Lap Top Mining

[otown420]

Hi everyone,
Im new to all this I have read thru a lot of the stickies and couldn't find anything for mining with a lap top.  Can you do it?  Thanks

[Bitsaurus]

Yes you can do it.  Is it worth it - well if you really want to kill the laptop then go ahead.  Laptops can't handle 24/7 heat buildup the way a well vented PC can. You would earn $20 in BTC and have a dead laptop.

[otown420]

Yes you can do it.  Is it worth it - well if you really want to kill the laptop then go ahead.  Laptops can't handle 24/7 heat buildup the way a well vented PC can. You would earn $20 in BTC and have a dead laptop.

TY Bits I was kind of thinking that cause I downloaded one of the mining programs and just for about a half hr it got really hot so I immediately turned the program off.

[otown420]

I also tried to DL the mining program to my desktop but it said something about missing a .dll file

[otown420]

the open.dll file

[deepceleron]

Unless you have an ATI Radeon HD 5xxx GPU or higher, mining will cost you more in electricity than you will earn. Even a $380 video card will make you just 0.06 BTC a day.


Other miners:




You:

[Gabi]

Unless you have an ATI Radeon

Today is more like "Unless you have an ASIC" 

[trainhappy]

Wouldn't recommend laptop mining, best to get a graphics card, and do a custom tower build. I got an old compaq with an old motherboard, I'll be searching for spare parts for that to build a custom tower for mining.

[deepceleron]

Unless you have an ATI Radeon

Today is more like "Unless you have an ASIC" 

OK, other miners:

[Bitsaurus]

It's still profitable to mine on GPUs right NOW - but it's only worth it if you already have the cards setup up and mining.  If you order a card online and wait a week for it to come the BTC difficulty will have already jumped 20%.  GPU mining probably has 2 months or less.  There's no point to learning how to do it now except to just learn the process (since difficulty is skyrocketing so earnings are getting slimmer and slimmer).

Your best bet would be to buy BTC and play around with mining when you get a chance as a hobby if you happen to have the hardware - it's not worth the time to try to setup something new.

[otown420]

Thanks guys,

they are some serious rigs right there.  It doesnt really seem worth it if your ROI is negative or even just slightly positive.  Does it??

That last pic of that rig whats the average BTC and m/hash(<--I think that's right) you get?

[otown420]

It's still profitable to mine on GPUs right NOW - but it's only worth it if you already have the cards setup up and mining.  If you order a card online and wait a week for it to come the BTC difficulty will have already jumped 20%.  GPU mining probably has 2 months or less.  There's no point to learning how to do it now except to just learn the process (since difficulty is skyrocketing so earnings are getting slimmer and slimmer).

Your best bet would be to buy BTC and play around with mining when you get a chance as a hobby if you happen to have the hardware - it's not worth the time to try to setup something new.

Awe that sucks I was really getting into this

[Jenger]

What about LTC? I am a total noob when it comes to litecoin, but Im gonna assume its mined the same way btc is mined. Hows the difficulty with LTC? I would assume its rising quickly along with btc.

[otown420]

What about LTC? I am a total noob when it comes to litecoin, but Im gonna assume its mined the same way btc is mined. Hows the difficulty with LTC? I would assume its rising quickly along with btc.

Great im trying to wrap my finger around BTCs and now you throw LTCs in there lol....  Tell me more

[corbs132]

litecoin is scrypt, as opposed to bitcoin's sha256. scrypt is a more memory intensive algorithm, and takes more power than sha256. the cards will be hotter and draw more electricity.