tl;dr NO
A bit more than a week ago, I bought a used gaming notebook (Asus ROG GL502VS-FY045T) with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 (8GB) graphics card for roughly 1200 Euro.
In the first place, I was just curious how mining works and in the second place, I considered that a Geforce GTX 1070 will give me quite acceptable results and would allow me to hit break-even after maybe a year or so.
Now, after mining for roughly one week, I have to consider it as a mistake.
The results are quite sobering:
Even if I'd run the (ZCash) miner for the whole time, I would only earn 50$ per month and this is even before deducing the electricity costs.
So let's say, the electricity costs account for 50% of all earnings, I would hit the break even point after only 4 years … if the notebook doesn't crash in that time and if the mining difficulty stays the same – which certainly won't be the case.
I probably would have been better off with a real miner or investing that money in a cloud-mining company like Genesis Mining.
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You know mining on gaming pc and gaming notebook is not the same. Also idk where you live but 50% for electricity sounds crazy.
No I didn't know. What's the difference between the two?
I'm living in Switzerland; one of the most expensive countries on earth. I pay a bit more than 20 cents per kwh. Mining a whole day gives me 0.006 Zcash, which equals roughly 1.2$. Correct me if I'm wrong: I estimate mining for a whole day consumes roughly 3 kwH (3* 0.2 = 0.6$ thus 50%).
Notebooks have worse hardware (and usually special video cards) and are not suited for such use, you need good air flow for mining since gpu is 100% active but notebooks are tiny idk how it works specificly with yours but still. Most important is that you can put many gpus in gaming pc which is more efficient.
But yeah it is not so profitable for you, but that is very specific case.
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You can try to modify clock settings on the gtx but yeah laptop mining isnt the best idea.