Mining Help

[Julian5]

I wanna get Into mining, I currently have an i3 with a gtx 660 oc. I want to mine ethereum but I just dont know if it will be worth it. The i3 is in my personal setup but I have more or less 5 i5 2300 at school that I can use and I dont have to pay for power. Is it worth it? They dont have graphics cards, Best I can get is 2  gt8600 each.

[Mr.Meerkat]

is the 660 the 2GB variant (do you not have a 660ti, your signature claims so)? If it's not at lease a 2GB card then there's no chance. If you really wanna try (if it's a 2GB card) then get cudaminer and see what hashrate you can get. Once you get your hashrate, use this calculator to calculate whether it's worth it or not . (hashrates people state online aren't always true as it varies quite a bit actually. An good example of this is one of my 7950s clocked a 925mhz on the core can only get 16MH/s while my best 7950 is only clocked at 800Mhz and is getting 21MH/s ). 

[Julian5]

12 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

is the 660 the 2GB variant (do you not have a 660ti, your signature claims so)? If it's not at lease a 2GB card then there's no chance. If you really wanna try (if it's a 2GB card) then get cudaminer and see what hashrate you can get. Once you get your hashrate, use this calculator to calculate whether it's worth it or not . (hashrates people state online aren't always true as it varies quite a bit actually. An good example of this is one of my 7950s clocked a 925mhz on the core can only get 16MH/s while my best 7950 is only clocked at 800Mhz and is getting 21MH/s ). 

and Is it worth Mining on the i5's 2300? Im guessing I cant use the 86000gt's. I have the 660 2gb OC

[Mr.Meerkat]

56 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

and Is it worth Mining on the i5's 2300? Im guessing I cant use the 86000gt's. I have the 660 2gb OC

not really unfortunately  

[Julian5]

5 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

not really unfortunately  

I dont pay for power or internet.

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

I dont pay for power or internet.

mining uses very little bandwidth, I guess you could just go for it as it's still like $50-100 per month monies  (I have no idea what the hashrate is so...yeh ) 

[Julian5]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

mining uses very little bandwidth, I guess you could just go for it as it's still like $50-100 per month monies  (I have no idea what the hashrate is so...yeh ) 

what sofware should I use?

 

[Mr.Meerkat]

34 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

what sofware should I use?

 

Cudaminer since you have a Nvidia card  

[Julian5]

31 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Cudaminer since you have a Nvidia card  

what about ethminer? im currently installing it 

[Mr.Meerkat]

29 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

what about ethminer? im currently installing it 

it works but it's Opencl vs using cuda to mine so...you're gonna get a lower hashrate...that's the only difference  

[Julian5]

7 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

it works but it's Opencl vs using cuda to mine so...you're gonna get a lower hashrate...that's the only difference  

is cudaminer an os or can I use it in windows?

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Julian5 said:

is cudaminer an os or can I use it in windows?

you can use it with windows, it's the same thing as ethminer, a program that uses cuda instead of opencl