I would suggest using low intensity when trying to mine on Macs, it's true that if the graphics card goes in one you've destroyed an expensive machine for the sake of hardly any coins which isn't clever, so think about that.
But I used DiabloMiner and honestly, it's not worth it, look into CGMiner, works so much better and more flexible in use of it, it requires learning to compile it unless you can find a premade binary for Mac, or for a small bitcoin donation I'll sort you out.
This is only if you have a Mac with a Radeon card though, if it's NVidia (all 2012 models are Nvidia), seriously don't bother you'll make nothing worth the wear you'll put on your graphics card.
Topic: What miner to use for OSX - Mountain Lion (Read 1183 times)
>I recommend MacMiner https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-official-macminer-thread-btcltc-cpugpufpgaasic-197110
What ^--- said. This package is tight.
What ^--- said. This package is tight.
Mining runs your computer hard. You can take steps to run it easier, but you're not going to get much speed out of nvidia I'm afraid. And if it's integrated graphics - nothing at all. What Mac do you have? A Mac Pro is fine. Anything else, a little risky.
That said, I recommend MacMiner https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-official-macminer-thread-btcltc-cpugpufpgaasic-197110
You can probably guess why
Just make sure you know what you're doing if you're going to mine. Check out the options you can use like -f 0-60 for poclbm or -I -10 to ~14 for cgminer/bfgminer, check your temperatures, maybe rev up the fans with smcfancontrol
That said, I recommend MacMiner https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-official-macminer-thread-btcltc-cpugpufpgaasic-197110
You can probably guess why
Just make sure you know what you're doing if you're going to mine. Check out the options you can use like -f 0-60 for poclbm or -I -10 to ~14 for cgminer/bfgminer, check your temperatures, maybe rev up the fans with smcfancontrol
i didnt buy it for mining i just want to make few bucks when its on. it can really ruin my computer?
You will not make any bucks, you will probably lose money and ruin your computer, yes cause your making the GPU work extra hard in a manner it was not designed for especially in a mac.
i didnt buy it for mining i just want to make few bucks when its on. it can really ruin my computer?
you can badly ruin your mac, macs aren't made for this type of gpu processing. I would recommend you don't mine, it isn't profitable. If you have to mine get an ASIC machine.
i just got new mac - intel, nvidia [i think at least].
i tried to find out about miners but it seems theres many outdated apps and ways so im not sure which topic to actually follow.
what do you osx mac miner suggest to use?
i tried to find out about miners but it seems theres many outdated apps and ways so im not sure which topic to actually follow.
what do you osx mac miner suggest to use?
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