Hey guys.
I am totally new to this, and I barely today got intro Bitcoins and the mining-section. The reason someone introduced me to it is, because I have a server and I haven't found a real purpose for it lately.
In order to test how this works I installed Bitcoin and GUIMiner on my MacBook Pro with retina display. Because I wanted to avoid initial problems I decided to start with the windows installation and then move on to MacOS or Linux if I find it useful and understand how to properly set everything up.
For now the MacBook pro with Windows had to do. I got both things running and this I managed to get out of it:
http://www.abload.de/img/1r3s25.png
Needless to say that for testing purposes it will do, but that I will not run this 24/7
The server this was initially meant for was build for Folding@Home purposes. It is CPU based folding and I'm unsure if that Bitcoin-mining thing even supports CPU based mining. And if it does, would it be worth it.
My server has 4x Opteron 6180 SE CPUs installed which are overclocked in Linux to 2.75 GHz. So 48 real cores at 2.75 GHz. Although that is really fast, any modern graphic card is faster, that's why I'm unsure if that's even an interesting option.
Also this server pulls 700W from the socket while under full load. I'd be thankful if anybody would let me know whether this computer can be used for bitcoin mining and whether it would be even worth it.
This is how the computer looks like
http://pic.sysprofile.de/images/jGZ22648.jpg
I am totally new to this, and I barely today got intro Bitcoins and the mining-section. The reason someone introduced me to it is, because I have a server and I haven't found a real purpose for it lately.
In order to test how this works I installed Bitcoin and GUIMiner on my MacBook Pro with retina display. Because I wanted to avoid initial problems I decided to start with the windows installation and then move on to MacOS or Linux if I find it useful and understand how to properly set everything up.
For now the MacBook pro with Windows had to do. I got both things running and this I managed to get out of it:
http://www.abload.de/img/1r3s25.png
Needless to say that for testing purposes it will do, but that I will not run this 24/7
The server this was initially meant for was build for Folding@Home purposes. It is CPU based folding and I'm unsure if that Bitcoin-mining thing even supports CPU based mining. And if it does, would it be worth it.
My server has 4x Opteron 6180 SE CPUs installed which are overclocked in Linux to 2.75 GHz. So 48 real cores at 2.75 GHz. Although that is really fast, any modern graphic card is faster, that's why I'm unsure if that's even an interesting option.
Also this server pulls 700W from the socket while under full load. I'd be thankful if anybody would let me know whether this computer can be used for bitcoin mining and whether it would be even worth it.
This is how the computer looks like
http://pic.sysprofile.de/images/jGZ22648.jpg
