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Thinking of mining some of the Newer coins, I know it's cheaper to purchase the coins but trying to buy coins with
a credit card is such a hassle, I thought I'd have a go at mining.
Putting money in the electricity meter becomes my way of buying coins, credit card fees etc.
So anyway, I'm a low end hobbyist, looking to buy a reasonable graphics card and am stuck because there's so many.
As an experiment, I thought I'd try set up as many different mining operations on my Rig as I could, might get lucky with
a few of the coins.

Currently in my Rig I have a 1.3Mh Gaw scrypt miner, mining at multipool.
I'm running Boinc, so earning Gridcoin.
Thinking of adding a few 1Tb HDDs to earn some Storj
CPU mining at Minergate, which I'd like to improve on with a GPU totake the pressure off the CPU.

CPU is running around 75% capacity so it's not flat out.

So, I want to spend not very much on a versatile graphics card, something that might allow me or a pool
to switch algos should an interesting coin come along, I can't afford top of the range so anything reasonable.
I'd like to be able to mine some of the newer CPU coins / Cryptonight Algos if possible.

I think my PSU is 750 W in the machine so should have 150W - to spare, there's nothing in the machine cards wise.

EDIT, In addition, I plan on staking some POS wallets, etherium, Novacoin, Peercoin, whatever else, I presume once the
blocks are downloaded, staking is not too taxing Processor wise.

Basiically, just want to see how much mining (and staking) I can get out off a single machine without Maxing out the CPU.
Oh yes, it's also running as my Wifi Access Point.

Sounds a lot for one machine but it's holding up pretty well so far, I figure if I use a GPU to do some hashing,
that will take some of the pressure off the CPU.

It's a spare machine, I plan on setting it up and leaving it running, purring to itself, see if I can get lucky with a few coins.
The Pools will automatically switch coins for me so shouldn't require too much tinkering from me.

I'd like to spend, maybe $50 on a GPU, I know it's not much but, If I go for reconditioned.

Does anyone have any advice ( I mean apart from give it up, or seek psychiatric help)

Here's some cards.
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just came across your post after searching for mining cards and i did read all your questions.
there is no way to do something serious this way... you need to decide what you are up to... and for sure with $50 graphics card for sure not results that worth the work...
and if we calculate the electricity you go from your pocket.

Get a dissent graphics card to mine and use minergate along with storj with the 1tb...

this is the best for your case in my opinion.

$50 gets you nothing. Try picking up a used AMD 7950 for $80 or so on eBay. That's your best bet at this point. Anything beneath the 7950 in performance/memory isn't worth mining on.

Stop posting in a 7 month old thread.

Thanks for the replies guys.