Ethereum asic miner hardware advice...

[fmz89]

Don't be so mean guys I'm just newbie to the whole mining thing just saw somewhere on aliexpress ltc miners and I thought they can mine all scrypt currencies... so I guess I need to build gpu rig ... thank you for the replies..

So how exactly do you plan to make a profit?

Use this and tell me how profitable youll be: http://www.mycryptobuddy.com/EthereumMiningCalculator/path?hashrate=30&powerCost=0.12&power=100&chartView=profits

lets say I get 6 x 290/390 on good price thats 150-60 mh/s on current rate(249$) and difficulty my profit will be 575$ without the electricity bill which I'm not paying

there is no eth-asic, run 6x290, flash it to 290x, and you get around 180mhs, dual mining eth+dcr nice profit then

[QuintLeo]

Don't be so mean guys I'm just newbie to the whole mining thing just saw somewhere on aliexpress ltc miners and I thought they can mine all scrypt currencies... so I guess I need to build gpu rig ... thank you for the replies..

 They can - but Ethereum isn't a scrypt-based coin.


 Don't need to flash a R9 290 to R9 290x (which doesn't work very often, seems like the only ones it ever worked on were some VERY EARLY R9 290s - but can't hurt to try) to get good ETH hashrate.

 Flash with one of the modded bios by TheStilt, should be able to run at 1100/1250 at that point as long as the ambient isn't way high, good for about 28 Mh/s right now.
 I'm pretty sure that those modded bios only work on reference-board models, but that's a lot of the R9 290s out there.
 He also made versions for the R9 290x - could try one of those first, nice thing about the R9 290 is that I'm pretty sure they're all "dual bios" so if you brick one bios you can use the other to get the card back.

 I have no clue what they would do on dual mining, never bothered trying it.

[stevebills]

hey guys I'm planing to start mining ethereum but since I'm beginner I need some advice and pointers ... What kind of miner can I get for 2500 euro and for what time will it arrive in Italy?

I can sell you an asci miner it can hash at 1500mh/s and only uses 180w of power i want 20K
each for them pay by bitcoin lol

[QuintLeo]

I am looking mainly for asic miner not building gpu rigs... That was the reason for the topic I need advice on good miner for the money (2,5k) and fast delivery...

You want a unicorn?

It is as easy to find one as it is to find an ASIC eth miner!


In case you do not understand neither of them have been proven to exist!

 Actually, unicorns do exist - for a rather wide definition of unicorn (not the fantasy horse-based concept).
 Many rhino species are unicorns, and I think there might be an impala or closely related species that is a unicorn.

 This makes unicorns INFINITELY easier to find than ETH ASIC.