Increasing Mining

[IgpayAtinLay]

Right now i am in a no fee pool (thank God for them), making barely anything still. I'm only pushing 5.2 Mhash/s. Is there anyway to increase this rate besides buying a 'rig'. Perhaps something less costly or settings i can change on my computer

[lenny_]

Buy some shares on GLBSE, man. No hardware, no effort, for 5 bucks you will get about 5 MH/s.

[PsychoticBoy]

Buy a good GPU, 7970 or 6990 would do great.
For more cost efficient mining, buy FPGA or ASIC.

Here is a link. to show you most mining hardware.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison


Greetz

[jasinlee]

My computer runs about 140mh on the gpu.

[IgpayAtinLay]

Buy a good GPU, 7970 or 6990 would do great.
For more cost efficient mining, buy FPGA or ASIC.

Here is a link. to show you most mining hardware.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison


Greetz

Is a GPU like a CPU? sorry... im just learning here.

Buy some shares on GLBSE, man. No hardware, no effort, for 5 bucks you will get about 5 MH/s.

Where can i find 'GLBSE'.... Again... im new to all this.

[IgpayAtinLay]

My computer runs about 140mh on the gpu.

how do i find out what kind of GPU i have?

[k3t3r]

Right now i am in a no fee pool (thank God for them), making barely anything still. I'm only pushing 5.2 Mhash/s. Is there anyway to increase this rate besides buying a 'rig'. Perhaps something less costly or settings i can change on my computer

what is your computer specs and os?

[IgpayAtinLay]

I have a ASUS CPU running WINDOWS 7

[PsychoticBoy]

GPU is a Graphics Processor Unit, a Graphics Card.
CPU is your main processor, like a Intel I5.


Greetz

[jasinlee]

You mentioned an asus, chances are your on a laptop. The laptops use onboard graphics cards....cant do much mining on them.

[jasinlee]

go to your device manager, then display adapters and get the model from there.

[jasinlee]

And a side note try to keep any personally identifiable information from your screenshots if you wish to remain anon.

[IgpayAtinLay]

thanks for the concern. i dont think that provided anything TOOO personal, right? but yeah, those are the specs. SO why am i only producing 5.5 Mhash/s?

[color]

Download and run GPU-Z from here: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Then post a screenshot of that program.

[jasinlee]

Go to the device manager and then display adapter to get the model number, your video card is under there and the higher end ones tend to usually get from 100-200 mh. You are probably using your cpu.

[IgpayAtinLay]

Download and run GPU-Z from here: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Then post a screenshot of that program.

Here you go

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/1466/zgpu.gif

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[Gabi]

Hello IgpayAtinLay  and welcome to the bitcoin forum

First thing, mining is not a get rich quick scheme. Second thing, knowing your hardware is a good thing if you want to mine.

ASUS CPU running WINDOWS 7

Means nothing.

The screenshot you provided tell us that your computer has a Intel i5 760 2.80ghz CPU and 8GB of RAM.

Now, using your processor to mine is useless. It's too too too slow. No one mine with the processor for that reason. Your 5.5mhash/s looks like from CPU mining.

People use graphic cards to mine. Yes, the one required to play videogames. Yes, it's much much more powerful than the processor, but only for some things (aka, games and few things like mining)

My ATI 6950 for example does 300mhash/s.

Use GPU-Z and tell us your videocard.

On a side note, why the hell did you buy a computer without even knowing what it is?

[IgpayAtinLay]

i did post a screen shot of that. how do i switch from cpu mining to video card mining?

[PsychoticBoy]

Enable opencl and download a decent miner like cgminer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

Greetz

[Gabi]

You have a 5450. From this page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison i see it should make like 14mhash/s Not a lot. It's a very weak graphic card.

Anyway, you choose that from the miner. What are you using?

On a side note, why do you get a computer with an i5 intel and 8gb of ram but such a bad bad bad graphic card? I suppose you are not a gamer. But well, a 5450 is totally unsuited for mining.