Mining Advice required

[Gwyndl]

Hi everyone,

I am new to the forum and would like to ask a little advice.  Please bear in mind that I am not the most computer savvy, so if you could put replies into layman's terms that would be great !

I am currently mining through minergate on my laptop, with the following specs:

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980M - 8.0GB DDR5 Video RAM, DirectX® 12, G-SYNC

But I only seem to get around 150 H/s through my CPU and around 300 H/s through my GPU.  Is there any way I could increase this at all ?

Many thanks

[smoolae]

Hi, sadly that's about as much as you gonna get out of your laptop.
To be honest mining with a laptop isn't the best idea out there. With time you'll roast it.

[flip4flop]

Please do not mine with your laptop.  It does not have good ventilation and you will end up causing more damage than its worth. It will likely earn you pennies a day and will never pay for itself.  If you want to get into mining invest in some GPUs and build your own.

[Gwyndl]

Please do not mine with your laptop.  It does not have good ventilation and you will end up causing more damage than its worth. It will likely earn you pennies a day and will never pay for itself.  If you want to get into mining invest in some GPUs and build your own.

Thanks for the advice.  What GPU's do you recommend, along with motherboard etc ?  I see the 1080 is quite a popular choice, so assuming you just SLI 2 together with a bridge and go with that ?

[BitAntonius]

Please do not mine with your laptop.  It does not have good ventilation and you will end up causing more damage than its worth. It will likely earn you pennies a day and will never pay for itself.  If you want to get into mining invest in some GPUs and build your own.

Thanks for the advice.  What GPU's do you recommend, along with motherboard etc ?  I see the 1080 is quite a popular choice, so assuming you just SLI 2 together with a bridge and go with that ?

Cards in laptops are not the same as basic PC cards, they have lower hash rate. 1060-1070-1080 are now very close in ROI. SLI is not for mining. 2 cards can mine separately without a bridge.

[Wipro]

Hi everyone,

I am new to the forum and would like to ask a little advice.  Please bear in mind that I am not the most computer savvy, so if you could put replies into layman's terms that would be great !

I am currently mining through minergate on my laptop, with the following specs:

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980M - 8.0GB DDR5 Video RAM, DirectX® 12, G-SYNC

But I only seem to get around 150 H/s through my CPU and around 300 H/s through my GPU.  Is there any way I could increase this at all ?

Many thanks

Since after the perfect over clock you done with your laptop it may get burst in two days maximum. Please invest perfect GPU mining cards to start your mining career. You will find the bitcoin mining already no more with the GPU rigs. They are already moved to mine the bitcoin with the ASIC miner such as antminer s7 or s9 and other brands. everybody thinks that hash power will be same in the all altcoins but it differs according to the card and coin. So choose best range with the comparison of card and coin you wish to mine!

[flip4flop]

Please do not mine with your laptop.  It does not have good ventilation and you will end up causing more damage than its worth. It will likely earn you pennies a day and will never pay for itself.  If you want to get into mining invest in some GPUs and build your own.

Thanks for the advice.  What GPU's do you recommend, along with motherboard etc ?  I see the 1080 is quite a popular choice, so assuming you just SLI 2 together with a bridge and go with that ?

You don't need to SLI.  Just set up a few risers and plug in your cards and mine away.  Recommendations depends on your budget. I personally like the 1070ti but there are other choices available if those are out of your price range.

A few different options are laid out in this guide.
https://theminerhub.com/mining/building-a-mining-rig-part-2-hardware/