Can LTC only be mined by GPU's?

[Caesar V]

I'm thinking of buying six 7950's to mine litecoin, however, I also have to buy all the other computer parts, not to mention a framework that will allow the cards to remain cool.

So I'm now wondering, is there anyway to mine litecoin without gpu's? something more efficient?

[brucemangy]

no. And it was meant to be CPU only.
Scrypt is a memory hungry process as I understood.

FPGA might be adapted but nothing yet I believe.

[Caesar V]

Ah okay, thanks for the reply. Guess I have to build a whole second computer with 6 graphic cards, damn.

I always wondered how some people get 10,000 KH/s + when mining litecoin. If those are GPU's, that is one large investment.

[sterob]

Ah okay, thanks for the reply. Guess I have to build a whole second computer with 6 graphic cards, damn.

I always wondered how some people get 10,000 KH/s + when mining litecoin. If those are GPU's, that is one large investment.

10 MH is like 20x7950 which is only 5 rig total. 

[aa]

15 7950s, which can fit on 3-5 rigs (depending on how you plan to set them up), are only $4500. The rigs are $300 each (on the high end). It's not that big of an investment to get 10000kh/s. Even if you go three cards per rig and get nicer parts, your investment is only $6000. Maybe another $40 for risers.

[Caesar V]

15 7950s, which can fit on 3-5 rigs (depending on how you plan to set them up), are only $4500. The rigs are $300 each (on the high end). It's not that big of an investment to get 10000kh/s. Even if you go three cards per rig and get nicer parts, your investment is only $6000. Maybe another $40 for risers.

Yep, made the calculation after looking at some hardware and you're actually right! What do people normally use raisers for, to space out the cards?

[meebs]

15 7950s, which can fit on 3-5 rigs (depending on how you plan to set them up), are only $4500. The rigs are $300 each (on the high end). It's not that big of an investment to get 10000kh/s. Even if you go three cards per rig and get nicer parts, your investment is only $6000. Maybe another $40 for risers.

Yep, made the calculation after looking at some hardware and you're actually right! What do people normally use raisers for, to space out the cards?

also, you can use raisers to plug the GPU into a PCI-X 1x port. Mining does not require the bandwidth needed by playing video games, so 1x provides more than enough to give the GPU work to do.

but yes, it allows you to seperate the motherboard from the gpu's, giving you far more space and much better cooling.

[Caesar V]

15 7950s, which can fit on 3-5 rigs (depending on how you plan to set them up), are only $4500. The rigs are $300 each (on the high end). It's not that big of an investment to get 10000kh/s. Even if you go three cards per rig and get nicer parts, your investment is only $6000. Maybe another $40 for risers.

Yep, made the calculation after looking at some hardware and you're actually right! What do people normally use raisers for, to space out the cards?

also, you can use raisers to plug the GPU into a PCI-X 1x port. Mining does not require the bandwidth needed by playing video games, so 1x provides more than enough to give the GPU work to do.

but yes, it allows you to seperate the motherboard from the gpu's, giving you far more space and much better cooling.

Ah! That's amazing. I can actually put my current motherboard to use aswell and start using my laptop for work 

Thank you.