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Hi guys, would appreciate a little help please.

I remember the early claymore versions were using a lot of cpu power....Just wanted to know if the latest version is using much of the cpu because I want to use a celeron cpu..

Can anyone please confirm that celeron cpus are ok and if yes which ones are ok for 1150?

Also is 4gb ram enough?

Thank you.

Running 2 mobos one with a 1156 i3 and the other with a 1150 celoron. Both with 4 gigs of memory. On the 1150 uses 5% of CPU with 200 meg pages and 3 gig free phisical memory. All under win7, one home the other pro

Thanks so much for the info.....So basically the same..

Does not affect the speed of your GPUs?

What model celeron please?

I use Celeron G1840 in my rigs and I use Core i3-4160 only in 1 rig. I didn't experience any difference in mining hashrate. Claymore fixed the CPU-usage problem couple of months ago.

So you can use the cheapest Celeron for mining, everyone does that. CPU mining is not worth the investment and also the electricity cost, so you never need better CPU than the G1840.

try mining Nexus with cpu. I get 80 PPS with one core on celeron g1620 and it uses only around 15 watts but it slightly affects zcash mining. Accordingly to nexus mining calculator I get 0.6$ worth of nexus per day with electricity cost deducted. If you have better CPU then it maybe wouldn't affect zcash speed. I get 190 PPS with three cores on xeon e5450 3ghz. So if you run nexus miner for one month it almost pays back the processor.