Can I do mining with a normal PC?

[leao1979]

Hello, Can I do mining with a normal PC? I have an i3!

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[sase007]

Hah... Well you can ( only bitcoin related currency) but it won't be profitable.

[vpasic]

Hello, Can I do mining with a normal PC? I have an i3!

No.
Don't even try. There is no point really.

[sase007]

If you have strong grafic card, you can try litecoin mining.

[Holm]

Hello, Can I do mining with a normal PC? I have an i3!

just for play

[scranagar]

you can mine some altcoins like protoshares or primecoins. there are no gpu or asic miners for those coins. just cpu miners.
but your i3 won´t make many coins. perhaps 0.1 primecoins a day, depending on your luck

[rammy2k2]

No, it wont even pay for power

[Ass0nFire]

Don't bother - You will only end up frustrated. If you have a graphics card then you could. You would probably want to use a pool though. Although mining Litecoin in a pool with a graphics card is still very slow. I think you might be able to mine 1 Litecoin a month - If your lucky.

[c789]

Yes, you can mine with a normal PC.

However, the real questions include, "Can my hardware components mine at a positive rate of return?"

The i3 itself will only run a cpu miner. You'd be lucky to find a good rate of return for that, even with newer alt-coins. You could get lucky if the value of the coins shot up, but still, we're not talking about much hashing power here (compared to GPUs and ASICs).

If you have a GPU or ASIC device attached, those would do the mining and your computer could be used for other things. The processing load on the i3 would be negligible.

[Protrader]

I dont think,its a good option to mine with i3..

[PickNic]

you will earn like 0.000001 per month

[Trance]

Hello, Can I do mining with a normal PC? I have an i3!

You can always think of ways to profit of the communities problems, use that 'normal PC' and create a solution for issues within the BTCitCoin realm ;-) !

Back in the day the average computer could mine cryptos!

[oberstkrieger]

Hello, Can I do mining with a normal PC? I have an i3!

You can mine primecoin on Your CPU, and scrypt coins on Your GPU if its decent one. But better convert it to rig!

[Trololo2060]

How to Start Mining cryptocoins on computer?
It is really easy now.
First, decide what you should mine.
Visit this site http://dustcoin.com/mining to check what is more profitable now.
 Important scrypt (like litecoins) is 1000 more complex than SHA-256 (like Bitcoin) – be careful
Currencies change very quickly – check it from time to time
Compare speed of different hardware:   
Here you can find the info about speed for mining scrypt coins (like litecoins ) https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
And from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison find info for mining SHA-256 like Bitcoin

After you compared and chose coins and hardware,
Download initial software for your coins. It include wallet, and you can create yours then.
Find and select the pool, where you will mine.
NOTE! Mining on your own affordable only, if you have really heavy hardware, if not then it is better to connect existing pool. List for litecoins pools - https://litecoin.info/Mining_pool_comparison

Register  your own id on selected pool
Create worker! (After your ID you could create lots of workers, normally one worker for each PC, so you need at least one)

Select software for mining.
There are lots of different software depending on coin,  hardware,  pools, operating systems and etc.
I recommend GUI Miner script http://sourceforge.net/projects/guiminerscript/ as it for Windows based on cgminer, cudaminer and reaper
Already included setting for popular litecoin pools, has settings for AMD Radeon videocards

What to do with coins?
Buy goods or exchange them into money

Go to https://www.cryptsy.com for exchanging from different coins to Bitcoins or Litecoins, then go to Mr. Gox or btc-e to exchange them into real money.
Have a nice BTC

[sgk]

You can try mining alt-coins instead of Bitcoins. Does your computer have a graphics card? You can run a CPU-mining software and a GPU-mining software on same machine simultaneously. This way you can reach some acceptable mining speed but don't expect huge profits.

[Hash72]

How to Start Mining cryptocoins on computer?
It is really easy now.
First, decide what you should mine.
Visit this site http://dustcoin.com/mining to check what is more profitable now.
 Important scrypt (like litecoins) is 1000 more complex than SHA-256 (like Bitcoin) – be careful
Currencies change very quickly – check it from time to time
Compare speed of different hardware:   
Here you can find the info about speed for mining scrypt coins (like litecoins ) https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
And from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison find info for mining SHA-256 like Bitcoin

After you compared and chose coins and hardware,
Download initial software for your coins. It include wallet, and you can create yours then.
Find and select the pool, where you will mine.
NOTE! Mining on your own affordable only, if you have really heavy hardware, if not then it is better to connect existing pool. List for litecoins pools - https://litecoin.info/Mining_pool_comparison

Register  your own id on selected pool
Create worker! (After your ID you could create lots of workers, normally one worker for each PC, so you need at least one)

Select software for mining.
There are lots of different software depending on coin,  hardware,  pools, operating systems and etc.
I recommend GUI Miner script http://sourceforge.net/projects/guiminerscript/ as it for Windows based on cgminer, cudaminer and reaper
Already included setting for popular litecoin pools, has settings for AMD Radeon videocards

What to do with coins?
Buy goods or exchange them into money

Go to https://www.cryptsy.com for exchanging from different coins to Bitcoins or Litecoins, then go to Mr. Gox or btc-e to exchange them into real money.
Have a nice BTC

Nice Welcoming and meaningful Guide for him...Thanks

[joele]

Mine Primecoin with your PC, it's a break even but you will gain experience.

[ccualumni]

You can try mining alt-coins instead of Bitcoins. Does your computer have a graphics card? You can run a CPU-mining software and a GPU-mining software on same machine simultaneously. This way you can reach some acceptable mining speed but don't expect huge profits.

Would you mind telling us newbies how to do that? Thanks

[Ass0nFire]

Use a pool to mine. Try miningpool.co/ - If you do a search on how to mine you will find some tutorials.

[sgk]

You can try mining alt-coins instead of Bitcoins. Does your computer have a graphics card? You can run a CPU-mining software and a GPU-mining software on same machine simultaneously. This way you can reach some acceptable mining speed but don't expect huge profits.

Would you mind telling us newbies how to do that? Thanks

As Trololo suggested, choose your currency and join a pool. To mine with CPU, you can use CPUminer (just google it). If you have a NVIDIA GPU, use CUDAminer. For ATI cards, use cgminer.
There are plenty of mining tutorials on this forum and Google. Search for 'Litecoin Mining Guide'. While the guide may be for Litecoin, it will work for any scrypt coin.