Yep, GPUs are much faster than CPUs for mining. A top of the line GPU does 600 MHash/sec, on my graphics card it was doing I think 3 or 4 MHash/sec but the computer was unusably slow, and with a CPU miner I get 2 MHash/sec and my computer is perfectly usable. This is targeting the people who are interested in bitcoin (you can still mine a usable amount), but don't want to set up a dedicated mining machine.
Right now it doesn't use the GPU but I've got plans to do it too (it might be able to work with the new OpenCL stuff that's going on)
My GPU stably does 30 Mhash/s (when I underclock it a little bit), or 55 Mhash/s on stock speeds (about 65 is the max I can get overclocking) but then the GPU temperature increases quite quickly and if left for too long I've seen it do one of two things: automatically underclock to 30 Mhash/s or just crash.
Not sure how to best do it in a (non-obtrusive) applet, but would certainly be interesting to get it working!
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As I understand it, the real Bitcoin mining money is in GPUs, right? Does this work with GPUs (I'm guessing not)?
Yep, GPUs are much faster than CPUs for mining. A top of the line GPU does 600 MHash/sec, on my graphics card it was doing I think 3 or 4 MHash/sec but the computer was unusably slow, and with a CPU miner I get 2 MHash/sec and my computer is perfectly usable. This is targeting the people who are interested in bitcoin (you can still mine a usable amount), but don't want to set up a dedicated mining machine.
Right now it doesn't use the GPU but I've got plans to do it too (it might be able to work with the new OpenCL stuff that's going on)
My GPU stably does 30 Mhash/s (when I underclock it a little bit), or 55 Mhash/s on stock speeds (about 65 is the max I can get overclocking) but then the GPU temperature increases quite quickly and if left for too long I've seen it do one of two things: automatically underclock to 30 Mhash/s or just crash.
Not sure how to best do it in a (non-obtrusive) applet, but would certainly be interesting to get it working!