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Title: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB for Mining ETH Post by: Allution on July 03, 2016, 06:21:16 PM Hey,
I will go straight to the question. Can i mine ETH using NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M? http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gt-540m (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gt-540m) I am new to the altcoins and i am planning to buy equipment for altcoin mining, however as i do not have strong background knowledge i would appreciate your help. Regards Title: Re: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB for Mining ETH Post by: Redrose on July 03, 2016, 09:16:22 PM I'm sorry for you : you can't. You can forget everything that is 1 Gb for mining Ethereum. Even 2 Gb is barely feasable, so you can totally forget about this. And that's not even a real graphic card... You should buy a RX 470 or a 1060. Just wait to see what's best and buy it.
Title: Re: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB for Mining ETH Post by: Allution on July 03, 2016, 10:15:15 PM Thank you! What you just told me saves me A LOT of time.
So do you own any of these graphic cards you mentioned before? Title: Re: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB for Mining ETH Post by: Raja_MBZ on July 03, 2016, 10:47:50 PM Forget the mining with a notebook, no matter if you manage to get a very good dedicated graphics card in a laptop, you won't be able to mine anything with that. In result, you're only gonna burn off your notebook.
The only way you can enter the altcoin GPU mining world is by buying an average CPU with a good PSU and GPU. Search a lot about the GPU before purchasing it, in this section of forums, you can find some good information about the mining specs of graphics card you'd like to purchase. You should have like ~$200 budget for the card BTW. |