Laptop mines but HTPC/gaming pc doesnt?

[minimaniac]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

[zhinkk]

First of all, why even waste your time worrying about this stuff? Seems like you could be doing something beter than trying to earn pennies. Besides, I doubt you will ever be able to cash out at slushes pool with your 0.00001 BTC. Anyways, I'm assuming the guiminer isn't configured properly for your radeon card. I would probably recommend another miner program like sph-sgminer or cgminer with GPU support. But like I said before, it's not worth your time or effort or electricity or anything.

[notlist3d]

I would suggest doing some math.  GPU's are harder and harder to profit.  Unless you have "free electricity" it will be very hard.

[Loophole]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

With 140 MH/s (your htpc+laptop), you can get 0.0000042 btc (420 satoshi) a day on average.
IIRC the minimum payment threshold on Slush is 0.01 btc, so you need to mine 6.5 years to get a payout, assuming the difficulty remains constant.

Now, maybe you would reconsider your plan.

[vm1990]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

With 140 MH/s (your htpc+laptop), you can get 0.0000042 btc (420 satoshi) a day on average.
IIRC the minimum payment threshold on Slush is 0.01 btc, so you need to mine 6.5 years to get a payout, assuming the difficulty remains constant.

Now, maybe you would reconsider your plan.

Just spend the time on bitvisitor and landofbitcoin you'll earn way more

[notlist3d]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

With 140 MH/s (your htpc+laptop), you can get 0.0000042 btc (420 satoshi) a day on average.
IIRC the minimum payment threshold on Slush is 0.01 btc, so you need to mine 6.5 years to get a payout, assuming the difficulty remains constant.

Now, maybe you would reconsider your plan.

Just spend the time on bitvisitor and landofbitcoin you'll earn way more

Best bet is get new mining equipment (i suggest not GPU), or just buy BTC.

[byt411]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

With 140 MH/s (your htpc+laptop), you can get 0.0000042 btc (420 satoshi) a day on average.
IIRC the minimum payment threshold on Slush is 0.01 btc, so you need to mine 6.5 years to get a payout, assuming the difficulty remains constant.

Now, maybe you would reconsider your plan.

Just spend the time on bitvisitor and landofbitcoin you'll earn way more

Best bet is get new mining equipment (i suggest not GPU), or just buy BTC.

No, don't buy mining equipment. Buy BTC directly, its price will rise, and mining equipment requires, time, effort, and money.

[nwfella]

Hello,

My sincere apologies. I am a complete novice and know my way around computers in a very basic way.

The story is that i registered with slushes pool, created a wallet and because i didnt understand those command prompt type things i am using guiminer.

Now I can mine fine on the laptop which has a Nvidia geforce GT 520m at about 9 Mhashs's which i read is pretty poor.

I have an average graphics card in my htpc which is Radeon HD6770. I simply downloaded guiminer to the htpc, typed in the miner login details on there and it sits about 130 Mhas/s.

The problem is that in the summary view of guiminer running on the htpc nothing is being accepted or showing as stale... where as on the the laptop if I come back after 5 minutes there will be a few shares and stales.

Am i missing something glaringly obvious?

Thanks for reading.

Firstly, mining anything on a laptop is generally a bad idea, you will likely burn it out fairly quickly.
Second, if you are going to mine on a laptop mining bitcoin at this point makes no sense at all.  If you insist on mining I would recommend you go with an X11/X13 coin to lower the wear and tear on your unit(s)
Third, I'm not familiar with htpc's personally but did you make sure you properly loaded the AMD graphics/sdk drivers?

[minimaniac]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. If it wasnt for you id be wasting alot on energy.