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Old 01-31-2014, 06:39 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Luis_GT View Post
Gpu mining is only worth it to mine altcoins and convert to btc, to have any type of profitability with btc due to the high difficulty you need about 1terahash of mining, or 1000 giga hash... a vid card does only 800 mega hash, which is equivalent to like .000005 btc per day minin on a pool...

my 30ghash miner only does .005btc a day at current difficulty
Yup, Bitcoin GPU mining is obsolete now. It'll work for Litecoin or other Scrypt based coins for now, until someone finally builds some ASIC miners for those.
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