"Folding" for profit, not fun - Bitcoin

[Sputnik]

So if someone wanted to join the 'goldrush' what kind of a machine would they need to get the maximum benefit ?

[kevpuk]

So if someone wanted to join the 'goldrush' what kind of a machine would they need to get the maximum benefit ?

Not much in overall spec, but load up on 5850s ?

[rox0r]

Any of the high end ATi cards will generate decent Mhash. Don't even think about it with Nvidia cards they only generate a tenth of what ATi cards can output. CPU chunking is over so the rest of the machine is irrelevant tbh. Two 4850s will generate you around a tenner a day, at the moment but that's not taking electricity costs into account and initial outlay vs break even.

[Splash]

TBH with the increase in difficulty I think I'll probably run my 5870 until tomorrow night and then just hold onto the coins until the price goes up a little more and cash in. It's a nice idea, but in all honesty my flat is getting too hot and I'd rather have things quiet and cooler. That's before I even start to factor in the cost of leccy.

[MadduckUK]

testing times ahead for everyone if the value doesn't rise. although saying that im all paid up ages ago on investments, and got my weekly shop out of this weeks profit, so i think i can continue a while longer

[shakerist]

Price went down on britcoin :O, o well I only have 0.7 btc

[chuckskull]

Didn't take to long;

http://arstechnica.com/security/news...r-bitcoin.ars?

[kevpuk]

Didn't take to long;

http://arstechnica.com/security/news...r-bitcoin.ars?

....although @ current rates, a wallet might not be worth that much

Still, as you say, didn't take long !

[MadduckUK]

the guy that lost $500,000 worth (200,000 worth now i guess) of bitcoins..greedy sod tbh, like deal or no deal you need to know when the offer is good and cash in.

[shakerist]

the guy that lost $500,000 worth (200,000 worth now i guess) of bitcoins..greedy sod tbh, like deal or no deal you need to know when the offer is good and cash in.

I think he has learned his lesson

[Rob_B]

Anyone mining with crossfire? How does that work then, two clients running or with CF enabled does it automagically mine on both. I'm looking at 2 x 5850s so would expect about 700Mhash/s

[MadduckUK]

2 clients or 2 instances in 1 client with guiminer

[Rob_B]

I'm using guiminer, so just do another install in a different folder or could I just copy across the files (except the wallet file) & just run it?

[Rob_B]

Anyone using the new guiminer client?

Adding a 2nd worker (on CPU) gives 70-odd mhsh/s, howeve rit drops my GPU worker by roughly the same amount (if not a little more even), strange? Even does this with 2 distinct clients running different instances each?

[Ulti]

The way I do it with my two 5850s is to not have the crossfire connector on and just connect the monitor on one and press start mining and then connect the monitor on the second 5850 and click start mining. There are probably more "efficient" ways but this is the most simple in my opinion.

[rox0r]

Crossfire reduces hashrate, put them in as seperate GPUs and either plug a dummy VGA connector into the second one or plug it into a second monitor/second input on your main. If you don't then GUIminer won't see the second card as enabled.