First of all, you'll need a CPU miner and a GPU miner. For CPU I highly recommend this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0For GPU I highly reccommend this (optimized for NVIDIA)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0 Now, you need to actually start mining. The first thing is selecting a pool, just search online for one or you could try this:
http://pool.gotgrapedrink.comOnce you have selected a pool, go to your account and setup two miners... name them whatever you want, I usually just use 1 and 2, password is obviously your choice. Next go to their get started page (or wherever they have the mining URL) and copy that and the port.
Now,
1. extract both the CPU miner and GPU miner into different folders
2. launch notepad and for the CPU miner copy/paste in this:
minerd -o
http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USERNAME:PASSWORD
3. modify the pool URL to whichever you want and put in one of your miner usernames and passwords in where USERNAME and PASSWORD are.
4. save this into your CPU miner directory as launch.bat (make sure to select all files in notepad and name it launch.bat not launch.bat.txt)
5. make a new notepad file for GPU miner and paste in this:
cudaminer -o
http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USER:PASS -i 1
Modify as before with pool URL and this time put in the other miner username/password.
6. Save this into your GPU miner directory as launch.bat (same as above)
7. Run the GPU miner once by double-clicking on launch.bat and let it go through the auto-tuning. You will notice that it crashes when auto-tuning completes but it shows you what it figured out (should be something like 69x2 or 100x3 or something similar)
8. open your gpu miner launch.bat again in notepad and add -l (whatever autotuning said). It should look something like:
cudaminer -o
http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USER:PASS -i 1 -l 69x2
You can also remove the -i 1 if you are not going to use the computer while mining and add it back in if you are.
SOLO MINING SECTION COMING SOON!
Congrats! You should now be able to mine efficiently on an NVIDIA GPU! Just launch both the CPU miner and GPU miner and you should be good to go. A few things to note:
1. READ THROUGH THE README INCLUDED WITH THE GPU MINER!!! This will be really helpful later.
