<p>There isn't any point in mining with a CPU or GPU. You can get just a few MHash/s that are not enough to accept work from pools. If you want to mine, you have to have at least 1&nbsp;GHash/s, and you need to buy specific hardware, like ASIC miners. There are a few companies like Butterfly Labs, KnCMiner and more where you can buy machines. The most recent one is from KnCMiner that release preorders for Neptune, a 3000&nbsp;GHash/s machine for about 12,000 dollars.</p>

<p>You can also look at some cloud mining like <a href="https://cex.io/r/1/giagola/0/" rel="nofollow">cex.io</a>. The price per GHash is much more, but you can trade GH any time. </p>

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Luigi Agosti
<p>What you are doing is going to waste money. Bitcoin mining with video cards is unprofitable because of the cost of power. What I would recommend doing is how I am setting up. I am sure there might be a better way, but it's the easiest way I learned how to start to make a profit.</p>

<p>Yea, I just setup my mining setup through <a href="https://cex.io/r/0/Sunbasher/0/" rel="nofollow" title="cex.io">cex.io</a>. All I did was setup a <a href="http://cur.lv/5hf1h" rel="nofollow" title="Coinbase">coinbase.com</a> account and bought 0.3 bitcoins for $200, and now I have a buy order in for 5&nbsp;GHash/s at .06 Bitcoin per GHash/s. No hassle, and I don't have to worry about the electricity bill. Still, I have to pay a maintenance fee, but I do have the benefit of all the extra merge mining I get from it.</p>

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Jonathan Brooks
<p>I wanted to give mining bitcoins a go. I set up a wallet and downloaded <a href="http://guiminer.org/" rel="nofollow">GUIMiner</a>. I also signed up for <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining" rel="nofollow">Slush's pool</a> and all of that fun stuff.</p>

<p>However, my GPU seems to not accept anything. I have zero accepted and two stale/invalid.</p>

<p>My CPU is running GUI and has accepted shares. It's running at ~3.6&nbsp;Mhash/s.</p>

<p>My GPU is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hightech_Information_System" rel="nofollow">HIS</a>' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series#Evergreen_.28HD_5xxx.29_Series" rel="nofollow">Radeon HD 5770</a>. It also says it's running at ~890&nbsp;Khash/s which seems low. It's stably overclocked and has been for some time now. How do I properly set up this GPU on GUIMiner?</p>

<p>My current preferences are set to <code>-v -w128</code> - that I saw that on the hardware settings Wikipedia page. </p>

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What exactly is your question? Is it "why is my 5770 only getting 890KH/s"? And do you mean HIS? And are you sure you didn't download the scrypt version of GUIminer?
David Schwartz
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Ya my question was "Can anyone run through how to properly set up this GPU on GUI miner?". And ya I meant to put HIS I apologize. However, the answer below made me rethink bitcoin mining. I am currently mining LTC instead and am seeing some pretty decent results with the 5770 so i'll just stick to that. thank you!
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Having some trouble getting started mining bitcoins using GUIMiner and Radeon HD 5770 graphics card
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# Having some trouble getting started mining bitcoins using GUIMiner and Radeon HD 5770 graphics card

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-06)

I wanted to give mining bitcoins a go. I set up a wallet and downloaded [GUIMiner](http://guiminer.org/). I also signed up for [Slush's pool](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Pooled_Mining) and all of that fun stuff.

However, my GPU seems to not accept anything. I have zero accepted and two stale/invalid.

My CPU is running GUI and has accepted shares. It's running at ~3.6 Mhash/s.

My GPU is [HIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hightech_Information_System)' [Radeon HD 5770](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series#Evergreen_.28HD_5xxx.29_Series). It also says it's running at ~890 Khash/s which seems low. It's stably overclocked and has been for some time now. How do I properly set up this GPU on GUIMiner?

My current preferences are set to `-v -w128` - that I saw that on the hardware settings Wikipedia page.

**Tags:** miner-configuration

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What exactly is your question? Is it "why is my 5770 only getting 890KH/s"? And do you mean HIS? And are you sure you didn't download the scrypt version of GUIminer?  
> **username_0**: Ya my question was "Can anyone run through how to properly set up this GPU on GUI miner?". And ya I meant to put HIS I apologize. However, the answer below made me rethink bitcoin mining. I am currently mining LTC instead and am seeing some pretty decent results with the 5770 so i'll just stick to that. thank you!  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-06. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

There isn't any point in mining with a CPU or GPU. You can get just a few MHash/s that are not enough to accept work from pools. If you want to mine, you have to have at least 1 GHash/s, and you need to buy specific hardware, like ASIC miners. There are a few companies like Butterfly Labs, KnCMiner and more where you can buy machines. The most recent one is from KnCMiner that release preorders for Neptune, a 3000 GHash/s machine for about 12,000 dollars.

You can also look at some cloud mining like [cex.io](https://cex.io/r/1/giagola/0/). The price per GHash is much more, but you can trade GH any time.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2013-12-24. Score: 0

What you are doing is going to waste money. Bitcoin mining with video cards is unprofitable because of the cost of power. What I would recommend doing is how I am setting up. I am sure there might be a better way, but it's the easiest way I learned how to start to make a profit.

Yea, I just setup my mining setup through [cex.io](https://cex.io/r/0/Sunbasher/0/ "cex.io"). All I did was setup a [coinbase.com](http://cur.lv/5hf1h "Coinbase") account and bought 0.3 bitcoins for $200, and now I have a buy order in for 5 GHash/s at .06 Bitcoin per GHash/s. No hassle, and I don't have to worry about the electricity bill. Still, I have to pay a maintenance fee, but I do have the benefit of all the extra merge mining I get from it.


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