(context post by spndr7)

my CPU amd turion 2 cores rated at 1.6 Ghz generates 50 BC in 2 days…

100/day seems pretty good… Does internet connection speed matter? Also, does it matter how long your computer has been continuously connected?

Quote from: Zurbonium on June 22, 2010, 02:19:43 AM

100/day seems pretty good… Does internet connection speed matter? Also, does it matter how long your computer has been continuously connected?

Nope and you can only generate when you have all blocks, so you won’t generate for the first minutes of starting Bitcoin. Doesn’t matter past that.

I’ve noticed that hashing performance doesn’t vary as much between CPUs as you’d expect.  Compared to an old CPU, a newer CPU doesn’t show as much of a speedup at hashing as it does on general benchmarks.

I guess recent CPU optimizations must have concentrated on things like I/O and branch prediction.  Most programs are a bunch of memory access, comparisons and branching, they rarely get down to cranking away at maths for very long.

The latest SVN version has a khash/s display.  Around 400 khash/s per processor is typical.