I'm so sick of generating vanity addresses on a CPU! I'm looking for a cheap computer, laptop or tablet (Hopefully around $250USD or less) that has a good enough GPU to generate some vanity addresses quicker than my old acer's CPU. It only gets 170k addresses per.. Second? Minute? Whatever the calculation is on vanitygen.
I would skip the tablet for this. I can't help you with USD-prices, you may want to check something like pricewatch.com to find a good deal.
I've been looking at chromebooks but I just don't think the OS is adopted enough. I might get a chromebook and try to just install Ubuntu on it.
The first hit Google gives me is
your own post from 3 months ago. That's not very promising.
Does anyone have a recommendation of a GPU I should shouldn't look for? I've heard that Intel GPUs don't work for vanitygen for one reason or another (it's honestly probably too complicated for me to understand) and all of my laptops over the years have had an Intel GPU.
My laptop has a Nvidia GeForce 840M, it wasn't that expensive 2 years go, so you can probably find it even cheaper (or better) now.
I get about 7 Mkey/s, but it slows my system down a lot, so I run it when I'm not using my laptop. Desktops can get much higher rates.
What are you looking for? If it's only a few addresses you can ask someone to do it for you.
As you can see I really don't know too much about computers haha. If you say a tablet won't work then I'll just assume that's right. I'm just looking to have a chance at creating some very harder to find addresses over a long period of time (most likely) and not constantly run it. So maybe look for an 8 or 9 character address an hour a day or something.
I'm so sick of generating vanity addresses on a CPU! I'm looking for a cheap computer, laptop or tablet (Hopefully around $250USD or less) that has a good enough GPU to generate some vanity addresses quicker than my old acer's CPU. It only gets 170k addresses per.. Second? Minute? Whatever the calculation is on vanitygen.
I've been looking at chromebooks but I just don't think the OS is adopted enough. I might get a chromebook and try to just install Ubuntu on it.
Does anyone have a recommendation of a GPU I should shouldn't look for? I've heard that Intel GPUs don't work for vanitygen for one reason or another (it's honestly probably too complicated for me to understand) and all of my laptops over the years have had an Intel GPU.
The best GPU you can use for vanitygen in my opinion is the R9 Nano. There is no more efficient option. Looking at a $250 setup probably isn't the best idea for long term use. It may seem like a good idea, but low resale and high electricity use will end up sticking it to you in the end if you go with cheap hardware and run it for a good length of time.
I guess that makes sense. You get what you pay for. I wouldn't even know where to begin installing these things though so I'm looking for a relatively cheap computer that already has a decent (not the best) GPU inside. I don't think I want a desktop just because right now I almost exclusively do everything from my BlackBerry so wouldn't be able to deal with something that is stuck in my house!
I'm also assuming you can't just stick any old GPU in any old computer and it'll work for vanitygen too. So that's where I'm kind of trying to find something pre-made. I mean if it's as easy as opening up a laptop taking out a screw and putting a new piece in I'm good to go but past that I wouldn't want to mess it up and have it cost me $100+ to fix. Can a normal GPU even fit in a laptop? I really can't tell their physical size online. (Yes I know these are all noob questions don't worry
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I guess I'd have to up the budget to get a half decent GPU in a chromebook. I'm sure I could figure out how to get Ubuntu installed. That doesn't seem too too hard. It's the hardware that freaks me out haha!
Anything specific I should be looking for in a GPU? Benchmark tests? The radeon R7 240 looks like a cheap option with good performance (unless I'm just way off).
