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lowlevel

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Guys, do you think it's okay to use my somewhat-ancient computer to mine for Bitcoins? It's got hardware that was great a few years ago, and an Nvidia graphics card... Might it work?

Go ahead and start mining with that... get into one of the pools, figure out how it all works now before you go out and spend some real money on some ATI 5830's or whatever you can find that works well and you're comfortable paying for.

Use this chart to help you pick the best card for you https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

And yeah.. you're not going to want to bother with CPU mining or nvidia mining longterm.. but nothing wrong with trying it out for a couple hours to get the hang of how everything works.

Welcome to the fold!

-lowlevel

kilgore

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Quote

But you still can run some services or do something that can help bitcoin grow.

Yeah I'm still learning about that. Until then, some shameless self promotion:

http://www.freebitcoins.org/6509

I've already earned 0.2 BTC there! sign up with the link above

kilgore

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Just discovered bitcoin, a bit obsessed!

but I've already learned: mining isn't for me. My slow little laptop can't do much, and I can't get any of those mining programs to work for me. BCP was fun for a minute...till I learned about the hidden fees!

deebug

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Guys, do you think it's okay to use my somewhat-ancient computer to mine for Bitcoins? It's got hardware that was great a few years ago, and an Nvidia graphics card... Might it work?

Not in a long shot. First of, don't use nVidia but ATI(AMD) graphic cards. You will pay more for the electricity (depending where you live, it's almost true for any country) than you will earn bitcoins.

mitchel

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hey,
I'm a Canadian who got lucky and picked up 5 x 5830's at 100 bucks each Cheesy

and as such am deep into the mining. Bitcoin is awesome and i hope that i can get white listed someday so i can contribute to the forums like everyone else.

btcbaby

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I spent to much time lurking. Hello.

Davidesan

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David!

I just want to get access to the rest of the forum..

Infinum

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My name is Short, Very Short Wink

Sangre

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Hi all.
I'm bitcoin farmer and I'm russian. I try increase my engish language skills on this forum, so any corrections for my misspelling and bad grammar are welcomed. Cheesy

MtRev

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Quote from: Cromax on July 08, 2011, 02:32:24 AM

I've got a laptop, is that ok with you all?

I don't think it's a good idea to use a laptop, you're going to burn it out.
You're going to need a PC for this.

Cromax

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I've got a laptop, is that ok with you all?

KBlask

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HEY THIS IS KEVIN. MY RIG PWNS ALL OF YOURS.

lowlevel

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Quote from: jaredk on July 07, 2011, 02:42:12 PM

Quote from: lowlevel on July 07, 2011, 01:31:14 PM

Hey guys I'm lowlevel. I am also batman. http://www.sexybatman.com/
Just lookin' to get some posts to get out of n00b jail here.

-lowlevel
Grin

Hey there lowlevel. How is your mining going? If I may ask, what type of mining are you doing? CPU OR GPU?
xJared

Hey xJared,

I'm mostly GPU mining. I've got 2 ATI 5830 cards going, and some Xeon CPU's... pushing about 600 Mhashes total with only very minor over clocking on the two cards. Using phoenix 1.48 on Slush's pool... lots of tweaking to do over the weekend! How about you?

-lowlevel

silverchair

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My name is Donald Trump. I made my ridiculous amount of money in shady real estate deals. Now, I'm going to spend my time converting my fortune to Bitcoins, where the government can't get it.

LOL

silverchair

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Hi guys! A new bitcoin fellow here

how are you?

silverchair

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Hello!

Nice to be here...

Crystal Excursion

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I'm Crazy about Bitcoin, trading Quartz for BTC

Quote from: makiet on July 07, 2011, 11:01:50 PM

ohhh, this topis is real good.

try to get some post to remove newbie title Cheesy

Welcome... What Interests Ya about Bitcoin ?

makiet

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ohhh, this topis is real good.

try to get some post to remove newbie title Cheesy

Crystal Excursion

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I'm Crazy about Bitcoin, trading Quartz for BTC

Quote from: swivel on July 07, 2011, 09:44:01 PM

So this is where you come to pad your post count.

Yep... Shame-lessly respond to this

Pentium100

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Hi everyone, I am new to Bitcoin, only have one PC for mining (~292MH/s) and hope that it's worth it. If it is, I'll buy more video cards (and used PCs). Too bad there are no AGP and/or PCI-X cards good for mining.

How many posts until I become a normal member?

Also, does the wallet.dat file change? That is, if I copy it to a MO disk, how often should I update the backup?

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