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I have an old computer with a Pentium G3420 and a HD 5870. I have been interested in coin mining for a while, but I am not sure which digital currency would still be profitable with my GPU (if any). Are there any digital currencies that are GPU-mining only? If so, would they still be profitable with my 5870? Electricity is $0.0998 per kWh in my area.

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I have an old computer with a Pentium G3420 and a HD 5870. I have been interested in coin mining for a while, but I am not sure which digital currency would still be profitable with my GPU (if any). Are there any digital currencies that are GPU-mining only? If so, would they still be profitable with my 5870? Electricity is $0.0998 per kWh in my area.

For better or for worse (though I think for better), coin mining is NOT profitable to the average user. The train has LONG left the station.

 

You can use that hardware for Boinc if you want, but don't spend time mining, it isn't worth it.

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I have an old computer with a Pentium G3420 and a HD 5870. I have been interested in coin mining for a while, but I am not sure which digital currency would still be profitable with my GPU (if any). Are there any digital currencies that are GPU-mining only? If so, would they still be profitable with my 5870? Electricity is $0.0998 per kWh in my area.

Gpus are MUCH more efficient at coin mining , and even they are not viable at doing it.

 

I would forget it if you don't want to use money.

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I have an old computer with a Pentium G3420 and a HD 5870. I have been interested in coin mining for a while, but I am not sure which digital currency would still be profitable with my GPU (if any). Are there any digital currencies that are GPU-mining only? If so, would they still be profitable with my 5870? Electricity is $0.0998 per kWh in my area.

I'm using my GTX 560 and overclocked i get 101 kH/s on litecoin mining with cudaminer. seeing as you have a radeon card, it might be better. that being said, you're not going to get profit

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Mine altcoins like x11, quark, scrypt-n, cryptonight, etc. Don't mine scrypt (Litecoin) or Sha-256 (Bitcoin) because you won't profit from either without professional equipment (ASICs), a GPU is more efficient at mining then a CPU.

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