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Re: Low-Impact Mining? (10-20% CPU)
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BombaUcigasa
on 25/06/2011, 22:20:30 UTC
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.