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Title: would this set up be profitable? Post by: dan0804smith on August 26, 2011, 06:05:51 PM if i got a bunch of older free computers and hooked them all up to be one computer (this is called a linux cluster) would it be profitable to do this? would i at least break even?
by doing this i would have ghz upon ghz of processing power, which is pretty much useless but whatever i would have many gigs of graphix i would also allocate all existing ram is Vram, which would be many GBs what are your thoughts? Title: Re: would this set up be profitable? Post by: mute20 on August 26, 2011, 06:10:44 PM Not worth it in the slightest. My single 6850 could probably out perform all those computers and then some. You would probably pay like 5$ a day on power.
Title: Re: would this set up be profitable? Post by: MrWizard on August 26, 2011, 06:21:26 PM Please don't do it. CPU mining is absolutely not cost effective.
Title: Re: would this set up be profitable? Post by: ohforf on August 26, 2011, 06:21:51 PM Read this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
In simple terms, CPU mining is nonsense, old Video Cards are useless. The best Hardware is a ATI HD 4000, 5000 or 6000 series Card. Also, fast NVIDIA Cards from 8000 series upward can do some Hashing. |