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Title: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: BitMinerBlue on June 09, 2011, 06:26:01 PM I've been lurking the forums, watching people post hashrates of 300+ and such. Then I look at my GUIMiner and see it's pulling about 5.8Mhashes/s.
I'm currently running one 9500Gt, A dual Core AMD 5800+ at 3.0ghz, and Windows 7. I'd do it on my Linux but I honestly dont think it'd make a difference. So what am I missing, is my card just not up to stock? I mean I know it's -old- but where are all these high speeds comming from that everyone else talks about? Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: Seraphim401 on June 09, 2011, 06:28:37 PM Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s
Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: bullox on June 09, 2011, 06:30:58 PM Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity)
If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain ;) Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: AngelusWebDesign on June 09, 2011, 06:31:13 PM I have one of those cards -- it's how I started out last month :)
NVidia doesn't do NEARLY as well as ATI. It has to do with how the cards are designed, and what Bitcoin mining requires of a graphics card. And yes, that card is a bit old on top of it. I bought mine 2 or 3 years ago for $70 I think. Everyone here has basically the "cream of the crop" when it comes to mining-friendly graphics cards. Many of those cards are out of stock to 95% of the population -- everyone's been buying them up! Matthew Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: BitMinerBlue on June 09, 2011, 06:32:36 PM Hm, I was wondering I left the thing on all night and barely pulled .005 btc from btc guild..
Thanks for the info guys. I guess it wasnt worth the 14 hours I left it going. Then again my computer is on 24x7 anyways? Does that make a difference? Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: AngelusWebDesign on June 09, 2011, 06:34:30 PM Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity) If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain ;) According to my calculations, you could make up to 9 cents a day with that card, assuming electricity is 11 cents per KwH and the card & PC only draw 76 watts. Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: BitMinerBlue on June 09, 2011, 06:35:46 PM Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity) If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain ;) According to my calculations, you could make up to 9 cents a day with that card, assuming electricity is 11 cents per KwH and the card & PC only draw 76 watts. 500w PSU AMD 3.0ghz dual core Nvidia 9500gt Stock Mobo 3gb RAM Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: BitMinerBlue on June 09, 2011, 06:39:28 PM Once again, thank you all for the information.
I'll just hold my accounts and wait till I have money to kill on a good ATI card. The Bitcoin wiki has answers that that though, unless you'd like to throw in personal suggestions folks? Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: Fiyasko on June 09, 2011, 06:43:02 PM Dont buy a card for mining, Buy coins
Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: w0mbat on June 09, 2011, 06:48:45 PM Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s how? my hd5770 does 180mh/s @ gpuminer. or do u mean heavy oc? Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: CNMOH on June 09, 2011, 06:55:23 PM Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s how? my hd5770 does 180mh/s @ gpuminer. or do u mean heavy oc? Title: Re: 9500Gt-Worth it? Post by: w0mbat on June 09, 2011, 06:58:45 PM what miner is he unsing? to be fair, my hd5770 isnt running @stock (850mhz) but slightly oc´ed @900mhz.
im using the latest gpuminer with the following flags: "-v -w128" |