PC lagging when GPU mining

[Venoox]

When I mine bitcoin with my GPU, my computer becomes unresponsive, mouse is lagging, everything is lagging, cant even browse on the internet normally, its like unusable. I think think this is not normal because I saw other people mining and using PC just fine. What could be wrong? I'm mining with lyra2v2 on GTX 1070.

[Droidbot]

it's 2017, why the hell are you mining BTC with a GPU?? 

It's normal, when the GPU is maxed obviously graphical applications will lag. 

[Venoox]

Why not?

[EthanCGamer]

When a GPU is busy it uses the PCIE lanes to communicate with the CPU, which uses the CPU resources. If you really want to waste your electricity on GPU mining, get another computer to do it. It's not worth it now, and you're better off using your GPU for a better cause like Protein folding. If you want more info, the forum has a board dedicated to it.

[Droidbot]

Really bad mh/w, you'll earn literally nothing while chewing up more power than the actual earnings and stressing the shit out of your new card

 

[Brooksie359]

2 minutes ago, Venoox said:

Why not?

because its usually not even economical. the cost of electricity usually out ways the money earned unless you have a gpu thats good for mining. 

[Venoox]

Then what do you recommend as a alternative?

[Droidbot]

Not mining Bitcoin with anything. It's not worth it anymore unless you have thousands of dollars to invest into custom mining hardware.

[EthanCGamer]

1 minute ago, Venoox said:

Then what do you recommend as a alternative?

 

[Venoox]

Is it worth it to mine other cryptocurrencies?

[EthanCGamer]

1 minute ago, Venoox said:

Is it worth it to mine other cryptocurrencies?

No, they're worthless at the moment. There are too many for any one of them to be viable. Wait for them to be mainstream (like walmart accepting bitcoin) to do anything.

[Venoox]

Thanks, guys. I checked out the Folding@Home and I decided I will stop mining and rather use my power on Folding

[Teddy07]

24 minutes ago, Venoox said:

Thanks, guys. I checked out the Folding@Home and I decided I will stop mining and rather use my power on Folding

 

You can join Team EVGA and earn $10 a month with F@H if you make 4 million points a month or $5 for 2 million points. http://www.evga.com/folding/MyFolding.asp

 

Keep in mind you will only get those points with a somehow new GPU. Cpu folding doesnt give many points.

[Venoox]

Well I have GTX 1070

[Teddy07]

1 minute ago, Venoox said:

Well I have GTX 1070

Me too. Will do the 4 million points fast. Expect 600.000-700.000 points a day.

 

I already have $110 through this EVGA promotion on my account.

[Venoox]

That's nice, thanks for telling me