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Title: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: coinsgod on August 06, 2017, 02:12:06 AM Is it possible to mine some Altcoins on laptop used at home? If so, how do you do it? Which programs do you need to do it? Could peeps recommend some Altcoins worth looking at possibly mining? Thanks
Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: Undefined31415 on August 06, 2017, 02:35:55 AM Is it possible to mine some Altcoins on laptop used at home? If so, how do you do it? Which programs do you need to do it? Could peeps recommend some Altcoins worth looking at possibly mining? Thanks What kind of laptop? Does it have a relatively strong GPU? CPU mining in general isn't all that profitable (if at all), even with high-end CPUs. Keep in mind that pegging your system for long periods of time will wear it down faster. Cooling it properly can help, but that is often difficult with a laptop, unless you're willing to remove the case. (If you use the laptop for other purposes and still need it to be portable, that's probably not an option.) However, if you plan on dedicating this laptop to mining, and have no other use for it, I'd have to ask why you wouldn't sell the laptop and exchange the proceeds for some cryptocurrencies. After all, you'd only expect significant proceeds from mining with it if you obtained coins that later increased significantly in value, so why not purchase them directly? Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: Zeix on August 06, 2017, 02:57:13 AM Possible? Yes. Profitable? No.
Unless you have a high end gaming laptop, hashrate would be very low. And laptops are not designed to run at 100% GPU load 24/7. They don't have proper cooling for this. You could kill it. Once I tried to mine with my laptop at work, in my office with air conditioner. It has a GTX 960M. First tried ETH, hashrate was something like 0,2mh. Then tried Zcash, ran it for a few seconds, saw the GPU temp climbing above 80°C in such a short time, in a air contitioned room...immediately stopped it before it can take any damage and never tried it again. Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: coinsgod on August 06, 2017, 03:06:29 AM Is it possible to mine some Altcoins on laptop used at home? If so, how do you do it? Which programs do you need to do it? Could peeps recommend some Altcoins worth looking at possibly mining? Thanks What kind of laptop? Does it have a relatively strong GPU? CPU mining in general isn't all that profitable (if at all), even with high-end CPUs. Keep in mind that pegging your system for long periods of time will wear it down faster. Cooling it properly can help, but that is often difficult with a laptop, unless you're willing to remove the case. (If you use the laptop for other purposes and still need it to be portable, that's probably not an option.) However, if you plan on dedicating this laptop to mining, and have no other use for it, I'd have to ask why you wouldn't sell the laptop and exchange the proceeds for some cryptocurrencies. After all, you'd only expect significant proceeds from mining with it if you obtained coins that later increased significantly in value, so why not purchase them directly? A Dell laptop, about 6 month's old. Not sure how strong the GPU is but I think it was an ok one at the time of purchase. From the above two posters, it seems that mining on a laptop is really not a good idea at all. Guess I'll have to pass on it. Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: sevenmiles on August 06, 2017, 04:35:44 AM not worthy
Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: crazyivan on August 06, 2017, 05:15:57 AM There re a few coins which you can try, just for fun. But you will not be able to make any money. Try Verium, you can mine directly from their wallet!
Title: Re: Mining Altcoins on a home laptop? Post by: sameer dadarwal on August 06, 2017, 07:06:20 AM I think it is very difficult to mine Altcions at home.Because we should prefer an ordinary laptop for simple use only.Mining Altcions is very difficult task and you should have a high class laptop specially designed for this purposes. The laptop should have strong GPU running 24/7 .
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