Rig only getting 2 Mhash/s

[max2728]

I have a gaming rig with 7 cores and a GTX680 that I'd like to use for mining. I set everything up, and wanted to try solo mining, and I was only getting 2 Mhash/s. Does anyone know why this is? I've read that my card should be getting somewhere around 110 Mhash/s.

[Shadow383]

I have a gaming rig with 7 cores and a GTX680 that I'd like to use for mining. I set everything up, and wanted to try solo mining, and I was only getting 2 Mhash/s. Does anyone know why this is? I've read that my card should be getting somewhere around 110 Mhash/s.

Sounds like you're mining on the CPU 
Also, solo mining at 110Mhash/s?
You're going to want about a thousand times that before solo mining is any sort of a good idea 
Hell, unless your power's totally free you're still not going to make a penny 

[max2728]

How do I switch it to the GPU?

[vikingboy]

which miner are you using?

with the guiminer its just installing the right drivers for your card and then selecting the GPU from a dropdown

[max2728]

which miner are you using?

with the guiminer its just installing the right drivers for your card and then selecting the GPU from a dropdown

I have the guiminer and my graphics card is in the drop down menu.

[mc_lovin]

If you have DOZENS of computers, all of which have multiple of the best Radeon you can get, solo mining is still probably a bad idea.  The difficulty is just too high.  You're better off in a pool.

And the GeForce is a bad place to start.  Get a Radeon and you'll get 5-10 times as much Bitcoin mined, but you'll find that the difficulty is so high, it would be a bad investment to buy a new video card for mining, the real investment is buying Bitcoins themself and wait for the price to inevitably go up.

[Shadow383]

the real investment is buying Bitcoins themself and wait for the price to inevitably go up.

Yup, just like housing, oil, enron stock, Apple, Groupon, Netflix...

When people treat price increases as "inevitable" they tend to get burned badly.