Newbie first system build

[Trillium]

In summary, buying a GPU based mining computer system will:

- Definitely not make your initial investment back if you directly mine for BTC (either solo or in a pool). *Unless you have amazingly cheap or free electricity
- Might make  you some money if you mine a good altcoin, the consensus is litecoin, but there are alternatives that are not based on scrypt

On the other hand, since it came up:

- You will DEFINITELY NOT make any money buying block erupter USB's unless they drop in price substantially again (down to 0.25 BTC or less to even consider it)

And using other ASIC hardware well that is irrelevant since there's thousands of people here who want to beat you to getting their hands on that hardware first... so good luck!

We have a decent setup with 4 5970s water cooled and currently mining about .085 btc/day. Its not bad, considering the cards were just sitting there previously.

Pics or it didn't happen. That's a lot of power, a lot of heat, and a lot of hardware (at least $1200 worth, with waterblocks) to just have sitting around. I'd be interested to see your setup, if you really do have it.

[yginesta]

Thank so much for the input. Any info is good info for me :-)

[ILoveCrypto]

GPU Mining is not profitable now.

[zackclark70]

GPU Mining is not profitable now.

if you have any spare gfx cards that are "not profitable" you can give them to me to join my 83 "non profitable" cards lol

[gtdevo]

How much does electricity take away from your LTC mining profits?  Electricity can get pretty expensive in the summer, and I would imagine eat a big chunk of your profits, depending on where you live 

[zackclark70]

electric is 1/3 of what I mine   ( electric here is £0.14 /kwh )

edit that is mining LTC

[LiteCoinMorpheus]

Try LTC mining might be a better return now

electric is 1/3 of what I mine  ( electric here is £0.14 /kwh )

[zackclark70]

i mine

LTC
PXC
and a couple of other alts at the min i have never mined bitcoin as it just has a over inflated value the most it would be worth with out all the speculators is
10-20usd

[teklas]

You can try to mine litecoin with your gpus. Asics only works on bitcoin. Later you can exchange some ltc for some btc.

You can use your video cards in a pcie x1 slot, you only need a pci-e x1 to pci-e x16 slot adapter that you can find for arround 10$.

[yginesta]

Ok guys I have 2 machines running with dual Twin Frozr 7950 cards. I am generating 380-420H/s and the temps are around 65.

Does that sound about right? I have heard of people playing with their script file and make them do around 600h/s.

Any help would be appreciated! I will post pics of the first cage I made, but it is not complete. I am playing around with fans to see where it makes the biggest difference.

[zackclark70]

Ok guys I have 2 machines running with dual Twin Frozr 7950 cards. I am generating 380-420H/s and the temps are around 65.

Does that sound about right? I have heard of people playing with their script file and make them do around 600h/s.

Any help would be appreciated! I will post pics of the first cage I made, but it is not complete. I am playing around with fans to see where it makes the biggest difference.

try these card seting 1050 core 1250 ram 1.050v core intensity 20 on reaper should get you 630kh 

[yginesta]

Sweet man. You are awesome. I am already in bed on the other side of the house, but I will try these when I wake up :-)

[zackclark70]

Sweet man. You are awesome. I am already in bed on the other side of the house, but I will try these when I wake up :-)

let me know if you need more settings  use gpuz to make sure the voltage changes ( I am not sure if your cards are v locked or not )

[truf56]

ASIC or Nothing

[zackclark70]

ASIC or Nothing

asic is only good for btc  gpus can be used for nearly any coin

[Trillium]

ASIC or Nothing

asic is only good for btc  gpus can be used for nearly any coin

No. ASIC are good for any SHA-256 algorithm based coin. For example... PPC, Freicoin, and others.

[yginesta]

Zack tried you suggestion and one card on each system said Sick. lol

I was hitting over 600 though.

[yginesta]

I cannot change the intensity passed 12 or the server will not take the hashes my cards put out. at 13 intensity i do around 550. At 12 i am back down to 400. Any ideas?

[zackclark70]

I cannot change the intensity passed 12 or the server will not take the hashes my cards put out. at 13 intensity i do around 550. At 12 i am back down to 400. Any ideas?

im gessing you are using cg miner try using reaper  I know its old but it works very well

[yginesta]

Yeah i have not been able to find a good guide to setup reaper. I am actually trying to run Linux to eliminate the use of an HD and I have read that people are getting almost 700kh/s using it.

I will report back, did you find any good guides?