A Quick Update on Using a High-End Gaming Laptop for Mining Crypto
I'm going for a short and quick update on the series of posts I have started a while ago on Steemit, the ones if is it worth Buying a Gaming Laptop and Mining With It, So It Can Pay Back for Itself Over Time and Update on the Gaming Laptop for Mining Crypto, Is It Still Worth Going For It. I have started this pretty much around the time that ZEC mining has started and it is still pretty much the most profitable thing to do if you want to play it safe - lower, but more stable profit with less risk if you sell your hashrate on NiceHash instead of mining an altcoin and then selling it at the right time.
With the latest update of the fastest Nvidia CUDA GPU miner for Zcash (ZEC), namely the NiceHash EQM 1.0.4a with the help of the NiceHash Miner software (currently available only for Windows) the results still remain pretty stable. The result for mining on a GTX 1070 GPU present in the Acer Predator gaming laptop I'm using as an example shows around $1.39 USD per day (this is minus the cost for the used energy). If you look back at the previous posts you will notice that the earning in USD remain pretty much stable, though you have to occasionally update the miner software in order to stay up to day with the increase in hashrate that it brings.
In the end it still seems that going for a higher-end gaming laptop with a faster GPU and a decent cooling solution and using it for crypto currency mining while not using it may offer a good way to get back some of the money you paid for the hardware without much risk and without having to spend too much time to keep track on everything happening in the world of crypto, though that last one may help.
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I have an Nvidia with 2 GPUs, but I have Windows 10 and when I tried to mine ETH, I discovered a bottleneck was preventing me from utilizing my full hash rate, and that I needed to downgrade to Windows 7, so I threw my $4,000 gaming computer out of the window to show Windows what I think of windows.
great post i see that you are using windows there i think you should make a post about preventing ransomware and other viruses i know someone who was using a windows laptop to mine and got attacked with ransomeware.........
Awesome I need to buy a new laptop soon thanks and upvoted back.
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