# Help me please, try Mining on the CPU

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706 "2016-11-18T20:43:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pikachu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pikachu](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/pikachu)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706/1 "2016-11-18T20:43:28Z")

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My core cpu i7-4790K Haswell Devils Canyon, produces 10-12 Sol, is it ok? I ask because I have a core i5-2300 Sandy Bridge, which gives 17-20 Sol.  
cpu i7 - 8 cores  
cpu i5 - 4 cores

my program nheqminer

Thanks

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**Author:** ![laur2016](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@laur2016](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/laur2016)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706/2 "2016-11-19T06:26:32Z")

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Hello,  
I’m using the same CPU but i produce something like around 17 SOL.

[08:26:08][0x00003de0] Speed [300 sec]: 8.82667 I/s, 16.0333 Sols/s

Cheers

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**Author:** ![adaseb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@adaseb](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/adaseb)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706/3 "2016-11-19T06:46:12Z")

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CPU mining is dead now due to GPUs

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**Author:** ![ciprianpt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/ciprianpt/32/2750_2.png) [@ciprianpt](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ciprianpt)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/help-me-please-try-mining-on-the-cpu/8706/4 "2016-11-19T18:08:50Z")

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I am also mining with cpu with one of my leptops, i have the same speed since i started

I have an i7 3610QM @ 2.3GHz = 15-16 sol/s , using nheqminer\_v0.2\_flypool, followed by this tutorial [http://1stminingrig.com/mine-zcash-windows-cpu-gpu/](http://1stminingrig.com/mine-zcash-windows-cpu-gpu/)