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Re: What "speed" should I be mining bitcoins? It seems slow. What am I doing wrong
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Rob P.
on 05/07/2011, 12:48:40 UTC
I am glad you asked.  Been looking for one.  The issue is I can only take a single width card.  So the question is, what can I get in single width, that will give me 150+, for under $150?
Oh yes, it also has to be a current production card.

Why can you only take single-width?  Just buy a PCI-E extender cable and mount the card somewhere else in the case.

If you're going to force single-width, then just keep mining on nVidia.  The double width cards are double-width because the heat generated by the GPU(s) requires additional cooling that a single-width card cannot accommodate.  So the only single-width cards you're going to get are going to perform as poorly as your nVidia.

Better yet, just don't bother mining.  You'd be better off taking your $150 and buying 10 BTC immediately at the exchange.  It would take you months and months of mining on a single-width card to generate 10 BTC (probably closer to a year).  Then wait for the price to go to $30 again, sell them, and then buy a nice rig.