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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is this "OK" to mine with?? on: May 01, 2012, 02:35:02 AM
With paid electricity, you lose money.  That doesn't qualify as an "OK" miner IMO.
We've covered this - it doesn't matter, we're assuming electricity that is not paid for by the OP.

With free electricity, it is a really slow miner that is likely not worth the time it takes to configure the mining software. So, still not an "OK" miner.
Grabbing a driver for the card and guiminer takes all of 15 minutes. This is irrelevant.

What, in your opinion, would not be an "OK" miner?
An Intel card that cannot mine - perhaps you could argue that a >3MH/s miner isn't "OK" - anything else is fair game.
I do agree with you that mining won't "hurt" this computer. Although high load on a low-end (or even high-end) card is going to cut into the card's life.
I guess - not more so than any other use would, though.

To cut this short, it's perfectly fine to mine with a shitty card - "not okay" means that you cannot, in my eyes.
2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is this "OK" to mine with?? on: May 01, 2012, 01:37:32 AM
I think it does matter - that is what I'm saying.
Why does it matter? I fail to understand your contention.
3  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is this "OK" to mine with?? on: May 01, 2012, 01:32:04 AM
I'd say 27 MH/s is FAR from "OK"
What's wrong with 27 MH/s?
It won't even pay for the electricity needed.  Even if you aren't paying for the electricity, someone is.

It doesn't matter whether or not it will pay for the electricity needed - that isn't what I'm saying.

I'm not going to argue morality and whether or not you should waste resources for your own personal gain, etc. etc. - what I'm saying is, it's perfectly acceptable to mine with the OP's card at 27 MH/s if the OP is trying to acquire BTC at any rate at all, without regard for his or his parents or his neighbor's or whomever's electricity bill.
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Deepbit.net help on: May 01, 2012, 01:27:54 AM
To start, you're arguing over less than a penny's worth of BTC. That is to say, you're wasting your time.

It seems like "credited" would be accumulated BTC that has been paid out, not accumulated BTC that is held in your account after accepted shares are paid for.
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is this "OK" to mine with?? on: May 01, 2012, 01:23:53 AM
I'd say 27 MH/s is FAR from "OK"
What's wrong with 27 MH/s?

6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: is this "OK" to mine with?? on: May 01, 2012, 01:13:41 AM
Short answer: No.

If you mine with this PC, you will be LOSING 31 CENTS (mining income 9 cents, minus electricity cost of 40 cents) per day. You would be further ahead of you leave it turned off!  Undecided

Check out this online BTC calculator to run different scenarios: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php
This is only true if you personally pay for your electricity.

Is it "OK"? Sure, go for it, you won't break anything.
Is it optimal? Not even close.
7  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: GUIMiner setup - Please help on: May 01, 2012, 12:15:35 AM
I suggest using a different worker-name for each card, since it's way easier to spot problems that way. If you had them all using the same worker-name, and you were getting 200mh/s lower speeds than expected then it would be really had to spot which card is causing the problems from the pool website.

I've personally had problems with multiple cards registering hashes under a single worker name - I suggest opening an individual client for each card, and as such registering a separate worker for each card.

As fascistmuffin said, this also comes with being able to spot problems much more quickly than if you shove as much as you can onto a single profile.
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