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    boge coin mining

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by dsmclark, Feb 27, 2014.

  1. dsmclark

    dsmclark Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone here tried mining at all with their M15x?

    Will waiting on a new GPU for my old dell xps720 thats been bought out of retirement to have a go at mining to see if its worth while I thought I would try the M15x at it. With my 920xm and GTX 560m I am getting a khash/s rate of about 55 which i am very surprised at. Temps are around the 78C mark
     
    dsmclark, Feb 27, 2014
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  2. JohnnyFlash

    JohnnyFlash Notebook Virtuoso

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    I can't wait for this to all just crash for good... :(

    You could do it, but you're going to running and max thermals 24/7, which is not good for machines like these.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Mar 3, 2014
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    dsmclark Notebook Enthusiast

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    I only did it to see what it could do and wondered if anyone else was doing it. Just out of interest really and I only ran it for 15 minutes. I use my m15x for work so don't want to kill it anytime soon
     
    dsmclark, Mar 4, 2014
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    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    Actually you underestimate the M15x Johnny. I used to run video encoding at 25x 100% load for 14 hours at a time. Temps leveled out at 95C with no throttling. That was 2 years ago now!
     
    King of Interns, Mar 6, 2014
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    You believe that having everyone run under those conditions would not affect overall failure rates?
     
    JohnnyFlash, Mar 6, 2014
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    I managed to run two instances for bitcoins on my m15x for a little while until I quit. Just didn't want to invest the time into something with hardly any returns unless you get those crazy setups serious miners will run.
     
    blackfire12, Mar 9, 2014
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  7. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    It would, definitely not recommended for anyone. :p
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Mar 12, 2014
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