New guy saying hello

[redzero36]

Hello I just registered and have been mining for about 5 days now.  I'm using GUIMiner with the mining proxy. I average about 60Mhash/s with my Gtx 460.  Is that pretty low? Also I read someone else thread about testing if their wallet works. Someone suggested to try http://www.bitvisitor.com to check if their wallet works.  I did that about an hour ago to and didn't receive the fraction of the bitcoin.  Do I just have to continue to wait or is my wallet not working?

[tempestb]

Did your wallet finish downloading the entire transaction file?  If it didn't, you have to wait for it to complete before the most recent transactions will show up in your wallet.

And yea, your MH is very slow.  NVidia cards are no good for hashing.  A like-Radeon will get about 10 times that speed. 

[redzero36]

Holy snap 10x... Hmmm I should get a Radeon. Transaction file? Not sure what that is. but I just got the fraction of the bitcoin just now.  It says 0 out of 6 unconfirmed.  Is that the transaction file you're talking about?.

[Fidgets]

Howdy. Newish here myself.  Must say that from what I've seen the BTC community is pretty awesome!
I've been mining a bit here and there but don't have a great setup.  I thought a little about mining Litecoin too but it seems like that's incredibly complex compared to bitcoins.  I should note, I don't currently have a working Linux machine so I'm just going with my notebook and a somewhat older XP machine.  Pretty slow going but I'm more in this for the experiment / intrigue quotient than anything.

I do have one question though.  Is there any chance in the foreseeable future that the bitcoin-qt client will become any less resource intensive?  I do have a Blockchain wallet for messing around, but I prefer having the original client for security reasons as my primary.  It just seems to use up SO much crunching power that I dislike leaving it running.  What are people's thoughts on this?  Any good forum threads on it? I haven't found any but may not be looking in the right place.  Thanks!

[tempestb]

I think it's only crunching that much when it's downloading the transactions.  Once it's caught up, it's not using much resources at all.

[Fidgets]

Hmm, okay, thanks.  That does not seem to be the case for me but I will attempt some maintenance and see if that speeds things up.

PS Is there a quick way to 'reply with quote' or does one have to copy and paste between quote tags?
Yeah, I'm pathetic, I know 

[CanDread]

Hello! I am new as well! first post woo!!

[Mr.Pink]

Mr.Pink welcomes RedZero36 to the community!

[Divinityxd]

Hey:) I'm also new! Just posting to say hi:)

[BitcoinBoss]

welcome to the forum!

[zomby2d]

PS Is there a quick way to 'reply with quote' or does one have to copy and paste between quote tags?
Yeah, I'm pathetic, I know 

Yes, just hit the "Quote" button un the upper-right of the post you're replying to.

[Fidgets]

PS Is there a quick way to 'reply with quote' or does one have to copy and paste between quote tags?
Yeah, I'm pathetic, I know 

Yes, just hit the "Quote" button un the upper-right of the post you're replying to.

D'oh! Thanks!