Hello, I am also fairly new here... and haven't even done any mining. I am long overdue for a new system though and was originally thinking of going with a higher end desktop replaceable laptop/notebook computer to be portable. It would be easy to purchase one that costs over $2,000 and then I thought with the specs changing rapidly that I might be fine with a system that is between $700-$1,000 for several years, and upgrade again later.

So I have a couple of questions so that I may choose an appropriate system capable of mining alt coins as well, and I do still have an older windows 7 desktop which I currently use but there is no discrete graphics card.

Okay, so regardless of whether or not I upgrade my desktop, barely worthwhile but might bump up RAM and replace HD with much larger one and/or SSD. I don't believe the CPU will be great on the old desktop but it is a Quad-Core Intel Pentium running at 2.33Ghz and has 4GB RAM that can go up to 8GB. The more components I upgrade (RAM, HD for sure, but also add on a discrete graphics card that is compatible) the more it makes sense to build starting with newer motherboard, case, etc, for custom build.

CPU mining VS GPU mining:

1) With a card similar to GTX 970 - 1070, that can be fitted to a laptop computer, would this be adequate to mine on a laptop system with say an intel i-5, or i-7 processor?

2) How about my old desktop, it probably could mine some coins, but is it possible to mine with CPU hashrate only, or best to upgrade the graphics adapter to similar one to GTX 970, which I think will be compatible.

3) How can I determine the hashrate of an existing system?

I am interested in mining Zclassic, but will consider others according to profitability and ease of exchange, so I thought I would reply here. I may not be asking the right questions but will appreciate any advice.

I'd rather buy a notebook and have decided I may spend a little more to equip it so it will be able to mine, not Bitcoin but other coins that can be mined with CPU alone or similar discrete graphics adapter, however I don't have $2500 to spend as I would rather spend some directly on purchasing some cryptocurrency.

Thanks for any tips!

Mixed into one of my rigs, I have an older EVGA GTX 970 as well, here are the results of it mining Equihash under DSTM, OS is Simple Mining,

GPU1 42C Sol/s: 262.8 Sol/W: 2.22 Avg: 271.3 I/s: 145.1 Sh: 0.40 1.00 239

So yeah, it Averages around 271.3 Sol/s mining Equihash currently,

GTX970 is practically equal to GTX1060 on the most of algos. (Except of power consumption  ) Little bit less hashrate. For my ASUS Strix GTX970 i get 270-280 Sol/s on equihash, 19 Mh/s on ethash, 32-33 Mh/s on tribus an so on. There are many info about GTX1060 hashrate so you can focus on that.

Ethereum or ZCash/ZClassic seems to be most profitable at this point in time. In the future, if you're looking for a coin to mine, just use a mining calculator and stick to a coin that is consistently profitable. Some people use whattomine but I find profitability on there is sometimes inaccurate.

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There is no detailed project information, no website, no team information, no whitepater and roadmap. then you ask the participants to pay 0.002eth, no, no ,no

Will you be escrowing funds?