What's a good miner to use at home?

[notlist3d]

Antminer S5 is the most cost effective miner at present. With a power draw of less than 600 watts at the wall anyone can use one at home. You would not want it in your living room or bedroom due to fan noise though.

I don't think you want them anywhere inside your house at all from how loud and hot they are.

If you are running in a area where you are worried about noise you might check out the Avalon 4.1 it's amazing on underclock how quiet it gets.

Shameless plug to new review I did on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1008726.0

The S5 is also a great machine.  You just you will need a spot that you are not using to put them that can keep noise away from living quarters, that's what I did with them.

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[Mikestang]

Antminer S5 is the most cost effective miner at present. With a power draw of less than 600 watts at the wall anyone can use one at home. You would not want it in your living room or bedroom due to fan noise though.

I don't think you want them anywhere inside your house at all from how loud and hot they are.

If you are running in a area where you are worried about noise you might check out the Avalon 4.1 it's amazing on underclock how quiet it gets.

Shameless plug to new review I did on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1008726.0

The S5 is also a great machine.  You just you will need a spot that you are not using to put them that can keep noise away from living quarters, that's what I did with them.

I was also thinking of an sp20, I have read they are not even as loud as the S5 and out hash it.

[Minerjoe]

Antminer S5 is the most cost effective miner at present. With a power draw of less than 600 watts at the wall anyone can use one at home. You would not want it in your living room or bedroom due to fan noise though.

I don't think you want them anywhere inside your house at all from how loud and hot they are.

If you are running in a area where you are worried about noise you might check out the Avalon 4.1 it's amazing on underclock how quiet it gets.

Shameless plug to new review I did on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1008726.0

The S5 is also a great machine.  You just you will need a spot that you are not using to put them that can keep noise away from living quarters, that's what I did with them.

I was also thinking of an sp20, I have read they are not even as loud as the S5 and out hash it.

Sp20 s not as power efficient as S5.

[notalin]

Depends on what you want to mine. If you're looking for BTC, then it's very hard now to profit. You need very powerful ASICs.
If you want to be an "amateur" miner I suggest to buy a multi-gpu rig, to mine alt-coins like DRK.
You need to be more specific, for example you can calculate profitability on sites like CoinWarz.

ASIC can be used to mine Darkcoin? Dogecoin?....Thanks !

[benzenen]

Someone here show me how to set up miners ? Thanks !

[philipma1957]

Antminer S5 is the most cost effective miner at present. With a power draw of less than 600 watts at the wall anyone can use one at home. You would not want it in your living room or bedroom due to fan noise though.

I don't think you want them anywhere inside your house at all from how loud and hot they are.

If you are running in a area where you are worried about noise you might check out the Avalon 4.1 it's amazing on underclock how quiet it gets.

Shameless plug to new review I did on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1008726.0

The S5 is also a great machine.  You just you will need a spot that you are not using to put them that can keep noise away from living quarters, that's what I did with them.

I was also thinking of an sp20, I have read they are not even as loud as the S5 and out hash it.

Sp20 s not as power efficient as S5.

 it is more efficient  at 900gh

it is less efficient at 1300 gh

the s-5 pretty much is .50 to .53 watts a gh

the  sp20 is .44 to .62 watts a gh  depends on the hash settings.

Right now I am running an sp20 at 1185gh and using 599 watts on a plat psu   that is 0.5054 watts a gh


I have had all three of them:

sp20
s-5
avalon 4.1

the sp20 set to  1200gh is medium loud  not quiet

the s-5 set to 1200gh is nut job crazy loud without proper fan mods  I can get an s-5 to do 1300gh at 55db with 35 dollars in mods.

the avalon likes to do 800 to 925 gh dead quiet decent power numbers. costly

[Mikestang]

 it is more efficient  at 900gh

it is less efficient at 1300 gh

the s-5 pretty much is .50 to .53 watts a gh

the  sp20 is .44 to .62 watts a gh  depends on the hash settings.

Right now I am running an sp20 at 1185gh and using 599 watts on a plat psu   that is 0.5054 watts a gh


I have had all three of them:

sp20
s-5
avalon 4.1

the sp20 set to  1200gh is medium loud  not quiet

the s-5 set to 1200gh is nut job crazy loud without proper fan mods  I can get an s-5 to do 1300gh at 55db with 35 dollars in mods.

the avalon likes to do 800 to 925 gh dead quiet decent power numbers. costly

What are the S5 mods that make it tolerable volume?  I'd consider one for my home use except how loud I've heard they are.  I don't mind fan noise, my computer runs 24/7 and has like 8 case fans, but I do mind like a vacuum cleaner running in my room all day.

[notlist3d]

 it is more efficient  at 900gh

it is less efficient at 1300 gh

the s-5 pretty much is .50 to .53 watts a gh

the  sp20 is .44 to .62 watts a gh  depends on the hash settings.

Right now I am running an sp20 at 1185gh and using 599 watts on a plat psu   that is 0.5054 watts a gh


I have had all three of them:

sp20
s-5
avalon 4.1

the sp20 set to  1200gh is medium loud  not quiet

the s-5 set to 1200gh is nut job crazy loud without proper fan mods  I can get an s-5 to do 1300gh at 55db with 35 dollars in mods.

the avalon likes to do 800 to 925 gh dead quiet decent power numbers. costly

What are the S5 mods that make it tolerable volume?  I'd consider one for my home use except how loud I've heard they are.  I don't mind fan noise, my computer runs 24/7 and has like 8 case fans, but I do mind like a vacuum cleaner running in my room all day.

Even if you mod the S5 it is not going to be near the level of the Avalon 4.1 on quiet.   You definitely could make the S5 more quiet putting in a new fan.   But it still needs a decent air flow so it does not get to hot.

[mrhelpful]

If you have a separate room in your house, and can invest in some isolation to the sound, then I think most of the spoondlies hardware should be fine.

Get a rack, plus a fan, and all that stuff. Just know its similar to growing weed, where the cost of it will go to electricity.

Try to find it for cheap, and this is all based on assuming you have cheap electricity as well.

[cretine]

Interesting replies, I'll have a look at antminers, current and previous versions. Cheers.

[hugs1BTC]

If you have a separate room in your house, and can invest in some isolation to the sound, then I think most of the spoondlies hardware should be fine.

Get a rack, plus a fan, and all that stuff.

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If you are sure about it, invest some money to control temperature, your miners will live longer.

[notlist3d]

Interesting replies, I'll have a look at antminers, current and previous versions. Cheers.

If you tell us a little more like your electricity we can help more as far as what to go with.

If very cheap S3 is great to go with as they are rock solid.  If higher priced the newer gen makes much more sense.