Getting started scrypt/gpu mining.

[Digitalmocking]

I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so.  I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.

All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.

Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?

Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.

I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.

Thanks!

[Digitalmocking]

I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so.  I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.

All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.

Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?

Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.

I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.

Thanks!

Scrypt is ASIC mined now - GPUs are no longer effective on it. The best GPU to buy depends on your power cost and the algo you want to mine.

Interesting, what are the right/best things to be mining via GPU?  Is it even worth doing at all?

[Corsa1r]

W0lf is right, and I could add that you probably won't ROI unless bitcoin price unexpectedly rises even if you are buying gpus only and not the whole computer.

At least I would mine on a loss with my 0.12€/kWh if I turned them back on.

So if its for fun and to learn new things, sure, give it a shot. With two gpus in one rig it is a good gaming computer too

[Digitalmocking]

I've got three systems that have to stay on 24/7 and I was interested in getting to gpu mining and looking for the best bang/buck combination to do so.  I've got some BTC available from my ASIC miners.

All of the systems have MSI ED55 boards, so they can take two GPUs, they've all got corsair 1000w psus, so I think that part is covered.

Is the R9 280x the best GPU to buy?

Using westhash's auto swapping scripts looks to be the best way to mine in terms of profitability.

I'm open to any and all suggestions and help.

Thanks!

Scrypt is ASIC mined now - GPUs are no longer effective on it. The best GPU to buy depends on your power cost and the algo you want to mine.

Interesting, what are the right/best things to be mining via GPU?  Is it even worth doing at all?

This is a hard question to answer, as I'm heavily biased - due to my ability to greatly improve the code of the miner for better hashrates and efficiency, I of course think it's worth it.

To try and put myself in your shoes, there are a lot of people GPU mining. You need an edge - something not everyone has - to make money. Is it worth it? That depends on your motivation. If it is solely profit, then only if you can find a nice advantage to leverage against the masses of other miners. If it's for fun, of course it is! It's an amazing hobby!

Thanks for the insight.  I'm not super motivated by profit really, just seemed like there was a chance to generate some extra revenue if the cards would ROI, but it doesn't sound like that.  I have a small (30th) bitcoin mining farm that I run in east Washington state where I get access to super cheap electricity.

There's something about mining that I enjoy, hell I might still buy a couple of r9 280s just because, even if they never do ROI :p

[Digitalmocking]

W0lf is right, and I could add that you probably won't ROI unless bitcoin price unexpectedly rises even if you are buying gpus only and not the whole computer.

At least I would mine on a loss with my 0.12€/kWh if I turned them back on.

So if its for fun and to learn new things, sure, give it a shot. With two gpus in one rig it is a good gaming computer too

I can see that, I'm not sure rates are way different with AMD cards, but I've earned a whopping 18 cents mining x11/x13 today with the GTX750i in my work rig.

haha

[Corsa1r]

W0lf is right, and I could add that you probably won't ROI unless bitcoin price unexpectedly rises even if you are buying gpus only and not the whole computer.

At least I would mine on a loss with my 0.12€/kWh if I turned them back on.

So if its for fun and to learn new things, sure, give it a shot. With two gpus in one rig it is a good gaming computer too

I can see that, I'm not sure rates are way different with AMD cards, but I've earned a whopping 18 cents mining x11/x13 today with the GTX750i in my work rig.

haha

That is pretty good if you have free electricity at work I kept three rigs in a corner at the server room for a few months, it was my boss who suggested it even That's over now though so I am trying to see if I can take advantage of the heat somehow back home. They make so much noise though...

[bobz]

The avalon nano USB is very quiet and only costs like 20 bucks for 3GH - Or you can get the 8GH / 500k script ones for about 20 or 30 bucks from china now, cheap as chips. I would think the GPUs are only good for asis resistant coins.