Topic: btc mining w/ Nvidia (Read 10428 times)
i wanted to get a 5870s but those are like twice as much i would pay for a 5850s
ultimately i wanted those 6xxxx but those are really expensive.
Psh. Lucky. I spent like 3 hours trying to track some down. No dice. Oh well.
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Short answer: Don't bother. Buy a decent card if you want to mine. Trying to mine with that card would be... unpleasant, to say the least. Pretty sure 5850s are the most cost-effective, but good luck finding any.
i actually found a 5850 for pretty cheap. Im going with a 5850 since they are cheap and powerful
Short answer: Don't bother. Buy a decent card if you want to mine. Trying to mine with that card would be... unpleasant, to say the least. Pretty sure 5850s are the most cost-effective, but good luck finding any.
you need to make sure your driver is up to date there are guides for using poclbm but you need to have a versoin of forceware new enough to enable open CL
i probs won't make a ramdisk.
ill just install Ubuntu and just mine mostly
ill just install Ubuntu and just mine mostly
My advice is that if you're going to use a ramdisk, rent some hardware like a bi-quad Xeon with dual SSD, then make the ramdisk on that. I've done it under proxmox and while it's not as fast as straight-up OS -> ramdisk, VM OS -> ramdisk gives you a lot more versatility than just a normal setup. OVH is good for hardware like that.
that sounds like fun.
A ramdisk?
yes you take a part of your PC ram and create a little HDD the speed for the ramdisk is insane (because is on ram lol) http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk but if the PC run out of power everything is lost so you need to make backup's all the time is there any point to use this for bitcoin ? nope, just for the lols
are there any ramdisk monsters ? yes http://www.ramsan.com/
my computer just has windows Vista Home Basic on it and 512mb RAM
A ramdisk?
A ramdisk?
the only thing you can do whit ram is making a ramdisk 
RAM isnt a major issue from what I can see.
my mining rig, which is my old PC from 2008 just has windows XP on it and 2 gig RAM, although when I look at the RAM usage, it is using just 350mb during full mining usage.
my mining rig, which is my old PC from 2008 just has windows XP on it and 2 gig RAM, although when I look at the RAM usage, it is using just 350mb during full mining usage.
Does it matter how much RAM the computer has?
I only brought the 9400GT because it was on sale and i didn't know that ATI were better.
I'm gonna try to get a ATI 5850.
Would it be better if i installed it Ubuntu and do mining on that?
I only brought the 9400GT because it was on sale and i didn't know that ATI were better.
I'm gonna try to get a ATI 5850.
Would it be better if i installed it Ubuntu and do mining on that?
mining with a nvidia card is pretty crap yea.
My gaming PC has a GTX 470 and although it is fantastic in all the game I play, for mining it just isnt good for the amount of power it draws.
I would advise you to get a Radeon 5850. Right now they are extreemly cheap I got mine for £94 and with a little clocking I get 330 mhash/s where as with my £200(at the time) GTX 470 i get about 100 if i overclock it.
It is really not worth mining on your current setup. You wont see good results and the income you do get will be pretty small.
At the moment you will get 1 BTC every 20 days from a pool. And at current rates thats only $20 dollars
If you were to get a 5850 for $120 dollars, run it for 20 days, you would get 10 BTC (0.5 a day @ 315mhash/s) and at todays rates that would be $200, so as well as paying for the gfx card, you would have made $80 ontop.
Ofcourse who knows what the market will be like in 20 days, it could jump up to $30 or drop down to $10, even if it was down to $10 then you would still be able to get your money back in a month, and still have a better gfx card at the end of it.
My gaming PC has a GTX 470 and although it is fantastic in all the game I play, for mining it just isnt good for the amount of power it draws.
I would advise you to get a Radeon 5850. Right now they are extreemly cheap I got mine for £94 and with a little clocking I get 330 mhash/s where as with my £200(at the time) GTX 470 i get about 100 if i overclock it.
It is really not worth mining on your current setup. You wont see good results and the income you do get will be pretty small.
At the moment you will get 1 BTC every 20 days from a pool. And at current rates thats only $20 dollars
If you were to get a 5850 for $120 dollars, run it for 20 days, you would get 10 BTC (0.5 a day @ 315mhash/s) and at todays rates that would be $200, so as well as paying for the gfx card, you would have made $80 ontop.
Ofcourse who knows what the market will be like in 20 days, it could jump up to $30 or drop down to $10, even if it was down to $10 then you would still be able to get your money back in a month, and still have a better gfx card at the end of it.
on this site, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
it said my 9400GT would only get 3.37 Mhash/s
and i couldn't get the new drivers installed either to actually use it for mining.
it said my 9400GT would only get 3.37 Mhash/s
and i couldn't get the new drivers installed either to actually use it for mining.
See this page and it'll explain why nvidia cards are slower than AMD (ATI) GPUs.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU
My GT 330m seems to be capping at 10M hashes. Is it limited somehow or just slow?
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
Useful to see potential of different GPUs for mining.
Useful to see potential of different GPUs for mining.
Should I just get a Radeon 5770 or similar to mine on my computer?
Im using a computer that I don't use at all, so I don't really need it to do anything else.
Im using a computer that I don't use at all, so I don't really need it to do anything else.
As they said mining with an nvidia is not a good idea, they simply do very low mhash/s
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