I don't have to pay for electric, so I was thinking about getting into mining. I have about 2k USD to spend on equipment. But I could make it 3-4k but definitely not anymore than that. I would like the most compact miner too if possible. So I was thinking mining alt coins with graphics cards would be the best option. And I have 100% no idea what I am doing
was in the same boat 4-5 years ago
was not a lot of info about then and was hard on the cards, have learned so much more than mining tho! it can be time consuming and as long as your mining room can stay cool and u want to give it a go i say go for it
who knows what other coins will become available for GPU mining and how profitable it will be
i had mine off due to no free leccy for a couple of years but now free leccy again means i can earn some new coins and from a few grand of equipment, happy to say making over $20 a day from a load of HD7990's, 290x and 280x's
if anything goes wrong hardware wise be sure to get a supplier with good RMA record as i have had PSUs and GPUs replaced more than a few times! (sometimes my user error too!)
have fun and wish u much success