I am new at mining and I am looking into putting together my first setup. I am going to be running x4 Gekkoscience 2 pac's to begin with and I would like to run them around 200mhz-250mhz on my laptop (windows) I already have the prebuilt cgminer software installed and ready to go, I just need to get the hardware now. With the x4 Gekkoscience pac's, what would be a good usb hub? I'm looking for something no less than 10 ports.

Any input and info is greatly appreciated!!!

Hey Everyone,

This is probably the wrong place to make my first post but here it goes. I'm new to this, idk why but a few days ago out of nowhere I've decided to get into mining. Right now I'm just doing browser mining which is taking FOREVER (20 h/s) I know it's inefficient but my computer is running all the time anyways. Now to get to my question, I already have the CGminer software on my computer and its directed towards CKPool and it's all setup and ready for a device, only issue is idk which one to go with. My budget is around $500 (I'm not cheap, I'm broke) and I was leaning towards going with x4 overclocked Gekkoscience 2 pac (estimated 60 GH/S) with a Anker USB hub and an Arctic Freeze fan. What are your opinions on that setup and how well would it do on CKPool or what are your recommendations on a rig/setup for my kind of budget that will run well with CKPool and get a decent payout? I know it's nothing robust but it would be easy to break down and take with me when I travel... when I actually have money.

Also I'm not running into this with the blind ambition of getting rich.

Oh, one other thing. I'm in the U.S., Eastern Timezone, What would be the best port to direct my software to?

Thanks for any input!!!

Mods: My apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, please move to appropriate sub forum. Reason I posted here is because my setup will be dedicated to CKPool.