Topic: Computer hardware for 400-600GH/s hashing (Read 3529 times)

Not anymore worthless than mining with graphics cards. LOL.

But yeah, kinda joking.

 

ok, guess your right.

this is a joke right???
are you ducking serious???
Jalapeno??? Really??? Red-fury for couple of hundred bucks??? really???

LOL

You are aware how difficulty is high?
you are aware that right now 60gh ASIC is considered worthless???
Jalapeno and red fury are nothing else but peace of history so throwing couple of hundred dollars on them doesn't make any sense.

hahahaah ..

lol @ all the miners who have never mined SHA-256 commenting about GPU speeds...

If you want to mine BTC with graphics cards, and you don't care about electricity, that's fine too.

You need to go to www.coinish.com and enter your Mh/s and see how much you get.

I think CGminer stopped supporting graphics cards for BTC mining at about version 3.7.2 -ish, so you need an earlier version of CGminer or whatever other miner you want to use.

But, 2 x 7950's mining BTC will yield 0.00022924 coins per day, which is $0.19 (and burn about $1000 in power in 12 months).

You're better off buying a Jalepeno, or some red-fury's off E-bay and mess around with those for a couple of hundred bucks.

Even if you have free power, the graphics cards create heat, which even though it's winter now, at some point, you'll have to cool the room once the weather gets warm. And, fans running at full power are usually annoying.

At least you'll learn something about mining, looking at the bright side.

lol @ all the miners who have never mined SHA-256 commenting about GPU speeds...

Well then buddy you're doing something seriously wrong.

Have a look at some of the GPU hashing speeds for Bitcoin. You can see they are marked as "Mhash/s" then go down to 7970 and you will see they can go up to 825MH/s with proper cooling.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#AMD_.28ATI.29

Wrong about what exactly? Have you ever mined BTC with GPU's? They hash in MH/s, not KH/s.

Yes... over 2Ghs for BITCOIN hashing. You must have problems understanding things.

Again, if you actually cared to READ, you would see I was referring to Bitcoin mining at 2.8Gh/s. Each card does well over 700Mh/s.

Let me break that down for you;

4 X 700 = 2800Mh/s

2800Mh/s can also be shows as 2.8Gh/s because 1000MH (rounded down) is a the same as 1GH.

Do I need to break down the process for you some more?

Also, if you cared to read, you should see that I went on to say that they are currently being used to mine LTC, meaning they are no longer being used to mine BTC, and I never mentioned the hashing speed of LTC mining so please don't make another bullsh!t post.

In any case, I am currently running at 7,200KH/s (approx. 7.2Mh/s) for LTC.

If you cared to read, you would see that I typed "GPU's", as in more then ONE. I used to run 4 MSI Radeon HD 7970 OC, which would give me about 2.8GH/s. They are currently being used to mine LTC now, along with 8 other cards.

Lightyear69,

It used to be that computers were used to mine bitcoins, but now that's not done anymore. Those were the days of a couple of years ago.

Up until maybe August of 2013, you could still use graphics cards to mine, but those took a huge amount of power, and they became not profitable once ASICs (application specific integrated circuits) came out.

You can still use computers and GPUs (graphics cards) to mine what are called scrypt based miners, like Litecoin and other scrypt based coins, but you need pretty powerful graphics card, like 4-5 if you want to get anywhere with that, and a beefy power supply to boot.

As an example, I run 2x7950's in one computer for Litecoin mining (get about 1.1 Mh/s with both, it's a small setup with a 750 W power supply). You can't really put more than 2 of those cards with the case closed, because of the heat they generate and dissipate (200 Watts each, 400 watts total power to dissipate).

Most people who run many (4-5) graphics cards have open air rigs with powerful fans blowing on them and increased spacing between graphics cards so they do not burn each other up. I have not personally gone that route, mainly due to space and safety (kid) concerns.

As for bitcoin mining, to get to 400-600 Gh/s, you need some powerful miners, like several AntMiners, or a bunch of Singles, or a few newer Avalons, and burly power supplies.

My recommendation would be to start small, do not burn a lot of money, and configure any existing hardware you have to mine some litecoins, or maybe get a cheap ASIC off E-bay. Some of the older generation ASICs have come down in price. (like maybe a Jalepeno or Little Single). Or, get a redfury USB miner and run that for a bit.

Hope this helps.

How about some of you guys EXPLAIN to the guy WHY it is that he can't, rather then just laughing at the guy? He's obviously new to the game. I understand there are plenty of places where he could've gathered the necessary information, but really, no reason to act like douches.


As for the questions:

You cannot build a computer that will hash at such a high rate. The best you could do is build a computer with some high end GPU's that will maybe get you about 2-4GH/s. That will earn you about $1 a day (likely less), and cost you maybe $2 a day, so it's not a good idea. Bitcoin mining is only left for ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). If you want a bitcoin miner, you can try to buy an AntMiner (www.bitmaintech.com but they are currently on holiday in China untill Feb 5th.)

If you want to get into the game of mining, you can try LiteCoin mining, which you can still due currently with GPU's.

There are plenty of information that can be found on this forum, please have a look around, and remember, the search box is your friend.