Actually I was trying to sell that rig for the good part of May, and I didn't manage to get a buyer at a price I consider normal for a computer of this magnitude. To be fair, it really is a niche product, and obviously it's hard to get a buyer either way. But since I kinda stopped selling it. I don't see any reason to sell it off cheap, especially considering it's performance level in CPU based applications. It just crushes anything else in Folding@Home basically. And thats what it was originally meant to do. I just figured I'd give something else a shot, and check out if I like the "new" numbers. But in this case I really don't.

I will try to find something to do with it, and if I cannot it will maintain folding for a while.

Originally my idea was to make it run Windows and to make it run with a real 3D-capable graphic card in there. the HD4870 I have in there (an old card which is a bit damaged too), was merely to make it possible to test it. But I can't even start any 3D application because there are no drivers for Windows Server. And I haven't had luck finding in google a way to make AMD HD cards run in Windows Server. If I could make it run, I'd want to know how the CPUs would handle 3DMark, and with that I'd know if it be worth buying a GTX 660 ti or HD7950 so I could play games on that computer if I feel like it. Right now I don't have a PC besides this one. Only a MacBook pro I use 24/7....

It seems so, indeed.

The litecoin thing isn't the solution I was looking for. I was kinda thinking that the 48 cores @ 2.5 GHz could do something. They crush anything CPU based..

I mean check this out: http://youtu.be/tZzLPOWoVbU

A little fun update Windows overclocked and still only 240 kHash/s

http://abload.de/img/fun1atue1.jpg

At least I cracked a few nice benchmark scores with that frequency if nothing else

Damn. The CPU remains at 1.8 GHz.

It should be at 2.5. I suppose if I get the CPU running like it should I'd be at 350 Khash/s

Not too bad:

http://abload.de/img/bildschirmfotovom2013vhuyu.png

250kHash/s for a CPU based mining computer has to be quite impressive....

You misunderstand. CPU based platforms I hear only benefit more from the litecoin inscriptions compared to Bitcoins.
That the GPU is better is completely obvious. But I really wanna know what happens... So I'll give it a go tomorrow

33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin?
This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it.

I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU...

A computer dedicated to folding@home. For this particular purpose it's ideal...

what do you mean?

I have 35 kHash/s per 8 cores. That's the best my computer can do it seems...

It's a folding farm, and I was only testing if the CPU based platform can compete...

I think I got this running now. I made 6 copies of the Scryptminer - folder...

http://abload.de/img/litecointmupr.png

I wonder if this is normal though. Doesn't look like much. 48 cores @ 2.5 GHz and I get 210 kHash/s?

Hey guys,

I want to get my computer set on LiteCoin mining. I'm abit curious what it can do.

http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/2791525.png

However it seems that I do not know hot to set up the scrypt miner properly.

Since I cannot join the litecoinpool.org pool I went for the other two pools but couldn't get any of them running.

Also Scryptminer uses only 8 threads. Kinda not enough if you have 48 cores...

Could anybody help me set this up properly?

Is the Miner in the LiteCoin wallet weaker?

Ok I installed LiteCoin on both my MacBook pro (in MacOS) and on my Server (Windows).

The LiteCoin did take forever to download and start mining, but when it started, I saw "only" 32 cores being utilized. But even the 32 cores which were being used, didn't work properly. I know, because Windows has caused only problems with pretty much any software I've used. My guess is, that the Litecoin software I used was only 32Bit. I have set to 48 of course. Also I don't believe that the numbers could be possible accurate as I saw only 40 kH. In order to see what my server can do, I would need to set it up in Linux.

 My guess is, that the Ubuntu guides I found would work fine if I wasn't using such an old Ubuntu version.
I'm using 10.10 and I'm unsure if it will make much of a difference if I update to 12.04. But I will give it a try as I'm sure it probably won't cause that many problems...

The software for Windows and MacOS is just so easy to set up, I wonder why nobody addressed the design of the Ubuntu version.

But both values of both rigs are much much lower than I ever would have thought. The MacBook Pro is at 8 - 9 kH, and the Sever at 45 kH.
I don't really see a way, how the server could possibly crack the 400 kH-mark to even cover the electricity expenses...

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Edit:

Even if all 48 were running properly and I would gain another 10% due to the OC in Linux, I'd still be 75 kH in Linux. Which no were close would be worth the effort. Could anybody confirm the kH numbers I got? Or Are my numbers just smaller?

@ nightminer:

I pay roughly 80 Euro a month for letting the Server fold 24/7. That's electricity alone. I am not convinced this mining type deal has any real purpose what so ever.

I would need to know though how long I have to let the Server mine to get a KH value I can expect. And I need a good Linux based guide how to set it up in Ubuntu. I wouldn't want to take the Server of it's F@H purpose for more than a few hours, unless necessary.

Unless this produces $200+ a month I cannot really be interested honestly. Especially since I have people in a waiting list offering to pay 150 Euro a month if my server folds in their name. My server was build for the F@H purpose and in that it pretty much equalizes in a month what normal folding@home-people fold in a year if they're really active.

According to the calculator lixoaqui linked me to I'd need to get about 900 KH to full fill this purpose, and I will give it a go next week or so when I'm back home. It is a bit strange. As I don't fully understand where to exchange them Bitcoins in a currency I can use

I suppose this rig then ain't good for this purpose. Thanks for the heads-up

As I don't know what these hashrates are I won't be able to know whether it's any good. It would be nice if there was a Ubuntu Linux based mining program. My overclock is limited to Ubuntu...

Any guides for noobs come to mind. Then I will take the computer off it's F@H work and doing this...

But thanks for letting me know

Hey guys.

I am totally new to this, and I barely today got intro Bitcoins and the mining-section. The reason someone introduced me to it is, because I have a server and I haven't found a real purpose for it lately.

In order to test how this works I installed Bitcoin and GUIMiner on my MacBook Pro with retina display. Because I wanted to avoid initial problems I decided to start with the windows installation and then move on to MacOS or Linux if I find it useful and understand how to properly set everything up.

For now the MacBook pro with Windows had to do. I got both things running and this I managed to get out of it:

http://www.abload.de/img/1r3s25.png

Needless to say that for testing purposes it will do, but that I will not run this 24/7

The server this was initially meant for was build for Folding@Home purposes. It is CPU based folding and I'm unsure if that Bitcoin-mining thing even supports CPU based mining. And if it does, would it be worth it.

My server has 4x Opteron 6180 SE CPUs installed which are overclocked in Linux to 2.75 GHz. So 48 real cores at 2.75 GHz. Although that is really fast, any modern graphic card is faster, that's why I'm unsure if that's even an interesting option.

Also this server pulls 700W from the socket while under full load. I'd be thankful if anybody would let me know whether this computer can be used for bitcoin mining and whether it would be even worth it.

This is how the computer looks like

http://pic.sysprofile.de/images/jGZ22648.jpg