I want to ask about a good combination for mining hardware. What cpu (amd, intel?) Graphics card. Thanks
Intel CPU is better as they use less energy. It is important as the mining is all the time. For GPU, AMD is cheaper but uses more energy.
The AMD Fury line uses comparable to a hair less electric than the Nvidea Maxwell cards. Performance in mining varies, it depends on the algorythm.
Intel CPU are higher performance in general, but a LOT more expensive. Power use varies, AMD wins some loses some others.
Intel integrated graphics remain a joke, though they're not as horrible a joke as they were before Haswell. AMD still kicks them easily across the board, but you don't really want to mine on an integrated graphics CPU anyway as it's nowhere near as efficient as a dedicated GPU.
One "core" on a current multi-core CPU for all practical purposes (except physicall design) *IS* a CPU. It's trivial (though a bit expensive) to put 8 "CPUs" in a single machine any more, and 16 is pretty common on high-end server motherboards (using dual Xeon or Opteron gear).
Mining ANYTHING with a laptop IS A BAD IDEA - they're not designed to run 24/7 at high power usage like almost ALL mining.
Laptops also tend to be rather low performance due to space limitations.
The AMD R9 Nano is an impressive card - but still a bit pricey. I'd LOVE to have a farm of those crushing RC5.....
