I 've been searching for hours concerning (minimum) hardware requirements to do pool mining and they are all pretty vague. So her’s my MSI laptop specs:
Can I actually pool mine XPM with this computer without it overheating or blowing up? :o
(I would only be mining at nite while I’m sleeping… and not otherwise using the computer)
2) ‘ROUGH’ estimate of earnings per session?
(I would be mining 8 hrs. straight at a time)
Example: around $10.00 worth of XPM a nite, etc.
[quote=“mugwampbro, post:1, topic:1389”]1) Can I actually pool mine XPM with this computer without it overheating or blowing up? :o
(I would only be mining at nite while I’m sleeping… and not otherwise using the computer)[/quote]
If you use Linux you can try a program called cpulimit, which limits CPU usage per process. This is useful when you are using your PC and don’t want the miner to consume all of the available processing power. It also helps keeping your hardware running quiet when you try to sleep.
1 CPU (even with 8 threads) isn’t enough to earn even 1 XPM /d in a pool.
Mining XPM is only profitable if you pay nothing for your mining servers or you mine to hold and hope that the price sky-rockets in the future.
There are no minimum requirements to join a pool. Why would there be?
I think any of the i3/i5/i7 processors will probably produce more Primecoins than it cost in electricity. So it is “profitable.” As others have said, it wont be very profitable though. I’d say less than a dollar a day.
I wouldn’t recommend mining on a laptop. Their cooling is generally not sufficient, and with the little profit you can make I don’t know if it is worth the risk.
