i have the same question too
i have a PC, Dell, I bought it in 2008. it is vostro 1400.
can i use it to mining?
Topic: could I use a old server for mining? - page 2. (Read 8177 times)
Maybe for cpu only mining
That computer will do fine. Just plug in your ASIC and hash away.
In my opinion, you can use any PC for mining, but it will not profitable, if you want mine bit coin, it's mission impossible.
My Opinion
Never ever mine using teh CPU
I tried myself last year (back around when the diff is 0.9T instead of 6.9T today)
Using 4 quad-core Xeon CPU gets me only 40MH/s
and the profit is 0.00000300 BTC/day
CPU Mining is highly NOT recommended
Either for fun or for a living.
Never ever mine using teh CPU
I tried myself last year (back around when the diff is 0.9T instead of 6.9T today)
Using 4 quad-core Xeon CPU gets me only 40MH/s
and the profit is 0.00000300 BTC/day
CPU Mining is highly NOT recommended
Either for fun or for a living.
sell me your server plz!
Ofc you can mine with cpu, you just need to know what and when.
Ofc you can mine with cpu, you just need to know what and when.
Forget about this crazy idea! the best thing you can do is to get away from the old server
Maybe some ALT, but Bitcoin, hell no. 
Could you? Yes.
Should you? Not in this lifetime, CPU mining has been dead for a long time now, it is too slow to even bother (in SHA256 you will never earn enough to even pay the transaction fee to spend what tiny fraction of a coin you mine in your lifetime).
Should you? Not in this lifetime, CPU mining has been dead for a long time now, it is too slow to even bother (in SHA256 you will never earn enough to even pay the transaction fee to spend what tiny fraction of a coin you mine in your lifetime).
Id be interested in an answer to this myself, I've an old pentium 4 desktop I could use.
I have an old HP ProLiant DL360 G4 server, that I was thinking about using for mining.
I wanted to know if it would be possible to use as is (stock).
Hardware specs are:
2x intel xeon 3400dp/2m/800/sl7zd
4GB Ram
Hp 128Mb Battery Backed Write Cache
2x 72.8GB 15000RPM Wide Ultra SCSI
not sure what else is in there
currently installed OS is Windows Server 2003
Could anyone let me know if i would need some different hardware installed into it or might it work as is?
I wanted to know if it would be possible to use as is (stock).
Hardware specs are:
2x intel xeon 3400dp/2m/800/sl7zd
4GB Ram
Hp 128Mb Battery Backed Write Cache
2x 72.8GB 15000RPM Wide Ultra SCSI
not sure what else is in there
currently installed OS is Windows Server 2003
Could anyone let me know if i would need some different hardware installed into it or might it work as is?
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