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Re: I think I fried my laptop while mining
by
gentlemand
on 17/05/2015, 11:43:50 UTC

CPU mining is obsolete for long. It is high time people understand it and move over to cloud mining rather than wasting their resource...

The OP might have been mining a CPU alt. At least I sure hope he was otherwise that's a chunk of electricity down the drain.

Mining is very intensive on all aspects of hardware and laptops especially aren't designed for continuous usage in the way a dedicated miner is. The processor runs hard and a lot more heat than usual is generated. Even if it doesn't shut itself down, mining makes it operate in a way it's not designed for.