please help a newbie out....

[maplema]

Ok Sorry for asking what is likely a stupid question but I am lost here.

I am brand new to this and dipping my feet into mining. At first I only used my gaming computer to mine when I wasnt on it, but since I have an nvidea GTX680 I am only getting 120ish Mh/s (which is about right from what I hear) but I want to A) mine while I am playing games too, and B) Mine faster.

I came up with the bright idea (again prolly stupid...) and got an AMD 7770 as a second card. My intent was to have that one minng 24/7 and then mine with my desktop card as well when not gaming.

...ANYway, I am only getting 50ish Mh/s on the second card which if I am right is WAY low, plus it doesnt seem to be accepting any shares. It just sits there and says its hashing away at 50Mh/s but nothing gets accepted after 20 minutes of monitoring it. I have tried GUIMiner and BFGMiner (with I set to d,9 for both cards).. and nothing... any ideas?

I am running windows 7 64bit on i7 CPU and all drivers for both cards are up to date. I dont know what other info I need to give but will take any screenshots you need... im lost and trying to figure out how to NOT waste the 160ish I just spent on this card....

[mandroid]

Hi there,

While I don't have an answer for you, my suggestion for where to start looking is for "flags" to use for your card. I don't know what the flags mean, but at least on my ATI card GUIMiner would have a very low hash rate (only a few MH/s) until I added flags like "-w 128" among others. Try to find a good guide about which flags to use for your card and see if it might help.

All the best!

EDIT: Just realised your "d,9" you mentioned is probably the flags - perhaps the two cards,  because of being nVidia vs ATI, need different flags to work efficiently?

[PRESSPLAY]

Just upping my posts in order to post in the forums...

[TheHalfWit]

If you aren't using ATI flags, you need to, they can have a big impact.

[maplema]

Thanks for pointing me in at least some general direction lol. I admit I don't event know what flags are 

Any site you can point me to to explain to me in stupid-people terms what they are and which ones are "ATI" flags and what the values should be set to for this card?

sorry to be so needy... 

[maplema]

Maybe answering this will help me. Is there a way to turn one GPU off and use only one in bfgminer? I cant even tell if it recognizes both gpus since it is still chugging along at 120 MH/s...

[maplema]

here is a screen grab of my BFG.... is it even recognizing that I have 2 cards?

If not how can I fix?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/maplema/bfg.png:original

EDIT: .... tired and frustrated... heading to bed for the night, but will check thread in the morning. Thanks again for the assistance and any more will be much appreciated!