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Topic: How to mine bitcoins while using my normal pc - page 2. (Read 7896 times)

newbie
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Merit: 0
December 12, 2013, 02:12:40 AM
#3
Not that I want to discourage you from mining but with an NVIDIA card you would be better off looking at scrypt coins like Litecoins, Feathercoins, Digitalcoins or something along that line, the reason I say this is I started the same place you are back in August and over 3+ months of mining on BTC on a very similar card as yours and 11 block erupters I only had .5 BTC and an increased power bill.

I have updated my hardware to ATI cards and am working on different scrypt coins and doing a decent profit after electrical and the cost of the cards.

The app I use for mining is cgminer 3.7 which I run from the command line (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/)

If you are looking for a GUI application I would check out guiminer (http://guiminer.org/)

Again if you are just wanting to do BTC just for fun and see what its like you will probably do a couple of cents a day in BTC but if you are looking to make decent money on it your not going to with the hardware you currently have.

Did you join a pool?
newbie
Activity: 54
Merit: 0
December 12, 2013, 02:11:00 AM
#2
Not that I want to discourage you from mining but with an NVIDIA card you would be better off looking at scrypt coins like Litecoins, Feathercoins, Digitalcoins or something along that line, the reason I say this is I started the same place you are back in August and over 3+ months of mining on BTC on a very similar card as yours and 11 block erupters I only had .5 BTC and an increased power bill.

I have updated my hardware to ATI cards and am working on different scrypt coins and doing a decent profit after electrical and the cost of the cards.

The app I use for mining is cgminer 3.7 which I run from the command line (http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/)

If you are looking for a GUI application I would check out guiminer (http://guiminer.org/)

Again if you are just wanting to do BTC just for fun and see what its like you will probably do a couple of cents a day in BTC but if you are looking to make decent money on it your not going to with the hardware you currently have.
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
December 12, 2013, 02:00:30 AM
#1
Hi, I mostly use firefox for work on my pc and the most intense it gets is watching downloaded videos or youtube, I don't game.  I want to know what program to get to mine bitcoins while using my PC with little intensity so that it doesn't affect anything im doing.  I'm a total newbie to mining so any additional info that I would need to know to pull it off would be great.. thanks  Cheesy

Below is my PC specs it's ancient I know but it works just fine for what I'm using it for.
Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz
2 GB Ram Kingston
Nvidia Gefore 7800 GT
700W Power Supply

Thanks again...
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