mining on an average pc

[SadlyFox]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

[Vann]

Good video from BBT that goes over getting started mining with your PC. What I would disagree with him is he mentions mining less profitable coins to get yield vs profit. To me it makes more sense to mine what is consistently most profitable for your GPU's and if you want to speculate on other coins, mine to an exchange address and covert it. That way you maximize your profitability and get more yield for your hashrate vs mining less profitable coins directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-bU6xX7wG4

As long as your PC has good ventilation to keep the temperatures reasonable, mining shouldn't affect it's lifespan. The only downside is mining will affect your ability to use the PC for other tasks at the same time, especially GPU intensive tasks.

[FloridaKid]

The power of the PC doesn't matter when it comes to GPU mining because only your GPU power will go to work and CPU mining isn't a good choice for mining unless you have a high end CPU in your PC but you mentioned average PC which means the CPU isn't high end

[FP91G]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

For mining, you need a 2-core processor and 3 gigabytes of memory (but 4 is better). This configuration is enough to make an Ethereum mining farm.
I assembled a farm on an old motherboard on an Am2 socket with DDR 2 memory because I got it for free. BUT the farm did not work for long, and the components had to be replaced.

[adaseb]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

For mining, you need a 2-core processor and 3 gigabytes of memory (but 4 is better). This configuration is enough to make an Ethereum mining farm.
I assembled a farm on an old motherboard on an Am2 socket with DDR 2 memory because I got it for free. BUT the farm did not work for long, and the components had to be replaced.

For ETH you don't need 2 core, I used single core for years. Works great, only issue is that it takes forever to load, especially on Windows 10. And the setup to install OS takes a very long time. However single core works fine when mining.

For RAM you will need at least >5GB or more due to the large DAG. With windows it won't work if there is less system ram than DAG filesize. With Ubunutu you can get away with using less RAM. I used 2GB before when the DAG was almsot 4GB and didn't get any issues.

Most important is the GPU. Which you can't really buy right now unless you overpay.

[mak013]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

I bought used AM2 CPU for $5, motherboard with maximum PCI-e slots, 4GB RAM and old used HDD. It was enough for mining everything till 2020.
I think, that you home PC better.

[Looper_U]

I'm still using a core2duo motherboard for mining, it has 4 pcie slots so I get four risers with four gtx1660 supers, till date the GPUs are still mining away with no problem, other configurations 👉 2GB Ram 600watt PSU

[Wingsbtc]

It doesn't matter which motherboard or PC you have because I'm sure it will have pcie slot just order for risers and start mining, you can get away with 2gb ram but 4 gig ram is better, mining power depends on GPU horse power so look into the type of GPU you should by instead of a mighty PC

[adaseb]

Before you guys go out and buy old CPUs and motherboards to mine with. Consider that the very very old CPU chipsets like Pentium 4. You might have a motherboard with 4 or 5 PCIe slots however you will run into some issues.

First one is the PCIe needs to be at least 1.1 or 2.0. If you get the original PCIe 1.0 it won’t work on GPUs which are 20 years newer.

Another issue is this. There might be 5 PCIe slot but most likely the most you can use is 2 or 3. Because those old motherboards were limited by the amount of useable lanes. Which was capped by the CPU. Because even though they made 5 PCIe slots they didn’t think someone would actually use every single lane.

[mak013]

Before you guys go out and buy old CPUs and motherboards to mine with. Consider that the very very old CPU chipsets like Pentium 4. You might have a motherboard with 4 or 5 PCIe slots however you will run into some issues.

First one is the PCIe needs to be at least 1.1 or 2.0. If you get the original PCIe 1.0 it won’t work on GPUs which are 20 years newer.

Another issue is this. There might be 5 PCIe slot but most likely the most you can use is 2 or 3. Because those old motherboards were limited by the amount of useable lanes. Which was capped by the CPU. Because even though they made 5 PCIe slots they didn’t think someone would actually use every single lane.

TS is speaking about average PC, i think that his home PC better than Pentium 4. And i even haven`t seen someone selling such old PC. But you are right, that id you are trying to mine, using your old PC - you have to think about such moments.

[sxemini]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

For mining, you need a 2-core processor and 3 gigabytes of memory (but 4 is better). This configuration is enough to make an Ethereum mining farm.
I assembled a farm on an old motherboard on an Am2 socket with DDR 2 memory because I got it for free. BUT the farm did not work for long, and the components had to be replaced.

For ETH you don't need 2 core, I used single core for years. Works great, only issue is that it takes forever to load, especially on Windows 10. And the setup to install OS takes a very long time. However single core works fine when mining.

For RAM you will need at least >5GB or more due to the large DAG. With windows it won't work if there is less system ram than DAG filesize. With Ubunutu you can get away with using less RAM. I used 2GB before when the DAG was almsot 4GB and didn't get any issues.

Most important is the GPU. Which you can't really buy right now unless you overpay.

Absolutely wrong. I have many windows10 rigs with 2 or 4 gb and 6 to 13 gpu´s and i can mine without any problem. System Ram has nothing to do with the DAG!

[nsummy]

There should be a rule about not even responding to threads like this.  If you look at OPs post history, its nothing but starting low quality topics, asking stupid open ended questions.  I'm not sure what the end game is for these people but I do know what always happens:  OP never comes back to the thread, a few clueless people post (usually incorrect) advice, a veteran or 2 chimes in and says they are wrong, then it turns into an argument about nothing.   

[FP91G]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

For mining, you need a 2-core processor and 3 gigabytes of memory (but 4 is better). This configuration is enough to make an Ethereum mining farm.
I assembled a farm on an old motherboard on an Am2 socket with DDR 2 memory because I got it for free. BUT the farm did not work for long, and the components had to be replaced.

For ETH you don't need 2 core, I used single core for years. Works great, only issue is that it takes forever to load, especially on Windows 10. And the setup to install OS takes a very long time. However single core works fine when mining.

For RAM you will need at least >5GB or more due to the large DAG. With windows it won't work if there is less system ram than DAG filesize. With Ubunutu you can get away with using less RAM. I used 2GB before when the DAG was almsot 4GB and didn't get any issues.

Most important is the GPU. Which you can't really buy right now unless you overpay.

Absolutely wrong. I have many windows10 rigs with 2 or 4 gb and 6 to 13 gpu´s and i can mine without any problem. System Ram has nothing to do with the DAG!

With 2GB of RAM, I was having trouble changing the epoch. Better to use at least 3 GB

[nullama]

Hello everyone.  Recently I thought about the possibility of mining on a personal pc.  What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?  Will it kill the computer?

Probably not much money to be made, but you can make a couple of dollars worth of Bitcoin a week or two if you sell your hashrate to nicehash, using RandomX for the CPU and KawPow or DaggerHashimoto for GPU.

You can withdraw as little as 0.0001 BTC from NiceHash with lightning.

[adaseb]

Absolutely wrong. I have many windows10 rigs with 2 or 4 gb and 6 to 13 gpu´s and i can mine without any problem. System Ram has nothing to do with the DAG!

I guess its dependant on software then. But the last software I used with Win10 was Claymore and that definately wouldn't of worked with 2 GB of ram. He designed the DAG so it would load the DAG directly onto the GPU without having to be stored on the hard drive or ram however it wouldn't load with less than 4GB of memory. Ubuntu didn't have this issue.

I haven't used the newer software like lolminer or phoenix with Win10, only under Ubuntu where I didn't get this issue. Either way. DDR3 is still very cheap. There are tons of people getting rid of 4GB sticks or less. Most motherboards usually have 4 slots for memory so you can even get away with using 4x 1gb. The biggest issue is sourcing a GPU these days.

[SadlyFox]

What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?

[MCcryptonia]

What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?

A midrange pc must have a GPU onboard atleast you mind sharing more details on that? Or even the CPU maybe it might be good for some xmr mining, GPU is far superior than CPU mining

[cmyk-B]

What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?

What GPU does this PC have?
What CPU does this PC have?
How much memory does this PC have?

You would need this information to determine the best thing to mine.

gpu with 6gb or more memory = mine ETH.
amd gpu with less then 6gb = mine FIRO
nvidia gpu with less then 6gb = mine FLUX

if you have a reasonably modern CPU = just mine raptoreum will be more profitable then Monero

[FP91G]

What cryptocurrencies does it make sense / profitable to mine on a mid-range pc?

If you don't have a discrete graphics card, then forget about mining and don't mock your computer.
average pc is a very imprecise concept, like average car.
It is better to write down the characteristics of your computer right away, but if you have 4 cores or less and no video card, look for another source of income.

[CryptoATM]

Average pc or not if GPU isn't available in the pc then you can't mine, forget pc mining because that won't get you anywhere, you will need atleast a 1030 to mine just for testing sake but for profitability you will need rx580 or 1660t