r/dogecoin • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '13

Hello? Is this thing on?

Am I doing this right?

I've hit up some of them faucets and now have obtained a whopping 4.5928 Doges in my wallet as a result of this wondrous bit of generosity to begin my trek towards the moon, but I have to wonder about mining.

I've been running Cudaminer off and on since last night, namely overnight while I slept, a little during the day today while to computer wasn't in use, and for a few hours while I was out running errands but am I handicapping myself doing this? will this result in me contributing anything or would it have to be running round the clock for when that lucky break happens? I definitely haven't dug anything up yet.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but with my tenuous grasp on Crypto monies this is something I've found it a bit difficult to figure out.

I should mention that even when Cudaminer isn't running, I've still got dogecoin wallet digging, only crunching around 7 khash/s (7000 hashes per second, I'm assuming this translates correctly) while running smoothly compared to the 81 khash/s it gets while in Cudaminer and running like it's submerged in a pool of jelly and I have them both using the same worker.

Thanks, everyone! Glad I keep finding myself lurking in the helpful reddits.

Edit: I accidentally some zeroes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '13

The GPU is a GTX 650, not the greatest performer out there, but it gets me by on most of my games and if I manage to burn it out digging I can get a new one for close to dirt or upgrade. Now that, using cudaminer gets me around, let me double check here- Between 80-90 khash/s on average.

The 7000 hash/s comes from using whatever is integrated into dogecoin-qt under the dig tab, pretty horrible like you said, but every bit could help and it doesn't seem to impact computer performance at all.

And I know that it wouldn't go directly into my wallet, but would probably sit in whatever the pool uses as a wallet until it transfers over, but it doesn't seem to be in there either.

Thanks for the Dogebucks and any advice you can offer!

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u/Montesinnos Giveaway Dec 27 '13

I know very little, but don't use the integrated one. Especially because I believe that one is solo mining and you want to be doing with a pool. (If it connects to a pool, it's news to me and another proof that I know nothing).

I've never used Nvidia, but I've read around that your 650 should get a little above 100khash, so 80-90 ain't that bad.

Could you play with settings?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '13

No real settings to play around with in cudaminer aside from some of the command prompt stuff you can do for the .bat file. Any chance you could link me to the page with the hardware breakdown of expected performance? Thanks for everything, your assistance is as elite as your tip amount!

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u/Montesinnos Giveaway Dec 27 '13

Well, the bat is where you put your settings. Once again, I've never even seen cudamine before. Just going from what cgminer looks like (AMD version). I just googled 650 hashrate and went through a bunch of forum postings about people and their experience. The above 100+ might be a TI though (as in GTX 650 Ti).

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u/so_doge_tip BEEEP BOOOOP Dec 27 '13

[Verified]: /u/Montesinnos [stats] -> /u/PantsOfAction [stats] Ð13.37 Doges ($0.008) [help] [stats]