
- Jan 14, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Maybe they received a Cease & Desist?
- bob32768
- Post #8,792
- Jan 14, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Middlecoin's balance tracker absolutely flatlined over the past 8 hours or so, but now it seems (unexchanged, at least) to have shot up again. Maybe it's the exchanges?
- bob32768
- Post #8,716
- Jan 12, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

The one on the top of the list? Already mined 35 BTC, but how long has he been running? That's more hashing power than the next 10 or so miners! What would that be in GPUs? Like 1,000 7970s? 280 Kilowatts? Yikes!
- bob32768
- Post #8,682
- Jan 11, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Still rocking my old HD 7950 at stock :D

My 6950-flashed-to-6970 with an aftermarket cooler is still very good, but as I recently got a 1440p monitor it's now obviously a bit too slow for high-end gaming. I can still run at 1080p and the monitor looks good enough for me, so that part is okay, but instead I'm mining with middlecoin and...
- bob32768
- Post #13
- Jan 6, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Got the Dell Ultrasharp U2711. What settings are the best for photo viewing?

You really need a proper calibrator to get decent values for your screen. That brightness setting seems awfully low, so it might be calibrated for 100-120 nits, while I prefer 180-200 nits on my PC displays (otherwise it just seems too dim given my room lighting). The colors can vary...
- bob32768
- Post #4
- Jan 5, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Yeah, mine is acting strangely as well. According to the block chain explorer, I have a balance of 250 NXT (thanks for the donation!) on my account, but when I log in via my local client I don't see any balance. Is that because of various DDOS's and other hackery? I know the transaction has over...
- bob32768
- Post #7,866
- Dec 25, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Was your node hacked? It says "The Matrix has you" now.
- bob32768
- Post #7,845
- Dec 25, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Anyone know why multipool and hashcows are mining DOGE, but the most profitable "coin" according to coinwarz (seemingly by a substantial amount) is net coin? Does it have something to do with how they individually calculate "profitability"?
- bob32768
- Post #7,787
- Dec 24, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

So I need to know someone who will give me some NXT so I can start mining it, but the mining doesn't require any compute power? I don't really understand, but this is my NXT address: 1581400078068688432
- bob32768
- Post #7,707
- Dec 23, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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You thought emulated 512b sectors were slow, you ain't seen nothin' yet

Here's a good article (PDF). Sounds like they'll need ever more over-provisioning to handle all the Read-Modify-Write cycles.
- bob32768
- Post #3
- Jul 22, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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What tim does haswell have on ihs

Same here. Before I de-lidded my 3570K, I saw peak core temperatures of 99 degC (!!!) at 4.5 GHz.
- bob32768
- Post #25
- May 31, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Does anyone still get the AMD 7xxx bug where your monitor doesn't wake up from sleep?

I only ever saw a problem like that after waking from sleep. I'd wake my PC from sleep, and my Dell 2408 would power on like it was waking up, display no signal for a few seconds, then power off. This cycle would repeat until the machine was reset or put to sleep again. The fix I use is to set...
- bob32768
- Post #32
- May 28, 2013
- Forum: Displays

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