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I mine with this for a week and when somebody buys it I will get some sleep ...
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Mining bitcoins with 3 USB Block erupters since a month
I have crossfire 5870's that I am currently mining litecoins on the WeMineLTC pool. I am not using my CPU for mining, but its an i7 920 at 3.5 GHz
I have a Block Erupter mining altcoins . I also mine Litecoins on my GTX 780, when i don't use it.
Overclocking my card made about 10% difference, but it gets a lot hotter. I bought it for gaming, I didn't know anything about mining back then.
Yeah. Same here. That's why I'm using a Geforce right now.
TFK
Are you using CudaMiner? Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC's graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt)
Thanks for your interest! Yep, I'm using cudaminer with autotune. I know, I should have bought a Radeon. Though, the GTX770 is a very nice card in itself. However, I did not OC it. Dit that do much for your 580?
edit: wow it reports 256 now!
TFK
Are you using CudaMiner? Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC's graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt)
Thanks for your interest! Yep, I'm using cudaminer with autotune. I know, I should have bought a Radeon. Though, the GTX770 is a very nice card in itself. However, I did not OC it. Dit that do much for your 580?
edit: wow it reports 256 now!
TFK
I just mine for fun and to see how things perform.
So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.
I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.
I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.
I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.
But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.
TFK
Are you using CudaMiner? Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC'd graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt) So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.
I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.
I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.
I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.
But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.
TFK
I just mine for fun and to see how things perform.
So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.
I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.
I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.
I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.
But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.
TFK
So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.
I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.
I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.
I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.
But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.
TFK
Currently I'm using mine and my daughter's (when she's not on it) computers but am intending to build a dedicated mining rig because although it might not quite cover the electricity bill it will heat the house too, saving on the gas bill. Apart from that hopefully my BFL 7GH/s Miner will turn up one day......
My machine:
QX9650 Core2Quad Extreme, 4GB DDR3-1600, Nvidia GTX580 running CudaMiner which makes it twice as fast as with CGMiner because Nvidia cards aren't great with OpenCL integer maths
My daughter's machine, on which she's clocked up over 1000 hours playing The Sims 3, another 500 on Garry's Mod and an unknown but large amount of time on Minecraft:
Phenom II X3 710, 4GB DDR2-800, ATI Radeon HD5870
Just between these two computers they're putting out enough heat that my gas central heating system hasn't come on once yet and it's almost October. Obviously this feature isn't very useful in summer but in winter heat is not an expensive waste product. I wish they were quieter though!
My machine:
QX9650 Core2Quad Extreme, 4GB DDR3-1600, Nvidia GTX580 running CudaMiner which makes it twice as fast as with CGMiner because Nvidia cards aren't great with OpenCL integer maths
My daughter's machine, on which she's clocked up over 1000 hours playing The Sims 3, another 500 on Garry's Mod and an unknown but large amount of time on Minecraft:
Phenom II X3 710, 4GB DDR2-800, ATI Radeon HD5870
Just between these two computers they're putting out enough heat that my gas central heating system hasn't come on once yet and it's almost October. Obviously this feature isn't very useful in summer but in winter heat is not an expensive waste product. I wish they were quieter though!
Old Q6600 Opteron with 2 x 7770 HD's, tinkered to see what it is all about. Happy with the power draw efficiency however they dont really mine fast compared to the beasts people are outlaying in.
4 x 7970
One is not cooperating at 670-690khash, Other three are underclocked 10mhz on engine for stability.
https://i.imgur.com/aMsUSxy.png
One is not cooperating at 670-690khash, Other three are underclocked 10mhz on engine for stability.
https://i.imgur.com/aMsUSxy.png
My Rig includes:
2 7950's mining away as we speak.
So far, I've been only mining Litecoins.
We'll see how it goes.
2 7950's mining away as we speak.
So far, I've been only mining Litecoins.
We'll see how it goes.
At first I had an nVidia GT 450 which was getting about 42Mh/s. Then I bought a 7870 and now get 425 Mhs. Power usage is about 260 Watts on my system. I used to keep two computers running all the time, now I turned off one which was using 180 Watts and now I use less electricity on a net basis. I started with LTC, but now for me BTC is more profitable. Every now and then MNC, FTC and TRC are better the mine, for short periods of time. Seems like that is only a few hours though.
Just with a 5750, get about 150 kh/s mining scrypt coins.
I have a similar setup, couldn't get mining to work in Ubuntu, so using Windows 7. Only got interested in crypto currencies a week or so ago, but already thinking of upgrading my card to a 78xx or something.
1x6670 & 1x7770
1x6850 & 1x6770
780MH
1x6850 & 1x6770
780MH
Just with a 5750, get about 150 kh/s mining scrypt coins.
Just an old laptop
Even if the ROI turns out to be 0, I'm still looking forward to ASICminer's USB Block Eruptor... 
Rig 1: ~1.4 ghash/s
1 - 5970
1 - 5850
1 - 5830
Rig 2: ~1.3 ghash/s
2 - Gigabyte 7970
All the cards except the 5970 are powered off of some server power supply I paid $15 for.
1 - 5970
1 - 5850
1 - 5830
Rig 2: ~1.3 ghash/s
2 - Gigabyte 7970
All the cards except the 5970 are powered off of some server power supply I paid $15 for.
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