How many newbies are mining?

[spoon]

I was mining for about a week on an older nvidia card and a core 2 duo. Just got my new video card and it's going 5 times as fast and that's without trying any tweaks.

[shamathana]

the electricity prices are high, btc prices kinda crashed, i have only geforce graphic cards, difficulty is rising so its not looking that bright. and getting a new pc(my old one is still quite good except at mining) will cost at least 500€, so it's quite an expensive gamble i'm not willing to take.

[Yatta99]

No luck with 4-pin molex -> 6-pin PCIe adapters? That sucks, I feel for you man. There's very little worse-feeling than coming to the end of a project and getting waylaid by some small, seemingly meaningless detail that was nevertheless overlooked.

It's an Optiplex 745 so it only has SATA connectors, no molex connectors. It's always that last little detail that gets you  The spare psu I have laying around does have a PCIe connector, but it's only 250w. Trying to mine with that and any (semi) serious card and the computer would likely burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp 

[Bleak Morn]

Just wondering how many actual miners there are in the newbie community...

I've been mining for about a month

Getting about 0.02 BTC a day at 16,400 Khash/s.

I'm more of a services-sector kind of guy, so I don't really have plans to enhance my rig.

[Sydetracked]

I started mining about 2 weeks ago.  I got a radeon 6850 and I get ~200M#'s.  Its okay I guess.  I make about 1btc every 3 to 4 days on Deepbit.  almost at 6 now.  I don't run it 24/7 though.  I tend to mess with settings.  I got it up to 235M# with overclocking but I had to keep the fan at 100% to keep the temp stable.  It ran hot (about 70 degrees) so I turned off the OC.  I'd rather not burn out the card.

[Miner SiX]

I'm mining second week now. Didin't go crazy and buy highend mining rig for this, just using the spare clock cycles of my gaming pc. It gets ~400 Mhash/s with oc'd 6950@6970 radeon. The market is too risky for me to invest a dime for except electricity, but I made about 100 usd at first week while mining BTC. Now the system is pointed towards namecoins, those seems to give better returns with current trading rates.

[BlueThursday]

Based on the exponential growth in difficulty, one would have to assume that quite a lot of newbies are mining.

[italeffect]

Yes certainly a lot of new folks have gotten in the game, likely without considering the costs, difficulty increases, and volatility in exchanges, looking to make quick $.
 I'm doing it for fun with very little startup costs (had a bunch of spare parts/ old gaming rigs) and if there is some money in it down the road that will be a nice bonus.

[finnthecelt]

Based on the exponential growth in difficulty, one would have to assume that quite a lot of newbies are mining.

That and existing miners adding to their rigs. Getting into mining is like trying to open up a burger joint with your friends next to a McDonald's. Better have the goods. And that includes iron guts. But don't immediately move to discouragement. Look at namecoin mining as well.

[InstaGx]

I started last Friday with mining. My HD 5770 does 200 MH/s @ 960Mhz.
Another 5770 currently on the way.

Let's hope the price will rise again!

[finnthecelt]

I started last Friday with mining. My HD 5770 does 200 MH/s @ 960Mhz.
Another 5770 currently on the way.

Let's hope the price will rise again!

Remember though that higher prices brings more miners which leads to greater difficulty yielding less BTC which means you make less..........     

[Skeenz]

I don't think there's any "real" newbie community.
We are all part of the larger bitcoin community, with the only difference being that we have to wait for our n00b status to be lost before we can post in the other sections. 

Having said that, I've been mining long before I even created an account on the Bitcoin forums. 

[WebMonkey]

i'm uber new to mining.

started less than a week ago with a 4870 i already had.
that went away and helped buy a 6970.
it's doing the average for a 6970.  just underclocked the memory.

have tried 3 pools and the first 2 were fine, the one i'm on now, i'll hold on untill the round is over then i'm pretty sure i'll head back to one of the first two

interesting.

'monkey

[taqistan]

I have been mining for about a week now..earned one whole Bitcoin.  At least I am covering the cost of electricity. 

[Kax0]

Been mining for 2 weeks now, already thinking on buying about 800-1GH/sec... i dont if its still worth buying mining rigs.. seems unpredictable

[k00p4tr00p4]

300 MHashes/s on ATI Radeon 6950.

[Dacm4n]

I've been mining off an on for about week and a half at 30mhash and I've earned around 0.30btc.

[Randall Flagg]

i mine about 90M with GPU only (ati 5770 on mac), it not worth mining with my CPU even if it is a Quad Xeon 2.8ghz, it go less than 10M so why mining...?

I don't understand how people can go over 150 or 200M with that card... i've tried installing Linux without success on my mac

[anonymoususer1936]

I'm mining at about 30 MHashes/second on my stalwart 8800 GTS. Some day, far in the future, I will have 1 bit coin.

[finnthecelt]

I'm mining at about 30 MHashes/second on my stalwart 8800 GTS. Some day, far in the future, I will have 1 bit coin.

You could buy one from Mt. Gox tomorrow......