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No. :| It would shorten the life span of your GPU more than it'd give you money. Not worth it imo.

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No. :| It would shorten the life span of your GPU more than it'd give you money. Not worth it imo.

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No. :| It would shorten the life span of your GPU more than it'd give you money. Not worth it imo.

 

 

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I'm probably going to upgrade it anyway in a year or less. When the 980 drops in price, or when the next nvidia architecture comes out, whichever is first.

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Eh. I don't think you really should. Besides, no bitcoin on Nvidia cards, so yeah.

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NO!

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Oh I didn't know that. What about folding? I want to help cure cancer and what not.

You could, but it would be a lot more beneficial for yourself if you were folding on a separate rig, especially one that's only a backup and isn't used that much. Folding, especially at full load, can be pretty taxing on your hardware.

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Oh I didn't know that. What about folding? I want to help cure cancer and what not.

 

Folding is helpful, I'd say yes... so long as you have adequate cooling.

 

Helping save people is an amazing donation of your hardware :D

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Well forget bitcoin mining then, it sounds pretty stupid, I'm not even sure why people still do it if it's so hard.

Its worth it with the right hardware. ESPECIALLY if you aren't paying for power. 

 

But in your instance, it wouldn't be. it would shorten the lifespan of your rig and your college will hate you. xD

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Well forget bitcoin mining then, it sounds pretty stupid, I'm not even sure why people still do it if it's so hard.

it's a high risk, high reward thing. People can only really make a profit with bitcoins on specialized expensive hardware, but there's a good chance it will be obsolete for mining by the time it becomes profitable.

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no. unless u have thousands upon thousands of dollars to invest in specialized ASIC's that you designed yourself

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Oh I didn't know that. What about folding? I want to help cure cancer and what not.

 

Folding? Go for it. As long as you have adequate cooling, it's a great way to do some good. Just don't do what I did: buy a bunch of red LED fans in a case with a side window, and start folding overnight in your room.

Plus, if your college dorm has poor heating in the winter, Folding makes turns your PC into a free space heater! :D

 

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b)Make a profile and add the LTT team for earning points. The details are in the first post in the Folding forum.

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Folding is a great idea, make sure you get a passkey and a username and set your team to 223518 and after 21 WUs you get one of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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you can help the ltt folding team :)

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