Laptop Mining

[Esse]

Hi everyone , I'm fairly new to this all and I have a couple of questions.

I've been mining qrk on my laptop using the cpu (sandy-bridge pentium 987) at roughly 55kh/s which from my reading is pretty average for cpu mining. I'm keen on giving the gpu mining a go but my laptop uses the Intel HD integrated graphics. Would this chip still be viable considering it has 6+GB of memory available?

Second question: Is the difference is hash rates ~3 with dogecoin vs ~55 with quarkcoin, due to difficulty, pool size or the mining style being used?

Edit: 10Kh/s with dogecoin currently.

[torusJKL]

Is your graphic card OpenCL compatible?

[Esse]

OpenCL 1.2 is supported according to the Wiki on the chipsets.

[fildza]

Second question: Is the difference is hash rates ~3 with dogecoin vs ~55 with quarkcoin, due to difficulty, pool size or the mining style being used?

Of course the different of difficulty result the different hash rate

[drknife]

Hi everyone , I'm fairly new to this all and I have a couple of questions.

I've been mining qrk on my laptop using the cpu (sandy-bridge pentium 987) at roughly 55kh/s which from my reading is pretty average for cpu mining. I'm keen on giving the gpu mining a go but my laptop uses the Intel HD integrated graphics. Would this chip still be viable considering it has 6+GB of memory available?

Second question: Is the difference is hash rates ~3 with dogecoin vs ~55 with quarkcoin, due to difficulty, pool size or the mining style being used?

Edit: 10Kh/s with dogecoin currently.

Depending on the chipset you integrated graphics should be usable.  The litecoin hardware comparison guide is useful.  https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

[Esse]

Awesome, thank you very much everyone. From the looks of the chart I should get a decent increase just from using the igp.

[boxofspuds]

Awesome, thank you very much everyone. From the looks of the chart I should get a decent increase just from using the igp.

difficulty and which pool you are on comes into play when you're looking at shares and frequency of found blocks, etc (i.e. all the payout stuff)

[prophete]

still not worth your time to mine with laptop unless you have godlike video card

[27thousand]

Hi, i'm using an ASUS Intel Core I7-2670QM @ 2.20 GHz, 8GB ram with a 2GB NVidia GEforce 610M

I'm extremely new to mining so i'm not sure if i'm doing it right but basically, this is my CMD script
cudaminer.exe -i 1 -C 2 -l 32x4 -m 1 -o stratum+tcp://doge.scryptpools.com:3333 -O USER.USER:PASSWORD


[2013-12-18 18:24:08] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://doge.scryptpools.com:333
3
[2013-12-18 18:24:08] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2013-12-18 18:24:08] 1 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2013-12-18 18:24:20] Stratum detected new block
[2013-12-18 18:24:21] GPU #0: GeForce 610M with compute capability 2.1
[2013-12-18 18:24:21] GPU #0: interactive: 1, tex-cache: 2D, single-alloc: 1
[2013-12-18 18:24:21] GPU #0: using launch configuration F32x4
[2013-12-18 18:24:21] GPU #0: GeForce 610M, 4096 hashes, 4.75 khash/s
[2013-12-18 18:24:38] GPU #0: GeForce 610M, 286720 hashes, 17.77 khash/s

Also, 17.xx khash/s seems to be my average speed, any comments on whether this is good or bad or how I could improve my set up?

Thanks!

[manofcolombia]

laptops are gonna get hot as hell. Wouldnt recommend mining from them ever ever ever.

[iPaulito]

laptops are gonna get hot as hell. Wouldnt recommend mining from them ever ever ever.

Of course it is not good long term strategy, but laptops can handle quite a lot. I have been cpu mining for 2 months on my $600 laptop and rendering graphics for a 1 year quite a lot and is basically fine. But it could have been dead also in few months. I would not recomend that either

[snickep]

Currently mining DOGE on my laptop with nvidia geforce gt650M, at 37khash/s. It gets pretty warm.

[M1ke]

laptops are gonna get hot as hell. Wouldnt recommend mining from them ever ever ever.

Yeah, tried it once. My keyboard was literally too hot to touch at that point.

[jforster]

I would second not doing this on a laptop.  They are really not designed to run that hot for extended periods of time - it's not as easy as a PC to just pull and replace the video card.   

[Esse]

I understand your concerns about doing it on a laptop, My temps max out at 65C when cpu mining. But this laptop is just one I had been using for study, I've got a desktop which I've yet to set up lol.

[Red- Beard]

Aside from a rig, I have an Alienware M18x with dual 6990m's in it which I use as my gaming system, and for some supplemental hashing power.

When it's cool in the place, and the fans are all clean, I can get up to about 450kHashes off of the two GPUs combined.  CPU mining, as far as I'm concerned, wastes more power than it's worth. Unless you're mining at a pool which offers a PPS with a low difficulty of 32 or less (Scrypt), you probably won't get many shares accepted, and you'd probably want to hold onto whatever you mine for a while (of gaining value) to make it worth the power it cost you.  Imho, only GPU mining is viable, and only if you have a decent card.

You should also know that yes, heat will be an issue, as one day there'll be a bit too much dust, or it'll get a little too hot, and suddenly your mid 70's temperature is almost at the boiling point, and you very well could fry a card or worse.

Having said that, I accept the risks, and I keep my intensity down on my primary card (it seems to get hotter, quicker), so I'm getting ~230 out of one card and ~130 out of the primary card, and it's pretty stable.  I can even play some games without a problem while it's hashing at this rate.

Use a calculator to check profitability, a simple one is at dustcoin.com/mining