As Opposed to Building One...

[denomi]

I am very interested in getting into litecoin mining and have done a good deal of research on these forums. I've never built a computer, but feel that I could with all these tutorials so my main barrier is money. I would like to only have to invest $400 in this, but have the potential to add more graphics cards in the future.

As a starting machine, what about just buying a gaming computer? This would be exclusively for mining, but still:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227437R&IsVirtualParent=1

[Garbaek]

I would not invest in a GPU miner rig, I would wait 3 - 4 months and see where the whole FPGA mining goes and invest in a 5Ghash+ setup

[Steady]

Posted by: Garbaek
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I would not invest in a GPU miner rig, I would wait 3 - 4 months and see where the whole FPGA mining goes and invest in a 5Ghash+ setup

Solid advice if you have a limited amount to invest.

[Linux]

Why not mine off the computer you have? Heard that works

[nintari]

I thought GPU was the only way to go right now for litecoin? FPGA and ASIC were not available or used in mining?

[Aahzman]

for GPU mining, all that really matters is the video card and having enough power to run the card (and the system around it).

But, as has been pointed out, GPU bitcoin mining is (mostly) unprofitable now. Try and find cheap FPGA if you can, or buy bitcoins with th emoney you'd invest in hardware.

[denomi]

Right now I am running it on one computer, but literally only getting 2.5 khash. And I have another laptop that I use for school which was getting 12 khash but I don't want to risk killing or shortening the life of the comp. Is GPU mining for litecoins already unprofitable? I saw some charts and calcs that show returning a profit after 6ish months?

And in 4-5 months litecoin could go the way of bitcoin, and then I (and most of us) will be forced out of any mining and the price will be to high to speculate on.

[nebulus]

You'll need a motherboard with lots of PCI slots. ASUS P9X79WS for example....

ASIC > FPGA