Pool-Mining Ethereum with CPU?

[PrimusInterPares]

I tried single-mining Ethereum with my CPU but it was not successful. The difficulty is too high.

Does it make sense to mine Ethereum with CPU by participating on a pool?

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[bathrobehero]

With 1 Mh/s (i7 5820k) it's going to take you ~137 days (with yesterday's diff) to solomine a block or poolmine one block worth of coins so it's a completely pointless excercise.

But with poolmining at least you're sloooowly gathering coins instead of having to deal with massive variance. I always solomine coins unless it takes over 12 hours on average to find a block. Then I join a pool instead.

[bobben2]

I agree with Bathrobehero.  It is a waste trying to cpu-mine Ethereum now.
To give you a perspective:
I tested, and my Core 2 duo processor @ 3GHz does 87kH/s while my 280X GPU does 20MH/s.
So the amount of work that the GPU does in a week, it will take the CPU 4.5 year,
going by these hashrates...