Hi everyone -- just joined the Bitcoin universe. I'm a Linux guy; I just successfully built the source for Linux (took a few hours to get all the pieces in place!)
I don't think I'm getting any GPU work done. I have a nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1 GB card -- pretty fast for 3D actually (for me, I mean. Not by today's standards!), but I don't know if it's supported by most miners. Does anyone know which cards are supported?
I'm getting 5.4 - 5.5 MHash/s using 2 threads. The most I ever get is 5.61 MHash/s
I have a Core2Duo 2.4 GHz CPU.
My machine is actually pretty old -- 2 years! I'm going to get a new one in a month or two.
Nice to meet you all!
Matthew
any GPGPU-capable card will mine, and that means nvidia 8-series, ATI x1900 and later (except the 3-series ATI and i don't think some 4 series mobile ones do either), so your card will mine. make sure your drivers are up to date. i had issues with getting GPU mining to work on my old 8800GTS and a driver update fixed that up.
though your 9500GT will only get 6-7 Mhash/s. 5.4-5.5 also sounds about right for your CPU, as i get 6.7-6.9 out of my core2 duo 3.0ghz.
between those, that's about 0.07BTC/day of hashing, sans pool fees/stales/etc.
if you're planning on new hardware, you may want to step that up some. at current prices, my 6870 is about halfway to paying itself off in the past 11 days, but the conditions may get unfavorable towards new hardware buying if the difficulty keeps rising like it is unless prices start jumping again as well.