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June 16, 2013, 08:15:29 PM |
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no a 7950 is just 200 watt per hour
watt = power. There's no such thing as "watt per hour". There's only (kilo)watt hour, which measures energy.
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June 16, 2013, 08:27:58 PM |
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What if I turn all the lights off and keep them off, will that compensate for it? Or I could buy a gerbil and put it in a treadmill attached to a small generator. Would that help?
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June 16, 2013, 09:03:33 PM |
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no a 7950 is just 200 watt per hour
watt = power. There's no such thing as "watt per hour". There's only (kilo)watt hour, which measures energy. i mean 0.2kw of course which is equal to 200 watt
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June 16, 2013, 09:25:43 PM |
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What if I turn all the lights off and keep them off, will that compensate for it? Or I could buy a gerbil and put it in a treadmill attached to a small generator. Would that help?
Gerbil will do as much for you once even more asics are out. If you are serious add it up. Take difficulty going up 15-25ish percent each change. Starting once you receive cards. Take into account Ebay fees if you decide to sell. Its a gamble but if you enjoy it.... there are worst ways to spend cash.
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June 16, 2013, 11:40:28 PM |
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Then explain vA.
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June 18, 2013, 12:46:05 AM |
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Lmao, good luck burning out your ac adapter or funding pcie power
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June 18, 2013, 01:02:33 AM |
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Lmao, good luck burning out your ac adapter or funding pcie power
Most mining grade cards won't even run without an external power supply hooked up to the PCI-E power connectors. Just connect any regular old PSU. no big deal.
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June 18, 2013, 01:04:00 AM |
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You might as well buy a cheap desktop
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June 18, 2013, 01:08:23 AM |
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You might as well buy a cheap desktop
And pay $100-300 more?
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June 18, 2013, 01:22:58 AM |
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It's worth keeping your laptop useful
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June 18, 2013, 02:09:47 AM |
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If you're going to mine on a laptop you pretty much agree you won't be using it.
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June 18, 2013, 03:25:49 AM |
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It's worth keeping your laptop useful
Agreed, but I have an extra - as well as another that just needs a pwr suppply. but haha doesn't matter anyway as judging from what I've read sofar it appears that it's not worth it using a laptop. heck, I'm no longer even sure it's worth it using a desktop.
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June 18, 2013, 04:28:16 AM |
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No a gpu uses 0.350 kwh
Witch one?
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June 18, 2013, 04:39:39 AM |
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The evil 6990
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June 18, 2013, 12:30:29 PM |
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it can use 400-450 watts if you overclock it
for bitcoin mining, you can get close to 300mhash on a 7790 for about 70 watts
unsure what the current prices are, but newegg used to have this sapphire 7790 on rebate for $110 over and over. also a powercolor for $115. after you sold the games, it'd be around $85 and $90 respectively (they were worth more back then, like a month ago).
now, obv this requires some of your time and effort (10 minutes to do all the crap for the rebate and maybe 10 minutes to list the gaming codes on ebay and another 5 minutes of BSing with the person that buys em?)... but throwing that aside, you could just not even open the box for that card and sell it as 'brand new' on ebay and make about a 20% profit after fees (assuming you have a shop or w/e).
or you could mine with it for a month or two then sell it. not sure which way is better. i chose the mining route, but my elec is 6.8c
(another ed: hmm. i wonder if there will be lots of 'clearance' deals on radeons here soon)
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June 18, 2013, 05:36:06 PM |
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(another ed: hmm. i wonder if there will be lots of 'clearance' deals on radeons here soon)
I think there's going to be a LOT of used Radeon cards on ebay in the next few months.
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June 18, 2013, 11:14:22 PM |
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I have limited funds but electricity is included in my rent. All things considered, what's the cheapest reasonable way that I can get into mining?
Buy one of those big rigs! but becareful as your electrical usage will attract the authorities ad they think you're growing weed.
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June 19, 2013, 12:03:12 AM |
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I have limited funds but electricity is included in my rent. All things considered, what's the cheapest reasonable way that I can get into mining?
Buy one of those big rigs! but becareful as your electrical usage will attract the authorities ad they think you're growing weed. lots of electricity usage means growing weed? wat? no, it means lots of electricity usage.
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June 19, 2013, 04:58:01 AM |
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The evil 6990
Just checked it out. Wow! Water cool and get a fire extinguisher. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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