dirt-cheap mining plus free electricity

[grue]

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.

[cWq34#9tH-3]

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?

[Amph]

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

[notlist3d]

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.

[bitpop]

Then explain vA.

[ReCat]

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?

Don't bother, you won't make any money mining at this point. GPU mining is dead and you missed out on the ASICs.

You can't GPU mine on a laptop.

Just get one of these.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HWTOOLS-PM2-V2-1-PCI-E-Mini-PCI-E-adapter-Extend-you-Laptop-to-Anywhere-/170990045076?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cfcd0794

Put it in the mini-PCI slot of your laptop, and connect a riser to your full-size pci-e card.



No problemo.

[bitpop]

Lmao, good luck burning out your ac adapter or funding pcie power

[ReCat]

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.

[bitpop]

You might as well buy a cheap desktop

[ReCat]

You might as well buy a cheap desktop

And pay $100-300 more?

[bitpop]

It's worth keeping your laptop useful

[ReCat]

If you're going to mine on a laptop you pretty much agree you won't be using it.

[cWq34#9tH-3]

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.

[flipper]

No a gpu uses 0.350 kwh

Witch one?

[bitpop]

The evil 6990

[zvs]

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)

[Oldie]

(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.

[Charles999]

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.

[ReCat]

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.

[flipper]

The evil 6990

Just checked it out. Wow! Water cool and get a fire extinguisher.