It seems people know only seti and folding.
There are dozens of other projects, much more interesting
WorldCommunityGrid for example. It's a recent news that they found 7 interesting molecules to fight children neuroblastoma
Topic: what else can the mining rig do while its mining? (Read 6823 times)
Use the CPU to do folding@home or seti@home.
Find a BOINC project that suits, seti isn't it - normally too much politics.
Malaria Control is one of the more worth-while projects (I have a friend that supports it), but there are a few good physics and bio-chemical projects if you want to stay away from the number theory ones. Something like 70 different ones to choose from, mostly CPU, some ATI, some Nvidia.
Another +1 for BOINC.
I've got a FAH client, a Freenet node and a Tor node running currently. There's not really an awful lot else left to do after that as three of the system's resources are being hammered (GPU, CPU and Network). Dunno if anyone else has suggested it - but home automation?
I've got a FAH client, a Freenet node and a Tor node running currently. There's not really an awful lot else left to do after that as three of the system's resources are being hammered (GPU, CPU and Network). Dunno if anyone else has suggested it - but home automation?
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
In the summer I can't even run my mining computer until the evening when I put the air on lol.
i keep my apartment around 80f.
around my computer desk, it's probably around 83-85ish.
nice & warm.
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
In the summer I can't even run my mining computer until the evening when I put the air on lol.
I'm mining on my server, its running 8-10 VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2... No performance issues at all and the monitor is only ever turned on to use MSI Afterburner, so laggy desktop isn't an issue. Strange that I can mine over remote desktop but not overclock the card...
I use one of my main systems all the time, I just don't have the display graphics card as maxed out as the other cards... they are all mining but I can still smoothly use my system while getting 1200 mhash
Reddit mostly.
Lot's of movies too with vlc, just uncheck both Accelerated Video Output & Use hardware YUV->RGB conversion. In Tools/Prefs/Video.
Lot's of movies too with vlc, just uncheck both Accelerated Video Output & Use hardware YUV->RGB conversion. In Tools/Prefs/Video.
If I had a huge mining farm like a few of the guys on here I'd figure out a way to warm up a bathtub full of water. Nice hot bath whenever you want. Free.
I have my aquarium on top of it and it keeps it at the perfect temp of about 78c. The aquarium cools the case and the case warms the aquarium.
Talk about liquid cooling.
If the aquarium ever busts though I will have some fried graphics cards and some fried fish.
Talk about liquid cooling.
If the aquarium ever busts though I will have some fried graphics cards and some fried fish.
well if you play runescape you can run some bots lol
Most likely you'll earn less than eletricity costs lol (is "lol" the new "." ? 
)Many papers in Folding at Home are about the project itself (how to do protein folding on GPUs, how do error rates on a distributed GPU work network look like...) rather than results submitted by users - I don't think there's a lot in there that will help me in any way during my lifetime.
I'd rather run TOR instead, or Freenet...
well if you play runescape you can run some bots lol
Considering the high TDP of quad-core processors you're actually paying for the distributed computing projects.
Use the CPU to do folding@home or seti@home.
Well helping science is income, since it help you too.
I was partecipating in distributed computing projects for years before bitcoin, that's why i have an ATI card too
I was partecipating in distributed computing projects for years before bitcoin, that's why i have an ATI card too
Well, most of the stuff you're suggesting here however takes ressources from the mining rig but does not really give a lot in return as "reward".
If the added consumption from running a Wuala node for example costs more than their pay-plans, you're actually at a loss. You can even pay there in Bitcoins btw.
So far I haven't seen a lot of things (besides trade bots) where it could be possible to gain money or other valuable ressources from having a computer running at a home DSL line.
Charity however is always nice, so a TOR node or some BOINC/F@H action might be nice - however it is charity, not increasing income!
What might work would be some kind of renderfarm thingie, but this again might require very good (or many) CPUs, lots of RAM and (most important) lots of customers.
If the added consumption from running a Wuala node for example costs more than their pay-plans, you're actually at a loss. You can even pay there in Bitcoins btw.
So far I haven't seen a lot of things (besides trade bots) where it could be possible to gain money or other valuable ressources from having a computer running at a home DSL line.
Charity however is always nice, so a TOR node or some BOINC/F@H action might be nice - however it is charity, not increasing income!
What might work would be some kind of renderfarm thingie, but this again might require very good (or many) CPUs, lots of RAM and (most important) lots of customers.
+1 to BOINC
I have a quadcore cpu here, i just put 3 cores on BOINC and i leave the other one to Guiminer (with 4 cores on BOINC m/hash drops a lot...)
I have a quadcore cpu here, i just put 3 cores on BOINC and i leave the other one to Guiminer (with 4 cores on BOINC m/hash drops a lot...)
Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power.
+1
mining does not take much CPU and F@H (the SMP [CPU] client) is a low priority task, ie does not take away from the miner resources.
F@H=Better than fixixing balding
I actually put mine to work on World Community Grid doing research on things like cancer. (we call it crunching)
In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power. In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
I actually put mine to work on World Community Grid doing research on things like cancer. (we call it crunching)
In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power. In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
This is equivilant to not mining. Or very low hashing anyways
Indeed. Aswell as viseversa if you drop the -f to 40 (30 is default if you dont put a -f)
My linuxcoin main rig also serves as a wireless router distributing my mobile broadband to all my devices, a distcc node, file storage, internet radio, VPS etc
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER?
winter, not so much, even it's only 40-50f.
I live in Canada and my place of work has been reaching 120F average, it's been as hot as 148.2F a couple weeks ago (set new record of 118F outside (I work in a powder coating shop during the day with an oven the size of 2 cubevans running at 400C all day)
Needless to say, on that 148.2F day, I was given the choice of whether I felt "safe" working that day or not. My answer was obviously a "Fuck no!"
WTF? 148 degrees in Canaada?
I thought you were our colder cousin!?
You need this son'o'bitch right here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MQBYYU?ie=UTF8&tag=bsb011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B003MQBYYU
It was 105 degress in my NYC basement studio apt now it's 68... even with full mining on 5 cards going... ahhhh
Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
This is equivilant to not mining. Or very low hashing anyways
I'm Bot mining in Runecraft (cpu usage) making $6.5 a month per bot... think 1 bot per 500 Mhz/512 Ram * # of cores.
Does that cover the additional electricity used for the CPU?
Do people in this threa not know about the -F flag? Im running Crysis2 on dual 6870BE's while mining
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
Just set it to -f250
I've been running -f250 for the past 3months, And the only time i ever need "some more fps" i just set the -f to -f350
Media server for xbmc. Torrent server...
Will
Will
what else can the mining rig do while its mining?
can we like host some website
or sell backup space for someone
or what other suggestions
can we like host some website
or sell backup space for someone
or what other suggestions
I find Bitcoin miners to be excellent cheese melters and food dehydrators. Simply put an even larger rack over your video card rack and you're in business
well i'm sometimes playing magic online on it nowadays. does not need GPU.
by the way, is anyone selling event tickets for bitcoins?
by the way, is anyone selling event tickets for bitcoins?
I download torrents on one, and I keep backup data on another. Setting up a tor node might be fun
I'm running a nonexit tornode and wuala generating me some onlinespace.
You can play Dragon's Tale Bitcoin Casino @ http://dragons.tl
That way you can gamble away all the bitcoin you just mined.. LOLOL jk XD
Seriously Though it won't effect your hashrate and it actually uses a VERY VERY low amount of CPU/GPU usage
You can play Facebook Games like Farmville Zynga Dominates the Market but there alot of other fun games like Monopoly Millionaires , Scrabble , Tetris , Pack Rat , ETC
That way you can gamble away all the bitcoin you just mined.. LOLOL jk XD
Seriously Though it won't effect your hashrate and it actually uses a VERY VERY low amount of CPU/GPU usage
You can play Facebook Games like Farmville Zynga Dominates the Market but there alot of other fun games like Monopoly Millionaires , Scrabble , Tetris , Pack Rat , ETC
I'm Bot mining in Runecraft (cpu usage) making $6.5 a month per bot... think 1 bot per 500 Mhz/512 Ram * # of cores.
Makes your CPU profitable mining while your graphics cards are mining.
/queue Xzibit
Makes your CPU profitable mining while your graphics cards are mining.
/queue Xzibit
You could run a Tor node if your internet connection is good enough.
Turn off hardware acceleration and watch pr0n.
Surf the web, or if I want to play a game, I take one card offline and use it for gaming.
I actually put mine to work on World Community Grid doing research on things like cancer. (we call it crunching)
In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
That's a good idea to use it as a file server, if the motherboard supports RAID1 or RAID5. My problem is that the my dedicated rigs are all out in the storage room and it's HOT out there, when I touch the bare hard drives they nearly burn my hand, so I wouldn't want to put important file storage into that environment (I hear hot = bad for HDD's )
)
one of my rigs was already my email server and download box running headless anyway. another was/is a file server and another my HTPC (using the onboard graphics as the main display). all of them were always on before I started mining
You could run a Minecraft server. You know, so you can mine while you mine...
LOL I was going to post this earlier as I already do this. WOOT
You could run a Minecraft server. You know, so you can mine while you mine...
that sounds like plenty of fun
one day, i'm gonna move to canada.
one day, i'm gonna move to canada.
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER?
winter, not so much, even it's only 40-50f.
I live in Canada and my place of work has been reaching 120F average, it's been as hot as 148.2F a couple weeks ago (set new record of 118F outside (I work in a powder coating shop during the day with an oven the size of 2 cubevans running at 400C all day)
Needless to say, on that 148.2F day, I was given the choice of whether I felt "safe" working that day or not. My answer was obviously a "Fuck no!"
I use my dedicated PC for mining, browsing the net, emails etc, this takes a toll on my mhash/s. I am thinking about picking up a $35 ATI 5450 and use that as my main gpu, make a dummy plug for my 5830, insert my 5830 in my second pcix x16 slot. This way, the 5450 will take the load off of my 5830.
Just an idea if you are on one pc and do not want your mining gpu to take a toll for doing gpu accelerated stuff.
Just an idea if you are on one pc and do not want your mining gpu to take a toll for doing gpu accelerated stuff.
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER?
winter, not so much, even it's only 40-50f.
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
Fucking right, friend. This Texas draught is killing me, many many weeks straight of pure 100% HEAT, (no clouds) 100+ days. WHY DIDN'T I DISCOVER BITCOIN DURING THE WINTER?
Anything where you dont need to use the video card
web server, file server, tor node, torrent, bot trading
web server, file server, tor node, torrent, bot trading
create vmware vps to sell is ok? lol
if pc is at datacenter
if pc is at datacenter
Bitcoin node, namecoin node ....
File server, media center, web server, automated torrent bot...
Any file or cpu-based task that is easily offloadable, really.
Any file or cpu-based task that is easily offloadable, really.
Keep coffee warm. pop popcorn. Dry Hands.
Run trading bots.
download pr0n
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
let you play minesweeper
act as a heater
blow hot air at you
act as a paperweight, coaster, or bookshelf
lull you to sleep with its hum
act as a conversation starter to anyone who dares enter your mineshaft
act as a heater
blow hot air at you
act as a paperweight, coaster, or bookshelf
lull you to sleep with its hum
act as a conversation starter to anyone who dares enter your mineshaft
what else can the mining rig do while its mining?
can we like host some website
or sell backup space for someone
or what other suggestions
can we like host some website
or sell backup space for someone
or what other suggestions
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