I commend you for actually taking action and getting started.  Most people just sit and talk about how they can make all this money but never try anything.  The money you lost is minor compared to the knowledge you gained.  Keep trying never give up and don't listen to the pessimists on this forum.  If you never try you'll never make it!

Remember 99% of people in the world conform to the system and don't want to think out of the box, go be the 1% buddy!  Good job!

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I agree, there's still money to make on asic resistant coins for the beginner.

bump.  wow theres a lot of posts

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I'm interested in selling this home mining rig so that I can upgrade to a larger system running 240v.  What would be a reasonable price for this setup?

Darkcoin (x11) 1020watt 18.92Mh/s
Vertcoin (n-scrypt) 1730watt 1.784Mh/s (this runs around 15amps with both psu running, safer to run each psu on seperate home circuits so that you dont trip your breaker since most home outlets are 15amp)
Maxcoin (keccak) 1420watt 1.84 Gh/s
These miners are tuned and can be setup to run any other coin of the same scrypt

Hardware includes:

D-Link DWA-182
2 16x-16x powered Risers (unpowered)
4 1x-1x powered risers (powered)
8GB G.SKILL DDR3 1333MHZ
Add2PSU
ADATA 64GB SSD
Intel Celeron G1620 2.70GHz LGA-1155 Processor BX80637G1620
MSI Z77A-GD65 Z77 DDR3 1600 LGA 1155 Motherboard
2 Seasonic 1000watt Platinum psu's
Nylon board spacers
Aluminum Custom built case edges filed smooth

Yep, http://conspiracy.suchpool.pw/ is awesome.   Everything working great on 2 r9 280x GPU test rig runnin 4.522Mh/s on CYC coin.  Great community over there.