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December 12, 2013, 08:09:57 PM
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Looking over the different sites with specs on cards and kh/s and mh/s values I can not even find your card listed, I know one of my sons is just doing it for fun on an older GTX 250 and is getting around a 100 kh/s on scrypt coins and jack on BTC. Personally if you can I would say get some new hardware currently the card to get if you can find them is ATI 290x but of course they are sold out everywhere..

So if I get an ATI 290x or something close to it, would that be all I need given my PC specs or would I have to upgrade my PC too?  How much can I expect to make if I follow your advice and run scrypt coins?  Thanks

Why not solo mine?  You might get 25 coins if your lucky.  Like playing the lottery every day, for free!

What do you mean by solo mine?

Below is my PC specs it's ancient I know but it works just fine for what I'm using it for.
Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz
2 GB Ram Kingston
Nvidia Gefore 7800 GT
700W Power Supply
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Mine CPU alt coins with your computer and convert to Bitcoin immediatelly. This way you maximize the amount of BTC you can mine

Which scrypt coin is best to mine right now?
Hi, I mostly use firefox for work on my pc and the most intense it gets is watching downloaded videos or youtube, I don't game.  I want to know what program to get to mine bitcoins while using my PC with little intensity so that it doesn't affect anything im doing.  I'm a total newbie to mining so any additional info that I would need to know to pull it off would be great.. thanks  Cheesy

Below is my PC specs it's ancient I know but it works just fine for what I'm using it for.
Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz
2 GB Ram Kingston
Nvidia Gefore 7800 GT
700W Power Supply

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I think your best bet, is to get some ASIC USB Miners.

I looked into some, they claim to process 50GH/s, if I try to mine a litecoin with one of those what can I expect in a month given todays price / difficulty?

the way to mine bitcoins with a normal computer is to plug in an ASIC into it. Smiley

Looking into it...
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December 12, 2013, 09:17:04 PM
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i have been reading for the last 2 hours on block eruptors they are pretty much worthless now as well unless you have stacks of the bitfurys you wont get anywhere looks like its only gonna be profitable for the super rich to even get in on the mining game now to be efficient you need to be into the th range and that will only last a good 8 months tops until these mega powerhouses are only pulling in a blocks worth a week.
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December 12, 2013, 09:33:05 PM
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not recommended given specs...

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