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newbie
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March 24, 2014, 04:42:47 PM
#20
I build my own desk top and as of right now I'm running 5 of 6 core amd cpu ( one died) and a outdated motherboard. What radeon card would you recommend? My nvidia card barely works for mining. My roommate and I are getting a few usb miners to take load off gpu.
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March 24, 2014, 03:39:51 PM
#19
I will suggest you not to mine on a laptop get a decent desktop with decent specs for example ram:8 gb and surely don't use nvidia if you are a serious miner, rather go for amd cards they are pro in mining  Wink
newbie
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March 24, 2014, 12:59:30 PM
#18
With my roommate help I now have cgminer working. I am mining on both laptop and desktop. I also got a 24 hour mining contract for $2 and its at 5Gh/s. Thankss to all for the help and the advice. Grin
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March 22, 2014, 04:57:08 PM
#17
PRO TIP: That will earn next to nothing, and your laptop will suffer for it, guaranteed. You'll see that eventually, one way or another. Litecoin's not that hard to get into and can be easily traded for BTC or USD, I'd seriously look at using that desktop for scrypt mining NOW, before scrypt chips make it worthless.
newbie
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March 22, 2014, 04:41:33 PM
#16
I may not be mining on my desktop, but did get a miner going on my laptop. 43.44Mh/s. The GPU temp is steady and with in specs.
legendary
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March 21, 2014, 10:43:30 AM
#15
Cgminer stops supporting GPU-mining since 3.8.  Smiley

I just spent some time, and found this post for you.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3538435
newbie
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March 21, 2014, 10:32:49 AM
#14
the video card is a nvidia tx 640
legendary
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March 21, 2014, 10:28:05 AM
#13
Cgminer stops supporting GPU-mining since 3.8.  Smiley
legendary
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March 21, 2014, 10:20:28 AM
#12
what kind of graphics cards do you have?
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March 21, 2014, 12:57:25 AM
#11
I am mining Bitcoins and I am part of a pool. I do have a screenshot but don't know how to upload it.

If you are mining bitcoin, a GPU is not going to cut it. Even if you get it to work it won't be worth it. Use your GPU to mine a scrypt coin such as litecoin or dogecoin. If you want to mine bitcoin you need to get an asic miner such as an antminer.
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March 20, 2014, 11:08:36 PM
#10
VBox only adds layers of "abstraction" to the existing drivers, so I doubt it will solve that problem. Make sure you're using the latest actual nvidia drivers, not the basic ones bundled with windows, and that they're for the right card and the right windows version.

Actually, the problem could be that cgminer is tuned for AMD cards (OpenCL), where CUDAminer is best for nVidia cards (CUDA) such as yours. It's popular for scrypt mining (for litecoins), but can be used for bitcoin too. Here's another discussion on it: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/need-help-with-mining-bitcoins-with-cuda-miner-173034 and another: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cudaminer-320079

You might do well to just mine some litecoin with it. Bitcoin's hardly worthwhile to GPU mine these days.
newbie
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March 20, 2014, 10:40:25 PM
#9
Cuda 5.5 was installed, it also installed video drivers. When I rebooted gpu was 3 now 5% since I have got most of my usual stuff running. I just don't know what else to do but try it all again in linux in a virtualbox
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March 20, 2014, 09:34:57 PM
#8
...and make sure you have the latest video drivers. The problem is that cgminer is not detecting any GPU, so a new GUI won't help there.

Also the card's specs are pretty good.
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newbie
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March 20, 2014, 08:57:58 PM
#6
https://i.imgur.com/58bCEgt.jpg

Ok lets see if this helps.

I loaded a frontend gui for cgminer. The gpu speed is constant at 5%. So its not doing any processing on the gpu.

On the status page of the gui it reads getwork 165 and netblocks 8 (9.6 min ave) all other boxes are 0.
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March 20, 2014, 08:40:41 PM
#5
Open a new browser window to imgur.com, drag & drop the file there, and click "Start Upload". Then it will give you some link codes. Just copy the "Linked BBCode" code and paste into your forum post, and we should be able to see it clearly.
newbie
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March 20, 2014, 06:57:57 PM
#4
 I am mining Bitcoins and I am part of a pool. I do have a screenshot but don't know how to upload it.
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March 20, 2014, 02:39:45 PM
#3
Also, what are you trying to mine? If the opencl fails to compile it may show 0 h/s. For instance, I'm finding it hard to get any scrypt miner to work on Radeon @ 32-bit/xp...
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March 20, 2014, 02:33:50 PM
#2
Are you connected to a pool? Can you post a screenshot?
newbie
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March 20, 2014, 01:46:30 PM
#1
I have been running cgminer for the last 12 hours.  My h/s is 0, but I am getting block information and other data.
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