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Title: Need specified miners Post by: yunkaspis on August 01, 2011, 05:57:08 PM Hello All Bitcoin Forum Members!
Well just recently I heard of the Bitcoin currency and I decided to mine them. But as I said I'm new to this so I need Two things and I hope this community will help me get them! 1. A CPU miner. But not just any one. I need a CPU miner that would be limitable (that You could specify the percentage or CPU to use). In my case I need that a CPU miner would use 75% of my CPU. 2. A GPU miner. that would also be limitable. A GPU miner should use 50% of my GPU. So that's all I need for now. Hope this community is friendly enough to help me :) Yunkaspis Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: PLaci1982 on August 01, 2011, 07:39:49 PM Hello All Bitcoin Forum Members! Well just recently I heard of the Bitcoin currency and I decided to mine them. But as I said I'm new to this so I need Two things and I hope this community will help me get them! 1. A CPU miner. But not just any one. I need a CPU miner that would be limitable (that You could specify the percentage or CPU to use). In my case I need that a CPU miner would use 75% of my CPU. 2. A GPU miner. that would also be limitable. A GPU miner should use 50% of my GPU. So that's all I need for now. Hope this community is friendly enough to help me :) Yunkaspis 1. What OS do you use? 2. What GPU do you have? Why do you want it limit? Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: yunkaspis on August 02, 2011, 06:34:18 AM I use windows xp
I want it limited because I need some PC resources for myself... Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: PLaci1982 on August 02, 2011, 06:41:15 AM Plz. tell us what GPU do you have. :)
I did read about CPU limiting in Win7, but not on XP, sorry... also CPU mining ain't worth much it atm... Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: yunkaspis on August 02, 2011, 07:04:16 AM I use nVidia 8600GT. Aren't there miners with specific commands that let You limit the usage of CPUs and GPUs
Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: deepceleron on August 02, 2011, 07:36:38 AM If you use a miner based on poclbm/phatk (Phoenix/Guiminer), you can set the GPU aggression very low with a command line option. Aggression 2 instead of 12 will put out 20mhash instead of 30mhash.
If you use a CPU miner on a multi-core processor, you can set the CPU affinity for just some of the cores, and can set it to low or idle priority so it doesn't slow down your system. Either the CPU or the nVidia card are very inefficient; you will get about 30mhash/s instead of the 300-400mhash/s that a $130-$200 ATI 5xxx GPU would, while using more electricity than the BTC you earn. Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: PLaci1982 on August 02, 2011, 08:52:18 AM I use nVidia 8600GT. Aren't there miners with specific commands that let You limit the usage of CPUs and GPUs nVidia....You will need a CUDA miner, not the usual OpenCL ones. For CUDA I recommend puddinpop's RPC Miner (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2444.0), witch are also included the easy-to-setup GUI Miner (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.0). To limit the GPU usage you have to set the extra flag: Code: -f250 Title: Re: Need specified miners Post by: yunkaspis on August 02, 2011, 01:28:27 PM Thanks again for the answers!
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