Took the whole thing to pieces over the weekend and repasted the CPU. Thing feels like new now, before it was struggling at anything demanding. Might get another year out of it at least I reckon.

If you want to invest in crypto currency, probably better to just buy it instead of mining it.

For what it's worth, I apparently mined enough to make 4 dollars on my laptop 1070 today running Nicehash while marking up a bunch of contracts at work. At the rate it's going, the laptop should pay for itself in a little over a year.

Minus a couple bucks in power and however much you value the decreased lifetime of your laptop if you do it full time.

what do you do for nicehash, just sell hashing power?

Basically yes.

I don't know exactly how Nicehash works but I know I boot up the app, enter my bitcoin address, and I get paid.

Do you worry much about optimum server latency? I was thinking of how to script out and list the lowest latency servers in bash or python, just for kicks.

Not at all but I never intended to put much work into it. If you get something working I'd love to have it but to me it's just kind of cool to generate $4 randomly using spare computing cycles.

Underclock your card and monitor your Temps. If they are not high, you aren't decreasing the lifetime of anything

Your going to damage your gpu fans before you do anything to the gpu it self and that's only going to happen if your case cooling sucks and your card is running hot.

If you are mining your GPU enough to run it out, you'll have made more than enough profit off that card to swap to a new one in three years when the warranty is up.


Edit - I just realized we are talking about a laptop not a desktop. Disregard. Mining on a laptop can't be a good idea. My gaming laptop gets stupid hot just running AAA games for an hour. There's no way that thing is staying cool enough all day long unless you have some wicked cooling pad + super cool room

90c pretty much steady, peaked 92. It's high but well within specs. The laptop gets hotter when I run CPU intensive stuff (like R sims)

The office thermostat was set to 72 I think.

which forum here has good info on getting into this? I don't want to derail this thread too much, but now i have to figure out which wallet to use and how to get an address and whatever else setup there is >.<

BFI: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...nce-investing/

Within specs? Care to share what laptop you have? That's really hot. Anything over 80-85 is hot. 90? That's really hot to run for extended periods. If you are hitting anywhere close to 95 when doing CPU intensive stuff your definitely going to have either your CPU and/or your GPU thermal throttling.

My 970 in a laptop never goes over 82 without a cooling pad, but even at that temp the damn keyboard is hot to the touch so I don't normally game without the pad.

Cheers. I misclicked BFI the other day and saw the ethereum thread but didn't realize they had a bitcoin one too.

Looks like the consensus is to not use a wallet, and also to not get into farming until after August clears up.

The consensus is to not use an online wallet. This is always good advice, but now particularly so since there is a possible chain-split event about to happen, during which you absolutely want to be in control of your own keys. Trying not to be too technical, but if a chain split happens the owner of the private key gets duplicated coins on both chains. One chain will quickly outvalue the other, then most likely the weak chain will die. If you have your coins in an online wallet for which you do not know the private key (someone else's wallet!), there's nothing stopping them from keeping the new-chain coins for themselves leaving you with worthless old coins.

For mining a few dollars a day, you could go to bitaddress.org and generate an address. Print it out and keep it safe. Give the "SHARE" address to nicehash, so they can pay you. Don't transfer coins out, until you've read a lot and know what you're doing. A perhaps nicer alternative is blockchain.info - this is an online wallet, but one where you have the private key and the site claims not to. It does need making an account though, unlike bitaddress. I'm no expert on these things, so do at least a little further research! But also, we're talking maybe tens of dollars here so does it really matter.

It's never really a bad time to start mining if you have capable hardware already sitting about doing nothing, especially with nicehash that takes care of picking the most profitable coin of the moment. Any sentiment against getting in to mining is more along the lines of "should I buy a box of radeons" (probably unwise at this time, but idk)

If you think you have a secure PC, then use electrum for storing bitcoin imo.

Or paper wallet if you have a deposit box at a local bank or something.

I got an asus 27" 1440p 144hz monitor that's already bad, still in my return window. I had read about quality control issues with the panels, but figured i'd take a shot. I figure i'll just take another try with a new one, but wasn't sure if anyone else had any monitor suggestions for something I might like better/might be more reliable.

Dell s2716dg 27in. 1440p 144hz gsync. On sale at Newegg for 399 currently. Normally sells for 450

Very highly recommended by myself and a lot of people over on r/buildapcsales on reddit.

MG279q?

Bunch of good deals today for prime day fwiw.

what about your power costs did u factor that in to ur btc profit from nice hash? im on solar (lease, 30% cheaper than electric and i can sell back surplus) and gpu mining doesnt profit very much at all....

I am moving soon from a condo where I have an ethernet jack to a house where surprisingly I may not have an option to run a cable.

Best recommendations on PCIe wireless cards? Any things to avoid? Looking for something that runs as stable as possible for gaming.

Have a friend help you drop cable in your wall.

If that's not an option (though you can probably do it in a couple hours, including wall receptacles), just play around with router placement as best as you can, or get some wifi range extenders.

If ethernet really isn't an option get some ethernet over power plugs.
Much better than wifi.

This is a good option if the wiring or fairly new. Older wiring will cause signal drops / increased latency