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Excuse me somebody know the dig SHA256 graphics software ??? ???

I think Kalroth miner do sha256d by default, for sha256d the miner will create a .bin file beginning with poclbm130302, if I'm not wrong.

you can mine XMR monero with your GPU too, for sha256 its better sell GPU and buy coins

You cannot use GPU for bitcoin or litecoin mining. These coins are only profitable using ASIC. You can use GPU to mine some other coins, but only profitable if your electricity is low enough.

He didn't ask is this profitable or not. He asked you for miner. And you wrote 4 fucking useless posts.
For GPU sha256 mining software check this topics:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1721.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?&topic=1334.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6819.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6458.0

;D well said  ;D
actually, this is starting to be a bit ridiculous, each time someone ask for this or that there are always some who post stuff like that not answering at all the question...


and actually you can mine sha256 with gpu only, this this new coin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1037244.0
(no asic can run on it at the moment)

you are right my friend! Thank you, I need sha256 AMD GPU and NVIDIA miner with startum support! For R9 270X and GF9500GT. I need to test something! If anybody can get direct answer it will be good! now looking this 4 links....

You need an Amd 5850 or better minimal for hardware and use guiminer for sha256 mining , easy to use software and you will get 333mhs with an amd 5850 or better with newer cards .. You will be burning about 500 watts so you better find a good use with the heat also ..  for example you can incubate eggs or a room heater.. The possibility is endless ..

There are a few SHA256 variations for GPU mining. One of them is the Credits, but that is not a popular coin.

Lol i love this post man! keep it up man :)

I think the most productive way to respond to a post like this is to both:

1. actually answer his question and help him with exactly what he says he wants
2. also share that it may not be in his best interest to gpu mine btc for all the reasons posted in this thread

Now this is a professional approach, i agree,

I also hate people wasting my time giving me a song with a drum beat and no beautiful synths and strings, and not helping me.
I also want to learn and giveback what i know to others.
Again, hate being pushed to urls all the time with insufficient information, if i didnt bother with google then i would not have come here either.
I took the effort to register here in the first place.

Anyways i was also looking around for ways to mine Bitcoin or even the algo SHA256/d - unsure if they are the same, but i have managed to get my CPU miner going on my i7 2600 but it obviously seems like it it going to be the Kalahari here and no water for the animals for kilometers to come.

I tried the same pool in my case which was a nicehash lotto pool apparently .... but my SGminer gives me no failed status and or --debug doesnt help me at all since the screen clears , God knows why - so i.e. pause in a batch files doesnt help since i dont see the cleared error if there is one...
Unsure how to use Sgminer in most cases even if i refer to  --help.
It doesnt help me solve issues i have previously had where the mining seems to begin for a certain coin and then i get many HW errors.
And of course my most recent one where it just bombs out and goes back to a prompt.
I do not understand how you know what SGminer algos are supported, unlike cpuminer.exe or minderd.exe which actually tell you  which algorithms are supported when you type --help.
Though i have noticed u get certain hacked versions of those file where the guys completely strip out the algos and only leave a few in the code, unsure why also.

Enough waffling, sorry.

There are reasons people want to mine bitcoin with cpu or gpu aside from the futile "for profit" reasons. While some people really don't know better, telling them certainly helps, but they don't need to be be-rated and even if you don't tell them and they are attempting to mine for profit, it will very quickly become self-apparent that it's not worth it.

I do it, I run a full node and solo-mine with a cpu miner  relegated to one core. It's an older AIX server, it's always up anyway for  business purposes mostly qa stuff to test our software stuff with some network latency , the miner runs one one core on one box and my full node runs on another server in a VM across a VPN from another data center both of which I run and pay for. Sometimes I like to mess with the miner code to see if I can get the hash rate to go up, there were some very specific aix diddles I was able to get it up a few kh/s with those ;) .  I have a watt indicator on the UPS it's plugged into and I can see mabey 10w of power increase. Mabey it's just the way those older aix cores work, i dunno, I can turn the miner on full bore across all 6 of it's cores and only see about 60w of power increase. I only run the miner in one core though. Plus it helps keep the stupid VPN up even though the stupid sonicwalls are told never to time it out, without some network traffic, sometimes it will timeout. hahaha....

Why do I do this....I like running a full node to help the network and to keep my own wallet with my own private keys and I run the miner against my node just so every few months or sometimes years... I can mess with the entire setup, upgrade your miner and node software, read about what's going on...etc basically just to keep current on what's happening in the bitcoin world. I just had to do it to support segwit and while I don't follow bitcoin day to day, I'm glad I had the setup as it forced me to read and learn about all the latest BIP crap and segwit segwit2x and upgrade all my stuff...so, now I'm self-educated and caught-up  because I had a setup to "worry" about if you will.  I hadn't messed with the setup for about 1.5years. Sadly, I didn't see a new 12.5btc in my wallet ??? ;D

This is a very old thread, why are people even replying to it.

 If it is SHA256, there is nothing preventing an ASIC from mining it.

back in the day I had 5830's that had higher hashrates than my 5850's :) 
 
actually that's around the time my signature is still from, lol

SHA125 is pretty much dead for any and all GPUs. Even if u could mine SHA256 algorithm, it would be so unprofitable to the extent that u would lose money to electricity bills and hardware wear and tear. Not worth it seriously. The only machines that could mine SHA256 are godzillions of AISC miners working in tandem. If u could time travel back to 2009, u could mine quite a lot of Bitcoin with it and become a Multi Millionaire today.

He can solo mine and maybe hit a block sometime in the next 1000 years!  :o

... maybe this attracts more attention with the upcoming BTC fork.

 ;)

God reading this thread was driving me nuts.

At first I was looking at the software that I never heard off. Then I saw the guy post a few links which are for threads which were created back in 2010.

Then there is discussions about graphic cards which are extremely old. Then a few usernames that I’ve seen post in years and the finally reading my own post from 2017, I just realized it’s a thread started almost a decade ago.

People need to stop pumping these old threads for no reason.

GPU mining on sha256 is still valid on solo mining friendly coin.  Try  Cheetahcoin (CHTA),  it has restriction on big ASIC rigs and favors solo mining by running a full node at your home.  It is the most profitable sha256 coin for small solo miners on GPU or USB ASIC like gekko newpac, gekko compac F etc.

Now you can buy an old ASIC for a couple of tens of dollars and get a second one for spare parts for free :) The ASIC will consume more than 1 kilowatt per hour and it will be noisy, but it will be better than 1000 video cards or more. Mining SHA256 on video cards is useless.