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LuckyNumber7

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Quote from: Mylon on April 05, 2013, 03:47:20 AM

Technically the board should be fine, as the data-rate back and forth is minimal, its just the GPU doing a lot of crushing by itself. I would recommend Linux though as it takes a lot less resources to run than for example windows 7 (the amount of RAM might become an issue, windows 7 loves 4gb or more, your average netinstall of *nix takes 500mb at most)

Here you got a calculator to calculate hashrate to BTC (with a bunch of other stuff) http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

Note though, that it looks like that today the difficulty is going up again... Sad

so less BTC per MH/s

Ahh I see! Ok, so what graphics card would you recommend that will work with my current rig? Or do you think I should get a new board to support a more powerful GPU?

Mylon

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Mining FTW

Technically the board should be fine, as the data-rate back and forth is minimal, its just the GPU doing a lot of crushing by itself. I would recommend Linux though as it takes a lot less resources to run than for example windows 7 (the amount of RAM might become an issue, windows 7 loves 4gb or more, your average netinstall of *nix takes 500mb at most)

Here you got a calculator to calculate hashrate to BTC (with a bunch of other stuff) http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

Note though, that it looks like that today the difficulty is going up again... Sad

so less BTC per MH/s

LuckyNumber7

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Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new at this whole Bitcoin mining thing and after watching it and following it for a couple months I decided to give it a go! I got my laptop mining but I'm only hitting 4.4 mhash/s which I know sucks and is relatively slow. SO I dug out my old desktop which has an nvidia geforce 6100 nforce 405 which again, I know sucks (and is too old to mine with!)

Anyways, the motherboard I have is an Asus M2N8-VMX with dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800. Is my motherboard too old to support any of graphics cards that are useful for mining??

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