Mining with one GPU

[Geremia]

How do I GPU mine with only one GPU, which I'm currently using for graphics? Does that require going headless? How do I go headless in Linux?

thanks

[Kluge]

You don't need to run your PC headless to mine.

Assuming you have a CUDA-compatible or OpenCL-compatible card (pretty much every ATI & Nvidia dedicated card on the market), you can simply head over to http://bitminter.com/ , create an account, download the miner, and click start.

[AverageAlien]

Currently I am using guiminer: http://guiminer.org/
I found that it really takes forever to get any bitcoins at all from mining them yourself with only one halfway decent GPU. Instead I have set up an account with slush's pool ( https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ ) and inputted the name of my "worker" and it's password into guiminer. The GPU I am using is a Saphire Radeon 6850HD and I am averaging about 140Mhash/sec (this is not the full capability of the GPU, I have it limited to keep the heat down).

All of this yeilds me about 0.01 BTC every 2 days or so. Yeah, I'm probably paying more in electricity to run it. I am currently working on modifying the chrome bot posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67591.0 so it can do short trades while I am at work. This way I may be able to make more money trading, while I also mine.

[AverageAlien]

You don't need to run your PC headless to mine.

Assuming you have a CUDA-compatible or OpenCL-compatible card (pretty much every ATI & Nvidia dedicated card on the market), you can simply head over to http://bitminter.com/ , create an account, download the miner, and click start.

Is bitminter any better than Guiminer?

[Kluge]

You don't need to run your PC headless to mine.

Assuming you have a CUDA-compatible or OpenCL-compatible card (pretty much every ATI & Nvidia dedicated card on the market), you can simply head over to http://bitminter.com/ , create an account, download the miner, and click start.

Is bitminter any better than Guiminer?

It's a lot simpler to run and provides a nicer-looking GUI. There is negligible performance difference between running either, though BitMinter will cause a minor slowdown if you have all the graphics on it displaying.

I didn't like the idea of a java miner, but it was the only program which ran my FPGAs correctly back when I mined with them. I ended up liking it enough to move GPUs off cgminer and onto BitMinter's client.

[Geremia]

Posts 2-5 are non sequiturs. Please stay on topic.

[AverageAlien]

Posts 2-5 are non sequiturs. Please stay on topic.

I don't see how answering your questions with detailed responses is non sequitur.