Help on system setup

[urbandarkskies]

Prior to getting video card below I was getting 200KHash (LOL) with a $6.00 cheapie vid card. I upgraded to the vid card below and I'm seeing an avg of 340-360mHash/s. Reading various forums I'm thinking it should be producing a higher hash rate. I tried GUIminer, and then switched to another miner which is showing more stable. Running catalyst I'm seeing the blue screen of death but without catalyst I'm seeing a stable run the past 12 hrs at the 340-360mHash. Monitoring the system I don't believe I'm using the GPU to it's peak. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to increased hash rate.

My system is:
Mother Board: ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 AMD 990FX ATX
CPU: AMD FX-8320 EIGHT-CORE 3.5GHZ 16MB 125W AM3+CPU
Ram 32GB - 4x Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL10
Video card: MSI AMD RADEON R9 270X GAMING 4GB GDDR5

[lamaa1]

You do realise you won't gain any cash from this? This will probably only mess up your graphic cards.

R9 270X, R9270X-DC2T-2GD5 does 417 Mhash with the following settings: cgminer 3.7.2 -I 19 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 16384. How is your batch file looking?

[urbandarkskies]

Just testing the waters is all. Looked into dedicated mining systems but looking for something where return in investment is worth the investment.

[lamaa1]

Just testing the waters is all. Looked into dedicated mining systems but looking for something where return in investment is worth the investment.

ROI is never sure, because of so many factors (Electricity costs, no power, no internet, breakdown etc.). Maybe you could try to start small. I only have 1 Rpi running with a D-link hub, which has a fan, an asic blocker erupter, and an antminer U2. They do about 2,3 ghash but only use a few watt of power (5 maybe). But this is surely not profitable, but only hobby.

[TheRealSteve]

That's what lamaa1 is getting at, though - you won't see any positive return on investment from GPUs.. at least not if you're mining Bitcoin.  You might for some altcoins - in which case, you'll want this subforum instead:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

[lamaa1]

That's what lamaa1 is getting at, though - you won't see any positive return on investment from GPUs.. at least not if you're mining Bitcoin.  You might for some altcoins - in which case, you'll want this subforum instead:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

Most of the time that wont be profitable either with that GPU. Unless ofcourse the price of those altcoins you mine goes up a lot. But this looks like a normal (game) pc, which isnt turned on 24/7. But oh well I also started screwing around with my gpu's.

[urbandarkskies]

LOL I understand the ROI is always questionable. My machine originally was a gamer server hosting 60 kamikazi accounts thus the $6 vid card as I didn't need vid. I upgraded the vid as the machine was converting to another game server for a higher graphics intensive game I play which on laptop can only run 6 accts. During this I was introduced to BTC and thought I'd check it out and see what it could do. I'm seeing my machine isn't nearly up to what a dedicated machine/blocker erupter can do which caught my curiosity more.
had found a source of 38GH block erupters out of asia for cheap but that source turned out not good. The lowest price I found on the 38Ghash block erupters is $700/unit. The original source I found was only asking 100/unit which was nicer to swallow and ROI closed faster. I don't know if the ROI on a 38Ghash @ $700 would be or not. At $100 I would be willing to test them waters, at 700 I don't know.

[lamaa1]

LOL I understand the ROI is always questionable. My machine originally was a gamer server hosting 60 kamikazi accounts thus the $6 vid card as I didn't need vid. I upgraded the vid as the machine was converting to another game server for a higher graphics intensive game I play which on laptop can only run 6 accts. During this I was introduced to BTC and thought I'd check it out and see what it could do. I'm seeing my machine isn't nearly up to what a dedicated machine/blocker erupter can do which caught my curiosity more.
had found a source of 38GH block erupters out of asia for cheap but that source turned out not good. The lowest price I found on the 38Ghash block erupters is $700/unit. The original source I found was only asking 100/unit which was nicer to swallow and ROI closed faster. I don't know if the ROI on a 38Ghash @ $700 would be or not. At $100 I would be willing to test them waters, at 700 I don't know.

What exactly are you looking for? Something with how much watt usage? How big is your beginner budget? And offcourse where do you live helps a lot (import tax aren't fun)