Originally Posted by rowan

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?