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Is this a bad idea? If I can keep thermals down enough it should work.

 

I'm on a XPS 15 9560 with a GTX 1050.

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

Cooling: EK XRES D5 100mm || Alphacool ST30 280mm w/ Vardars || Alphacool ST30 240mm w/ Vardars || Swiftech 3/8 x 1/2'' Lok-Seal Compressions || Swiftech EVGA Hydrocopper Block || Primochill Advanced LRT Orange || Distilled Water

Folding@Home Rig: 2x X5690s @4.6Ghz || GPUs: 2x Radeon HD 7990 || Motherboard: EVGA SR-2 || Case: Corsair 900D || RAM: 48GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz CL9

Ethereum Mining Rig: Pentium G4400 || Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH || 2x GTX 1060s (Samsung & Hynix) 1x GTX 1070 (Micron), 2x RX480s BIOS modded (Samsung), 1x R9 290X 8GB, 1x GTX 1660 Super = ~ 195 Mh/s

Peripherals: 3x U2412M (5760x1200), 1x U3011 (2560x1600) || Logitech G710 (Cherry Blues) || Logitech G600 || Brainwavz HM5 with @Gofspar Mod 

Laptop: Dell XPS 15 || "Infinity Edge" 4K IPS Screen || i7 7700HQ || GTX 1050 || 16GB 2400Mhz RAM 

 

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If you can keep thermals down? Then that's fine. But the only way to do that really is to keep your laptop in the refrigerator or something. 

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Just now, Airdragonz said:

If you can keep thermals down? Then that's fine. But the only way to do that really is to keep your laptop in the refrigerator or something. 

Or lower the intensity of the miner.

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

Cooling: EK XRES D5 100mm || Alphacool ST30 280mm w/ Vardars || Alphacool ST30 240mm w/ Vardars || Swiftech 3/8 x 1/2'' Lok-Seal Compressions || Swiftech EVGA Hydrocopper Block || Primochill Advanced LRT Orange || Distilled Water

Folding@Home Rig: 2x X5690s @4.6Ghz || GPUs: 2x Radeon HD 7990 || Motherboard: EVGA SR-2 || Case: Corsair 900D || RAM: 48GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz CL9

Ethereum Mining Rig: Pentium G4400 || Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH || 2x GTX 1060s (Samsung & Hynix) 1x GTX 1070 (Micron), 2x RX480s BIOS modded (Samsung), 1x R9 290X 8GB, 1x GTX 1660 Super = ~ 195 Mh/s

Peripherals: 3x U2412M (5760x1200), 1x U3011 (2560x1600) || Logitech G710 (Cherry Blues) || Logitech G600 || Brainwavz HM5 with @Gofspar Mod 

Laptop: Dell XPS 15 || "Infinity Edge" 4K IPS Screen || i7 7700HQ || GTX 1050 || 16GB 2400Mhz RAM 

 

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Just keep in mind that laptops get hot. They aren't built for mining or running heavy loads for long periods of time. Heat will build up fast and can severely damage or shorten the life of your laptop. 

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If you want to kill a laptop and make no money, sure.... so here's two resources to look at. The first is mining chimp which can be used to find the hash rate of a particular card. There are no 1050s, but a few 1050 TIs are on there. So let's just assume you'll get that hash rate even though you totally won't since it's not a TI and it's in a laptop. It claims you can get 15 MH/s. https://miningchamp.com/GpuDetails?action=gpu&id=115

Cool. So now let's look at Mining Compare where you can find the profits. https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth?HashingPower=15&HashingUnit=MH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=140&CostPerkWh=0.12&MiningPoolFee=1

Plug in you're power fee, etc and you'll soon find out you won't make that much. Maybe $300 in a year and that's assuming you don't kill a laptop.

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This also depends vastly on where you live. I'm in So Cal and that's probably the worst place to mine. Essentially our electricity rate is determined in tiers, where each tier is a percentage over how much your neighbors use. Mine are all pretty low usages, so if I decided to buy say 10 GPUs, I would most likely shoot right into the top bracket where I would be charged $0.35 /kWH. So do the math first.

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16 minutes ago, Airdragonz said:

Just keep in mind that laptops get hot. They aren't built for mining or running heavy loads for long periods of time. Heat will build up fast and can severely damage or shorten the life of your laptop. 

He can just unscrew the bottom and point some fans at it 

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8 minutes ago, MCDELTAT said:

This also depends vastly on where you live. I'm in So Cal and that's probably the worst place to mine. Essentially our electricity rate is determined in tiers, where each tier is a percentage over how much your neighbors use. Mine are all pretty low usages, so if I decided to buy say 10 GPUs, I would most likely shoot right into the top bracket where I would be charged $0.35 /kWH. So do the math first.

It’s going to be cheaper to mine on a batter that’s not connected to power, unless he keeps it plugged in while he mines. I also make sure he is paying the bills most miners are kids or people living with their parents so it’s free electricity 

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1 hour ago, CryptoMatt said:

It’s going to be cheaper to mine on a batter that’s not connected to power, unless he keeps it plugged in while he mines. I also make sure he is paying the bills most miners are kids or people living with their parents so it’s free electricity 

It'll be plugged in. I'm already mining on my desktop, but maybe I'll hold off doing the laptop. 

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

Cooling: EK XRES D5 100mm || Alphacool ST30 280mm w/ Vardars || Alphacool ST30 240mm w/ Vardars || Swiftech 3/8 x 1/2'' Lok-Seal Compressions || Swiftech EVGA Hydrocopper Block || Primochill Advanced LRT Orange || Distilled Water

Folding@Home Rig: 2x X5690s @4.6Ghz || GPUs: 2x Radeon HD 7990 || Motherboard: EVGA SR-2 || Case: Corsair 900D || RAM: 48GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz CL9

Ethereum Mining Rig: Pentium G4400 || Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH || 2x GTX 1060s (Samsung & Hynix) 1x GTX 1070 (Micron), 2x RX480s BIOS modded (Samsung), 1x R9 290X 8GB, 1x GTX 1660 Super = ~ 195 Mh/s

Peripherals: 3x U2412M (5760x1200), 1x U3011 (2560x1600) || Logitech G710 (Cherry Blues) || Logitech G600 || Brainwavz HM5 with @Gofspar Mod 

Laptop: Dell XPS 15 || "Infinity Edge" 4K IPS Screen || i7 7700HQ || GTX 1050 || 16GB 2400Mhz RAM 

 

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16 hours ago, arnavvr said:

It'll be plugged in. I'm already mining on my desktop, but maybe I'll hold off doing the laptop. 

I means he's right, you can open it up and soup up the fans, but then it's not really a laptop. I'm assuming you actually have to take it somewhere else...

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