If I ever decided to set up a Litecoin rig, I would build a GPU rig.
Regards,
Martin.
Topic: Is anyone still CPU mining? - page 2. (Read 2332 times)
And why not GPU + CPU?
I'm doing it on my laptop just to test how everything works (for a few days) before I look into getting high level GPU rigs since I'm just starting out. I think I get around 40kh/s mining Litecoins which isn't good but I have my laptop running anyway. When I figure out how everything works I'll switch to a GPU rig.
CPU mining that's where its at !
What makes you think that, are you experienced in it.
Regards,
Martin.
CPU mining that's where its at !
I did play with the thought of mining, but never really got round to it and just invested in coins instead.
Regards,
Martin.
Regards,
Martin.
I tried CPU mining for litecoins, didn't really work out... I was considering in my next rig doing GPUs and also doing a AMD and mining with the APU. Right now I just have some super cheap celerons in my 2 rigs...
I think no one left mining with cpu in 2013
You would be better off mining with an abacus.
I stopped CPU mining.
in short
yes people are still CPU mining
yes most of them are losing money doing it
but people do things for different reasons, some are happy to get that satoshi a week, some are "learning about mining" while waiting for better hardware some have other reasons
you know its actually really good for the human race that different people do different things - even if some of them are not profitable.....
the world would be a boring place if we were all clones of some of the alleged experts around here
yes people are still CPU mining
yes most of them are losing money doing it
but people do things for different reasons, some are happy to get that satoshi a week, some are "learning about mining" while waiting for better hardware some have other reasons
you know its actually really good for the human race that different people do different things - even if some of them are not profitable.....
the world would be a boring place if we were all clones of some of the alleged experts around here
Until I get a gpu, mining via my cpu will do! it doesn't make my electricity bill higher. Thanks goodness for that!
i tried cpu mining using my work computers but its not very helpful. it takes forever just to get 0.01 bitcoin.
IMO, if you are paying your power costs, CPU mining is not worth it. With the increased block difficulty, your average share participation is negligible.
GPU mining, even in pools, is only worth it if you have a multi-card/rig setup, or again, if you aren't paying your power costs.
FPGAs have hit GPU miners hard, but nothing like the kick coming from the ASICs going live.
GPU mining, even in pools, is only worth it if you have a multi-card/rig setup, or again, if you aren't paying your power costs.
FPGAs have hit GPU miners hard, but nothing like the kick coming from the ASICs going live.
You could also use your CPUs for Litecoin mining. Last I checked, LTC are still worth some BTC, so you would probably net more BTC by exchanging them for CPU mined LTC.
Probably some botnets are still CPU mining although I read that the crooks moved on to GPU mining too.
I have access to 3 Servers, they put out 13 mhash each. I just let them rum 24/7 on someone elses electric bill...
I think cpu mining isn't worth it. I hope my ASIC will arrive soon 
I'm leasing some servers with power included and they have spare CPU cycles generating a total of 60-70MH/s. They were setup with Puppet long ago and on occasions I point them at different pools for testing purposes.
They were briefly used as probes to detect GPUMax leases at one point: you must have one worker active below the price at which a lease run to detect it and I developed a system to redirect my rigs to the best price for the current lease to maximize my gains there.
If they used any meaningful amount of my time I'd stop using them: currently the amount of BTC they get me could only pay me a tasty sandwich each month.
They were briefly used as probes to detect GPUMax leases at one point: you must have one worker active below the price at which a lease run to detect it and I developed a system to redirect my rigs to the best price for the current lease to maximize my gains there.
If they used any meaningful amount of my time I'd stop using them: currently the amount of BTC they get me could only pay me a tasty sandwich each month.
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