A little help? :)

[ssraid]

So, I just installed bitcoin and GUIMiner. I set it to my deepbit.net account, and well I'm pretty much stuck on what to do next. @_@ At the bottom of GUMiner it says, shares: 0 accepted  and  650khash/s.    Im not really sure what i do from here... any help would be very much appertained.  Thank you for your time an patients.

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I went to slush's pool and it seem like its set up right... but... umm how do i know if its working?   Or do i just have to let it run for a while before i notice.  Sorry if thats a really stupid question.   All in all it seems like bitcoins might be pretty fun to mess with.

[wknight]

Since your using slush.

Check your account..

as long as you setup a worker you should see something in Current shares within 30 mins.. if not.. you have something setup wrong.

[jrtubs]

make sure you set up as PPS since you have very low hashing rate it will take a very long time to get a share. sounds like u are running a mining off CPU?

[ssraid]

 hmm maybe i just didnt let it run log enough. Ah I see. I was only running with the cpu, and here I installed drivers to make it openCL last night. Thanks jrtubs for pointing that out.

I followed http://www.newslobster.com/random/how-to-get-started-using-your-gpu-to-mine-for-bitcoins-on-windows  guide. I sent a worker up on the slush pool and got connected to it guess i'll just have to wait and see.
   I have bitcoin and GUI miner running.  Im not sure if im missing something.  Not really sure how to set up a pps i guess i got some goggling to do. I hate feelin like a noob. XD    thank you for the replies. I really appreciate them.

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I got my miner working with my video card now.   its at 78.9mhash/s  seems really low still XD   My shares: 11  not really sure if any of that is good or bad.  lol   Just curious, but if you set more workers up does that make it go faster, and if I set this all up on a different computer i can just log into a worker on the same account right?     Once again they you for all ur time.

[jrtubs]

I'm not sure if slush has PPS or not i didn't like how slush has a 100 confirmations, i use deepbit since they have instant payouts and pay for invauled blocks and long pooling. I dont think slush has long pooling yet.

These are the 2 payout options that deepbit has.
    Pay Per Share: You get a fixed amount for every share submitted. This method has zero variance but slightly higher fee (because pool takes the risk). Recommended if you like steady payouts.

    Proportional: You get a portion of every solved block proportional to your part in pool's hashing power. This payment method has a noticeable variance: some days you can get less, some days you can get more. This is due to randomness of searching for proof-of-work. The fee is 3%

i consider anything under 100 mh/s to be low so u are best to do PPS and know that you're getting paid for each share you get vs a % since u will have low numbers of shares.

also if you want to see my set up you can check out youtube.com/L2bitcoin i will also be posting tutorials on set ups and over clock and pretty much anything u need to know about bitcoin mining!

[ssraid]

ty for the reply.  I switched to deepbit.  I have a work and the mode is set to pps. So hopefully thats how u do it.  Just out of curious how long will it take to actually see any kinda money from farming?   Im still not 100% sure how this all works yet.   I'm not sure my computer will be good enough to make any kinda money. XD   and damn u have a nice looking set up.    Can i come over and play crysis on ur computer? XD    Ty for the help.    

on a side note, My friends thinks in crazy for trying bitcoin out. 

[MrCruncher]

You need to convince your friend that just because it's different and flies in the face of normal convention does not mean it's
crazy or silly.

[ssraid]

He just doesnt really understand how money is generated from it.   Btw if I may ask, is it even worth it for me to mine with i only get 75mhash/s?   I looked at a calculator and it seem like I'd only be able to make 13$ in a months time.  XD Seems pretty bad from letting my computer 24/7, or does the pooling worth differently?      Thank you for all the replies.    Maybe one day i'll be able to pay it forward.