Mining LTC

[HUSTLER]

Somebody told me I can mine LTC while mining BTC. How?

[MashRinx]

If you run LTC and BTC miners on the same hardware, they will 'share' the load between the two.  You can also run miners on different hardware, like:
- FPGA or ASIC mining BTC while GPUs mine LTC
- GPUs mining BTC and your CPU mining LTC

You can probably have individual GPUs mining LTC while others mine BTC, but I've not split any of my configurations on a per-GPU basis to give much guidance on that though.

Also, any profitability of mining LTC on CPUs is probably very much a question these days, much like what happened to mining BTC with CPUs in the past.

[HUSTLER]

So if I mine BTC and LTC on same GPU then the amount of BTC I earn will be less?

[middlemarkal]

yes less, since your graphic card can only do so much work, it will split the work between your 2 coins.

It's not like nmc that are free from your pool. 

[HUSTLER]

Darn, I wouldnt mine having some LTC but not if its gonna cost me BTC. Thanks for the information.

[Zeal0t]

It's not going to be much but try mining LTC with your CPU cores while your GPU's are busy mining BTC. The difficulty with LTC is so low that you may actually see some gain.

[dellech]

if you do not have free electricity it will not be profitable to mine with a CPU ... 25kHashes per second take about 100W from your wall outlet !
If I would try it I could mine about 20 cents per day - and pay 50 cents for the power :-(

[biged214]

Also you may want to consider what is more profitable to mine. If you mine something that is hard to get and the value isn't the greatest compared to mining something that is easier to get but the value on time spent mining is better then that might be the choice you go with. At least that's how I see it, for example if mining BTC for 10 days you get 1BTC out of it and it's worth $110 but mining LTC for 10 days and you get 50LTC at $3.75 each then you'll get $187 worth of coin. Coinotron.com will show you the profitability per each coin and I like to use it as a gauge of what I should be mining. If anyone has any comments on this please feel free cause I'm no expert on this and any help is always appreciated.

[Si Robertson]

Nlot suire how profitable this would be though.

[MashRinx]

It's not going to be much but try mining LTC with your CPU cores while your GPU's are busy mining BTC. The difficulty with LTC is so low that you may actually see some gain.

Depending on the CPU and what type of mining you are doing, CPU mining can reduce the efficiency of GPU mining.  If, for example, you bought single-core CPUs for BTC mining because they are cheap, mining on that CPU may have an impact in GPU mining, especially if you are mining a coin that uses scrypt.