Quote from: BombaUcigasa on June 25, 2011, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: ohdivino on June 25, 2011, 10:09:34 PM

Quote from: BombaUcigasa on June 25, 2011, 10:04:47 PM

Quote from: ohdivino on June 25, 2011, 09:38:56 PM

I'm a bit dumb!!! How can CPU mining cost electricity, if someone HAS TO have the CPU always on for professional purposes???

Do you drive a car? Does your car use the same quantity of fuel when traveling at 90MPH when sitting idle at a stop light? I thought so...

Absolutely wrong your argument! but somewhat fair to a nintendo player, not to a IT tech.
Some more hard shots ??

Really? Well I am not equipped to offer an explanation to your level of intellect. Sorry. Maybe some day someone will satisfy your request with a better dumbed-down version of my explanation. I can't go lower.

If you don't understand that a CPU uses power to shift it's registers during instruction parsing, and the power to maintain a non-changing charge is lower than the power required to flip it from 1 to 0, or 0 to 1, as well as modern chip enhancements like HALT instructions and C states which turn off whole chip sections if there is little work to do, then you will never understand why a CPU uses it's nominal electricity cost at full power and only a residual cost while not used (such as a dumb user staring at the screen and doing nothing).

Good luck.

Look at the thread subject: Low-Impact Mining? (10-20% CPU)

Don't panic now! You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, lol.
Even though I keep your concerns about CPU power consumption at 10-20%..