intel(R) hd graphics 4400

[Brian440]

 Best way for me to mine on this GPU? I'm a newbie and i dont want to inject any funds into hardware until i get a feel for mining with what i have now.

[Xian01]

Best way for me to mine on this GPU? I'm a newbie and i dont want to inject any funds into hardware until i get a feel for mining with what i have now.

The best way to mine with that GPU is not to mine with that GPU.

[ErikvanBreen]

Best way for me to mine on this GPU? I'm a newbie and i dont want to inject any funds into hardware until i get a feel for mining with what i have now.

The best way to mine with that GPU is not to mine with that GPU.

+1 if you want to learn about mining its fine to let it mine for like 5-10 mins, but definetly not going to make a single penny leaving it mining  24/7
The electricity it will consume will cost ALOT more

[adaseb]

LOL

He thinks its 2011

[lulu2003]

why not trying? HD4400 will not exceed 5-6 watts...I think everyone can live with these electricity cost
But it will take some time to render some cents...

[mavericklm]

it's not even worth making a thread about it!

[sidehack]

Gotta learn somewhere. I spent a week CPU mining in May 2013 before buying some GPUs, working them for a month before buying USB BE and on up. Nothing wrong with learning as long as you don't smoke the hardware. Which I've also done.

[goxed]

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

[lulu2003]

great. this link to hash by hand at least is worth this thread alone 

[dropt]

Download and install ATI SDK v11 or so.
Download and install CGMiner v3.1 or so.
Find a PPS pool... (F2Pool?)
Setup account on pool.
Setup cgminer.
Mine.

Edit: I missed the Intel part so the ATI SDK is useless.  I'm not sure you can even mine with that chipset.

[Lorenzo]

Honestly, I wouldn't advise mining with that GPU. It's mobile graphics isn't it? Which means your computer is a laptop? I wouldn't advise mining with any laptop since they can easily overheat.

That being said, your GPU supports OpenCL so technically it could be used for mining but you would most likely make less than a cent a day.

It would be better to mine GPU-mineable altcoins rather than Bitcoin or ditch the GPU and mine CPU mineable altcoins with your CPU instead and then sell them for bitcoins. Again, I wouldn't advise using a laptop for this though. To mine any reasonable number of bitcoins at all, you really, really need an ASIC (which are also expensive and bring a completely new set of problems).

Edit: I missed the Intel part so the ATI SDK is useless.  I'm not sure you can even mine with that chipset.

Not sure about this. It seems that someone was able to mine bitcoins on an HD 4000 so the same should be possible with the HD 4400 (still a terrible idea though):

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86307.msg980528#msg980528

Relevant quote:

Okay, results are just abysmal.

4.3 M/hash per second on average on the Intel HD 4000.

I'm going to install Intel's overclocking utility to see what I squeeze out...

Also, any flags I should try to improve performance? This is even worse than the NVS 4200M on my T420, which got 10 M/hash per second on average.

[Anillos2]

Best way for me to mine on this GPU? I'm a newbie and i dont want to inject any funds into hardware until i get a feel for mining with what i have now.

You can try to mine altcoins, because Bitcoin GPU mining was profitable in 2012.

Look at the difficulty chart:
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png

Logarithmic:
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png

Bitcoin mining is 10000 times more difficult than It was in 2012!

[mindfulmojo]

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html

It's sad to see this in practice...

http://www.coinion.com/2013/12/11/child-labor-bitcoin-mines-exposed/

[neurotypical]

In Built Graphic cards don't have enough power to be worth it for mining, plus I wouldn't risk damaging the MOBO.

[Lorenzo]

In Built Graphic cards don't have enough power to be worth it for mining, plus I wouldn't risk damaging the MOBO.

The new Intel graphics "cards" such as the HD 4400 are actually built directly into the CPU itself (strange, but true) so an overheating one would likely cause damage to the CPU rather than the motherboard.

[Anillos2]

In Built Graphic cards don't have enough power to be worth it for mining, plus I wouldn't risk damaging the MOBO.

The new Intel graphics "cards" such as the HD 4400 are actually built directly into the CPU itself (strange, but true) so an overheating one would likely cause damage to the CPU rather than the motherboard.

Even if You don't damage the CPU, the heat could damage the thermal grease, and You will net to replace it.

[Icardi09]

Even Dedicated graphic cards is not worth anymore for mining BTC. You just wasting your electric power. if you want to mine, try another coin with another algo. But i think intel HD graphics is not powerful enough for mining, even for gaming.

[pooya87]

Best way for me to mine on this GPU? I'm a newbie and i dont want to inject any funds into hardware until i get a feel for mining with what i have now.

mining with GPU is no longer an option in bitcoin mining, since the difficulty has gone up it can not be done. if you are so interested in mining with your GPU you can look into mining altcoins, but do your research to find a suitable one.

[Icardi09]

Don't mine bitcoin with CPU/GPU, if you want to you better mine altcoin
Maybe this site can help you : http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

And i'm sure your CPU will explode soon if you keep mining with it

Even for scrypt altcoin, mining with GPU is not profitable anymore. Too many asic scrypt kill gpu mining recently

[Lorenzo]

Even Dedicated graphic cards is not worth anymore for mining BTC. You just wasting your electric power. if you want to mine, try another coin with another algo. But i think intel HD graphics is not powerful enough for mining, even for gaming.

You'd be surprised at how much better the newer Intel integrated graphics are nowadays. It used to be that all integrated graphics were terrible but recent chipsets are competitive with low range dedicated ones which wasn't the case just a few years ago. The HD series was a huge improvement over the earlier GMA series and the difference between earlier and later HD chipsets can be quite significant too. The 4400 happens to be one of the more recent and better ones but most of the new integrated graphics from Intel can play on decent fps on even some newer games.

Don't mine bitcoin with CPU/GPU, if you want to you better mine altcoin
Maybe this site can help you : http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

And i'm sure your CPU will explode soon if you keep mining with it

Even for scrypt altcoin, mining with GPU is not profitable anymore. Too many asic scrypt kill gpu mining recently

Not all of the coins on Coinwarz are scrypt coins. The ones with ASICs built for them are SHA-256 and Scrypt. There are about ten other algos there that don't have ASICs (yet).

I wouldn't advise CPU mining on a laptop as some others have suggested here but if you do decide to take this route, then the following link might be helpful:

http://www.cpucoinlist.com/

Some CPU-mineable coins aren't featured though - e.g. XMG's M7M algo.