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Title: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: JohnS2114 on January 28, 2016, 07:45:12 AM Hello,
I'm looking to start bitcoin mining and i have some questions: 1. is this a good bitcoin miner for someone just starting out http://www.amazon.com/Bitmain-AntMiner-S3-453Gh-Digital/dp/B00LETT8VS/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1453966328&sr=1-5&keywords=Bitcoin+miner 2. and going on from the first question would i need psu for the miner? Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: VirosaGITS on January 28, 2016, 07:50:19 AM Hello, I'm looking to start bitcoin mining and i have some questions: 1. is this a good bitcoin miner for someone just starting out http://www.amazon.com/Bitmain-AntMiner-S3-453Gh-Digital/dp/B00LETT8VS/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1453966328&sr=1-5&keywords=Bitcoin+miner 2. and going on from the first question would i need psu for the miner? If you have very cheap electricity, sure. It is a good miner, its just showing age in term of efficiency. The price is also a bit steep, you can probably find better. And yes you would need a PSU. An EVGA gold G2 750 would do two nicely. Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: JohnS2114 on January 28, 2016, 07:54:05 AM how many watts an hour would this particular miner use an hour?
Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: mocacinno on January 28, 2016, 07:55:44 AM Here's the website of the producer:
https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140630025130637RV8OhOwt06BC It has all the specs you need ;) Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: JohnS2114 on January 28, 2016, 08:15:48 AM also i forgot to ask how many bitcoins would i get a week with this as an estimate?
Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: mocacinno on January 28, 2016, 08:30:13 AM also i forgot to ask how many bitcoins would i get a week with this as an estimate? You can use this link to calculate: http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator It's best to fill in your power cost, mining fee, hardware price,... in order to get a full profitability estimate (based on the current network status... This estimate is in no way a promise of income, the price will change, the diff will rise, the blocks will halve,... Title: Re: Is this good for someone who's starting out bitcoin mining? Post by: SFR10 on January 28, 2016, 09:21:32 AM 1. is this a good bitcoin miner for someone just starting out http://www.amazon.com/Bitmain-AntMiner-S3-453Gh-Digital/dp/B00LETT8VS/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1453966328&sr=1-5&keywords=Bitcoin+miner 1. Yes it is but perhaps you could head over the following section of this forum and even find a better deal (even if it means buying second hand as long as from a trusted person) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=75.0 It would be more than enough to help you to get a good taste of mining.2. and going on from the first question would i need psu for the miner? 2. Yes it's a necessity. also i forgot to ask how many bitcoins would i get a week with this as an estimate? Assuming the difficulty stays as the same (It doesn't), you would roughly be earning around $5 in a week. |