How does primecoin work? Confusing

[DarkMiningBTC]

I'm mining primecoin , set it up with my pool and everything, im using a Intel Xeon 1230v2 with 2 cores. I can't estimate how many coins I will get a day, on the hardware comparison it says I'm earning 2000 primes a sec whatever that means, it's all confusing the chains and stuff. Can someone explain this to me?

[PyroClasTix]

Instead of shares, primecoin does chains to  calculate how much you get.
7 chains have more "shares" and a 6 chain.

So let's say 6 chains is 1 share.
7 chares are 2 shares.
If you hit 3 of each:

6 chain: 1 "share"x3 = 3
7 chain: 2 "share"x3 = 6

It does a calculation roughly like that.
Or you can go to the XPM wallet.
Go to the Console and "setgenerate true 2" (because 2 cores)
It should show your chainsperday in there.

http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator/

Then go there and you'll figure it out. G'luck.

[DarkMiningBTC]

Well, I'm using a VPS to mine, how would I check it like that?

[wbaw]

Doesn't the pool give you any stats? It is going to be a bit random, but the anty.info site is fairly accurate. If you're on a cheap rented vps with shared cpu cores then your provider might kick you off for mining primecoin & using all the cpu.

It's not worth buying hardware to mine primecoin with, it wont even pay variable costs of running hardware specifically to mine with unless you get really cheap or unmetered electricity. It's only good for mining in the background on hardware that you're using for something else & making a small additional income or offsetting some of the costs of whatever else you're doing.

[PyroClasTix]

It's hard to give you a definite answer because there is "luck" involved.
You could hit a ton of 8 and 9 chains within 5 hours or you wouldn't hit them in 20 hours. So payouts differ.

I mine at http://dtc.xpool.xram.co/
There's an address stats on the top right. That's pretty much it.

[brooklynite]

It's hard to give you a definite answer because there is "luck" involved.
You could hit a ton of 8 and 9 chains within 5 hours or you wouldn't hit them in 20 hours. So payouts differ.

I mine at http://dtc.xpool.xram.co/
There's an address stats on the top right. That's pretty much it.

So no GPU mining yet?

[PyroClasTix]

It's hard to give you a definite answer because there is "luck" involved.
You could hit a ton of 8 and 9 chains within 5 hours or you wouldn't hit them in 20 hours. So payouts differ.

I mine at http://dtc.xpool.xram.co/
There's an address stats on the top right. That's pretty much it.

So no GPU mining yet?

No, not that I know off. MemoryCoin actually has a gpu miner, but someone made an optimized cpu miner that made cpu perform better than gpu's.

[alc]

There is a GPU miner for Primecoin (google primecoin reaper), it's just not competitive.