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Title: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: Killer19 on December 11, 2012, 05:51:28 AM Anyone have good recommendations? Gpu > cpu btw
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: crazyates on December 11, 2012, 06:45:24 AM Where as 7xxx cards were pretty efficient for BTC, they can sometimes be pretty hairy for LTC. I'd say stick with 5xxx cards. You could probably put together a pretty cheap rig with used 58xx or 5970s used from there on the forums.
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: DarkHyudrA on December 11, 2012, 11:54:33 AM Raspberry PI.
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: chewie on December 11, 2012, 01:00:20 PM Raspberry Pi for LTC mining? I think not. 58XX make decent LTC miners. I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s. It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out.
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: DarkHyudrA on December 11, 2012, 01:06:36 PM Raspberry Pi for LTC mining? I think not. 58XX make decent LTC miners. I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s. It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out. He said cheap, not the most efficient. Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: LiteBit on December 14, 2012, 02:11:48 PM there are some cards for sale over in the LitecoinTalk forum. 5970s and 6950s are my preference. And they are cheap now.
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: joshv06 on December 14, 2012, 02:18:41 PM 7970's are getting pretty cheap too. I remember I bought mine like at 470 :/.
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: tacotime on December 14, 2012, 03:22:23 PM 7950s. $260 for 600kh/s. If you can find them used 5970s which get ~700. The 69xx cards use too much power for my liking
Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: mc_lovin on December 28, 2012, 09:26:16 PM Raspberry PI. 0.3 kh/s is the current top end I've seen coming from the pi. So if a pi costs $50, and a LTC is $0.07, that's 714 LTC/pi. @ 0.3 kh/s and a difficulty of 40, you are looking at 0.22 LTC/month. It would take about 200 years to pay one off UNLESS LTC jumps in price dramatically, which is a likely scenario but.. yea.. raspi not lookin so good until we can squeeze a bit more out of it. [litecoinpool calculator] (http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=.3&difficulty=40.00963458) [kattare calculator] (http://ltc.kattare.com/calc.php) so a raspi runs at about 2 watts.. well, I have cheaaaaap electricity in canada, and it would cost about a buck for every 20 cents it made. so the raspi is actually the most expensive rig for LTC if you want to earn money. however I put a few solar panels (3x7w) in my big truck outside and I got everything ready to go to start wirelessly raspiing once my wifi dongle gets here. I was going to monitor the temp of the truck all day just for the sheer curiosity of it all, but if I can mine in the idle clocks on the raspi at the same time, maybe throw a couple more pi's in there, set them to payout to a separate wallet and just leave it for all eternity, man, in 20 years, 1 LTC could be a lot of money, who knows maybe buy a new truck paid for by solar pi's. Title: Re: Cheap rig for LTC? Post by: Gatorhex on December 31, 2012, 09:50:43 PM The Ati 5830 is pretty cheap $75/£60, knocks out as many Mh/s as a 7850, the sacrifice is power efficiency.
It makes a pretty good gaming card too.. can play Battlefield 3 1080p on Ultra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCOwK3VJDc |