On my way to start mining

[tampe125]

Hi everyone,

I find Bitcoin an interesting currency and I decided to start mining.
As far as I read, I undestood that I should take care of some problems:

• Power usage
• Heat problems
• Increasing difficulty
• Instable change rate vs EUR/USD

I can't do almost nothing for last two items, I can only consider them in my calcs for profitability and ROI.
Since I'd wish to use this mining board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179769.0) I think that power usage won't be a big problem (I'll use an headless Raspberry Pi to control the 20-chips version); my big question is the heat.

Everyone says that mining produces a lot of heat, but how much in scale from "Damn, I should put a fan here" to "Hello Mr Satan, are you looking for an hotter place" ?

And another question, I'd wish to buy chips to create that mining device, it's something tricky, that a newbie should avoid?
Sorry if this is not the right place, but this is my first post and I can only post here...

[Deathwing]

Bitcoin mining is not useful these days if you don't have a good ASIC (40+ GH/s) Try other coins if you want to mine

[tampe125]

mhm... you say that ~5GH/h aren't enough?
I don't want to get rich mining, it's just for some fun.

[ArtsGaming]

Breaking even with mining is a lot harder now, but if it is just for fun I think it's alright .