Is it worth it to get an another card?

[Extornia]

Hey guys, I'm kind of new here.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner, and I'm mining at 206KH/s.
I have one 6770. On Monday I'm planning to pick up another 5770 (they're the same so yeah), I can't afford anything else.
That would give me 412KH/s or 4LTC/day, at 0.10c/kWh. Is it worth it?

[joesmoe2012]

No is the short answer.

[Extornia]

No is the short answer.

Why? I don't want a short answer.

[hellfrozenow]

Hey guys, I'm kind of new here.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner, and I'm mining at 206KH/s.
I have one 6770. On Monday I'm planning to pick up another 5770 (they're the same so yeah), I can't afford anything else.
That would give me 412KH/s or 4LTC/day, at 0.10c/kWh. Is it worth it?

Use
http://allchains.info/calc.html

You have to decide yourselves if the revenue is worth your time and potential failure of PSU, GPU or other component thus another problems (time to fix, money to buy)

[Extornia]

My seasonic 620w is a nice PSU. It has 4 years of warranty left. The 5770 I'm picking is brand new, 3 years warranty. The current 6770 I have is out of warranty but I don't think it could fail.

[DigitalDoom]

Worth what?

It all depends on your idea of worth and what you plan to do with the card.

Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

Avalon seems to be the up-and-comer and I read something about a Butterfly (?) system that's going to be even faster. If this type of currency proves stable over the long haul then you can bet your life there will be even more efficient/speedy machines created in the future.

So....if mining is your only reason for buying a new GPU then I would have to say absolutely NO...it's not worth it.

However, I can always find other projects and hobbies that would benefit from better, faster, more GPUs. Personally, I would like to buy another GPU...but I've been wanting one anyway.

Maybe it's worth it for you...maybe it's not! All depends on your plans for it...at least that's the way I see it.

[Extornia]

Worth what?

It all depends on your idea of worth and what you plan to do with the card.

Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

Avalon seems to be the up-and-comer and I read something about a Butterfly (?) system that's going to be even faster. If this type of currency proves stable over the long haul then you can bet your life there will be even more efficient/speedy machines created in the future.

So....if mining is your only reason for buying a new GPU then I would have to say absolutely NO...it's not worth it.

However, I can always find other projects and hobbies that would benefit from better, faster, more GPUs. Personally, I would like to buy another GPU...but I've been wanting one anyway.

Maybe it's worth it for you...maybe it's not! All depends on your plans for it...at least that's the way I see it.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner

I don't think it woulda killed you to read that >.>

[DigitalDoom]

Worth what?

It all depends on your idea of worth and what you plan to do with the card.

Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

Avalon seems to be the up-and-comer and I read something about a Butterfly (?) system that's going to be even faster. If this type of currency proves stable over the long haul then you can bet your life there will be even more efficient/speedy machines created in the future.

So....if mining is your only reason for buying a new GPU then I would have to say absolutely NO...it's not worth it.

However, I can always find other projects and hobbies that would benefit from better, faster, more GPUs. Personally, I would like to buy another GPU...but I've been wanting one anyway.

Maybe it's worth it for you...maybe it's not! All depends on your plans for it...at least that's the way I see it.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner

I don't think it woulda killed you to read that >.>

I did!

It makes no difference what you're mining. Faster machines will become the standard for mining.

Like I said, if it's worth it for you...go for it!

Again...as I said...I would buy another GPU, simply because I can use it for other things if this digital currency suddenly loses it's appeal. Your situation may differ and no one can answer the question for you.

I was simply trying to help...no need to get snotty!

[Extornia]

Worth what?

It all depends on your idea of worth and what you plan to do with the card.

Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

Avalon seems to be the up-and-comer and I read something about a Butterfly (?) system that's going to be even faster. If this type of currency proves stable over the long haul then you can bet your life there will be even more efficient/speedy machines created in the future.

So....if mining is your only reason for buying a new GPU then I would have to say absolutely NO...it's not worth it.

However, I can always find other projects and hobbies that would benefit from better, faster, more GPUs. Personally, I would like to buy another GPU...but I've been wanting one anyway.

Maybe it's worth it for you...maybe it's not! All depends on your plans for it...at least that's the way I see it.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner

I don't think it woulda killed you to read that >.>

I did!

It makes no difference what you're mining. Faster machines will become the standard for mining.

Like I said, if it's worth it for you...go for it!

Again...as I said...I would buy another GPU, simply because I can use it for other things if this digital currency suddenly loses it's appeal. Your situation may differ and no one can answer the question for you.

I was simply trying to help...no need to get snotty!

I only said what I said because of


Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

ASIC's cant do LTC so, yeah. And if I don't get my ROI in a month or two I'll simply sell the GPU. It'd be brand new, 2 months old with warranty. I'd lose 15-20bucks at most on it.

[DigitalDoom]

Ooops...I did miss the part that you're thinking of buying a 5770.

For the low cost, why not?

Of course, if that's a lot of money for you right now and it's going to cause the rent to be late...then absolutely not!

Again...too much info is absent from your question and your circumstances for anyone to answer for you.

I can tell you that I'm using a 5770 now and I get about 185Mhash/s. Hopefully that helps a little more in your decision making.  

[DigitalDoom]

Worth what?

It all depends on your idea of worth and what you plan to do with the card.

Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

Avalon seems to be the up-and-comer and I read something about a Butterfly (?) system that's going to be even faster. If this type of currency proves stable over the long haul then you can bet your life there will be even more efficient/speedy machines created in the future.

So....if mining is your only reason for buying a new GPU then I would have to say absolutely NO...it's not worth it.

However, I can always find other projects and hobbies that would benefit from better, faster, more GPUs. Personally, I would like to buy another GPU...but I've been wanting one anyway.

Maybe it's worth it for you...maybe it's not! All depends on your plans for it...at least that's the way I see it.

At the moment I'm a LTC miner

I don't think it woulda killed you to read that >.>

I did!

It makes no difference what you're mining. Faster machines will become the standard for mining.

Like I said, if it's worth it for you...go for it!

Again...as I said...I would buy another GPU, simply because I can use it for other things if this digital currency suddenly loses it's appeal. Your situation may differ and no one can answer the question for you.

I was simply trying to help...no need to get snotty!

I only said what I said because of


Mining with GPUs is on the way out. I was only introduced to BTC and this whole idea a few days ago and I can already see that GPU mining is about finished. As the difficulty grows, more powerful machines are going to be necessary for making any gains.

ASIC's cant do LTC so, yeah. And if I don't get my ROI in a month or two I'll simply sell the GPU. It'd be brand new, 2 months old with warranty. I'd lose 15-20bucks at most on it.

Perhaps you missed the part in my post where I said that I'm also new.

In fact, I just heard of Bitcoin for the first time in my life, 3 days ago. So...I too have much to learn.

I was just offering some assistance in weighing out some things you may or may not have considered.

Being new to this, I didn't know that LTC can't be mined with ASIC. Still much for me to learn and understand. If I were a gambling man, I would bet that LTC will eventually be mined by ASIC or something of similar efficiency.

Hey...if you do get the 5770 and decide it's not worth it and wanna get rid of it, remember me. I might be interested in buying it to run Xfire with my current one.

[BBQKorv]

If Litecoin and Novacoin prices don't crash you can still have a full ROI (return of investment) on GPUs. Those altcurrencies use scrypt algorithm and there is no other devices on market than GPUs to mine those efficiently.

There is some development going on LTC FPGAs but those devices are still in a distant future, and are propably not such a speedjump than ASIC is for bitcoin.

Check your estimates here: http://dustcoin.com/mining

[Gator-hex]

LiteCoin is designed to make it hard for anyone to design an FPGA/ASIC to gain unfair mining advantage.

So GPU mining will survive on LiteCoin.

I have one 6770. On Monday I'm planning to pick up another 5770 (they're the same so yeah), I can't afford anything else.

I recommend 5830s faster (260-300MH/s),cooler,quiter and similar price £60/$90.

[middlemarkal]

or you can try the new amd 7790 according to tomshardware does 230Mhs for 150$

[Extornia]

i dont live in the us so 7790 and 58xx are out of question, too expensive