Topic: Question about mining on a laptop? - page 2. (Read 2299 times)
I did some mining on two laptops when I just started, but the heat coming off them in the morning scared me. One of the laptops is unstable since I mined, but I don't know mining is the cause. I know for a fact that mining on a laptop is not profitable, even if you have free electricity (wear and tear).
so mining with laptops is bad, as it can destroy the CPU or overclock with overheat it.
Not as long as you keep the CPU cool. If you use a good cooling mat or something it won't hurt much.
so mining with laptops is bad, as it can destroy the CPU or overclock with overheat it.
There was a time when you can use a laptop for mining but you know nowadays mining bitcoin with laptops even if you have a good graphic card is almost impossible, but you can use it for mining other altcoins and don't overheat your laptop.
Dude do you realize AMD E series is like the Celeron of their Apus both in the graphical and counting department?
I don't think scrypt ASICs will be the game changer sha256 ASICs were.
I didn't at first, I thought they were only going to be like FPGAs coming into bitcoin, but when KNC announced at 100 MH then bumped it to 250, then I knew GPUs were on a time limit...
Good point. Who knows, we'll see. I don't think this will necessarily spell the end for GPU mining though. Not with all the other algorithms and multitude of coins out there.
I would say CPU-only currencies might bring some profit with a laptop like this one, of course you aren't going to get even but a laptop can be useful for other things and although mining consumes it this might be a good deal.
I don't think scrypt ASICs will be the game changer sha256 ASICs were.
I didn't at first, I thought they were only going to be like FPGAs coming into bitcoin, but when KNC announced at 100 MH then bumped it to 250, then I knew GPUs were on a time limit...
The real problem now is can these products be delivered in Q2/Q3 as advertised.
I don't think scrypt ASICs will be the game changer sha256 ASICs were.
I didn't at first, I thought they were only going to be like FPGAs coming into bitcoin, but when KNC announced at 100 MH then bumped it to 250, then I knew GPUs were on a time limit...
I also would say if you are planning to mine some alt coins then I guess sure give it a shot. However I would not waste the time and money if you plan to mine BTC.
The graphical processing units on laptops are usually less powerful compared to their desktop cousins. Same goes for CPU. You can get for example a laptop with a Intel Core i7-3667U CPU but a desktop Intel Core i7-3770 will run twice as fast. The difference is even bigger for the GPU. For example Radeon HD 7870M (I think this stands for "Mobile" version) will consume less current and run slower than Radeon HD 7870 (which is 3 times faster).
It's possible to mine on a laptop but you'll have the problem of overheating and performance will be poor. It's a bit late to mine sha256 without ASICs.
I don't think scrypt ASICs will be the game changer sha256 ASICs were.
Happy mining!
It's possible to mine on a laptop but you'll have the problem of overheating and performance will be poor. It's a bit late to mine sha256 without ASICs.
I don't think scrypt ASICs will be the game changer sha256 ASICs were.
Happy mining!
Dont do it u will surely kill ur laptop. U can also find cheaper/faster asics e.g antminer u2
At that price you can afford a PSU+Motherboard+CPU and mine the most profitable CPU coin.
It will be about 10 times better than this crap laptop.
True, I'm finding "curb treasure" with PCIe slots now, so with a decent PSU and and a 1x to 16x riser cable you can run 2 GPUs at least on dirt cheap hardware. (Spec you'd find free or cheap would probably be socket 775 with prescott class/era CPUs)
Edit: whoops, to clarify, what I'm suggesting isn't much good for CPU coins but you can run GPUs on it. super's suggestion is probably to find something like a used i7 combo or fast i5 for cheap.
For $350 you could slap together a mining rig that could get somewhere around 200Kh/s making you somewhere around $50 a month.
Mining will DESTROY your laptop. Don't do it, they aren't designed to be run 100%
At that price you can afford a PSU+Motherboard+CPU and mine the most profitable CPU coin.
It will be about 10 times better than this crap laptop.
Im sure alienware laptops would be good for alt coin mining, what do you guys think about that one
no, of course not lol.
alienwares are overpriced trash
Yah, you'll be lucky to get 50 kilohash/sec out of a low end laptop GPU.
IMO, modern laptops are a lot more resistant to heat than they used to be, BUT, people will still kill them by putting them on soft surfaces blocking the vents or allowing dust build up to clog up the cooling system, so you won't NECESSARILY kill one by mining on it, if you take sensible precautions. i.e. leave it in a cool part of your house, have it on a rack so it can breathe well, blow it out with the air duster regularly etc...
If you really want to mine on a ~340 budget and need a laptop, I'd recommend looking for a used/refurb Core2 Duo with 2GB or more of RAM, putting windows 7 on it and buying a gridseed miner to plug into the USB.... it will probably only just about pay back the gridseed portion of it, if the big dog scrypt miners like the Titan and the Viper arrive on the scene within 3 months, but hey, at least you have your laptop and are losing money more slowly
(C2D machines are still pretty capable, as fast as the low end cheapy laptops usually, might wanna try to get a 2.2 or 2.4GHz or better though, not a 1.6)
IMO, modern laptops are a lot more resistant to heat than they used to be, BUT, people will still kill them by putting them on soft surfaces blocking the vents or allowing dust build up to clog up the cooling system, so you won't NECESSARILY kill one by mining on it, if you take sensible precautions. i.e. leave it in a cool part of your house, have it on a rack so it can breathe well, blow it out with the air duster regularly etc...
If you really want to mine on a ~340 budget and need a laptop, I'd recommend looking for a used/refurb Core2 Duo with 2GB or more of RAM, putting windows 7 on it and buying a gridseed miner to plug into the USB.... it will probably only just about pay back the gridseed portion of it, if the big dog scrypt miners like the Titan and the Viper arrive on the scene within 3 months, but hey, at least you have your laptop and are losing money more slowly
(C2D machines are still pretty capable, as fast as the low end cheapy laptops usually, might wanna try to get a 2.2 or 2.4GHz or better though, not a 1.6)
Im sure alienware laptops would be good for alt coin mining, what do you guys think about that one
Depends on the GPU and the cooling system.
Never do mining in laptops. Not worth the risk. I got one of my laptops fried a few months ago.
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