9500Gt-Worth it?

[BitMinerBlue]

I've been lurking the forums, watching people post hashrates of 300+ and such. Then I look at my GUIMiner and see it's pulling about 5.8Mhashes/s.

I'm currently running one 9500Gt, A dual Core AMD 5800+ at 3.0ghz, and Windows 7.
I'd do it on my Linux but I honestly dont think it'd make a difference.
So what am I missing, is my card just not up to stock? I mean I know it's -old- but where are all these high speeds comming from that everyone else talks about?

[Seraphim401]

Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s

[bullox]

Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity)

If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain 

[AngelusWebDesign]

I have one of those cards -- it's how I started out last month

NVidia doesn't do NEARLY as well as ATI. It has to do with how the cards are designed, and what Bitcoin mining requires of a graphics card.

And yes, that card is a bit old on top of it. I bought mine 2 or 3 years ago for $70 I think.

Everyone here has basically the "cream of the crop" when it comes to mining-friendly graphics cards. Many of those cards are out of stock to 95% of the population -- everyone's been buying them up!

Matthew

[BitMinerBlue]

Hm, I was wondering I left the thing on all night and barely pulled .005 btc from btc guild..
Thanks for the info guys.
I guess it wasnt worth the 14 hours I left it going. Then again my computer is on 24x7 anyways? Does that make a difference?

[AngelusWebDesign]

Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity)

If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain 

According to my calculations, you could make up to 9 cents a day with that card, assuming electricity is 11 cents per KwH and the card & PC only draw 76 watts.

[BitMinerBlue]

Nope, not worth it (over costs of electricity)

If you have free electricity, than well, every hash you can throw is a net gain 

According to my calculations, you could make up to 9 cents a day with that card, assuming electricity is 11 cents per KwH and the card & PC only draw 76 watts.

500w PSU
AMD 3.0ghz dual core
Nvidia 9500gt
Stock Mobo
3gb RAM

[BitMinerBlue]

Once again, thank you all for the information.
I'll just hold my accounts and wait till I have money to kill on a good ATI card. The Bitcoin wiki has answers that that though, unless you'd like to throw in personal suggestions folks?

[Fiyasko]

Dont buy a card for mining, Buy coins

[w0mbat]

Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s

how? my hd5770 does 180mh/s @ gpuminer. or do u mean heavy oc?

[CNMOH]

Don't bother dude.Even an HD 5770 does 200+ Mh/s

how? my hd5770 does 180mh/s @ gpuminer. or do u mean heavy oc?

My brother's HD 5770 only reaches around 130 Mh/s. No idea why. :/

[w0mbat]

what miner is he unsing? to be fair, my hd5770 isnt running @stock (850mhz) but slightly oc´ed @900mhz.

im using the latest gpuminer with the following flags: "-v -w128"