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Title: Noob Question: Is it worth mining with a msi gaming laptop?
Post by: SpudMcKenzie on August 14, 2017, 08:05:53 PM
Hi guys thanks for reading. I'm new to mining and currently own a msi gaming laptop and wondered if it's worth mining with or if I should invest in other hardware.
The laptop is a MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro, with the following specs:

CPU -  i7 5950HQ
GPU - GeForce GTX 980M
VRAM - GDDR5 16GB

Thanks again guys, look forward to hearing back from you.


Title: Re: Noob Question: Is it worth mining with a msi gaming laptop?
Post by: fusepay on August 14, 2017, 08:47:52 PM
Laptops are not ideal mining machines due to their manufacturing constraints, they overheat basically (AND are not meant for long term use, although, if you were to create a cooled system somehow, and would only expect a couple or few cents a day, then yeah, do it and let us know the results!

The easier option is to buy USB asics and have lots of them, I have seen up to 50 (at about 2gh/s each) daisy chained together, wonderful.


Title: Re: Noob Question: Is it worth mining with a msi gaming laptop?
Post by: Flying Hellfish on August 14, 2017, 09:44:21 PM
Hi guys thanks for reading. I'm new to mining and currently own a msi gaming laptop and wondered if it's worth mining with or if I should invest in other hardware.
The laptop is a MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro, with the following specs:

CPU -  i7 5950HQ
GPU - GeForce GTX 980M
VRAM - GDDR5 16GB

Thanks again guys, look forward to hearing back from you.

For the love of god this is so ridiculous now...

L2R https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1944976.0

I wish the mods would delete these threads that are the same fucking questions over and over again that is answered in a sticky.  Then at least it wouldn't help all the activity farmers.   :(


Title: Re: Noob Question: Is it worth mining with a msi gaming laptop?
Post by: 6Asmodeus6 on August 14, 2017, 09:48:50 PM
It won't give you anything at all as the others said and the electricity bill could suprise you so you should be carefull and stop your operation now.