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Title: 8500 GT not showing up in GUIMiner... Post by: wildboy211 on June 21, 2011, 07:00:59 PM I know its a shit card - but i dont care - i still need it to work, something is better than nothing. GUIMiner says "NO OpenCL devices found.", i can switch to another miner if needed, but just need the GPU to do the work.
Title: Re: 8500 GT not showing up in GUIMiner... Post by: RyNinDaCleM on June 21, 2011, 07:45:15 PM Do you have the latest drivers? I know 8xxx series works, but I don't know if it's 8800 and up or not!
Title: Re: 8500 GT not showing up in GUIMiner... Post by: wildboy211 on June 21, 2011, 09:32:50 PM Do you have the latest drivers? I know 8xxx series works, but I don't know if it's 8800 and up or not! Yes, i downloaded the latest drivers a few days ago. Title: Re: 8500 GT not showing up in GUIMiner... Post by: Jack of Diamonds on June 22, 2011, 01:08:53 AM The card has too few CUDA cores to be worthwhile for mining.
It will generate about 2 ½ mhash/s, i.e. you will be spending more on electricity than you will earn mining. In fact your processor might be faster. At current difficulty level you will earn 0.09 bitcoins in 1 month or about $1.31 dollars. At next difficulty (1.25 million) you will earn 1 bitcent per week, or 4 bitcents per month (under 1 dollar). It's best to leave it as a HTPC card for movies, light gaming etc.. And get a radeon 5-series card for mining. Title: Re: 8500 GT not showing up in GUIMiner... Post by: wildboy211 on June 22, 2011, 01:52:07 AM The card has too few CUDA cores to be worthwhile for mining. It will generate about 2 ½ mhash/s, i.e. you will be spending more on electricity than you will earn mining. In fact your processor might be faster. At current difficulty level you will earn 0.09 bitcoins in 1 month or about $1.31 dollars. At next difficulty (1.25 million) you will earn 1 bitcent per week, or 4 bitcents per month (under 1 dollar). It's best to leave it as a HTPC card for movies, light gaming etc.. And get a radeon 5-series card for mining. Dont care about electricity costs, how much i make, i just want it to work. |