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Re: LiteCoin mining for a noob
by
barrywu2013
on 04/05/2013, 16:44:21 UTC
My 7970 is running at around 600 kH/s, generating around .10 ltc per day.

33 LiteCoins are one Bitcoin (i believe) so it would take you nearly a year to mine with a 7970 to get to 1 bitcoin?
This makes no sense what so ever. I don't fully understand how this works yet, but I will let my folding farm mine for litecoins for a few days. I really want to know what happens if I put a real effort into it.

I have no doubt that it will not be worth the effort, but unless I really try it for a longer time, I will never know if this computer is any good for this purpose. Someone told me that litecoins are just better for CPU...

If you're suggesting that CPU is preferable for LTC, I disagree. It would take FOREVER to generate anything with a CPU. A GPU works better for LTC than BTC because of the use of scrypt, rather than just SHA256.

I agree with bimmerdriver, as if you use your CPU to mine, you need a better cooling system for it since it heats up faster than a gpu mining at 70%

the cpu and motherboard will die easily if you continue to mine since the CPU is a "brain" while a GPU is a "worker"

let the worker do the stuff, let the brain do commands

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