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August 31, 2017, 01:10:09 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
CPU mining sadly died a long time ago.. but to answer your question, yea there is gonna be a difference if you use a newer (therefore faster) CPU with a lower power usage than an older (slower) CPU that also uses more power. If you want to mine, I would start with a cheap ASIC USB stick... I have 5 Antminer U2+ sticks, which are cheap ASIC USB sticks and together they do roughly 9 Gh/s... If you don't want to spend anything right away, I still suggest using a GPU rather than the CPU.
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CyptoAnto
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August 31, 2017, 01:29:07 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
CPU mining sadly died a long time ago.. but to answer your question, yea there is gonna be a difference if you use a newer (therefore faster) CPU with a lower power usage than an older (slower) CPU that also uses more power. If you want to mine, I would start with a cheap ASIC USB stick... I have 5 Antminer U2+ sticks, which are cheap ASIC USB sticks and together they do roughly 9 Gh/s... If you don't want to spend anything right away, I still suggest using a GPU rather than the CPU. thanks for the info, but what about the GPU? same as the CPU? (like newer better ect..) idk about ASIC yet the pwr usage is high. was wanting to use a low pwr CPU for starters, what do you recommend?
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CryptoPorco
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August 31, 2017, 01:59:04 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
CPU mining sadly died a long time ago.. but to answer your question, yea there is gonna be a difference if you use a newer (therefore faster) CPU with a lower power usage than an older (slower) CPU that also uses more power. If you want to mine, I would start with a cheap ASIC USB stick... I have 5 Antminer U2+ sticks, which are cheap ASIC USB sticks and together they do roughly 9 Gh/s... If you don't want to spend anything right away, I still suggest using a GPU rather than the CPU. thanks for the info, but what about the GPU? same as the CPU? (like newer better ect..) idk about ASIC yet the pwr usage is high. was wanting to use a low pwr CPU for starters, what do you recommend? Well if you have to buy a CPU, you mind as well get a ASIC stick really.. I mean just took a quick look on amazon and found a decent one (Rev 2 GekkoScience 2-Pac Compac USB Stick Bitcoin Miner 15gh/s+) for 90$ ( 32-.35 watts per gh)as for the GPU.. A Radeon RX 470 has a modest hash rate of 24.0MH/s. Its power cost per day is exactly the same as the Radeon RX 480 at $0.4320. Its cost per MH/s is $9.13, giving it a return per day of $1.15 and a return per year of $418.16. Radeon RX 470 will cost you $219. As you can see the GPU would use way more power than the ASIC sticks... and the ASIC generates more /sec. If you gotta spend money for a cpu you mind as well buy ASIC sticks.
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CyptoAnto
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August 31, 2017, 02:12:24 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
CPU mining sadly died a long time ago.. but to answer your question, yea there is gonna be a difference if you use a newer (therefore faster) CPU with a lower power usage than an older (slower) CPU that also uses more power. If you want to mine, I would start with a cheap ASIC USB stick... I have 5 Antminer U2+ sticks, which are cheap ASIC USB sticks and together they do roughly 9 Gh/s... If you don't want to spend anything right away, I still suggest using a GPU rather than the CPU. thanks for the info, but what about the GPU? same as the CPU? (like newer better ect..) idk about ASIC yet the pwr usage is high. was wanting to use a low pwr CPU for starters, what do you recommend? Well if you have to buy a CPU, you mind as well get a ASIC stick really.. I mean just took a quick look on amazon and found a decent one (Rev 2 GekkoScience 2-Pac Compac USB Stick Bitcoin Miner 15gh/s+) for 90$ ( 32-.35 watts per gh)as for the GPU.. A Radeon RX 470 has a modest hash rate of 24.0MH/s. Its power cost per day is exactly the same as the Radeon RX 480 at $0.4320. Its cost per MH/s is $9.13, giving it a return per day of $1.15 and a return per year of $418.16. Radeon RX 470 will cost you $219. As you can see the GPU would use way more power than the ASIC sticks... and the ASIC generates more /sec. If you gotta spend money for a cpu you mind as well buy ASIC sticks. Ok wow lots of "tech" info looks like I need to do more reserch haha, but from what I understood, yea it does seem like starting with a ASIC usb stick would be best in my situation (dont have to buy a new rig for that right) could I just plug it up in my old laptop?
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CryptoPorco
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August 31, 2017, 02:23:21 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
CPU mining sadly died a long time ago.. but to answer your question, yea there is gonna be a difference if you use a newer (therefore faster) CPU with a lower power usage than an older (slower) CPU that also uses more power. If you want to mine, I would start with a cheap ASIC USB stick... I have 5 Antminer U2+ sticks, which are cheap ASIC USB sticks and together they do roughly 9 Gh/s... If you don't want to spend anything right away, I still suggest using a GPU rather than the CPU. thanks for the info, but what about the GPU? same as the CPU? (like newer better ect..) idk about ASIC yet the pwr usage is high. was wanting to use a low pwr CPU for starters, what do you recommend? Well if you have to buy a CPU, you mind as well get a ASIC stick really.. I mean just took a quick look on amazon and found a decent one (Rev 2 GekkoScience 2-Pac Compac USB Stick Bitcoin Miner 15gh/s+) for 90$ ( 32-.35 watts per gh)as for the GPU.. A Radeon RX 470 has a modest hash rate of 24.0MH/s. Its power cost per day is exactly the same as the Radeon RX 480 at $0.4320. Its cost per MH/s is $9.13, giving it a return per day of $1.15 and a return per year of $418.16. Radeon RX 470 will cost you $219. As you can see the GPU would use way more power than the ASIC sticks... and the ASIC generates more /sec. If you gotta spend money for a cpu you mind as well buy ASIC sticks. Ok wow lots of "tech" info looks like I need to do more reserch haha, but from what I understood, yea it does seem like starting with a ASIC usb stick would be best in my situation (dont have to buy a new rig for that right) could I just plug it up in my old laptop? lol yea by all means do your own reserch.. and yea you can plug it in your old laptop, usb stick dosent tax you CPU so can still go on and use your laptop as you would usually
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August 31, 2017, 04:41:44 PM |
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Is there a difference in what type of CPU you use? like faster/slower CPUs with more or less pwr usage? does that make a difference in how fast you can mine?
A snail vs. a slug. Either way it is too slow.
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Don't let others control your BTC -> self custody
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August 31, 2017, 07:50:52 PM |
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You can invest in CPU mining, but not to mine BTC. There are other coins if you actually want to profit from your powerful CPU. Back in 2012 it was already hard to impossible to mine any bitcoins with a CPU. Back then the most efficient were FPGAs, the early mining chips. A year later ASICs came out and an era of dedicated miners begun. Sounds like quite a story, right?
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September 01, 2017, 06:34:59 AM |
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You have made me curious, how long would a I5 or I3 survive if someone started mining with them
Also I have an IT friend that jokingly told me he is gonna get all the shitty gpu less pcs in my office to mine ETH how long till everything burns down?
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September 01, 2017, 09:36:55 AM |
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You have made me curious, how long would a I5 or I3 survive if someone started mining with them
Also I have an IT friend that jokingly told me he is gonna get all the shitty gpu less pcs in my office to mine ETH how long till everything burns down?
For many years. Mining doesn't degrade a CPU, it keeps it at close to 100% load the whole time, but these chips are made for it. They just need proper cooling. Unfortunately if you mine with low grade processors you'll pay more for power than you'll be able to mine. If you had a mainframe and could configure it to mine a CPU coin, you could bring in some serious money
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September 01, 2017, 10:29:16 AM |
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CPU for example have 2 cores that two cores need to solve math algorithm and problems when mining .. the GPU have more cores so you can mine faster in a good GPU example 1080 Ti the next one is the hardware dedicated only to make bitcoin or to solve faster math problems... BE aware that the eletricity will be high and your bill may increase a lot
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September 10, 2017, 12:47:29 AM |
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CPU coins are very rare but there are a couple. Most altcoins also will use asic now but there are some gpu coins like eth because of the difference algorithm.
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September 10, 2017, 02:20:40 AM |
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The feeling is like your a turtle and you are racing with a horse. So you will mine at just speed 1 so lower income when you use CPU I recommend use a Antminer D3
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I will do wonder for YOU!!!
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September 10, 2017, 04:15:56 AM |
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As i just started a Forum on building rig for bitcoins... I guess it will much and the return of investment is harder thab i expected... Considering the 1000 watts power per hour.... Thats huge... And as i just read... It is already dominated by ASIC.... i just have to divert to find ways to earn ....
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