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Vaclav

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Just setting them up or tweaking to maximize potential? Set up was a joke for me to do with the howto I used.
 

a_skeleton_03

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Setting them up. I have tried 4 different versions of linux and I have done Windows 7.

cgminer keeps erroring out in Windows.

In linux it doesn't want to pull shares down or something. Been working on it all day.

What pool are you using?
 

Arative

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Be careful if you've logged into bitcointalk.org the past 2 days, guess they had a man in the middle attack and a lot of passwords were stolen. If you use the same log in and password on multiple sites, you could be compromised.
 

Vaclav

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GUIminer on Win7. Will double check pool when I'm at the PC, soaking in the tub right now.
 

Vaclav

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And after tweaking, Intensity 15 seems tolerable (but slightly subpar) for leaving in the background while webbing. Keeping GPU under 51C at that level too. (Heard 70+ C is what you want to avoid with mining use)

Might do a smidge lower though, 250-300 kh seems good enough for my purposes and rather have it running 100% of the time I'm not PC gaming than having to micromanage it.
 

Vaclav

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Woah, WTF... lowered it to 13 and my kh/s went UP from 350ish to 515ish... and web browsing better... guess there's some sweet-spotting that's beneficial to do with that stuff, eh?
 

Tuco

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What's your projected earnings per day - electricity cost for that setup?
 

a_skeleton_03

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What's your projected earnings per day - electricity cost for that setup?
I just got them working. They showed up at 2.4 MH/s for each rig. That should bring in around 1.39 coins per day, per rig.

BTCE(LTC)-USD:$28.45(buy: $28.45, sell: $28.29) [low/avg/high: $23.51/$28.57/$33.62] volume: 1143198.68 LTC

This comes out to $80 per day and just around $2400 per month.

My electricity cost are zero because the .gov pays for it as part of my salary.

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Tuco

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Looks great. How come it looks like the video cards aren't parallel to eachother? It seems as if they are pushing each other.

With the cost of the system you're looking at around 200 days to pay it off, not bad. How much power does it draw? I know you don't pay for the electricity I was just wondering.
 

a_skeleton_03

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Looks great. How come it looks like the video cards aren't parallel to eachother? It seems as if they are pushing each other.

With the cost of the system you're looking at around 200 days to pay it off, not bad. How much power does it draw? I know you don't pay for the electricity I was just wondering.
They need some breathing room between each other or they will burn up. I have a 1250W PSU in each system, how much am I pulling? No clue. I don't have a 220V Kill-a-watt.

They are paid for already due to the fact they were bought for bitcoins a few years back.
 

Eidal

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If a currency stops being mined, that might actually cause it to be more stable and not less.
tldr; strong hashing power is essential to the security of the coin. A low hash rate coin is doomed to be the target of 51 percent attacks if it ever became profitable enough to justify it.

False. A low hash rate is dangerous due to how much hashing power total exists. A coin with a low hash rate makes itself progressively more vulnerable to a 51 percent attack -- this is when a single entity is providing 51 percent or more of the networks hashing power. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be possible to double-spend coins and force a fork of the blockchain... needless to say, this is an apocalypse scenario for a developing coin. The reason I say a low hash rate coin is more vulnerable to this is because the major LTC hashing pool operators could point their collective hash power at a low hash rate pool and easily take 51 percent or more of the total hash power. The reason this isn't happening constantly is likely because there hasn't been any convincing reason to (read, profit); the major LTC pools are making a nice income and have a reputation to preserve.

I believe it was Terracoin that was released around April that functioned using SHA-256. Immediately, ASIC miners flocked to the coin forcing the difficulty up extremely high then abandoned it when it was no longer profitable. This caused a complete breakdown of block processing because at that high difficulty, it was no longer profitable for ANYONE to mine. Eventually, the developers patched in dynamic difficulty calculation which resulted in much faster recalculations of difficulty.
 

Vaclav

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There is a withdrawl page... But I'll check it out once I'm home not got a full 1LTC yet to test it.