Thanks for the prompt responses...and especially the one on guiminer not being able to do it. Wasted a lot of time there.
It's a Phenom 4/8 core and 32GB ram...but I don't even try to use the CPU for this. It WILL do CPU mining, but it's slow as heck (of course) and stops everything else on the system.
I'll try the pool you noted, although I've looked at two "solo pools" so far, and one is already dead and the other one looks smarmy as heck.
It's a Phenom 4/8 core and 32GB ram...but I don't even try to use the CPU for this. It WILL do CPU mining, but it's slow as heck (of course) and stops everything else on the system.
I'll try the pool you noted, although I've looked at two "solo pools" so far, and one is already dead and the other one looks smarmy as heck.
Maybe there is a cgminer miner version you can use some -gpu argument or such. Honestly this is such a bad idea, that there is not really any work being done to support people who want to do this ongoingly.
Even bad choices like buying a 5GH/s usb key that use virtually no power for 10$ is years ahead of what you want to do.
Anyways, good luck;
Days to generate one block mining solo: 3868327.82 Day(s) with your 400$ gpu.
Yup...I did the math. I know...I'm utilizing what was available in that the R9 was donated; the main machine is my primary workstation, with a 1200w psu, and could care less. It's been paid for since '13. The exercise is re the process; it's giving a couple of folks something to do...a "mission". We're looking at some ASICs, maybe that low-end Antminer USB to start with. Not much cash to put in it, but that's probably a good thing.
Peace.
It doesnt really matter your past method of acquisition, what you have now, it doesn't change what would be a bad method or what a good direction to head from here would be.
Whether you have free electricity or not, or you paid for what you have or not. I do have some free electricity too and i do lottery mining. There are simply good, bad and horrible way to go about it. And with how much heat you got for trying this, you can probably guess where your method would score on that scale.
The best usb stick is this;
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/run-2-closedsidehack-stickgekkoscience-compac-official-sales-thread-1126705
You even get a lightshow for free. For minimal lottery mining, this is great.
However THE best way to go about it for you is probably a underclocked S1 at 275hz with a completely silent fan, pen modding the resistance down to 2.7. 140gh for 160 watts~
I got mine for 10$. Wont even have bother with running guiminer or cgminer or whichever miner that does gpu bitcoin mining.
. I will be able to complete the project I said I would do (a volunteer thing for our church's veterans' ministry) now, but only thanks to your making the solo pool available. My apologies for getting hooked on the gui thing. I write several programming languages and such, but I'm a retired combat veteran and am, frankly, lazy as heck and don't want to mess with a load of code. My bad. It works, though, with your solo pool.
You could sell the gpu and get a great miner that would multiply your chances by 10 000, that would not break down because of the heat, cause noise or need to have its fans replaced all the time because they aren't meant to handle the load, assuming the VRM does not burn out because its not meant to be used 24/7 on such a heavy algo.