Received 2x USB Block Erupter sticks from the Europe group buy today...
I decided to test one on my old Asus Eee 700 PC (laptop) which has a 2GB SSD HD - 800 Mhz CPU - 512 MB RAM - running Windows XP.
This is a special laptop - as in 2009 I used this very machine to generate 'a few extra Bitcoins' - Yes really!
With it's 800 Mhz processor this laptop probably generated somewhere around 1000-ish Bitcoin's, which are now in full circulation ofc. It ran 24/7 for several months (2 of these laptops actually on/off), until 100's of new nodes arrived on the Bitcoin network and the difficulty level got to great.
Any prizes for Rig-of-the-Week? Nah - thought not!
I decided to test one on my old Asus Eee 700 PC (laptop) which has a 2GB SSD HD - 800 Mhz CPU - 512 MB RAM - running Windows XP.
This is a special laptop - as in 2009 I used this very machine to generate 'a few extra Bitcoins' - Yes really!
With it's 800 Mhz processor this laptop probably generated somewhere around 1000-ish Bitcoin's, which are now in full circulation ofc. It ran 24/7 for several months (2 of these laptops actually on/off), until 100's of new nodes arrived on the Bitcoin network and the difficulty level got to great.
Any prizes for Rig-of-the-Week? Nah - thought not!