Unlimited power but low hardware budget. Equipment

[FTT2017]

So I have access to unlimited power ( for at least 3 months ) but currently, I'm on a high fiber, low budget. I'm looking to get into mining but not bit, some currency's that have some potential and are Easy to mine.

I'm looking for hardware options for alternative coins and what type hardware that can be used to mine different types of coins

BTW I could probably scrape up 300-500.  And like I said power isn't really a issue.

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[Vann]

So I have access to unlimited power ( for at least 3 months ) but currently, I'm on a high fiber, low budget. I'm looking to get into mining like, not bit, but some that have some potential. Easy to mine, alternative cryptocurrency's.  

I'm looking for hardware options for alternative coins and what type hardware that can be used to mine different types of coins

BTW I could probably scrape up 300-500.  And like I said power isn't really a issue.

Best you could do with that budget is to see if you can get some used HD 7850 or similar 2 GB cards for ~$60 and a used motherboard to mine UBIQ or Musicoin. The HD 7850 gets ~19.5 MH/s on Ethash. Only problem with 2 GB cards is you can't dual mine.

[FTT2017]

Ok that helps.  What are scrypt or other kind of coins?  Can the gpu's be programmed to mine scrypt or others?

[FTT2017]

Or if someone can point me in the right direction?  Thanks in advance

[Vann]

Ok that helps.  What are scrypt or other kind of coins?  Can the gpu's be programmed to mine scrypt or others?

You can mine just about any POW algorithms with GPU's. The problem with Scrypt coins is they haven't been profitable to mine with GPU's since ASIC's were developed years ago. Even with free power, you are still competing in an area where the difficulty is predicated by ASIC's and you won't be able to accumulate enough coins to make anything other than a few cents worth. With the cards in your budget, you can look at Ethash coins with a Dag size less than 2GB's, Equihash coins and maybe Monero as profitable coins to mine. You can also look at whattomine.com to get an idea what would be profitable with diffrent types of GPU's.

http://whattomine.com/coins