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rowan · 06-06-2011, 06:32 PM

I just downloaded a CPU based pool miner (for *nix) and each of the 2 threads is doing about 720kilohash/sec (so about 1.44megahash/sec total). It's an E8200 CPU on a FreeBSD server.

I see guys with GPUs talking in terms of gigahash/sec... a graphics card is more than a thousand times more powerful than my CPU. Am I just wasting my time?

06-06-2011, 06:32 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	So who's mining bitcoins here? I just downloaded a CPU based pool miner (for nix) and each of the 2 threads is doing about 720kilohash/sec (so about 1.44megahash/sec total). It's an E8200 CPU on a FreeBSD server. I see guys with GPUs talking in terms of giga*hash/sec... a graphics card is more than a thousand times more powerful than my CPU. Am I just wasting my time?