Calculate the Hash power of Dell PowerEdge

[pratheepram]

Hi,

I have 5 dell poweredge 610 2.67 GHz ,12 cores, 96 ram in my network hosting servers.

As I am new to mining, i want to understand how to calculate the total hashpower of these servers and a bit of advice on whether its wise to mine from these servers.

Regards,
Pops

[-ck]

Virtually ZERO for all intents and purposes. CPU mining went out a very long time ago and a $5 USB stick will be more powerful than that server, so no, it's unwise to try to mine anything.

[Kprawn]

I also have some of those old Power edge 2600 servers and they yield ZERO hashpower. 

CPU mining is DEAD on bitcoins... you might try some Alt coins, but even that would be a stretch.

Go, with what the previous poster suggested and buy some Asic miners, they could yield higher hash power.

[Bizmark13]

Here is a useful link:

http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison

As others have said, you can't really mine any significant number of bitcoins using a CPU or GPU setup. You need something called an ASIC which is a type of specialized hardware that is specifically designed to run the calculations used for mining bitcoins and is useless for anything else. These days, you can buy a used ASIC such as the Block Erupter or the Ice Fury for $5-10 that is 10 times better than the best PC's and despite this, they will still only make about a cent or two per day.

But just for fun, I decided to plug in the numbers:

Your Dell PowerEdge R610 has an Intel Xeon X5650 processor and a 8MB Matrox G200 graphics card. The G200 is a graphics card that was introduced in 1998, but is still used today on many servers because it's very cheap (since servers don't need to do any intensive graphics work). It also doesn't support OpenCL which means that you'll need to mine using your processor.

According to the link I posted above, an X5650 running at 2.67 GHz is capable of 28.6 MH/s. And according to Coinwarz, 28.6 MH/s will get you 30 satoshis per day or 0.00000030 BTC at the current difficulty. But since you have five of them, your total earnings per day from mining will be 150 satoshis or 0.00000150 BTC.

Preev says that 150 satoshis is worth 0.0004197 USD. So how long would it take to make a cent? About 23 days.

EDIT: But not all hope is lost! You will be able to make far more money by mining CPU-mineable altcoins. Coins that use SHA-256 (e.g. Bitcoin and Peercoin) or Scrypt (e.g. Litecoin and Dogecoin) are now dominated by ASICs. However, there are many altcoins that use algorithms that do not have an ASIC built for them yet. Many of these are dominated by GPUs but some can still be mined using CPUs. Take a look at the list below for some CPU-mineable coins:

http://www.cpucoinlist.com/

Don't like altcoins? Not a problem! After you mine your coins, you can open an account at an altcoin exchange such as Cryptsy or Poloniex and trade these altcoins for real bitcoins. You should be able to make far more bitcoins using this method than by mining bitcoins directly.