No coins generated in 708 hours, normal? - page 2.

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Quote from: ShadowOfHarbringer on December 11, 2010, 12:02:56 AM

Just watch your electricity bill. 5970 is a mighty bitch and consumes around 300-400 watts ?
Also, i think that the miner also uses one core, but i might be wrong since i only tried CUDA miner which uses 100% of GPU plus 100% of one of my 4 cores.

So yes, the electricity bill will hit you hard. Also, you need a new power supply, since usual power supply of usual Desktop PC will not be enough.

ArtForz just did the math for you https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/at-what-point-are-you-making-a-profit-through-mining-2196
It is very profitable. Even if you take my 700W power unit consumption as basis.

The miner uses both GPU cores, each one crunching at +300mh/s
There is a problem /w ATI SDK 2.2 that prevents from running on both, but 2.1 works perfectly

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Also, i think that the miner also uses one core, but i might be wrong since i only tried CUDA miner which uses 100% of GPU plus 100% of one of my 4 cores.

m0mchils OpenCL miner doesn't use much of your CPU at all, maybe up to 5%,
not sure about Diablo-D3s, but i guess it's somewhat close to that.
it's only the cuda-miner that runs that bad.

your right about the power-consumption though, 5970 is maxed at ~300W, would be a bit less when just mining.
someone on irc mentioned a HD5970 setup running on an Intel Atom at ~330W, not that much for ~600M,
my oc'd HD5850-system needs ~230W for ~300M (+50W/65M with HD5570).

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Quote from: davout on December 10, 2010, 05:32:20 PM

Quote from: da2ce7 on December 10, 2010, 05:25:22 PM

Quote from: davout on December 10, 2010, 03:35:53 PM

Oh come on, if you really want to generate get yourself a nice Radeon 5970, you still generate a block a day with that

Ah you get around 0.52GHash/sec on one of those... so it already is over a day.

That's out of the box performance.
Overclock them with a twist of a commandline and you easily reach 600mh/s.
I reach 620mh/s at the price of having to stay around since it loses some stability (perfectly stable at 600mh/s)

Add 10mh/s from the i7 CPU and you can redo the math :p

Generated 2 blocks today, yay!

Just watch your electricity bill. 5970 is a mighty bitch and consumes around 300-400 watts ?
Also, i think that the miner also uses one core, but i might be wrong since i only tried CUDA miner which uses 100% of GPU plus 100% of one of my 4 cores.

So yes, the electricity bill will hit you hard. Also, you need a new power supply, since usual power supply of usual Desktop PC will not be enough.

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Quote from: da2ce7 on December 10, 2010, 05:25:22 PM

Quote from: davout on December 10, 2010, 03:35:53 PM

Oh come on, if you really want to generate get yourself a nice Radeon 5970, you still generate a block a day with that

Ah you get around 0.52GHash/sec on one of those... so it already is over a day.

That's out of the box performance.
Overclock them with a twist of a commandline and you easily reach 600mh/s.
I reach 620mh/s at the price of having to stay around since it loses some stability (perfectly stable at 600mh/s)

Add 10mh/s from the i7 CPU and you can redo the math :p

Generated 2 blocks today, yay!

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Quote from: davout on December 10, 2010, 03:35:53 PM

Oh come on, if you really want to generate get yourself a nice Radeon 5970, you still generate a block a day with that

Ah you get around 0.52GHash/sec on one of those... so it already is over a day.

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Oh come on, if you really want to generate get yourself a nice Radeon 5970, you still generate a block a day with that

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Sad but true, it's gotten incredibly hard to generate coins, which can be frustrating to new users. I think the Pooled mining effort is a really good idea :-)

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It's actually reassuring that free money isn't very easy to get

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Quote from: MoonShadow on December 10, 2010, 11:39:07 AM

Actually, don't expect to generate coins on that system ever. The total network has been growing at an incredible rate, and if it keeps up, the average time between individual generation will be well beyond a year long before that year is up.

It is little discouraging but that is the truth.

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Actually, don't expect to generate coins on that system ever. The total network has been growing at an incredible rate, and if it keeps up, the average time between individual generation will be well beyond a year long before that year is up.

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nothing wrong,
if you are generating on a CPU only, don't expect to get any coins within a year.

you can calculate an average time here,
just put in your khashes/s and you'll know how long it takes for your CPU to solve a block.

you can however join the mining-pool, to get at least a few coins, or cents a week or so.

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Hi there,

I found out about you through the Flattr community and thought I'd give it a try. I've been running your Windows application on my laptop (dualcore 1.3 GHz) for 708 hours now, with no coins generated. Is that to be expected or is something wrong?

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