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Title: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: max2728 on August 04, 2012, 03:20:37 PM I have a gaming rig with 7 cores and a GTX680 that I'd like to use for mining. I set everything up, and wanted to try solo mining, and I was only getting 2 Mhash/s. Does anyone know why this is? I've read that my card should be getting somewhere around 110 Mhash/s.
Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: Shadow383 on August 04, 2012, 03:24:40 PM I have a gaming rig with 7 cores and a GTX680 that I'd like to use for mining. I set everything up, and wanted to try solo mining, and I was only getting 2 Mhash/s. Does anyone know why this is? I've read that my card should be getting somewhere around 110 Mhash/s. Sounds like you're mining on the CPU ;)Also, solo mining at 110Mhash/s? You're going to want about a thousand times that before solo mining is any sort of a good idea :D Hell, unless your power's totally free you're still not going to make a penny ;) Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: max2728 on August 04, 2012, 03:34:25 PM How do I switch it to the GPU?
Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: vikingboy on August 04, 2012, 04:42:59 PM which miner are you using?
with the guiminer its just installing the right drivers for your card and then selecting the GPU from a dropdown Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: max2728 on August 04, 2012, 06:45:25 PM which miner are you using? with the guiminer its just installing the right drivers for your card and then selecting the GPU from a dropdown I have the guiminer and my graphics card is in the drop down menu. Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: mc_lovin on August 04, 2012, 08:25:32 PM If you have DOZENS of computers, all of which have multiple of the best Radeon you can get, solo mining is still probably a bad idea. The difficulty is just too high. You're better off in a pool.
And the GeForce is a bad place to start. Get a Radeon and you'll get 5-10 times as much Bitcoin mined, but you'll find that the difficulty is so high, it would be a bad investment to buy a new video card for mining, the real investment is buying Bitcoins themself and wait for the price to inevitably go up. Title: Re: Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s Post by: Shadow383 on August 04, 2012, 10:54:23 PM the real investment is buying Bitcoins themself and wait for the price to inevitably go up. Yup, just like housing, oil, enron stock, Apple, Groupon, Netflix... When people treat price increases as "inevitable" they tend to get burned badly. |