100+ CPU's sitting around...worth setting up for mining??

[Payne22]

I have an office with 100+ workstations currently not being used. Electricity is included in our lease so that is not a factor. Would there be value in setting these up as a mining operation? 

PC's aren't anything special, I can list specific specs if someone thinks this makes sense. Most are 2.6 or better ghz dual cores, with 1-2gb ram; myriad of dells, gateways, and ibm's. Running xp by the way.

Curious to hear your thoughts and start a dialog if it makes sense.

Thanks for taking a look guys!

[notlist3d]

Sadly CPU mining just does not make sense at this point.  If each has a good GPU if truly no electricity... you will make a little... but doubtfful you even make back what cards cost.

[MaxDZ8]

Are they running xp 64 bit? If not, odds are you'll have an hard time setting them up: some miners are 64 bit only.
If they are 2600 Mhz from the xp-contemporary generation... they could be pentium4s for what we know. I wouldn't even bother setting up those!

[jawitech]

Let your CPUs mine XMG (CPU mining coin) and check out if it's worth.

[CryptKeeper]

Maybe slificy could be a good alternative for coin mining?

https://secure.slicify.com

[adaseb]

Honestly you would make more money working at mcdonalds then setting up all those PCs and the small revenue you would gain.

[Don Flamenco]

Honestly you would make more money working at mcdonalds then setting up all those PCs and the small revenue you would gain.

Not to mention maintaining all those PC's (setup, making sure they're all running, etc).  Even with free electricity, it's just not worth it IMO.

[atp1916]

There are 32bit minerd exes out there..but last i checked 32bit mining had serious performance handicaps compared to the x64 versions.

[Cyaren]

you can try mining cpu based coins
but mining scrypt,sha256,X11,X13 etc is  like wating your time and energy

give a try to CPU based coins mining like quark or others

[Anobix]

ignoring the profitability of doing this, I would still be very hesitant to utilize any of the property of an organization for your own financial gain. many many people have been written up or fired because of this.

[FeelTheBeat]

These PCs are too weak for any decent mining and you also risk of being fired from work, because electricity bill will be higher and company won't know why, but when they find out, nothing good is waiting for you.