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worldinacoin

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Mine is running about 400 MHash/s each by just adding the flags -v -w128 -f0

Quote from: gutschilla on September 21, 2011, 06:05:32 PM

Quote from: holgero on June 19, 2011, 06:58:40 PM

if I understand what's on the wiki correctly, it is not possible to use an ATI "Radeon HD 3650" card for mining, right?

Yep. And buying a new one just for mining currently doesn't seem too profitable. See http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ to calculate costs and income.

My ~700MHash/s give me ~0.4BTC/day. This is currently less than 3$ per day. This is roughly the same amount of money my rig consumes in electricity. I am lucky not to pay for this electriciy but I cannot scale up as this "free" electricity is part of a "fair use" deal and I guess I am already stretching the deal a bit.

gutschilla

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Quote from: holgero on June 19, 2011, 06:58:40 PM

if I understand what's on the wiki correctly, it is not possible to use an ATI "Radeon HD 3650" card for mining, right?

Yep. And buying a new one just for mining currently doesn't seem too profitable. See http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ to calculate costs and income.

My ~700MHash/s give me ~0.4BTC/day. This is currently less than 3$ per day. This is roughly the same amount of money my rig consumes in electricity. I am lucky not to pay for this electriciy but I cannot scale up as this "free" electricity is part of a "fair use" deal and I guess I am already stretching the deal a bit.

coran007

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fyi newegg has a xfx 6950 for $230 and then a $30 rebate and 2 free games, not a bad deal. the 6950 is doing about 320 Mhash/s at 810 MHz

holgero

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Thanks for the fast answer! Cool

chippy

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That is correct, since that series (ATI HD 3000) does not support OpenCL at all.
Pick something from that "Mining hardware comparison" that has a big number in the Mhash/s column. Also look for a small number on the Watts column if you want to save electricity and CO2
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

holgero

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Hi,

if I understand what's on the wiki correctly, it is not possible to use an ATI "Radeon HD 3650" card for mining, right?

Best regards,
holgero.

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