Re: Is it true that mining in a pool gains averagly the same as mining solely?

http://allchains.info/calc.html

enter your hashrate and it will tell you the average time to find a block in hours at the bottom.

ok so can someone tell this noob what my hashrate would be with a nvidia geforce gt 520?

nvidia are... well bad for mining... but here you go
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Thank you drakahn ... very informative results from the calculator there ... pool mining it is. could you take a look at my miner problems in the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181290.0 noob needs help getting guiminer up and running??