Collects questions about mining setups on basis of GPUs.
Questions tagged [gpu-mining]
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What happened to Krad Miner (the first javascript GPU miner)?
Krad Miner was the first javascript miner that supported GPUs. Now, the website yields a 502 error, and there has been no response to post #57 in the thread asking about it being dead. Does anyone know what happened to it?
ripper234
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Combined scrypt/SHA256 mining on one GPU
Is it possible to mine scrypt and sha256 coins at the same time on one GPU?
Rationale: Hashrate of scrypt mining is limited by memory bandwidth. That means that some of the processor cycles are wasted because the processors are waiting data from…
SmallMiner
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Is GPU mining worthwhile for any currency?
I've been under the impression that all proof-of-work mining is now done by ASICs.
Then I saw this article, that says,
"AMD shares are surging with bitcoin because digital currency 'miners' need its graphics cards"
Is there any truth to this? …
abelenky
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How do I get started mining bitcoin with a GPU?
I'm totally new to this, but love this idea!
I want to help, (and generate coin), and have only installed Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1
It ran, synchronized; I encrypted my wallet.
But now what? Will it use my 2 NVIDIA gtx580 GPU's on its own? Do I need…
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