Help with Mining

[ytony]

Hi,

I am completely new to Bitcoin. After doing some research I was trying on setup a GUIMiner. I am using slush's pool. But when I start mining, the summary page shows 'Connection Problems' Looking at the logs I could find like below:

2014-01-05 16:56:20: Listener for "Test" started
2014-01-05 16:56:46: Listener for "Test": WARNING: ADL missing (no AMD platform?), temperature control is disabled
2014-01-05 16:56:46: Listener for "Test": 05/01/2014 16:56:46, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2330M CPU @ 2.20GHz)
2014-01-05 16:56:47: Listener for "Test": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 05/01/2014 16:56:47, checking for stratum...
2014-01-05 16:56:47: Listener for "Test": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 05/01/2014 16:56:47, diverted to stratum on stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
2014-01-05 16:56:48: Listener for "Test": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 05/01/2014 16:56:48, Setting new difficulty: 3
2014-01-05 16:56:54: Listener for "Test" shutting down

Please could someone help me to fix this issue.

Many thanks,
Tony

PS: Sorry for the double posting, I originally raised this question in Newbies section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399724.0), but didn't get a reply. I thought better to ask here which seems to be the correct board.

[vpasic]

Use cgminer or bfgminer.
What kind of mining gear you have?

[nachius]

Well that is output from guiminer console, but it is only detecting a CPU anyways.  What he said what are you trying to use to mine on slush pool?

[ytony]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

I am trying to use my CPU for mining. Well I am sure GPU mining is much faster than CPU, but I would like to test this with CPU first. I am not that sure about mining. On GUIMiner I selected 'New OpenCL miner' -> Slush pool (entered username and password) -> Intel Core i3 CPU and started mining. But it shows some connection problems. Please could you advise on how to perform a GUIMining using CPU.

Many thanks.

[vpasic]

You can't mine with CPU.
You can't mine BTC with GPU.
Forget about it.

[ytony]

OK. So I am unaware about many facts. Please could you guide me in the right direction.

[vpasic]

so, you need some nice ATI Radeon gpu to mine altcoins, like hd7950/7970/7990 or some nice ASIC miner to mine BTC. this is nice one with nice hashrate and nice price https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=379819.0

also if you can't afford it don't even think about buying some 50gh or smaller miner because everything under 200GH is worthless right now.

[ytony]

Thanks much for your help.

Cheers,