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Questions tagged [gpu-mining]

Collects questions about mining setups on basis of GPUs.

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In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?

I have recently learned about Bitcoin and would like to get rich quickly into mining. I have control of a laptop library full of ancient computers powerful gaming PC cluster of GPUs an old ASIC, I got for three times its worth off eBay a cluster…
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How can I start mining Bitcoin?

Ok. I don't care if I make only a small amount of bitcoins mining. I want to mine. How do I setup my machine (amd x64 4.6Ghz 6GB/RAM with GeForce Nvidia 7300, LinuxMint 10) to start mining? Is it damn simple, or it's a damn-high-geek-setup? Can I…
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How useful is a JavaScript miner?

I don't have a great understanding of how bitcoin mining works, but how useful would a JavaScript miner be for collecting revenue from visitors? Stupid question, but if I put the user in as part of a mining pool, must their computer actually find a…
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Could the EC2 infrastructure be used to efficiently launch a 51% attack?

This excellent answer from Serith states that one would need 31150 ATI 5870 graphics cards to launch a 51% attack. Amazon EC2 offers computers for rent for 2.10$ per hour. These instances have 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs. Given that these…
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Will mining significantly increase the power consumption of my PC?

I have a PC that is always on 24/7. I use it as an SSH and backup server, and it has a modest, not-too-great GPU that sits idle most of the time. I hear a lot of talk about mining not being cost-effective for most people because electricity isn't…
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Can I damage my computer by mining bitcoin?

I have been mining Bitcoin for a while on a few systems, some CPU mining (which has proved to be basically useless) and some GPU mining. The GPU miners are workstations, which have midrange graphics cards built in. I have not done any modifications…
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Why do AMD's GPUs mine faster than Nvidia's?

I have been searching Google all day and cannot find any real information. I'm looking for information in detail, such as specifications or the qualities of the GPUs that make the differences.
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How does one calculate the profitability of GPU mining?

As GPU mining made CPU mining non-profitable, at some point in time more specialized mining hardwares (FPGA and ASIC) would make GPU mining non-profitable. When is GPU mining considered not-profitable? Considering $1000 rig, $0.2 per kWh and one…
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Is Gpu mining still an option?

My friend asked me to do a research for him on bitcoin mining, I don't know a lot so I'm asking. He's consider buying either NVIDIA gtx titan or NVIDIA gtc 980. Decent motherboard and internet speed. I stumbled upon a question on this site which…
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Why does merely having Windows Media Player open double my GPU hashrate?

I'm using poclbm to mine under Windows... processor is an AMD A6-3400M with integrated Radeon HD 6250G GPU. When Windows Media Player is closed, I get a rate of 16 megahashes/second, but when it is open (even if stopped or paused) poclbm reports a…
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Could the $25/£16 Raspberry Pi computer be used to run mining equipment?

Raspberry Pi $25/£16 PC article I saw this article today and it looks like a really interesting development in budget computing. It's a $25 barebones computer that runs Linux, and can play games like Quake 3 Arena with no problems. My question is…
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Why does poclbm acquire 100% CPU?

I recently switched from WinXP32bit to Windows7. While under XP poclbm took about 5% CPU Time of one core, now it uses one core with 100%. Is there a specific reason for that? I now use AMD/ATI OpenCL1.1 and poclbm with poclbm.exe -device=0 -v…
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Best GPUs for Mining

GPU mining is the way to go, as at August 2011, until something better arrives on the market. There are plenty of GPUs out there, but only a handful offer the best performance when comparing total number of Bitcoins generated vs. power consumed vs.…
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What happened to Krad Miner (the first javascript GPU miner)?

Krad Miner was the first javascript miner that supported GPUs. Now, the website yields a 502 error, and there has been no response to post #57 in the thread asking about it being dead. Does anyone know what happened to it?
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Is it possible to generate bitcoins with a Google Chrome extension?

I just came across Rlweb's Bitcoin Generator, a Chrome extension that claims to be the "first google chrome extension creating Bitcoins". This extension looks quite shady to me, they don't even have a link to their website. Is it a scam? Would it at…
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