Quote from: ATC777 on December 24, 2012, 03:12:16 AM

BTW, ssateneth, I wouldn't call a 580 "puny"... It's not a fast miner, true... but as far as an actual graphics card goes it's blazing fast. I've gotten several years of dutiful service out of it and still maintain ultra-high framerates on modern graphics apps and simulations. It will run even sophisticated simulations like ArmA and IL-2 at max graphics settings and thousands of enemy soldiers/aircraft.

It's just that, generally speaking, mining-wise, NVIDIA GPUs are slow compared, precisely, to their gaming value.

Quote from: 420 on December 24, 2012, 08:46:18 AM

Congratulations on 140mhash from an nvidia card

Indeed that's quite fast IMO for an NIVIDA.

About the pool war, my personal preference goes to PPLNS such as Bitminter (this one also pays tx fees as far as I know). Particularly interesting when you have a low hashrate and want to be the one (as opposed to the pool operator) taking the risk of good or bad luck without too much variance.