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DeathAndTaxes

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Gerald Davis

Quote from: dark_st3alth on December 01, 2011, 09:33:27 PM

For profits it comes down to how many hashes you can do in an amount of time - I have no problems with that. Finding the cheapest card to do the job is an important point to back that up.

Out of curiosity has anyone compared ATI to Nvidea cards? I'm running an old nVidea card of mine at about 4.50 MHashes/sec, and use the other one for games.

Yes and NVidia sucks for mining. The cheapest lowest entry level AMD card runs laps around the highest most expensive NVidia card.

Don't want to turn this into an AMD vs. Nvidia flamefest. NVidia makes fine cards but the architecture they use is complete poop (a technical term) for mining.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

dark_st3alth

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Seem like I answered my question myself...

I looked at the https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison page. Even my i3 would be able to do a lot of MHashes/sec since I've over clocked it.

worldinacoin

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I use my 6970 purely for games, it is super quiet and fast. Have only the basic Nvidia cards from Dell, never tried the expensive cards from Nvidia as the mining guide does not show them to be great for bitcoin mining. When I stop playing, my 6970 can have dual use as bitcoin mining with 300+mh.

dark_st3alth

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Quote from: RyNinDaCleM on December 01, 2011, 09:18:24 PM

^Wut?

ATI/AMD 5xxx and 6xxx series cards definitely. nVidia is complete garbage for mining. The 5800 series is the best bang for buck period.

I personally prefer XFX lifetime warranty.

I'm sure there's something up if Nvidea is charging more...

For profits it comes down to how many hashes you can do in an amount of time - I have no problems with that. Finding the cheapest card to do the job is an important point to back that up.

Out of curiosity has anyone compared ATI to Nvidea cards? I'm running an old nVidea card of mine at about 4.50 MHashes/sec, and use the other one for games.

RyNinDaCleM

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Legen -wait for it- dary

^Or that!

worldinacoin

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5970 if they are on offer from newegg. Fantastic prices.

RyNinDaCleM

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Legen -wait for it- dary

^Wut?

ATI/AMD 5xxx and 6xxx series cards definitely. nVidia is complete garbage for mining. The 5800 series is the best bang for buck period.

I personally prefer XFX lifetime warranty.

dark_st3alth

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A little tricky topic.

ATI (ahem really AMD) are cheaper and might be what you are looking for.

nVidea has better quality cards, but can be more expensive. I'm sure people have tested the brands, so you should be able to go find information.

If your looking for pure hash to coin ratios, ATI cards will serve that purpose - but the question is how long if a card is that cheap?

Sherkel

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I'm considering asking for a GPU for mining for Christmas this year (yep I'm still that young,) and based on this page, I think a Radeon 5830 looks the best budget-wise. Seeing as I'm still a total noob, though, I want to get the inputs of some more experiences and/or knowledgeable users before I make my final decision. I hope this is in the right place (a bit worried about that seeing as there are apparently very few threads like this,) but I didn't see anywhere better to ask this.

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