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December 11, 2012, 05:51:28 AM
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Anyone have good recommendations? Gpu > cpu btw
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December 11, 2012, 06:45:24 AM
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Where as 7xxx cards were pretty efficient for BTC, they can sometimes be pretty hairy for LTC. I'd say stick with 5xxx cards. You could probably put together a pretty cheap rig with used 58xx or 5970s used from there on the forums.

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December 11, 2012, 11:54:33 AM
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Raspberry PI.

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December 11, 2012, 01:00:20 PM
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Raspberry Pi for LTC mining?  I think not.  58XX make decent LTC miners.  I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s.  It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out.
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December 11, 2012, 01:06:36 PM
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Raspberry Pi for LTC mining?  I think not.  58XX make decent LTC miners.  I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s.  It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out.

He said cheap, not the most efficient.

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December 14, 2012, 02:11:48 PM
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there are some cards for sale over in the LitecoinTalk forum.  5970s and 6950s are my preference.  And they are cheap now.
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December 14, 2012, 02:18:41 PM
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7970's are getting pretty cheap too. I remember I bought mine like at 470 :/.

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December 14, 2012, 03:22:23 PM
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7950s. $260 for 600kh/s. If you can find them used 5970s which get ~700.  The 69xx cards use too much power for my liking

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December 28, 2012, 09:26:16 PM
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Raspberry PI.

0.3 kh/s is the current top end I've seen coming from the pi.

So if a pi costs $50, and a LTC is $0.07, that's 714 LTC/pi.

@ 0.3 kh/s and a difficulty of 40, you are looking at 0.22 LTC/month.  It would take about 200 years to pay one off UNLESS LTC jumps in price dramatically, which is a  likely scenario but.. yea.. raspi not lookin so good until we can squeeze a bit more out of it.  [litecoinpool calculator] [kattare calculator]

so a raspi runs at about 2 watts.. well, I have cheaaaaap electricity in canada, and it would cost about a buck for every 20 cents it made.  so the raspi is actually the most expensive rig for LTC if you want to earn money.

however I put a few solar panels (3x7w) in my big truck outside and I got everything ready to go to start wirelessly raspiing once my wifi dongle gets here.  I was going to monitor the temp of the truck all day just for the sheer curiosity of it all, but if I can mine in the idle clocks on the raspi at the same time, maybe throw a couple more pi's in there, set them to payout to a separate wallet and just leave it for all eternity, man, in 20 years, 1 LTC could be a lot of money, who knows maybe buy a new truck paid for by solar pi's. 
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December 31, 2012, 09:50:43 PM
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The Ati 5830 is pretty cheap $75/£60, knocks out as many Mh/s as a 7850, the sacrifice is power efficiency.

It makes a pretty good gaming card too.. can play Battlefield 3 1080p on Ultra
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