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gochk (OP)
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June 30, 2011, 04:04:39 PM |
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Which pool is more profitable to mine at and why?
1) a pool with more people and thus higher cumulative hash power
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2) a pool with less people and thus less cumulative hash power?
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FractalUniverse
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June 30, 2011, 04:16:47 PM |
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probably depends on your mining hardware speed. if you have 10 GHash you may not need pool at all  as i see it : if you have a high hashrate and mine in the pool which has small hash rate you can wait longer for block (days, weeks) to be found but your share can be bigger-still depends on your own hashrate contribution to pool's total. In pools with high hashrates you can have steady flow of small amount of bitcoins as the large pools can find blocks frequently. but it still depends on your own hashrate what share you get from the block. |
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gochk (OP)
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June 30, 2011, 04:24:39 PM |
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I'm a newbie; just have 1 6970; getting around 360 MH/s?
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RodeoX
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June 30, 2011, 04:40:38 PM |
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I'm a newbie; just have 1 6970; getting around 360 MH/s?
That seems low to me. Are you sure you are mining with your GPU and not your CPU? |
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gochk (OP)
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June 30, 2011, 04:52:04 PM |
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I'm a newbie; just have 1 6970; getting around 360 MH/s?
That seems low to me. Are you sure you are mining with your GPU and not your CPU? How much should I be getting? And how do I check? Using Ubuntu 10.10 |
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Gabi
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June 30, 2011, 04:56:51 PM |
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I'm a newbie; just have 1 6970; getting around 360 MH/s?
That seems low to me. Are you sure you are mining with your GPU and not your CPU? Lol, no cpu make 360mhash, he is definitely using the GPU 360 is a bit low value for a 6970, try putting -v -w128 in guiminer and start the mining |
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FractalUniverse
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June 30, 2011, 04:58:50 PM |
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I'm a newbie; just have 1 6970; getting around 360 MH/s?
That seems low to me. Are you sure you are mining with your GPU and not your CPU? How much should I be getting? And how do I check? Using Ubuntu 10.10 320-420. i think your hashrate is ok. you can play a bit with overclocking etc.. to get a bit more check this table: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_Hardware_Comparison#AMD_%28ATI%29oops link edit:) |
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RodeoX
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June 30, 2011, 04:59:13 PM |
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@gochk
I should tell you I'm not a miner. But on my antique thinkpad running Ubuntu 10.10 I think I have gotten 541 MH/s.
That is with no real video card and a 1.7GHz processor. The way I checked this is using the interface of the bitcoin client. It may be removed in this latest version, but it used to appear in the lower left corner of the interface when in "mine coins" mode.
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June 30, 2011, 05:00:29 PM |
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the best pool atm is triplemining (check sig for link), it offers more rewards based on the friends you invite to join on a side note : less hash power = more income for your shares cuz it gets split by fewer people, however it takes longer too get paid of course... depends on what you want : more, steady payments, or slower, (possibly) bigger payments |
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Gabi
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June 30, 2011, 05:06:18 PM |
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For comparison, i have a 6950 not overclocked and not unlocked and i get 315mhash/s with -w128 -v -f0
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June 30, 2011, 05:29:47 PM |
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@gochk
I should tell you I'm not a miner. But on my antique thinkpad running Ubuntu 10.10 I think I have gotten 541 MH/s.
That is with no real video card and a 1.7GHz processor. The way I checked this is using the interface of the bitcoin client. It may be removed in this latest version, but it used to appear in the lower left corner of the interface when in "mine coins" mode.
You must be thinking of KH/s. I doubt there is a laptop in production today that can reach 540MH/s, let alone one with integrated video. For comparison, that's about what you'd expect from 2x Radeon 5850s in Crossfire that have been set up properly. gochk's number seems a bit low. Running with -v -w128 flags will get that number to about 380MH/s which is where it should be. |
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gochk (OP)
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June 30, 2011, 06:51:37 PM |
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@gochk
I should tell you I'm not a miner. But on my antique thinkpad running Ubuntu 10.10 I think I have gotten 541 MH/s.
That is with no real video card and a 1.7GHz processor. The way I checked this is using the interface of the bitcoin client. It may be removed in this latest version, but it used to appear in the lower left corner of the interface when in "mine coins" mode.
You must be thinking of KH/s. I doubt there is a laptop in production today that can reach 540MH/s, let alone one with integrated video. For comparison, that's about what you'd expect from 2x Radeon 5850s in Crossfire that have been set up properly. gochk's number seems a bit low. Running with -v -w128 flags will get that number to about 380MH/s which is where it should be. I see alot of recommendations to add those flag -v -w128. What are those flags and what are the implications on the video card? I'm not sure if I want to overclock it to the extent of killing it. this is not overclocking is it? P.s. Appreciate all your comments. I have enjoyed reading them; thank you. |
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Gabi
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June 30, 2011, 07:34:04 PM |
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Of course this is not overclocking.  |
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RodeoX
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June 30, 2011, 08:03:57 PM |
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"You must be thinking of KH/s..."Ooops, You were right. i was only off by a factor of 10.  |
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June 30, 2011, 08:06:51 PM |
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I prefer a smaller pool even with my low hashrate.
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Oldminer
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June 30, 2011, 08:09:24 PM |
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I prefer a smaller pool even with my low hashrate.
Triplemining's the way to go then. We have only been going a few days and have only 45 miners currently active, plus you can add others to your pool to increase your return  |
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June 30, 2011, 09:12:41 PM |
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Dude, I only have around 68 MH/s  I added the "-v -w128" flag but it hasn't changed. I guess I'm a rotten miner...  |
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Oldminer
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June 30, 2011, 09:18:44 PM |
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Dude, I only have around 68 MH/s I added the "-v -w128" flag but it hasn't changed. I guess I'm a rotten miner... What card are you running? |
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June 30, 2011, 09:26:23 PM |
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Dude, I only have around 68 MH/s I added the "-v -w128" flag but it hasn't changed. I guess I'm a rotten miner... What card are you running? ATI Radeon HD 4800. Is that bad? EDIT: mistyped the serial number. |
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Elokane
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June 30, 2011, 11:35:14 PM |
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the best pool atm is triplemining (check sig for link), it offers more rewards based on the friends you invite to join on a side note : less hash power = more income for your shares cuz it gets split by fewer people, however it takes longer too get paid of course... depends on what you want : more, steady payments, or slower, (possibly) bigger payments This pool is unfair towards anyone not actually referring anyone. Just join BTC Guild. No fees, proportional payout. |
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