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1  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: How much power does Bitcoin consume? on: May 25, 2011, 11:44:18 PM
OK so if you're saying I will probably be using 7.2 KWh/day and the energy data for the UK according to the wiki link is € 0.0436 how much would power consumption be a day?

If that is the correct price per KWh (and I have no idea whether it is), then its 7.2 times 0.0436 = € 0.31392 per day.  This is approximate because the 300W power usage was a rough estimate.



OK so you're stating it could be close to £0.40 (GBP) a day of power usage, it doesn't seem so bad.
2  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: How much power does Bitcoin consume? on: May 25, 2011, 11:40:06 PM
OK so if you're saying I will probably be using 7.2 KWh/day and the energy data for the UK according to the wiki link is € 0.0436 how much would power consumption be a day?
3  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / How much power does Bitcoin consume? on: May 25, 2011, 11:26:39 PM
Hi everyone,

My main worry with bitcoin is the power consumption, running my system on full load 24/7 will make it very expensive, and also receiving maybe a BTC a day won't really help I'm guessing.

My system is:

- AMD Phenom II 940 (Underclocked to 0.75v with AMD Cool N Quiet)
- ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe Motherboard
- Sapphire 5850 1GB (Flashed to Asus Bios, 900/1000 @ 1.137v @ 332 Mhash/s)
- 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066
- 750GB Hitachi 7200rpm, 32mb cache, 640GB WD Caviar Black 7200rpm, 32mb cache
- HTC Omega Striker 7.1 Sound card
- Fan Controller
- Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 850w PSU
- Antec 1200 Case

Running this system by itself on full load in my guess would consume a lot of power, what would the average power consumption be.
4  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 05:31:26 PM
The largest pool with 0% fee is btcguild ( http://www.btcguild.com/ ). it's smaller than deepbit, so you're going to get more variance, but in the end, you'll make more money.

I'll give it a try and see how it goes for me.
5  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 04:07:51 PM
That's a great oc. I'm not looking to oc further since I don't want to bring up power consumption. I have already altered a state on my cpu so it with little to none power while mining.

What pool would you recommend then that has a good payout?
6  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 03:47:59 PM
Oh and what would I benefit from in the deepbit pool:

Proportional or Pay Per Share? up to 630 shares now.
7  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 03:44:33 PM
if you're using 5850 xtreme, and you have enough cooling, you should be able to get 400 MH/s, stable. core @ 1020, mem @ 225, 1.2 v.

I'm not using the extreme, my GPU is from one of the first batches when the 5850 released, so it's a full reference model v1 I guess.

I have tried 1.225v max is 990Mhz core
8  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 03:40:42 PM
Everything looks good to me, and you're getting a great hash rate from that card

what is your gpu memory clocked at?  

My GPU mem is clocked at 1000Mhz (stock)

I've dropped my core clock to 900Mhz to just compensate for power usage, I had to drop my vcore down.

900/1000 @ 1.149v @ 327 Mhash/s
9  Bitcoin / Mining / Starting to mine with my 5850 on: May 25, 2011, 02:41:16 PM
Hi everyone,

I'm looking to see what my optimal settings for mining are and if I'm doing this right.

I have a Sapphire 5850, flashed with the Unlocked ASUS Bios

Overclocked to 915Mhz.

I am using GUIMiner v 2011-05-21, and have a DeepBit account with Proportional set as my default.

I am getting around 342 Mhash/s and it says after an hour that I have 310 shares in my account.

Is everything going as it should, Or should I switch to Pay Per share?

Thanks
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