Hello everybody,

hope this is not a totally noob question, but I can't answer this myself.

I have experimented somewhat with CPU mining. Using my own computer with Intel Core 2 Duo I get about 10-15 kH/s per CPU. Using a cloud server (Windows Azure, AMD Opteron 4171) I get 700-800 kH/s per CPU.
I ran Sisoft's Sandra Crypto benchmark on both systems and found that my cores have about half the processing power of Azure's, but that's a far cry from the >50x mining performance gulf I witnessed.

The only difference is that I have Windows on my desktop PC while I used Ubuntu on the cloud server. Don't believe the difference boils down to that though.

Anyone care to explain what's going on?

Thanks
-- Radiorama

Cryptsy really sucks! Not only I have an order stuck that cannot be cancelled, but the site is so slow you just can't trade... when your order appears the market has already moved away... I lost count of the money I lost because of this! ISN'T THERE AN ALTERNATIVE?!?

-- Radiorama