mining newbie Questions

alchemy555

Hi

I just installed Ethereum and chain is caught up and i started the mining. A ferw questions please:

How do I find out my hash rate.

Its been mining with 4 cpu's for over 10 hours and nothing, is this normal and can I expect anything in a few days or not?

Is a mining pool the best option. I am on Ubuntu 14.04 and I have a nvidia card.

What pool is the best for someone in my status?


thanks for any help

CryptoFan

I have similar questions, is there an FAQ or user guide anywhere on the web?

happytreefriends

CPU mining will be very slow. Even on my 6x core AMD FX CPU I get below 0.4MH/s.
GPU mining is all relative to your model and MH/s Hash rate.
If you use ethminer the '-C' for CPU, '-G' for GPU in the command line.
Hash rates don't seem to show on the ethminers past 1.0.1.
Supposedly genoil's modified ethminer does, but I have not tried it yet.

alchemy555

This is very helpful thanks!