Whats the best miner to choose?

[Dorkslayz]

Im fairly new to Bitcoin mining,

At the moment I have a GTS250 which runs at about 30 Mhash/second with GUIMiner and Phoenix.

My question is, Whats the best miner to use?

[rTech]

I use Diablo miner ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/DiabloMiner ) with my GT220 and its giving 11.8mh peak and avarage 11.5mh.

My overclock settings:
Core 625@685
mem 400@425

Proof:

[joulesbeef]

cgminer hands down

[blacbe]

phoenix is the best keep using it

[Roland68]

30 Mh a joke

you will need 3000 years to get some bitcoin ...

but it's intersting to learn mining aniway ..

[Dorkslayz]

I plan to upgrade to a Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X if this method proves successful.

[mute20]

If you are trying with anything under 100 hash than you are not helping   You should start mining when you get the new card.

[User1337]

Phoenix

[bncbnc]

Does cgminer get faster speeds than pod~?

[Dorkslayz]

I have another question, Whats the best pool to use? (At the moment im in deepbit)

[BookLover]

I would say for BTC guild is the best pool but I'm not 100% percent sure they aren't cheating their miners.  Of course you can't be 100% sure on any pool.

[Dorkslayz]

Ok and does anybody know of any exchanges which pay you in USD via paypal?

[Mousepotato]

Phoenix.  I've tried Diablo and Poclbm but Phoenix consistently delivers the best performance in terms of % stales and MH/s.

[dub0matic]

http://bitclockers.com/ is a real descent pool. guiminer is real easy to setup for new miners. i suggest you get a new card real soon. 30mh/s isnt goin to get you anywhere

[Dorkslayz]

I should be getting it in around 63 days.

[Mousepotato]

Phoenix.  I've tried Diablo and Poclbm but Phoenix consistently delivers the best performance in terms of % stales and MH/s.

Used to be true.

Now cgminer beats all three flat out when it comes to stales
(and is equivalent to phoenix+best kernels when it comes to MH/s)

Over the course of 40-50k shares, my stale rate with Phoenix is about .2%.  How much better is cgminer than that?

[seljo]

phoenix-1.50 with phatk 3% moded gets the highest hashrate around 300 MH/s on my 6870 and only 0.47% stales.

[3phase]

Currently CGminer gives equal performance in MH/s to Phoenix (latest versions for both), but a lot of extras:

• One thread for multiple GPUs with a very nice overview and configuration interface
• Automatic restarting of GPU threads
• Better LongPoll/NewBlock detection (tried it recently with one of the new *Coins, with blocks coming in every few seconds)
• Less than 0.1% stales, compared to 0.5% for Phoenix (at least with my miner/pool combination)

As for overclocking, atitweak is by far the simplest and most effective tool (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25750.0).

If you decide to give up the nice graphic environment, there are truly much better options.

Good luck!