Topic: Mining Monero with CPU - page 3. (Read 2172 times)

Just because you've managed to burn 1 laptop doesn't make it a "very common" thing. Lots and lots of laptops run very hot for years and survive just fine. I'm not advocating for mining on laptops of course, it's not a very good idea in general, but people that say how mining will kill your laptop 100% are very similar to people that say mining will kill your desktop. You know, it's actually a very common thing — people that don't know much or anything about mining saying how it kills graphics cards very fast. While in fact it does kill them sometimes, it's not "very common", especially if done right.

Something like cryptonight doesn't tax the CPU that much, and if the laptop has decent cooling and the ambient temp is not too high — it can be done. Would I recommend it as a way to make money? No. But if someone already has a laptop and wants to experiment — go ahead. Just know your cooler's limitations and watch out for temps (exactly the same principle applies to mining on desktop/server hardware). If the laptop is not complete crap then it is designed to sustain prolonged 100% cpu loads. You know, a lot of professionals use laptops to run video encoding / 3d rendering / compiling tasks.. not everything is done on workstations, you regularly need to do these things when you're on the go as well. It's hours and hours at 100%. And people do this for years.

It's very common, I lost one laptop with the same thing. Tried mining for nothing actually, 3 weeks after it, the mainboard of the laptop was burned. Then It costed me abour $250. The amount I mined was only $12. Can you imagine this?

Never try to mine Monero with CPU.

7700k should be doing ~ 300 H/s on cryptonight (XMR, ETN). Even more if overclocked.

I'm interested in this as well, not specifically Monero, but any altcoint that can bring a solid profit. Since im new in the game, im having a hard time mining anything...
I have i7 7700k, and I got COOLER MASTER 212 LED Turbo Dual Fan few days ago to keep it cool.  I get about 75h\s on btcheat  on 70% load & 60C temp, and some good profits there as well, but I would like to get some crypto as well...Any ideas?

 Even with MY curiosity, I'm not going to waste time trying to get mining running on my old "now a media center" P4-2000 based machine.
 Doesn't help that it's running 2k, and the oldest OS I know of that supports a Monero miner at ALL is XP.

 About the only way I can think of that you could "mine" on a Pentium 4 is to run the Dnet RC5-72 client via the MooWrapper project on BOINC and earn a microscopic amount of GridCoin - but you will NOT earn enough to pay for the electric usage or even close.

Let me google it for you https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-monero/
"Part 1 - CPU Mining" - this is what you were looking for

At least which CPU we need to mine Monero ?

You won't get anything from mining monero on Pentium 4. It's so old I'm not even sure it'll even work for xmr mining. But even if it will, you'll spend a lot more on electricity than you'll get in coins. The earliest intel CPUs I would consider for xmr mining are the nehalem gen processors, preferably the 6-core 12mb l3 CPUs. They're quite power hungry, but at least they'll be able to mine something. Wouldn't even bother with the earlier Core 2 and Netburst generations, wouldn't actually bother with anything without AES-NI support.

It is not advisable to mine Monero on laptop as it may put your CPU into death and resting place and also it is not profitable to mine on a single CPU laptop but for educational and reference purpose it might do the work but making it as a work horse may worsen your laptop as it may generate more heat, even laptop cooling  device might not help.

Mining on a laptop would get so hot, and (probably) fry it at some stage! If you're mainly interested in learning about mining and how to set it up before getting a full rig, then go for it, but turn it off after a couple minutes!

I am interested in a similar question though - if you have a mining rig, which runs on a cheap pentium 4 type arrangement, could you (profitably) mine ether on the gpu's and monero on the cpu? Or would the electricity costs and strain on the low range cpu outweigh the 10 cents extra or whatever it is you'll get from mining.

Take the advise of the previous posters. Never mine with a laptop unless you want to overheat and destroy it.

I had to learn this the hard way. Started mining 24/7 on my intel i3 laptop last April but by June it would no longer boot. Computer service center said that the CPU was fried and beyond repair.

You can do minig on your laptop, but the thing is that the profit will be lesser as compared to other mining devices.

 Laptops WILL overheat and die if you stress them too much - I HAVE had to repair some that folks admitted running stuff like the DNet client on (which is a cryptographic-type program that is VERY similar to many mining algorithms in how it stresses a CPU) or Prime95.

 Thermal throttling has limits, and most laptops PUSH those limits very hard to achieve the level of performance they DO manage to get to.

 Also, it's not always the CPU ITSELF that dies - it's often the motherboard because parts on IT are overheating due to excessive high-stress workload - like the power conversion circuitry.


 Not all RX series cards use cheap sleeve bearing fans (and not even all Gigabyte cards do) - reference Sapphire and the Gigabyte "Aorus" line - though far too many do so.

Yes you can mine Monero with  your CPU but the issue is that in a laptop your cpu will be running at around 90°C most of the time and will be throttling, which will cause after a while your laptop to break down, being it either the power phases that would run over 120° for an extended of time or your CPU it self.

So my suggestion is that you don't use your laptop and look for a desktop, it's not worth being it in terms of income a few cents that will not offset the price of electricity and putting your laptop under stress.

If you have no other choices and you want to learn about CPU mining, You need to see if you have a fan controller and you can control your laptop fan speed with software such as SpeedFan to ramp up your fan speed high enough and to monitor the temperature. Also if your laptop is off warranty and you are used to open it, try to change the TIM with a better one and get more air to the components as well.


I have a couple of laptop failling on me not from mining but from numerical simulation such as CFD or thermomecanical simulation, leaving my laptop doing the calculation for a couple of days, resulated after a couple months of dead laptops each time, that's when I coincided to never invest in a highend laptop, and got my self a good desktop and an ultrabook so I do the simulation on the desktop and export the result to the laptop for the sake of presentations for example

How many of you have actually seen "killed" by mining laptops? Although it's obviously far from optimal setup for mining, how the hell do you kill a laptop with it? When the temperature rises above certain point the CPU will just start throttling. If it's still not enough and the temperatures are too high it'll just shutdown. It's not 1999 anymore, you don't just "kill" hardware with overheating. If you mine with your laptop long enough, your thermal paste and thermal pads will need to be replaced a lot sooner than from normal use, and your fans might eventually need to be replaced, but you still won't kill your laptop and it's very similar to regular mining rigs where fans also die, especially on cheaper GPUs with sleeve bearing fans (= gigabyte amd rx series).

Continue mining zoin, because monero with your laptop is worthless and you'll kill it

Sorry, I didn't go into more detail in my last post...the best bet is to build a budget desktop computer that you can add GPU's later. Is there a Microcenter near you? They have killer deals with rebates etc.


There is also the option of just buying the currency of your choice, but mining is fun and educational.

It seems like you are torturing your laptop, very unfortunate if your laptop is used for mining activities. before you do so think first of the risks that you will face with your laptop.

cpu laptop not good, maybe use desktop

You are most likely going to kill your laptop...it's not worth it. Build a "desktop" computer.