Hello everyone

I was mining BTC for sometime and now im looking at alt coins. I was just wondering whats the best GPU to use for alt coins.

and yes i know about the hashrate wiki but there's new cards out that arent listed on there.

Please let me know.

I have an account set up with a pool and i was wondering if i need to mine with the built in miner that the wallet uses or should i run CGminer?

Also i enter in the required info into the built-in miner and i keep getting a message saying that the miner failed to start. It says to "make sure the minerd executable and libraries in the same folder as AnonCoin-Qt."

any help would be greatly appreciated

funny thing is i did search for everything i could think of for LTC on google...but it only pulled up BTC based websites/programs

ok i got the miner...now what about LTC wallets? is there a wallet like BTC client where i can make a backup on a flash drive?

I'm only making about .05BTC/day with my rig...I just figured that i could make more with Litecoin and hope for the rise. I already have enough BTC so im just trying to branch out.

I've been doing BTC mining for some time now. I was wondering if someone could tell me if there's a GUI miner for Lite coin? and if any mining pools exist for litecoin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried versions 0.8.3 and 0.8.1 i had 0.83 up and running and downloading blocks but now when i start it . It is telling me System Error and this occurs when "Importing Blocks from Block Database" can someone tell me whats going on and how i can fix it?

I did the 1074 and 6008 codes and they only show when i shut down the computer and the 6008 isnt showing any unexpected restarts or shutdowns

ok my CPU temps are only around 19-21C and my GPU temps are in the low 80's....i know its not the temps of that are causing the computer to restart

I've been running MSI afterburn with the fans at 75% and the temps are only like 75 to low 80's...so i know its not the gpu temps causing it

im running a 1200w PSU and im not OC the cards...I did recently add a CPU water cooler from Corsair...and it only seems to happen when i have the BTC client running.

Do you think i should save the wallet.dat and reinstall the client?

Sorry...Im running
CPU: AMD fX-8120
GPU: two 6990
MB ASUS m5a97 r2.0

i had the miner running all night and the computer didnt restart...it only seems to restart when im running the Client and Miner at the same time.

IM running Win7 and im only running GUI and BTC client but every now and then the computer just restarts. I've increased the fan speed encase if the cores were getting to hot....would someone have an idea why this is happening?

I was wondering if there was a way to calculate the Hash rate of a given card or chip based on the specs like Wattage, MHz, etc..

Is there a formula for it or is the hash rate solely determined by the architecture of the chip/card core?

I was also wondering what the current specs are for an individual Asic chip. (looked every where and couldnt find a spec sheet)

I've been looking at companies that offer ASIC miners. Just trying to find out which companies are legit and about how long would it take to receive the unit.

I've looked at Butterfly Labs but i've heard that they are a scam and that people have yet to receive their unit even after a year.

Avalon i know does batched orders so they are difficult to get a hold of and only accept BTC.

Anything would be a big help

For GPU mining a quad 7970 setup gives you 2.6 GH/s.
Right now im running dual 6990's and getting 1.2gh/s.
both of these GPU setups will cost about $1600 just for the GPU's
the 6990's you can run on lower grade MB's and CPU but they cant touch the Quad 7970's
the quad 7970 so far what i have found require a $260cpu and $260+ MB but the MB would be running a x16,x8,x8,x8 on the four PCIe 3.0

If you want to water cool the quad 7970's the whole rig will cost about $3200 the dual 6990's just stock cooling cost about $2300-2500 and you could water cool that rig and get up to 1.7GH/s but that would cost about $2900-3000 all depending on the parts you want.

My 6990 setup is:
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 r2.0
Gigabyte ATI 6990 (x2)
Wifi card
128GB SSD
Coolermaster 1200w 80gold
Diskdrive (for driver CD's)
Corsair 600T
I also added 4 high pressure fins on the side panel

I've already built a rig that has two 6990's but its very loud and hot..I've been looking into water cooling the rig...i have all the parts besides the fittings....i was wondering if compression fittings are better than clamps and vice versa?

Because the last thing i want is a leak onto the cards.

Im not new to BTC but im just trying to figure out what LitCoin is and how its different than BTC. I know that the LTC miners run on RAM and not GPU's but is the miner setup the same?

I have gui installed and had it up and running for 2weeks. I had to shutdown my rig, but now when i try to run guiminer it will open up but wont display a window. It saved gui after it closed just before my rig shut down. I figure if i could remove the save file then gui will work again but i dont know where to find the save file on my computer...Please help me

Im asking question...Im trying to find out where the save file for GUI is located so i can remove it