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December 29, 2013, 06:16:47 PM
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How much was the max Mhash/s some did in a laptop?
Can someone put my laptop mining? I don't mind  if it will have a low Mhash/s
Have you any advice for laptop mining?
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December 29, 2013, 06:20:42 PM
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not worth the mine considering you have to pay for eletricty.
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December 29, 2013, 06:24:19 PM
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Don't do it, because a working laptop is much more valuable than whatever you would be able to mine with it.

Seriously, don't do it. It will overheat, throttle, and destroy the lifespan of your device. Sell it and buy coins if you are that motivated.

Please DO NOT send me private messages asking for help setting up GPU miners. I will not respond!!!
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December 29, 2013, 06:28:04 PM
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mine an altcoin with low difficulty that you believe might become more valuable. don't overheat your laptop though.

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December 29, 2013, 06:29:41 PM
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Don't do it, because a working laptop is much more valuable than whatever you would be able to mine with it.

Seriously, don't do it. It will overheat, throttle, and destroy the lifespan of your device. Sell it and buy coins if you are that motivated.

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Its just not feasible with a labtop. Altcoins may be a better option, then you can hang on to them or exchange them for btc.
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December 29, 2013, 06:31:01 PM
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don't mine with a laptop >.> you'll wreck it. Do some more research! heres a rig to mine litecoin http://www.cryptobadger.com/build-your-own-litecoin-mining-rig/
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December 29, 2013, 06:49:43 PM
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It depends on the processor you have. Whatever it be, you cannot solo mine. With pools, you can make a little.
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December 29, 2013, 06:54:35 PM
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I used my laptop to mine ones and I got 5kH/s... Now I'm just using my desktop with a GTX 760 to mine Cheesy
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December 29, 2013, 07:01:07 PM
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Dont mine with laptop,
1: You will never get profit mining from laptop
2: your laptop overheats and finally no longer works
suggestion is to get GPU or not to try mining.
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December 29, 2013, 07:02:11 PM
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I used my laptop to mine ones and I got 5kH/s... Now I'm just using my desktop with a GTX 760 to mine Cheesy

my y480 gives me 38kH/s Cheesy

It doesn't generate too much heat but I stopped doing that because I cannot risk destroying my laptop :/
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December 29, 2013, 07:44:25 PM
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i just wanna see if it works to, to convice my sister to put her computer to mine and to convince my parent's to buy me a new one, or if someone give me a loan i will gave it back in 3 months , need less than btc ofc i will give all my info, card drive license adress : )
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December 29, 2013, 08:57:47 PM
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i just wanna see if it works to, to convice my sister to put her computer to mine and to convince my parent's to buy me a new one, or if someone give me a loan i will gave it back in 3 months , need less than btc ofc i will give all my info, card drive license adress : )

Of course it works, it is a computer and it computes things till it's broke.

Or if you mean works as in makes money? No, it will not make any money. You will simply destroy the thing. Unless your sister is a computer gamer her computer is likely totally worthless for mining as well. Even then (if she is a gamer) you've got a 50/50 shot of her computer STILL being mostly worthless.

You have no idea how to mine and are already asking for a loan specifically to mine? Are you insane?

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December 29, 2013, 09:00:33 PM
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... or if someone give me a loan i will gave it back in 3 months , need less than btc ofc i will give all my info, card drive license adress : )

Oh, I see. This thread is all about getting someone to loan you some money.

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December 29, 2013, 09:36:37 PM
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I think it can be done although it is a bit risky.

Just program energy saving options wisely so that screen turns off when mining and also hdd stops spinning. Use an external cooler or at least put the lappy on a stand so that there is an empty space below it.
On some notebooks is easy to take off the optical unit (you usually just have to take off a single screw),so you can save more power.
Take the battery out so that it is not using power to recharge it.
Do not use external USB mouse and/or keyboard, they also drain some power.
Make sure that the air input/output ports are very clean and not obstructed.

As for energy, an ideal setup will be using a solar panel to charge a 12V battery and then one of this generic adapters for using laptops in cars. That way energy is almost free.....



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December 29, 2013, 09:41:20 PM
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Anything is doable, but I wouldn't use a pappy I cared about.
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December 29, 2013, 09:42:51 PM
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I can get about 120kh from my laptop doing scrypt, but i recon that would last for about an hour before it burns down and melts to the centre of the earth.

Dont even try it, not worth blowing a laptop.
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December 29, 2013, 09:47:54 PM
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I used my laptop to run one of these bitfury USB sticks http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=bitfury&_osacat=0&_from=R40 from ebay. The laptop ran fine and didn't overheat. I got around 2.6GH/s out of it, 24/7.

But then I guess OP was getting at CPU and GPU mining? maybe not?

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December 29, 2013, 09:50:37 PM
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Take the battery out so that it is not using power to recharge it.
I wouldn't do this as the battery can protect the laptop motherboard from power spikes. Keep the battery in.


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December 29, 2013, 09:51:24 PM
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Laptop mining is not efficient at all, better buy some cheap rig, you don't need all computer components,  just motherboard, gpus, 2GB ram and a HDD
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December 29, 2013, 10:10:32 PM
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My Intel T3100 CPU notebook does about 6 KH/s.  Cry

Tried it for 48hs nonstop and nothing wrong happened so far.
It did heat a lot, but we are currently here in the middle of a heatwave with 38C temperatures so it is not strange at all.

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