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I've installed bitcoin core 0.14.2 on my desktop (AMD FX-8300 w/8GB RAM).

It's been running for three days now and I am seeing a Progress of about 56.77%.

Any idea on how long it will take to finish syncing?

Thanks!

It will probably take another three days to finish (at least).

Generally, the syncing process can take anywhere between around 8 hours to several weeks, so be patient in waiting for it to download (though it shouldn't take any longer than 4 days providing thre are no complications to it).

The first few years of blocks should sync quite fast because they were mostly empty. However the sync speed should drastically slow down while syncing the following years because most of those blocks contain transactions.

The Blockchain is around 125GB now so it will definitely take some time to sync initially depending on your internet connection, etc. I'd say about a week total sounds about right.

why not using another wallet like electrum
need time one weeks for download synch blockchain

I have other BTC wallets, but I want to run Bitcoin Core and support the network.

The sync is making steady but slow progress.  From the system monitoring I've done, my network connection doesn't seem to be a bottleneck. 

This is the first time I've installed Bitcoin Core, so I wasn't sure how long the first blockchain download would be.

Thanks for the replies!

The bottleneck likely lies within your computer being slow to verify blocks which is completely normal. My 8 year old laptop took a day or two to completely synchronize. If you observe your task manager, you should see the CPU being utilised.

If you want to speed up the process, you can increase the dbcache but it would take up more ram than usual. Go to your Bitcoin data directory, %appdata%\Bitcoin for windows. Create a file called Bitcoin.conf and insert the following:
and this will increase your cache by 700mb.

i gave it up mahn 5 days and 30%

Took me about 4 days last time I did it, YMMY.

Thats quiet fast for 4 days syncing knowing that the entire blockchain do have 125gb. I would like to ask on how fast is your internet connection? I would really love to download bitcoin core to but the thing that hindrance me is my internet connection which is really slow i tried up to download for 1 day and only got 5% wtf? I would need to download it for 3 weeks. Thats why i gave up and ended up on downloading electrum.

Honestly, it isn't so much the speed of your internet connection that is the bottleneck... if you monitor your network stats during syncing, you'll notice the network is hardly even used (unless you're on a severely throttled link... or dialup :P)... Syncing isn't just a matter of downloading 125Gigs of data... the "real" bottleneck comes from your CPU/Disk when it has to hash and verify EVERY block... especially if you are attempting to use your computer for other things at the same time.

It is the computational load that will slow things down... there is a reason why people use GPUs for mining and why they created ASICs... normal CPUs aren't that great at doing large amounts of crypto math quickly ;)

I synced the blockchain again in my laptop few days ago, it took me 3 days and my internet really sucks, it's not all about your connection and download speed (as HCP already explained in his reply above)n

I did the change to the -dbcache size as you suggested.  That did speed things up a bit.  Thanks!

 :)

If you have good internet conection maybe just in 2-3 days with 4g internet conection
You will synch blockchain data more than 120gb