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April 25, 2013, 03:08:04 AM
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Or is it just a waste of energy to get the CPU to mine (i5-2500K)?

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April 25, 2013, 03:15:33 AM
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What hashrate are you getting?

I have a fairly powerful CPU and I was only able to squeeze 4-5 megahash/second out of it, which is pretty pathetic.
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April 25, 2013, 03:28:55 AM
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I have a Radeon 7970, but it only gets me 580Mh/s...pretty bad by 7970 standards.

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April 25, 2013, 03:33:29 AM
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Ah well then, don't bother with the CPU.  It will only waste electricity and shorten the lifetime of your equipment.
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April 25, 2013, 04:18:23 AM
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Just getting started -- my test rig is dual Xeon 5780's (24 cores) at 3.33GHz and two overclocked GTX480's.

Simultaneous mining BTC on the GPUs at 122 Mh/s and LTC on the CPUs at ~200 Kh/s.  Haven't tested LTC mining on GPU's yet.
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April 25, 2013, 04:38:59 AM
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Ah well then, don't bother with the CPU.  It will only waste electricity and shorten the lifetime of your equipment.

I completely agree with this. Shortening the lifespan of your CPU is not really worth the benefits of those 4-5Mhs.
I also have a i5-2500k and would never think of using it for mining, but not just for this reason.
If you attempt to mine with both, using only 3 cores of the CPU as to not affect your GPU mining ability, then if for some reason you end up using the CPU heavily, the GPU will bog down and you will lose GPU hashing ability. Usually by about 75%.

So if you end up trying to use both and say, have Windows Defender on autoscan at 3am, you'll end up running a slow scan and lose GPU for hours and hours.

Try it out. I learned the hard way. And I'll never do that again..  Sad
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April 26, 2013, 12:47:32 AM
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Thanks for the tips guys, much appreciated!

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April 26, 2013, 01:55:59 AM
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Nice!
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