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Title: n00b Questions Post by: n00b on June 07, 2011, 07:46:52 PM Quick Q: 1000 k/hash = 1 M/hash right?
Main Q: I have access to a lot of low spec machines which I dont pay electrictity for ;) So my plan is to use these to their full potential In my testing ive been using GUI Miner for GPU Mining and cpu miner for the cpu Regarding algorithm choices in cpu miner, should I just use the one that gives me the fastest hash rate? And set threads to the number of cpus? Thanks and sorry for the n00b qs Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: LegitBit on June 07, 2011, 07:50:05 PM Q1: yes.
The CPU is still needed to process commands for the GPU. It doesn't use hardly anything but when you try to mine on both 100% they will conflict. Try Ufasoft's CMDline miner. Be careful about that free electricity stuff..... Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: MiningBuddy on June 07, 2011, 07:50:47 PM 1000 k/hash = 1 M/hash -> Correct
However, if I run them both together on a machine, I see a drop in GUI miner and it fluctuates a lot. -> limit your cpu miner to use 1 less core then its max, gpu mining uses some cpu resources and can get bogged down if your cpu is running 100%. IE, if you have a quad core, limit core usage to 3 cores. Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: n00b on June 07, 2011, 07:52:51 PM thanks - i edited my post to remove some stuff but you replied to it
Still learning :) Why is Ufasofts Cmd line miner any better? Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: LegitBit on June 07, 2011, 07:54:27 PM Ufasoft uses SSE2 instructions built into the processor for CPU's, offers better performance than OpenCL for some things.
Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: n00b on June 07, 2011, 07:58:53 PM yes i seem to get about 5x better performance with ufasoft than cpuminer
Thanks for the tip Title: Re: n00b Questions Post by: LegitBit on June 07, 2011, 08:06:36 PM No Prob, happy mining.
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