GENT3861 (OP)
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May 12, 2013, 12:38:06 PM |
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I have a Radeon 4350 on a computer that is a few years old. Every time I try to mine litecoins it crashes. I can mine terracoin and bitcoin ( not very quickly). I am not expecting to break the bank but before I put any money into it I wanted to prove I could get it running. Is it possible that my hardware is just too old to be compatible with scrypt mining?
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nocoin
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May 12, 2013, 12:48:43 PM |
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Well, it IS old, but you should be able to mine anyway. Every time I try to mine litecoins it crashes.
"It" —  . Miner crashes, or card driver crashes, or your system crashes? |
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GENT3861 (OP)
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May 13, 2013, 12:08:43 AM |
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The miner crashes. Usually I get the windows message "the program has stopped responding" and it shuts down. It is only litecoin. I can mine bitcoin and terracoin just really slowly. I tried changing the intensity on cgminer with no luck. Reaper just crashes when I open it. If you can't tell I am very new to mining hahaha.
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computers4btc
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May 13, 2013, 12:48:00 AM |
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definitely too old
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coinerer
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May 13, 2013, 12:53:35 AM |
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and too weak for mining
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BitshireHashaway
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May 13, 2013, 12:57:05 AM |
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How much ram do you have, that can affect reaper... slowly probably is because your card is old, but I have a new Nvidia 650m that I'm using for tests before putting money into it (this is on a new laptop) and I can't mine litecoins either just bitcoins and terracoins.
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GENT3861 (OP)
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May 13, 2013, 10:59:48 AM |
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I have 6 gigs of RAM. I know it is weak, but I also am just running a test before I sink any real money into this. Is there any way I can test out litecoin mining or am I just going to have to take a shot with a Radeon 7750 (Seems to have the lowest downside risk ie. its cheap)
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May 13, 2013, 11:07:48 AM |
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I have ati 4670, can i mining?
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May 13, 2013, 11:09:19 AM |
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anything older than 58xx and you are wasting your time and money
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May 13, 2013, 12:31:09 PM |
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anything older than 58xx and you are wasting your time and money
Why is it a waste of money if you already have the card ? |
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greyhawk
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May 13, 2013, 12:35:04 PM |
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anything older than 58xx and you are wasting your time and money
Why is it a waste of money if you already have the card ? In the real world, electricity costs money. |
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May 13, 2013, 12:35:56 PM |
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Old, but the reason of crashing maybe is from something else.
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holgerr
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May 13, 2013, 12:59:01 PM |
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I tried to switch my 7950 card to litecoin mining - wasn't really worth it, really disappointing hashrates compared to the power consumption. I'm back to mining bitcoins for now, while that's still marginally profitable. Mining litecoins, I'm getting nearly the same hashrate using the spare CPU cycles of three rented root servers (i.e. I don't pay extra for electricity) that I was getting with my 7950.
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May 13, 2013, 01:05:49 PM |
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You should be able to mine at a card of "any" age. It may not be profitable, but it should neither crash your machine.
Question is if it's worth spending the time to find out why your card crashes your machine.
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May 13, 2013, 01:09:56 PM |
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Maybe your card is faulty if it keeps on crashing. Does it crash under stressful operation not related to mining (i.e. gaming or similar)?
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GENT3861 (OP)
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May 13, 2013, 11:56:48 PM |
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The card doesn't crash just the mining programs. What card would you suggest then for mining litecoins? and make it profitable, even marginally so.
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May 14, 2013, 12:56:10 AM |
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Only use ASIC for mining.
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May 14, 2013, 12:57:48 AM |
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same would only recommend acis
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bitcointrader55
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May 14, 2013, 12:59:10 AM |
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same would only recommend acis
Yup at the end of the day it is all about how efficient you are at converting energy into hashes. ASICs are most efficient. |
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May 14, 2013, 12:59:19 AM |
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The card doesn't crash just the mining programs. What card would you suggest then for mining litecoins? and make it profitable, even marginally so.
Any new ATI card. My recommendation would be 7950's - they get you the most hash for your money and power consumption so imo they're very worth it. I'm currently running a few of them and each gets 600KHash minimum on Scrypt coins (litecoin included). There are optimizations if you look around to get 7950's to 650ish KHash with lesser power consumption - imo definitely worth looking at. |
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