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Topic: cpu mining? (Read 873 times)

legendary
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November 23, 2012, 05:15:09 AM
#7
There's no benchmark with CPU mining because the diff between a GPU and CPU is too big.
With one common CPU, like my i5 2nd generation, with low RAM and a onboard GPU to consume more RAM and process to the CPU, I can't pass 11kh/s.

An AMD GPU has at least 10Mh/s. We are talking about ~1000x diff.
There are ppl with over 1GH/s, that's about ~100000 times diff.

As I already said, if you don't pay eletricity and want to make something idiot: mine LTC, the diff between CPU mining and GPU mining is smaller, but this you wont make any profit, you would be able to mine only a few coins trough PPS pool.

DarkHyudrA
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November 23, 2012, 01:12:22 AM
#6
That's interesting, I was trying to find some bench tests for cpu vs gpu but can't find them as easily as with bitcoins :-(


Too lazy to download entire blockchain or setup a pool just to bench my old laptop :-)

legendary
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November 14, 2012, 06:18:49 PM
#5
Isn't LQC(LiquidCoin) working?

I know that this currency sucks, but I have read about coinotrom and vircurex working with LQC.
LQC has always the same diff(0.05), so CPU mine stills a good option if you don't pay for electricity.
What changes is how much LQC have "inside" each block, so it started with 50 like any other and is degrading, it should be around ~30 by now, last time I saw was 36.

Best Regards,
DarkHyudrA
newbie
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November 14, 2012, 02:36:00 PM
#4
Which of course means that Litecoins aren't worth much - their main value was that mining them was limited to CPUs...
donator
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Gerald Davis
November 14, 2012, 09:22:55 AM
#3
Is any of the tenebrix / fairbrix whatever scrypt based block chains still in operation?


Litecoin is scrypt based however even on scrypt GPU are still better than CPU and have driven up difficulty significantly.
 
legendary
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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat
November 14, 2012, 09:22:40 AM
#2
Litecoin

but it's gpu mining there too

cpu mining is dead
newbie
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November 14, 2012, 09:18:32 AM
#1
Is any of the tenebrix / fairbrix whatever scrypt based block chains still in operation?
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