"Folding" for profit, not fun - Bitcoin

[Queelis]

Hey Queelis, I use: '-f 0 -w128' on my 4870s, they pull in 85Mhash/s each @ default clocks. -v (Use vectorS) just slows things down.

Kick out a heck of a lot of heat though, and even if I run the client on just one GPU I get a lot of desktop lag.

Mark

Silly me, I've written 4850 instead of 4830. Entered the flags, doesn't seem to have any effect, though. Still at around 50Mhash/s.

And yeah, the PC is quite laggy. But we'll see.

[1stRaven]

Well, I'm up to 5btc but found a few issues with my machine. Both cards were over 100C yesterday when I got home and it turns out that my side intake fan is currently a side exhaust fan. Need to turn that around to get the card a bit more cool air.

Aside from that, seems to work pretty well but with both cards running, videos and desktop usage is a little slow.

[directhex]

Aside from that, seems to work pretty well but with both cards running, videos and desktop usage is a little slow.

Yeah, it's not happy if your GPU is used for other things - Youtube halves my hash rate.

[RabidDeathGnome]

Well I ran this 24/7 for the past two days on deepbit with my 88GT getting 30Mhash/s on average.

I have been able to amass 808 shares which is worth 0.2 BitCoin. Unfortunately it seems to be FAR too slow to do anything on my 88GT even if I am in halls with no electricity bills.

However, had I been running a 300Mhash/s in that time would I have received 20 bitcoins? It may be worth me looking to getting ATI cards rather than Nvidea cards. since the GTX 570 only puts out 100Mhash/s. I'd have to look into heat and noise though since I like to run a silent system. My 88GT with the S1/turbo module won't shift above 60*C even at 100% for this long. It's also silent to boot.

[directhex]

Well I ran this 24/7 for the past two days on deepbit with my 88GT getting 30Mhash/s on average.

I have been able to amass 808 shares which is worth 0.2 BitCoin. Unfortunately it seems to be FAR too slow to do anything on my 88GT even if I am in halls with no electricity bills.

However, had I been running a 300Mhash/s in that time would I have received 20 bitcoins? It may be worth me looking to getting ATI cards rather than Nvidea cards. since the GTX 570 only puts out 100Mhash/s. I'd have to look into heat and noise though since I like to run a silent system. My 88GT with the S1/turbo module won't shift above 60*C even at 100% for this long. It's also silent to boot.

10 times 0.2 is 2, not 20

[Rob_B]

To those saying people should fold for the good of the world rather than cash...what if people donated half of their cash made via this to cancer research, I bet that´d be a LOT more useful to all parties for the same amount of GPU ´work´¿

Excuse the spanish keyboard, in Ibiza!

[Tattysnuc]

I hate to say it, but I'd fold for cash if my kit was geared toward this, but according to what I've read I'd spend more on the electricity than the money it would generate, so therefore it'd be a loss making exercise - Therefore I fold....

I'd love to be able to self fund folding - we all need to pay for the kit and the leccy to fold afterall!

[badass]

Interesting concept, this. A completely decentralised currency that's far harder to manipulate by any government and provided you follow the guidelines for remaining anonymous, all transfers are anonymous like cash.
It has it's good uses and it's bad uses.

[RabidDeathGnome]

10 times 0.2 is 2, not 20

Lmao, you are correct. That's what I get for posting at 3am.

That seems particularly slow though. I'd have been running my computer over two-three days non-stop and only made £6 with a fairly quick mining card. Or does it scale differently?

[jim]

Lmao, you are correct. That's what I get for posting at 3am.

That seems particularly slow though. I'd have been running my computer over two-three days non-stop and only made £6 with a fairly quick mining card. Or does it scale differently?

A decent radeon card can put out 300-350 Mh/s, so over 10 times your output. That gives approx 1.5 BC per day, which equates to approx $10 per day.

Not too shabby for nothing.

[ehhhhhhh]

it maxes out 1 of my cores while mining on the GPUs, fortunately the desktop things feel smooth like before.

I've tried the extra flags, but the app freezes so I've removed them again.

[RabidDeathGnome]

A decent radeon card can put out 300-350 Mh/s, so over 10 times your output. That gives approx 1.5 BC per day, which equates to approx $10 per day.

Not too shabby for nothing.

I see, so it doesn't follow a linear pattern. In theory I'd have pulled in 6BC so far which isn't too bad. By day do you mean 12 or 24 hours?

[Mblaster]

Who is putting the 'real' money into this system? Why would someone want to buy Bitcoins? Something makes me think all this processing power is being used for something... Also, the built in anonymity looks like it could be happy days for money launderers, although I don't really know enough about that to say how useful it would be.

[MadduckUK]

Yeah, it's not happy if your GPU is used for other things - Youtube halves my hash rate.

turn hardware acceleration off (right click/settings but you knew that)

no longer lags, and no longer effs mining up, all done on the CPU's

[jim]

I see, so it doesn't follow a linear pattern. In theory I'd have pulled in 6BC so far which isn't too bad. By day do you mean 12 or 24 hours?

24 hours.

Who is putting the 'real' money into this system? Why would someone want to buy Bitcoins? Something makes me think all this processing power is being used for something... Also, the built in anonymity looks like it could be happy days for money launderers, although I don't really know enough about that to say how useful it would be.

Nobody in particular, just somebody who chose to invest money in bitcoins. What I still haven't worked out is who on earth decided to do that in the first place.

[directhex]

Nobody in particular, just somebody who chose to invest money in bitcoins. What I still haven't worked out is who on earth decided to do that in the first place.

Some forum guy started offering $25 of pizza for 10,000 BTC about a year ago.

The exchange rate's changed since then.