Bit of a novice here who wants to join the LTC pool.
Thanks in advance!
There's a wiki page, but it needs to be updated.
https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison
Roughly, this is the expected performance for today's 64-bit CPUs:
- AMD K8-based processors (e.g. Athlon 64) do about 1 khash/s per GHz per core.
- AMD K10-based processors (e.g. Phenoms and recent Semprons) yield about 1.8 khash/s per GHz per core.
- Early Intel Core 2 processors give about 2.1 khash/s per GHz per core.
- More recent Intel Core processors can go up to 3 khash/s per GHz per core.
- A Playstation 3 can do 34 khash/s (total) using the Cell/BE optimized miner by ssvb.
A list of mining pools is available here:
https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/wiki/Comparison-of-mining-pools
(OzCoin is temporarily down for server upgrade, they will be back soon.)
Just to add i7-2600k @4.8 running 6 threads 35KHash I have not tried 8 treads.