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So I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3f-5Agdpc about mining on a laptop with RTX 3060.

So how long will it take for the laptop to die?

You can't get a answer unless you try yourself and drop details about it months later, no one dares use a laptop that's costly to mine crypto currency, it's going to kill the laptop faster than you think, laptop is not design for all the stress work a graphic card can go through

Im currently mining Eth with an Acer Nitro 7 with a 1660 Ti getting 31 MH/s with +800 mem OC in Afterburner.

Now this laptop cost me about $650 a few months ago and is under warranty. I would have serious reservations about mining with a very expensive laptop or one not under warranty.

Since Eth is mostly mem heavy, the GPU only gets up to around 63C and could probably be lower but power limit is at 100% to get max hashrate. Only uses 80 watts anyway.

I think laptop mining is very feasible for those that have a laptop sitting around that they dont often use, like I do. Bought it for holiday travels, now its a miner.  I plan on mining with it for the foreseeable future until the warranty is up in about 9 months.

It's your choice to make, you don't have to ask people about mining on your own laptop, many have been warned several times never to mine on a laptop but some still do it anyways and nothing bad happened, if you know what you are doing you can get away with it, watch your temp and watts from time to time, the temp is very important, even on a desktop I don't let my gpu sit near 60+ °C, goodluck trying

keep it cool it will last long time.

Gonna say..ive seen photos out of china of stacks of 3060 equiped notebooks mining.  Not recommended...but you do you.

I've seen the laptop mining photos as well... some even tightly stacked.... No idea how does that happen without fast death

im assuming the have down clocked and uv...to not overheat the gpu....50mhs and laptop living is better than squeezing 62.mhs out of it.  Dunno...not willing to find out.

It's not something I would do but I don't think they care about running them to death.
Maybe they figure they can ROI before they die. They probably removed the batteries
and sold them to shorten the ROI.

I think mining stress is less than gaming as you don't use CPU for mining. The only downside is that it's 24/7.

If laptop is the only way for you to mine ETH I will advice you not to mine on the laptop for so long, you can mine for some hours and leave the laptop for another day, laptop components are not like desktop, heats can affect other things on the laptop motherboard

rtx mobile quite expensive, but really efficient, the component meant to lowest possible power consumption

just wondering if they really buy new perfect condition which is pretty expensive, or defect one, who knows

I would warn against laptop mining but we have new laptops with latest architecture, they can withstand heavy loads at low power consumption so it's not a bad plan at all if your laptop is one of the latest, just put your eye on the temp using msi afterburner

Yes, dont mine on a laptop. :-)

Me : have been mining on my alienware 17 since 2016, only fans failed. . Rest going strong. . :-) no issues :-) on 1070 nvidia getting 31.5 mhs

If I had a laptop to mine on, I would definitely buy a laptop stand with 2-3 fans underneath the stand to cool down the laptop.

That's needed making sure that you are still in good condition, it's very consuming and if you don't pay attention with temp chances

that it will quicken the lifespan of your system, not a fan of laptop mining as I live where electricity is really expensive and also the

system unit itself just for the sake of mining, I rather invest with trading and try some luck.

That depends solely on the temperature of the laptop I assume.  It could probably make it a few years mining in someone's freezing cold garage, but likely wouldn't last a week in a typical mining space with high ambient temperatures.  I can't think of a faster way to get a laptop to destroy itself, so there's that... 

I get that GPUs are hard to find and laptops with RTX 3060s are readily available, but purchasing one to mine with is a bad idea and a sure fire way to be that guy who lost money while everyone else makes fortunes from crypto. 

I disagree, they all have at least a 1 year warranty. So you could mine for at least a year and certainly would pay off the laptop and then some. Then could sell it and turn a hefty profit.

People seem to have misgivings about laptops, mind you these gaming laptops were meant for high loads over many hours. Mining Eth wont put in half the heat that the CPU + GPU at 100% utilization would.

You are wrong, so I assume you have very little mining experience.  A 1 year warranty doesn't mean the laptop will last a year, it means after you burn out the laptop in a week, you can send it in for a replacement and after a great deal of waiting will eventually get another laptop.  When you also destroy that laptop, you might get some pushback on trying to get another warranty replacement.  If they do accept, you'll likely get a notice that this is your last replacement.  So you find yourself with a couple of dollars of ETH, no laptop for weeks at a time, no warranty, and likely on a path to destroying this laptop as well.  Given the lack of thought behind the purchase, I'm guessing it would be made using a credit card and you'll also be in the hole for interest and a long time of payments with nothing coming in from the destroyed laptop.

As for how I know you're wrong and have very little mining experience...  No miner who has ever operating a rig would think that playing games on your laptop would produce more heat than mining.  That's something a gamer would say who has experienced a hot laptop on their lap while gaming but never operated a miner.  So I guess I'm curious why you are giving bad information that you very obviously know nothing about.  Are you just trying to make posts here, or are you deliberately giving horrible information in an attempt to troll someone into destroying a laptop?

The laptop can last longer if you know how to lower temp to minimum number and also reduce power draw, it's still not advisable to use laptops to mine though but I heard gaming laptops are bad ass, they can withstand some high temperature and heat when gaming so they ate better fit for mining

I know that you dont have any experience, because you'd know that most laptops share a heatsink with the CPU. so when gaming, they definitely DO put out a lot more heat than just mining Eth alone.

How do I know? I measured power at the wall (kill - a watt) and used an infrared gun to monitor temps. My personal gaming laptop (Acer Nitro 7, 1660 Ti) has been mining 24/7 with NO ISSUE whatsoever.  As we know, Eth is mostly memory intensive, so the GPU actually stays very cool around 60C (during gaming it goes MUCH higher due to sharing heatsink with CPU).

So long as your temps are decent, and it has good airflow, then there should be no issue. You can also monitor for hot spots with an infrared temp gun and deal with accordingly if needed. Obviously there are many different gaming laptops so everyone's experience will differ a bit, but if you go into it cautiously and monitor temps (plus good airflow) then there is no reason a laptop will suddenly "burn up". Mind you these were made for gaming which puts a much larger wattage load on the  laptop.

I actually ran a mining farm in 2017, I really think you are showing your ass to everyone right now.  I wont be responding to you again, because ive said what I have to say. If you feel differently, thats fine. But my own personal experience will trump whatever you think you know.  

But ofc laptops put more heat when you use BOTH CPU and GPU. And while gaming you use GPU's core as well and it need more power than just the memory.

I have some friends in a laptop repair shop and they told me most of the times a "gaming" laptop comes, it's the GPU's fault. The thing is that when gaming or just using the laptop, the vent entrances, which are at the bottom, get blocked or limited so temps rise a huge lot more.

If anybody has a laptop with mining capable GPU, would you please do a quick test to see temps while gaming and while mining with the laptop in a hut-like position.