Hey all,
If you could look after a build I'm about to buy it would be greatly appreciated. Mucked around on desktop before but now I'm looking at getting a dedicated miner. Will be used primarily for LTC.
Sapphire Radeon HD7950 3GB with Boost $299.00 $1196.00
AMD FX-6100 6-Core Processor $119.00 $119.00
ASRock 970 Extreme4 Motherboard $104.00 $104.00
Corsair HX-1050 V2 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply $259.00 $259.00
Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 $69.00 $69.00
Western Digital WD Blue 500GB WD5000AAKX $59.00 $59.00
Ebay - 16x PCIe Extenders $3.00 $6.00
Ebay - 1x PCIe -> 16x PCIe Riser / Adapters $3.00 $6.00
Making a total investment of $1818
I'm expecting about 2480 kH/s out of it, giving about 490 LTC / month.
Given the current rates it should pay for itself in about a month, but even if it crashes and burns I should be able to hold onto it long term. Considering the money sitting in the bank will only get about 5% a year it seems like this is a better way to spend my money, although slightly riskier (much higher potential returns also).
Am I missing anything with what I'm buying? Do I need to use powered risers instead? Do I need to buy any further adapters for my PSU?
Thanks all.
490 is at current difficulty, but diff will go up soon.
300 LTC in the first month is more realistic.
When more ASIC's are coming and drive GPU miners to LTC mining, it will go up faster.
150 LTC in the second month, 90 in the third month, etc.
