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November 10, 2013, 03:12:49 AM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
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November 10, 2013, 03:18:25 AM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
For $250 you can get a AMD 7970 on eBay. Mine LTC of FTC instead of bitcoins. It's more profitable and then you can always convert it to bitcoins.
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drawingthesun
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November 10, 2013, 03:27:26 AM |
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For $250 you can get a AMD 7970 on eBay. Mine LTC of FTC instead of bitcoins. It's more profitable and then you can always convert it to bitcoins.
Interestingly http://dustcoin.com/ currently says that LTC or FTC are not more profitable to mine right now...
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November 10, 2013, 09:29:54 AM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
First, if you want to mine BTC with GPU you can forget about it, with $200 you can buy pretty good low hash rate ASIC....
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sonikku13
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November 10, 2013, 02:55:33 PM |
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Use http://www.multipool.us/ to determine profitability. This site gives you profit in comparison to BTC.
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AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, Radeon R9 Fury X, ASUS Prime X370 Pro, 16 GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM, 240 GB SanDisk Extreme Pro BTC: 161E5TTNh1GjdgYUC1WJ8zpFXKZoDJDKoL ETH: 0x8e0c8401EABDBa8bF4f26B05ae6B3516669EdA4a
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Dlcoates1 (OP)
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November 10, 2013, 06:42:59 PM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
First, if you want to mine BTC with GPU you can forget about it, with $200 you can buy pretty good low hash rate ASIC.... Re read the main post, I am a gamer, I can't game with an ASIC can I? Also I don't have that much money extra to blow to afford an ASIC and a gpu.
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vpasic
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November 10, 2013, 07:05:27 PM |
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Then buy your self gaming gpu and enjoy, and don't bother with btc mining. You can't mine btc with gpu any more.
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November 10, 2013, 08:05:32 PM |
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Then buy your self gaming gpu and enjoy, and don't bother with btc mining. You can't mine btc with gpu any more.
sure you can if you have free electricity, why not? for under $200, get a 7950 or wait! i'll sell you my 6990 for $225 or i have some 7850s... or some 7790s..
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Dlcoates1 (OP)
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November 10, 2013, 08:34:19 PM |
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Then buy your self gaming gpu and enjoy, and don't bother with btc mining. You can't mine btc with gpu any more.
sure you can if you have free electricity, why not? for under $200, get a 7950 or wait! i'll sell you my 6990 for $225 or i have some 7850s... or some 7790s.. No sense in buying now, like I said I need to wait till after tax season
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November 10, 2013, 09:19:27 PM |
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Then buy your self gaming gpu and enjoy, and don't bother with btc mining. You can't mine btc with gpu any more.
sure you can if you have free electricity, why not? for under $200, get a 7950 or wait! i'll sell you my 6990 for $225 or i have some 7850s... or some 7790s.. No sense in buying now, like I said I need to wait till after tax season shame, that 7870 tahiti LE on newegg for $130 after rebate is essentially the same thing as a 7950..
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winner999
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November 11, 2013, 03:38:16 PM |
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You should get 7950 or if you can find it for less than 300$ R9 280X.
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TheDragonSlayer
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November 12, 2013, 02:51:00 PM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
U should get ASIC for BTC mining, any ASIC would be better then GPU 1000x...
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November 12, 2013, 10:08:15 PM |
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a 7950 is pretty good hashing rate, mines getting 400+KH/s on scrypt and 400+MH/s on sha-256
or you could order some usb asic miners, each go for around $35 each, and do 330MH/s
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Sythyn
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November 13, 2013, 01:57:18 AM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Go ASIC please, even USB erupter is more efficient then GPU and you don't need motherboard, memory etc...
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johncarpe64
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November 13, 2013, 02:27:21 AM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Why not do CPU mining instead?
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November 13, 2013, 03:26:46 AM |
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I have 2x Radeon 7950s in my gaming rig and I don't mine with them because difficulty is too high for it to be worth it (vs Electricity costs). Realistically the only way to make money at this point is to go big with ASICs and even then it's a pretty big risk.
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beegatewood
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November 13, 2013, 05:55:35 AM |
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I have 2x Radeon 7950s in my gaming rig and I don't mine with them because difficulty is too high for it to be worth it (vs Electricity costs). Realistically the only way to make money at this point is to go big with ASICs and even then it's a pretty big risk.
The problem is, even with ASIC people are not making money.. those that make the most money is purchase Bitcoin and did nothing...
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November 14, 2013, 01:53:38 PM |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good GPU for BTC mining for the cost of around $200 - $300. I am a gamer, but I figure when I am not gaming I could do some mining. I am a laptop user, but I am planning to build a PC this tax season to save some money for upgrades later on. The current setup I am looking to build uses a GTX 7770, but I heard Nvidia's were not too great when it comes to btc mining. (ltc mining is a different story though apparently, but btc pays off more)
Anyway's, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Used 7970 should be best for your budget.... but please don't use it on BTC.... gaming is better
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whitemage
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November 15, 2013, 07:30:46 AM |
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I believe the best miners would be CPU mining...
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Leehoya
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November 15, 2013, 07:33:56 AM |
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Get a CPU rig and mine some primecoins.
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