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Quote from: philipma1957 on August 04, 2017, 07:27:38 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on August 04, 2017, 04:46:14 PM

Some of the early ZEC miner software supported CPU mining - but the GPU miners quickly outpaced CPU mining to the point it became UNPROFITABLE to bother trying to mine ZEC on a CPU.

I also suggest that if you want to do CPU mining, go Monero aka XMR (or use the NiceHash miner).

yeah nicehash miner will point you at hodl or xmr

maybe 25 cents a day extra.

Be carrefull !
NiceHash miner is only Windows compatible.
If you use Ubuntu (you don't write anything about your operating system), NiceHah don't work.

Alexbit2017

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You can not use ZEC with the processor

eoscfb

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eos !

my 1060gtx*6 have to lose money, cpu still forget it. Grin

QuintLeo

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CPU mining for ZEC dies months ago when the GPU miners started getting efficient.

Better off mining a CPU-centric coin instead.

DarrenJC

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Im trying to kill my old Samsung S5 by mining Monero on minergate app... its doing well lol

Katadin

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why would you even try?

For people with spare CPU usage.

Katadin

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Quote from: jedigeiss on August 07, 2017, 12:56:24 AM

well to mine with a laptop is anyways not the best of all ideas ...

Do not mine the ZEC with CPU. It is better to mine the XMR.

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You can always try the nheqminer

https://github.com/kost/nheqminer

but I would mine something else with CPU.
I have a spare mobo with an i5 3570 mining XMR at 156 H/s and XMG at 18kH/s, the whole thing drawing ~58W at wall. The XMG mining doesnt affect the speed of XMR mining and draws only 15W extra.

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Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 03, 2017, 07:29:39 PM

Are there any miners out there that will mine ZEC with your CPU? AND has a good hashrate? I used one but I kept getting 0 Sol/s and I don't think that's right. So, I'm looking for another one.

You can't mine ZEC with CPU ,you should try Nicehash or Winminer
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mining-zec-with-cpu-2063778

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To Hash or not to Hash, that's what the question

i was experimenting with cpu mining lately, i7 4790k gets about $0.42 a day via nicehash, miner also gave some errors like: " memory alloc failed: virtualAlloc Failed, starting single thread, no affinitY" apparently it is using one thread, but if you look at the cpu load - all cores/threads are used... so not sure whats up, did not mess with it too much though

jedigeiss

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well to mine with a laptop is anyways not the best of all ideas ...

DRogers

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I have also exploited ZEC but the effect is not high Cry

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Quote from: Golftech on August 07, 2017, 12:00:18 AM

Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 06, 2017, 08:29:58 PM

Quote from: tamdc on August 06, 2017, 08:01:12 PM

Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 05, 2017, 12:13:43 PM

I decided to mine XMR now. I mine it using the Minergate pool. It's not bad. It's a really good pool to me.

Which miner and CPU are you using now?
I'm mining with Xeon E5-2620 x 2 with Claymore miner, can hash 470 h/s

Minergate's official GUI miner with wallet, Intel Core i5-3210M (same CPU) with 50 H/s.

I need a new laptop. Mine is 4 years old.

Well I think mining with laptops isn't profitable anymore as you are just risking your device if you really aiming to have good rewards better to invest with new system that will produce good hash.

Intel Core i5 3570 is my choice. Or AMD FX 3850

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Quote from: panda2k_Storm on August 06, 2017, 11:17:15 PM

Don't do it. Not worth it no matter what your situation is. Mine Monero or a CryptoNight coin and convert it to ZEC is you really want to.

He's mining XMR now Cheesy

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Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 06, 2017, 08:29:58 PM

Quote from: tamdc on August 06, 2017, 08:01:12 PM

Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 05, 2017, 12:13:43 PM

I decided to mine XMR now. I mine it using the Minergate pool. It's not bad. It's a really good pool to me.

Which miner and CPU are you using now?
I'm mining with Xeon E5-2620 x 2 with Claymore miner, can hash 470 h/s

Minergate's official GUI miner with wallet, Intel Core i5-3210M (same CPU) with 50 H/s.

I need a new laptop. Mine is 4 years old.

Well I think mining with laptops isn't profitable anymore as you are just risking your device if you really aiming to have good rewards better to invest with new system that will produce good hash.

panda2k_Storm

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Don't do it. Not worth it no matter what your situation is. Mine Monero or a CryptoNight coin and convert it to ZEC is you really want to.

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Quote from: tamdc on August 06, 2017, 08:01:12 PM

Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 05, 2017, 12:13:43 PM

I decided to mine XMR now. I mine it using the Minergate pool. It's not bad. It's a really good pool to me.

Which miner and CPU are you using now?
I'm mining with Xeon E5-2620 x 2 with Claymore miner, can hash 470 h/s

Minergate's official GUI miner with wallet, Intel Core i5-3210M (same CPU) with 50 H/s.

I need a new laptop. Mine is 4 years old.

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Quote from: Yoshi24517 on August 05, 2017, 12:13:43 PM

I decided to mine XMR now. I mine it using the Minergate pool. It's not bad. It's a really good pool to me.

Which miner and CPU are you using now?
I'm mining with Xeon E5-2620 x 2 with Claymore miner, can hash 470 h/s

Yoshi24517

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I decided to mine XMR now. I mine it using the Minergate pool. It's not bad. It's a really good pool to me.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on August 04, 2017, 04:46:14 PM

Some of the early ZEC miner software supported CPU mining - but the GPU miners quickly outpaced CPU mining to the point it became UNPROFITABLE to bother trying to mine ZEC on a CPU.

I also suggest that if you want to do CPU mining, go Monero aka XMR (or use the NiceHash miner).

yeah nicehash miner will point you at hodl or xmr

maybe 25 cents a day extra.

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