Whats your setup? Hobbyist Miners

[Garz]

Old Q6600 Opteron with 2 x 7770 HD's, tinkered to see what it is all about. Happy with the power draw efficiency however they dont really mine fast compared to the beasts people are outlaying in.

[MickeyT2008]

Currently I'm using mine and my daughter's (when she's not on it) computers but am intending to build a dedicated mining rig because although it might not quite cover the electricity bill it will heat the house too, saving on the gas bill.  Apart from that hopefully my BFL 7GH/s Miner will turn up one day......


My machine:
QX9650 Core2Quad Extreme, 4GB DDR3-1600, Nvidia GTX580 running CudaMiner which makes it twice as fast as with CGMiner because Nvidia cards aren't great with OpenCL integer maths


My daughter's machine, on which she's clocked up over 1000 hours playing The Sims 3, another 500 on Garry's Mod and an unknown but large amount of time on Minecraft:
Phenom II X3 710, 4GB DDR2-800, ATI Radeon HD5870


Just between these two computers they're putting out enough heat that my gas central heating system hasn't come on once yet and it's almost October.  Obviously this feature isn't very useful in summer but in winter heat is not an expensive waste product.  I wish they were quieter though!

[tfk]

I just mine for fun and to see how things perform.

So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.

I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.

I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.

I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.

But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.  

TFK

[MickeyT2008]

I just mine for fun and to see how things perform.

So I mine LTC on my Linux desktop which is a Haswell i5 with a Geforce GTX770 at ~ 200kHash/s. Not really impressive but pleasant for me as a hobby.

I've looked into the power costs and I'm paying roughly $0.28 / kW/h.

I'm looking at some options for a dedicated mining rig but am not yet ready to choose.

I don't really want to invest hundreds into new hardware. So some cheaper 5/6 series Radeon cards combined with a AMD Sempron 145 based system and a motherboard with a minimum of three PCI-e slots would seem to be the best option for me.

But again. I'm still not certain. I just want to mine with a bit more power but don't want to loose to much on power.  

TFK

Are you using CudaMiner?  Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC'd graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt)

[tfk]

Are you using CudaMiner?  Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC's graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt)

Thanks for your interest! Yep, I'm using cudaminer with autotune. I know, I should have bought a Radeon. Though, the GTX770 is a very nice card in itself. However, I did not OC it. Dit that do much for your 580?

edit: wow it reports 256 now! 

TFK

[MickeyT2008]

Are you using CudaMiner?  Switching from CGMiner to CudaMiner literally doubled the hashing speed of my GTX580 (OC's graphics clock to 900MHz) to 260kH/s (scrypt)

Thanks for your interest! Yep, I'm using cudaminer with autotune. I know, I should have bought a Radeon. Though, the GTX770 is a very nice card in itself. However, I did not OC it. Dit that do much for your 580?

edit: wow it reports 256 now! 

TFK

Overclocking my card made about 10% difference, but it gets a lot hotter.  I bought it for gaming, I didn't know anything about mining back then.

[tfk]

Overclocking my card made about 10% difference, but it gets a lot hotter.  I bought it for gaming, I didn't know anything about mining back then.

Yeah. Same here. That's why I'm using a Geforce right now. 

TFK

[Hougesen]

I have a Block Erupter mining altcoins . I also mine Litecoins on my GTX 780, when i don't use it.

[Desensitizer]

I have crossfire 5870's that I am currently mining litecoins on the WeMineLTC pool. I am not using my CPU for mining, but its an i7 920 at 3.5 GHz

[vaibhavcool1234]

Mining bitcoins with 3 USB Block erupters since a month

[sidlas]

I mine with this for a week and when somebody buys it I will get some sleep ...
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/ele/4216414319.html