Alright before you haul off and tell me no, just here me out.
I have always been told it's not worth mining with your desktop pc because it's not worth the power cost, that's all fine and dandy for i'd say an average user maybe, I can't speak for everyone but I myself run my computer 24/7 with the occasional reboot for updates or Mandatory restart after software install/update. It runs pretty much everything, i need ,movies, gaming, social media. So as far as i care for power cost I'm already paying the cost. and imagine my cpu is usually running at or near its 95watt cap.
I'm Running an AMD FX 6300, a 6 core processor, with a shameful 1GB AMD Radeon HD7700, its crap, but gets the job done with most games, few it can't handle witch saddens me, and i can't afford to go get a new one.
But what I am getting at here is, My PC is on mostly 24/7 and usually under load, So why Not Mine With it? I'm already paying for that power consumption.
So the past couple days I did some testing,
I recently started playing The Witcher 3, and using Claymore CryptoNote CPU Miner v3.8 to mine bitcoal
The past few days I haven't noticed any lag while playing The Witcher 3 under medium settings, and Claymore Been Hashing away without any troubles.
I've been getting 200-230 h/s
and i have been getting around 24 bitcoal coins a day, witch correctly represent calculator found at the pool i mine at
As of this post i sold off some of my bitcoin coal for 0.00000236 BTC for each bitcoal coin.
So if I can mine 24 bitcoal a day that will give me a total of 0.00005664 BTC a day or 99 cents so we will go with 1 dollar for simplicity, and in one month of everyday use of my pc, again i can't speak for everybody. will grant me 30 dollars worth of btc, and i know for a fact my computer under my normal usages uses 60 dollars worth of power, house lights included + tv(monitor).
and that's what I'm getting at if i can generate 30 dollars half my PC power usage, I'd say it's well worth it, I seriously can't believe that by running a miner to use my CPU to mine when i am able to run it under my computer normal operating conditions will cause my power bill to go up more than 30 dollars,
But all in all only my power bill coming will let me know for sure. if you got any questions or comment feel free,
Thanks for reading!