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Title: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: Bas Koning on August 06, 2011, 07:07:27 AM A thing I have been wondering is:
Howto setup one of my machines (windows 7, geforce 9600 GT) to mine some small coin when I sleep. That would be awesome. Then, how can I extract those coins, exchange them into euros, and buy groceries ;) I would like to post a small manual about that on youtube to get more people involved: lots of greedy people will mine for a dime. (including myself, hehe) Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: UrbanAdventurer on August 06, 2011, 07:15:44 AM download the bitcoin client, download guiminer, pick and register at a pool, then setup an account at tradehill.
Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: 322i0n on August 06, 2011, 07:21:45 AM You can also trade BTC for euro at intersango.eu.
Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: PLaci1982 on August 06, 2011, 07:22:38 AM Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: Bas Koning on August 06, 2011, 07:44:14 AM Yeah, I know, its just an oldie gathering dust in a corner. ::) How much hashes does it take to mine a single coin (or euro) anyway? Very roughly estimated? Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: nmat on August 06, 2011, 07:50:16 AM It should take about 2 weeks (if you are running 24/7) to make 0.1 bitcoins (~1 euro). You will spend a lot more than that in electricity though.
Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: Sepp on August 06, 2011, 11:56:05 AM It should take about 2 weeks (if you are running 24/7) to make 0.1 bitcoins (~1 euro). You will spend a lot more than that in electricity though. Sounds like a bad deal to me :( Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: Bas Koning on August 07, 2011, 06:45:43 AM -Create wallet with http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/bitcoin-0.3.24-win32-setup.exe (http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/bitcoin-0.3.24-win32-setup.exe): Done
-Register an account with http://mining.bitcoin.cz/accounts/register/ (http://mining.bitcoin.cz/accounts/register/): Done -Also, register a worker there (since it appears one has to register each GPU individually): Done -Install gui-miner (for 64bit) http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Kiv/poclbm/guiminer-20110501.exe (http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Kiv/poclbm/guiminer-20110501.exe): Done Now, the GPU I have did not show up in gui-miner, instead it gave me some feedback about openCL, so I installed http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx (http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx), restarted gui-miner, and there it was: my trusty old GeForce 9600GT, showing up just fine. -Filled in credentials in the miner, pressed 'start mining': It would not connect: 'starting' or 'connecting', then: nothing moves for half an hour. Added 'summary' and 'console' to the view. Summary seems to hang on the message 'connecting'. The console gave some clue, though: Code: Wrong platform or more than one OpenCL platforms found, use --platform to select one of the following So I tried with this flag: Code: --platform 1 Restarting mining now did not raise any warnings or errors in the console. Checking the summary shows I am currently adding 3.2Mhash/s to the pool :) But: after a while: 'verification failed! check hardware!' Oops: tried Code: --platform 0 Restarting mining now did not raise any warnings or errors in the console. Checking the summary shows I am currently fluctuating between 13 and 13.3Mhash/s. Few seconds later: 1 share accepted. Checked my account on http://mining.bitcoin.cz/accounts/profile/ (http://mining.bitcoin.cz/accounts/profile/), estimated BTC reward for current round: 0.00030305 BTC ;D Where is a list of all the flag options? Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: deepceleron on August 07, 2011, 06:59:44 AM That video card is not awesome, but you should be able to get a bit more mhash out of it.
I would install the latest nVidia driver 275.xx for the best OpenCL support. The most productive nVidia miner is guiminer 6-14-2011, later versions are more ATI-optimized. And then get nVidia system tools and overclock that thing until it catches on fire! Title: Re: Howto setup minig for a windows machine, then exhange to euros Post by: Bas Koning on August 07, 2011, 08:21:39 AM install the latest nVidia driver 275.xx:
17.3 MHash/s, wow! That helped a lot :D (I did have very old drivers) Downgrading the gui-miner to 6-14-2011: Did not help a lot: Unchanged at 17.3 MHash/s I am a little afraid to overclock it to death... What variables are relatively safe to fiddle with, you think? Any place where I can find all the possible flags? Could tinkering with those flags increase Mhash/s somehow? (edit) I also created a worker for my CPU, just for fun, the 6-14 version lets me select cpu-affinity, as long as I keep one processor focused on GPU, rest on CPU I get 17.3 MHash/s (GPU) + 2.5 MHash/s (CPU) = 19.8 MHash/s (total) |