Hello I'm a super noob I just learned about bitcoins yesterday. Right now I just downloaded GUIminer and got it working but its only going between 6-7Mhash/s. Just wanted to no if cgminer is faster or there are ways to increase speed without overclocking
I haven't tried guiminer but have been told that cgminer tends to have better performance. cgminer has a pretty sparse interface which might be daunting if you aren't used to command-line (CLI) type applications.
I have found some pretty large differences in performance depending on your settings. For cgminer I started with the base settings and turned up the Intensity till I got a good mh/s average, for me it was 7 stock, 8 overclocked. You wont want to use the PC with these settings though, leave it at a low intensity if you aren't running dedicated, or set it to "d" for dynamic.