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April 09, 2016, 08:31:58 AM
#17
I mining Decred with Amd R7 260x and R9 380 my average hashrate is 1775 khs/s, this is good enough for me.

not profitable if you don't have good electricity
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April 09, 2016, 08:03:37 AM
#16
I mining Decred with Amd R7 260x and R9 380 my average hashrate is 1775 khs/s, this is good enough for me.

Is that more profitable than mining with Ethereum. I noticed the difficulty of Ethereum has risen a lot.
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April 09, 2016, 07:23:48 AM
#15
I mining Decred with Amd R7 260x and R9 380 my average hashrate is 1775 khs/s, this is good enough for me.
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April 09, 2016, 04:44:30 AM
#14
If I want to mine bytecoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.

gpu are on par with cpu on cryptonight algo, but you can have six gpu in one rig not six cpu in the same rig, so gpu are always preferable

Yes. But in terms of efficiency with performance per watt, the CPU wins here. But as you said, you cannot put too many CPU  in one rig.
legendary
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April 09, 2016, 03:33:33 AM
#13
I want to ask about a good combination for mining hardware. What cpu (amd, intel?) Graphics card. Thanks

Intel CPU is better as they use less energy. It is important as the mining is all the time. For GPU, AMD is cheaper but uses more energy.

 The AMD Fury line uses comparable to a hair less electric than the Nvidea Maxwell cards. Performance in mining varies, it depends on the algorythm.

 Intel CPU are higher performance in general, but a LOT more expensive. Power use varies, AMD wins some loses some others.

 Intel integrated graphics remain a joke, though they're not as horrible a joke as they were before Haswell. AMD still kicks them easily across the board, but you don't really want to mine on an integrated graphics CPU anyway as it's nowhere near as efficient as a dedicated GPU.



 One "core" on a current multi-core CPU for all practical purposes (except physicall design) *IS* a CPU. It's trivial (though a bit expensive) to put 8 "CPUs" in a single machine any more, and 16 is pretty common on high-end server motherboards (using dual Xeon or Opteron gear).


 Mining ANYTHING with a laptop IS A BAD IDEA - they're not designed to run 24/7 at high power usage like almost ALL mining.
 Laptops also tend to be rather low performance due to space limitations.


 The AMD R9 Nano is an impressive card - but still a bit pricey. I'd LOVE to have a farm of those crushing RC5.....

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April 09, 2016, 02:38:29 AM
#12
If I want to mine bytecoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.

gpu are on par with cpu on cryptonight algo, but you can have six gpu in one rig not six cpu in the same rig, so gpu are always preferable
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April 09, 2016, 01:22:02 AM
#11
The nVidia 970 is very good for Ethereum mining. But the price is quite high. The most efficient miner is the AMD R9 nano.
is this graphic card had the same power even if it is a built in gpu? im just concerned because i wanted to try mining eth with my laptop and i have a built in nvidia 940 so im just curios reading this thread thank you in advance who ever will answer me.
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April 08, 2016, 11:28:07 AM
#10
The nVidia 970 is very good for Ethereum mining. But the price is quite high. The most efficient miner is the AMD R9 nano.
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April 08, 2016, 06:57:20 AM
#9
I want to ask about a good combination for mining hardware. What cpu (amd, intel?) Graphics card. Thanks

Intel CPU is better as they use less energy. It is important as the mining is all the time. For GPU, AMD is cheaper but uses more energy.
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April 02, 2016, 10:41:13 AM
#8
I can see that miner gate software use the cores of cpu and also gpu (I have not GPU in my laptop). So if I use a desktop with 6 cores or 8 cores it will be better? Is there a test for check what is better for mining AND also for normal pc software.
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April 02, 2016, 02:51:56 AM
#7
If I want to mine bytecoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.

bytecoin is cryptonight, you can mine with gpu, 750ti is the best for that algo, cpu is also good but you're limited with 1 cpu per motherboard
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April 02, 2016, 01:46:56 AM
#6
If I want to mine Octetcoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.

I wouldn't try to mine with a laptop.  You will probably just burn it up and the GPU usually isn't that good. 

If you can undevolt and underclock your laptop, it is OK to mine. But it will use a lot of battery power.
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April 01, 2016, 01:56:58 PM
#5
If I want to mine Octetcoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.

I wouldn't try to mine with a laptop.  You will probably just burn it up and the GPU usually isn't that good. 
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April 01, 2016, 01:02:51 PM
#4
If I want to mine bytecoin (BCN) ? I need a i7 ? i5 cpu? and ram? or a good graphics card? or a laptop will be ok.
legendary
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April 01, 2016, 09:37:27 AM
#3
I want to ask about a good combination for mining hardware. What cpu (amd, intel?) Graphics card. Thanks

Yes I think it will largely depend on what you want to mine. GPU mining may be good for something like ETH but BTC not so much anymore.
legendary
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April 01, 2016, 09:07:33 AM
#2
Depends. There are a few altoin algorithms you can viably mine with GPUs (possibly CPU? I don't know) but if you want to mine bitcoins, GPU efficiency is about 3 years behind.
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April 01, 2016, 08:38:22 AM
#1
I want to ask about a good combination for mining hardware. What cpu (amd, intel?) Graphics card. Thanks
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