Is it possible to mine anything with a Geforce 9600 GT?

[bigmattana]

I tried using my Geforce 9600 GT to mine using the NiceHash miner, and it was not compatible due minimum driver requirements.  I can only find compatible drivers for this card up to version 342.1, while NiceHash says it must be 372.52.  

I tried the nheqminer and it required CUDA 7.5.  I installed CUDA 7.5, but it still complains that I am not using a CUDA 7.5.  I verified that CUDA 7.5 was indeed installed using nvcc --version on the command line.  I looked at other options but they all seemed to give a failure relating to CUDA or the GPU.

Does anyone have a suggestion for what I could mine with this card?  I am pretty sure it used to work for Litecoin a few years back, but I cannot get any of the modern miners mentioned in the NiceHash tutorial to work with it.

[ice098]

I tried using my Geforce 9600 GT to mine using the NiceHash miner, and it was not compatible due minimum driver requirements.  I can only find compatible drivers for this card up to version 342.1, while NiceHash says it must be 372.52.  

I tried the nheqminer and it required CUDA 7.5.  I installed CUDA 7.5, but it still complains that I am not using a CUDA 7.5.  I verified that CUDA 7.5 was indeed installed using nvcc --version on the command line.  I looked at other options but they all seemed to give a failure relating to CUDA or the GPU.

Does anyone have a suggestion for what I could mine with this card?  I am pretty sure it used to work for Litecoin a few years back, but I cannot get any of the modern miners mentioned in the NiceHash tutorial to work with it.

try to use minergate , you may mine many coins there, and you will mine using your cpu there, especially if your cpu is quadcore. Mine xmr,eth there because today it has the highest value among coin in minergate, try to browse in mining pool too , mine there with your cpu if your gpu is not compatible, try and try my friend until you earn.

[bigmattana]

Thanks for your help!  I tried minergate but it also does not work with the GPU.  The CPU hash rate is pretty bad.  I already have a CPU miner working on Nicehash, so I might stick with them since it eliminates the need to transfer and exchange all the individual currencies.

I was able to get an old version of ccminer (1.0) to work with the gpu, but my problem is that it expects a regular username instead of an address for the username like NiceHash expects.  When I use my bitcoin address, it runs gives reasonable hash rates, but I don't see any credit on Nicehash.

[kiaas]

Thanks for your help!  I tried minergate but it also does not work with the GPU.  The CPU hash rate is pretty bad.  I already have a CPU miner working on Nicehash, so I might stick with them since it eliminates the need to transfer and exchange all the individual currencies.

I was able to get an old version of ccminer (1.0) to work with the gpu, but my problem is that it expects a regular username instead of an address for the username like NiceHash expects.  When I use my bitcoin address, it runs gives reasonable hash rates, but I don't see any credit on Nicehash.

I suspect their diff is too high for what your card is doing to get any shares in, rather than it being a problem using a bitcoin address as a username. Sometimes you can set lower diffs on nicehash, as they have a thing to parse the password as a difficulty selection. If you can't set it lower for whatever algo and minergate supports the algo.. they usually have lower diffs to start with so you're more likely to get some shares in over there, and their software isn't necessary to use their pool.

[Instamined]

Yes, In fact it is still possible to mine a full block of BTC with a Geforce 9600 GT.

[JaredKaragen]

You need a miner that works with your driver.

The 9800gt has no cuda cores, so newer miner apps won't be able to properly use your card.

Look for legacy miner versions and go from there. 

I'll say this now: there is no profit in that card, even at free electric.  I snap the edge connectors, ceramic caps and dies off those cards for metal recovery and toss the rest.

[kiaas]

You need a miner that works with your driver.

The 9800gt has no cuda cores, so newer miner apps won't be able to properly use your card.

Look for legacy miner versions and go from there. 

I'll say this now: there is no profit in that card, even at free electric.  I snap the edge connectors, ceramic caps and dies off those cards for metal recovery and toss the rest.

Uh, the Geforce 7000 series is the last to NOT have CUDA cores. I believe the GeForce 9000 series is a rebrand of the 8000 series, so the 9600 would have 64 of the first-gen CUDA cores. And nvidia was -awful- at mining back then, so I suspect even my Radeon HD 5670 that can get me 10-12 cents of revenue for 13-15 cents of electricity is better than it..
ALSO: gold recovery, seriously? A working GeForce 9600 GT (and oddly enough Radeon HD 5670) sell for 20 dollars inc. shipping on ebay. You'd get more out of it from selling it on ebay than the minuscule amounts of gold you'll recover.

[JaredKaragen]

I looked on nvidias site and it didn't list any cuda cores;  I could be wrong.

I scrapped the same card (or was it a 9800?) because the Quattro I have spare is better than it was, and I couldn't find a compatible miner app for algos I currently run and are profitable.   Hash per watt is still a thing for me even though I get free power.

I don't deal with trying to sell such an old antiquated piece of hardware tbh.  Not worth the $18 max profit I could make.   I'd rather easily throw it in a stockpot and put it towards retirement .  I may be frugal, but I have my limits.

[kiaas]

I looked on nvidias site and it didn't list any cuda cores;  I could be wrong.

I scrapped the same card (or was it a 9800?) because the Quattro I have spare is better than it was, and I couldn't find a compatible miner app for algos I currently run and are profitable.   Hash per watt is still a thing for me even though I get free power.

I don't deal with trying to sell such an old antiquated piece of hardware tbh.  Not worth the $18 max profit I could make.   I'd rather easily throw it in a stockpot and put it towards retirement .  I may be frugal, but I have my limits.

I looked it up too, http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-9600-gt/specifications
my old HD 5670 was in use in an HTPC until recently, I had retired it in the middle of '14 as a miner. Not sure if I'm going to sell it or give it away, as I actually know someone that it'd be a good upgrade for. (Linux user that won't use proprietary drivers and is using a Radeon HD 5450 at the moment..)

[gollygosh]

Make sure you get free electric

[arielbit]

for what i know mario bros can get you coins..with nice music background too.

[eaLiTy]

Does anyone have a suggestion for what I could mine with this card?  I am pretty sure it used to work for Litecoin a few years back, but I cannot get any of the modern miners mentioned in the NiceHash tutorial to work with it.

It is too late to mine using a Geforce 9600 GT in 2017,the problem is that it is not possible to use Cuda with the card if you are having 512 mb of RAM and since you did not specify the RAM specifications but i guess you are using the basic card of the 9600 series,but if you are using the card with 1024 mb to 2048 mb of memory then it could be compatible with the drivers available.

[Instamined]

I mean, you still probably have better odds mining on this old card to find a full BTC block than to play the lottery.

Give it a shot. You never know. 

[cptfisher]

your card is very very old (compute capacity is 1) there are no new coins mineable with this compute capacity unless you write the miner for it but they will be  awful i guess better cpu mining. the only coins are bitcoin and litecoin with VERY ANCIENT release of CCMINER but ... it will be just a waste of electricity

[szafa]

Damage to this card to use digging, not quite.

[bigmattana]

Thanks for the replies, everyone.  You saved me from making even more wasted effort!

I am still bugged that it is running on nicehash with the old ccminer version but someone I am not getting credit.

ccminer21.exe  --algo=nist5 -o stratum+tcp://nist5.usa.nicehash.com:3340 -u [address] -p p=0 --diff 50 --debug

It looks to be doing something but at the very beginning it says "Failed to get stratum session id".  Just for my own knowledge if I run into this problem in the future on a different video card, is this likely the cause of the problem of not getting credit for the work?

This is a sample of it running.  Are the hashes rates phony or is this actually doing anything?
http://imgur.com/MJ6nioP
http://imgur.com/MJ6nioP

[JaredKaragen]

Thanks for the replies, everyone.  You saved me from making even more wasted effort!

I am still bugged that it is running on nicehash with the old ccminer version but someone I am not getting credit.

ccminer21.exe  --algo=nist5 -o stratum+tcp://nist5.usa.nicehash.com:3340 -u [address] -p p=0 --diff 50 --debug

It looks to be doing something but at the very beginning it says "Failed to get stratum session id".  Just for my own knowledge if I run into this problem in the future on a different video card, is this likely the cause of the problem of not getting credit for the work?

This is a sample of it running.  Are the hashes rates phony or is this actually doing anything?
http://imgur.com/MJ6nioP

you wont get credit till it finds valid shares and submits them... which would take quite some time.

I had a stickminer solo mining BTC, and it never ever reported one share;  but was mining nonetheless.

[toygg]

My 3 cents worth , throw away ur Geforce 9600 GT and invest about $200 in a GTX 1060. It will allow u to play games at max settings at Full HD and it will also mine decently as compared to ur 9600 GT.  Besides, u could also mine ETH with the GTX 1060 which seems to be quite profitable.

[BitGeoCol]

I know how it feels, I have been dealing with it in the past few days I own an even older model of the Nvidia GT series,  I got the Geforce 9400 GT. So acording to the thread I just lose any hope on getting this GPU to mine somethingBTC. Well I Think I will save some bucks to buy a better GPU, any recommendations from you? I now restrict to a budget of $200 if that helps. Thank you all for reading my comment. Keen to keep learning on mining stuff and Cryptocurrency.

[JaredKaragen]

I have two GTX275's I use as doorstops.....