Okay one last question and I'll be on my way.


Is there a pool based client for linux distros? That doesn't require head aches to make work correctly?

The GUI Miner works grand on my win7 box, but if I'm going to do a few bitcoin boxes, I prefer to put them on linux based machines.

excellent, I will do that. How on earth do you know so much and have 2 posts gabi


I will search around on craigslist for a cheap 4000x or 5000x series ati card and stuff it in that amd x2 machine.  That setup i'm guessing will smoke both the workstations combined i'm using atm.

Thanks for all the info, I think all my questions are answered throughly, I am downloading an will setup the guiminer in a few moments. I have registered with slushs pool for now, and will see how that goes.

Is there a read-me for pool joining? I had read a little on that and somewhat understand how it'd work but i don't know how to go about joining one.


Secondly I just found a radeon 9200 card sitting in my drawer, is that card supported?  And silly me i have an amd X2 machine sitting right behind me (retired client PC) thats not in use.

So I am debating putting that radeon 9200 card in, loading up some winxp or ubuntu on it and running that one also. Worth it?



Thanks for the advice, i appreciate the help.

I have two fairly simple questions.  I've taken the time to research this also, and have a fairly good understanding of how it all works. Lets keep these short and sweet:

1. My client on both my workstations have stopped taking in blocks both at 130538.
     Is this just the most they will take in before finishing the math, and downloading more blocks? I assume so since they both got stuck on the same block #.  (both machines are fairly similar but different, one is win7/64bit and one is ubuntu 10.10 64bit.

2. My hardware is:
     a. quad core w/gtx260.
     b. quadcore w/gtx460

Now I KNOW already that these are not the optimal specs by far, seeing as they are both nvidea based GPUs.

My question is approx how long will it take to crunch out a couple bitcoins? I'm not talking hundereds of them or anything. I'm just seeing if this is worth pursuing or changing over to an ATI card.

It reminds me of SETI !  except you get something back for processing their info!