Please advice a thread, How to mine ether on windows with simple nvidia ?

[jamesmacmarty]

Hi there,

on a computer i7 6900 with no big gfx i would like to use the spare capacity to mine a little bit. I dont expect any big ROI. I even dont want the mining to use all the cpu and gfx power.
the computer is running 24 / 7 anyway so i would like to use 20% of it´s computing power to do something.

1. Is this realistic or a complete waste of time and energy?

2. If it´s a little bit reasonable, please advice software or direct me to a thread.



thx
James

[JayDDee]

Hi there,

on a computer i7 6900 with no big gfx i would like to use the spare capacity to mine a little bit. I dont expect any big ROI. I even dont want the mining to use all the cpu and gfx power.
the computer is running 24 / 7 anyway so i would like to use 20% of it´s computing power to do something.

1. Is this realistic or a complete waste of time and energy?

2. If it´s a little bit reasonable, please advice software or direct me to a thread.

thx
James

Realistically, it's probably a waste of time and energy with that CPU. See my sig if you want to give it a try.
Mining is very competitive and energy intensive so you need cheap power and the newest most efficient equipment.

[BitMaxz]

1. Is this realistic or a complete waste of time and energy?

For now, if you don't have a free power source yes it's a complete waste of time and energy but if you have a free source of power then it's worth mining but the problem is I don't think if you can mine any POW coin with your current GPU?
And take note if you talking about Ethereum mining it's no longer supports mining through GPUs after ETH switching from Pow to POS.

[FP91G]

Hi there,

on a computer i7 6900 with no big gfx i would like to use the spare capacity to mine a little bit. I dont expect any big ROI. I even dont want the mining to use all the cpu and gfx power.
the computer is running 24 / 7 anyway so i would like to use 20% of it´s computing power to do something.

1. Is this realistic or a complete waste of time and energy?

2. If it´s a little bit reasonable, please advice software or direct me to a thread.


thx
James

If the processor operates in idle mode with minimal load and in mining mode, then this is a completely different energy consumption. If you mine on one processor and pay for electricity, then such mining is unprofitable, and 20% of the computing power of this processor will give you a few cents a day, without taking into account the cost of electricity.