OK so I'm currently running MinerGate, seems to do what I'm after and don't really know of any alternatives.
At home it's fine, at work however it's not connecting.
I've opened the outbound ports of the pools I want to mine (XMR stratum+tcp://xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560) and changed my firewall settings.

Basically, is there a port that isn't listed that needs to be opened in order for me to connect?

Thanks
Jay

(firstly, sorry if this is i the wrong thread, it wouldn't let me post anywhere else for some reason).

Hi all,
So I'm aware I'm a little late to the party on this but thought I'd have a crack at this bitcoin mining.

I keep reading that it's just no longer possible on a desktop PC, however unfortunately this is all I have access to.

Electricity isn't an issue and neither is getting my hands on hardware, so my question is, even with a top notch GPU e.g. Nvidia GeForce  GTX 1080
and leaving it to run 24/7 am I still looking at making any profit at all?

If need be I can have 2/3 desktops running, all with decent GPU's and running nothing but bitminter.

Please feel free to throw any advice my way, bearing in mind I'm quite technically minded but a newbie to the bitmining community.

Thanks.
Jay