I build my own desk top and as of right now I'm running 5 of 6 core amd cpu ( one died) and a outdated motherboard. What radeon card would you recommend? My nvidia card barely works for mining. My roommate and I are getting a few usb miners to take load off gpu.

With my roommate help I now have cgminer working. I am mining on both laptop and desktop. I also got a 24 hour mining contract for $2 and its at 5Gh/s. Thankss to all for the help and the advice.

I may not be mining on my desktop, but did get a miner going on my laptop. 43.44Mh/s. The GPU temp is steady and with in specs.

When I try the above link google chrome stops it cold saying its possibly a virus

the video card is a nvidia tx 640

Cuda 5.5 was installed, it also installed video drivers. When I rebooted gpu was 3 now 5% since I have got most of my usual stuff running. I just don't know what else to do but try it all again in linux in a virtualbox

http://i.imgur.com/58bCEgt.jpg

Ok lets see if this helps.

I loaded a frontend gui for cgminer. The gpu speed is constant at 5%. So its not doing any processing on the gpu.

On the status page of the gui it reads getwork 165 and netblocks 8 (9.6 min ave) all other boxes are 0.

 I am mining Bitcoins and I am part of a pool. I do have a screenshot but don't know how to upload it.

I have been running cgminer for the last 12 hours.  My h/s is 0, but I am getting block information and other data.