by J_Th4ng » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:39 pm
I may be misinformed, but my understanding was that successful bitcoin mining required dedicated hardware farms rather than simple GPU based processing. Also, it works very well on AMD hardware, but not nVidia. Let me see if I can find the article I was reading on the subject...
Ah, here we go:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bitcoin-mining-make-money,3514.htmlAs you can see, the article is pretty recent (9th June). it seems to indicate to me that GPU based mining is a bit worthless? Especially considering the escalating cost of electricity in SA.
Anyway, if other people know better, I'd be happy to give it a go.
I may be misinformed, but my understanding was that successful bitcoin mining required dedicated hardware farms rather than simple GPU based processing. Also, it works very well on AMD hardware, but not nVidia. Let me see if I can find the article I was reading on the subject...
Ah, here we go:[url=http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bitcoin-mining-make-money,3514.html]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bitcoin-mining-make-money,3514.html[/url]
As you can see, the article is pretty recent (9th June). it seems to indicate to me that GPU based mining is a bit worthless? Especially considering the escalating cost of electricity in SA.
Anyway, if other people know better, I'd be happy to give it a go.