Quote from: Wombat on August 07, 2011, 03:10:25 AM

Firstly, don't pay for mining software, there's plenty of good, free options available:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Miners

Personally, I use cgminer.

Secondly, even if you do swap to an ATI GPU as suggested, I'd think hard about whether to mine at all on a laptop. Unless it has some excellent cooling, heat will be a major issue. If this is your primary PC, think hard about what that might do to the expected lifespan of the laptop vs the likely reward (pretty small for a single GPU at the current difficulty).

If you do end up doing it anyway, I'd probably run it without the battery while you're mining as it will only hurt your energy efficiency, and the extra heat will degrade it more quickly.

The desktop im using atm is my mums. I'm not so sure about the GPU in it. It is NVIDIA GeFore 9200
and the processor is E7500 Intel Core 2 DUO CPU @ 2.93 GHz 2.94GHz

I wasn't sure how to reply to both you and the other person in one reply, so I just quoted this one, hopefully it'll notify you both or something. Thank you for replying though. You guys have both been pretty helpful.

So with the desktop im using based on those two things, am I going to paying more than what I'll be earning? and what are your opinions on solo/pool mining. Which is more rewarding? from what I read you earn more pool mining. Also I already have the client downloaded (it's in my signature) lol. But I will look into securing it.