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May 30, 2013, 02:00:13 AM
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Hi all,

My computer is 5 years old so it's time for a new one!
For my studies I'm planning to buy an 15.6'' laptop and my budget is 1000 euro max (+-1300 dollar)

I was thinking, I saw a cool laptop with nice keyboard RGB light and so on (click) for 1200 euro (+-1550 dollar)
This laptop has a HD 7970M 2GB GPU so:
650MHash/s
I pay 0,20 euro (0.25 dollars) for a kWh
300W (no idea if this is realistic)
Let's say I'll mine 20/24
When I used this calculator (click) , it said I'll have my money (+-250USD) back after +-6 months

Do you guys think this will work or are those calculators worthless over such time.
Is 300W realistic?
Can a laptop handle the heat with 24/24 mining?

Thanks for any help!
Stienoo

I have a Alienware with the 7970m and I get about 300Mh running at around 60 C. I also know they have a great cooler where the CPU and GPU are cooled separately unlike most laptops.

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May 30, 2013, 02:52:22 AM
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My thinkpad actually has seperate heatpipes and heatfins for the CPU and GPU, but it shares the same fan. Tongue

I can't mine on it though, because the HD 3xxx series in this doesnt support openCL Sad

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