CPU Mining

CPU mining is the process of mining cryptocurrency (such as XMR or RTM) on a computer’s CPU. Almost any 2010+ CPU can do this, with various results depending on power consumption and processor speed. You CPU will validate transitions on the blockchain for the coin you have decided to mine.

How to Increase Electricity Efficiency While CPU Mining – 31 Watt Saving

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Some great steps to increase electricity efficiency while CPU Mining could save you up to $6 a Month per Mining Rig. Depending on your setup you may save even more! One of the first things I would recommend any serious miner to buy is a Watt Meter. This will give you the actual power draw at the wall of a given item that is plugged into it.  In early stages of mining, you don’t need anything fancy, just something that is good enough to see a 10w power swing either up or down. Once you get into power consumption a […]

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Failed to Apply MSR Mod, Hashrate Will Be Low. 5 Fixes for XMRig with NiceHash Miner

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“Failed to Apply MSR Mod, Hashrate Will Be Low” can easily be resolved with 1 of the 5 fixes listed here. We all want to be getting the maximum out of our miners for the least amount of electricity. I first starting to see this error while Mining Monero with XMRig Miner v6.8.1 via the full NiceHash client v3.0.6.9.    It started after a recent update that upgraded XMRig to v6.8.1 Here we are looking at a common issue when CPU mining RandomX (Monero) using XMRing Miner via the full NiceHash Mining Client How lower will be my hashrate with […]

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Raptoreum Coin – New Interest in CPU Mining

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Raptoreum Coin has seen some new interest over the pass few weeks with the huge increase in price going from 1c to almost 8c in Nov 2021. Cryptocurrency’s come and go a lot but this looked interesting to me so i decided to investigate the coin and see if it was worth mining on my current GPU mining rigs (They have Intel 3770K CPU, yes these are old but for GPU mining you dont need huge amount of processing power so i had never changed them).  If i can make some profit CPU Mining, then this would seem to be […]