Mining Rig Price Suggestion ?

[sadguy]

Some one is selling it. Can you please advise me the reasonable price for the following rig and is it possible to get bitcoins/litecoins mined through it ? This is the actual advertisement

Mobo : Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
CPU : AMD FX 8-CORE 3.1 GHz
RAM : 16 Gigs
PSU : 1200 Watt Enermax Platimax
HD : 1 TB Western Digital
GPUs : 1x Powercolor 6990, 2x Radion 6950 (I have both flashed to 6970)
Cables : 2x Powered PCIE 16x to 1x, 1x Non-Powered PCIE 16x to 16x

Most of the components are only a few months old except the Cards which are about a year old now. The miner hashes at around 1.7 MH/s for scrypt based coins (Litecoins, Feathercoins, etc...) I forget what value it's for Bitcoins and SHA-256 based coins but it should be around 10x more.. (have a look at dustcoin . com / mining) if want an idea how much you would be making... The frame has room for two more cards for later expansion

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[Noruka]

avoid it. the processor is more power hungry than needed. Why is there an 8 core processor in a miner!?!? more RAM than you need. PSU is big enough to run 4 cards with proper settings. wasted energy upfront for no mining gain.

MOBO is capable for 4 cards with 4x PCI-E slots.

unless you are getting this for a slam deal at around 300-400 i would just avoid it and build your own rig with new parts. the processor is an expensive one too...for some reason. if you want to get an awesome MB, ram and processor for gaming then grab it for around 400.

anytime you buy anything used you have no idea of the true usage of the parts over the time. Is new....1 month? 6 months? the 6000s series cards leads me to believe this wasn't build yesterday.

do this what i listed below if you want a good miner. If you cant afford the 3 cards then just get one or two now and add later. I would avoid any 6000 generation cards.

Mobo : Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 (new)
CPU : AMD Sempron (new)
RAM : 4 Gigs
PSU : 1200 Watt corsair (platinum quality, new)
HD : 250/500GB SATA (cheapest SATA you can find) (skip this and use a USB thumb-drive if you use linux over windows)
GPUs : 4x MSI/Sapphire 7950 (only get 3 unless you have really good cooling) (preferably new)

if you have more disposable income you can look at some 280x or 290x but you will have to work on the cooling for them and hit a 1200+ PSU for the 290s

the fx chip leads me to believe this was a gaming machine that is being sold now as a mining machine. keep gaming and mining rigs separate.

and i HIGHLY doubt hes getting 1.7 mhs on both of those. ask for a screen shot of the miner if he is claiming that. you wont even get that with two 7950s.

[sadguy]

While every one is suggesting me to buy btc instead of mining. I still think its cool to mine your own coins too
BFL and others are just promises

[Noruka]

right now getting a new BTC machine generally wont give you as much of a return as just buying the coins. LTC is a flat difficulty since script mining does not have a current machine type that can out do. You will gradually earn your ROI back over 6-8 months. i recommend doing both if you can the funds to support it

BTC= buy coins, use those coins to buy a next gen ASIC that is 3ghs/$ or lower
LTC= build a moderate mining rig, buy some coins

[sadguy]

LTC does not seems a good investment so put all my cash in BTC. Planning to put around 20k more in BTC tomorrow. Hope i get some thing out of it

[Xian01]

LTC does not seems a good investment so put all my cash in BTC. Planning to put around 20k more in BTC tomorrow. Hope i get some thing out of it

 Please be aware that you could be buying into a bubble presently. The price is going crazy and $20k is a considerable risk at this time, IMO.

 Balls of steel on you to be sure.

[sadguy]

no one knows when the bubble will burst.. So probably have to keep a very good eye on the market.

[LightningBlade]

Some one is selling it. Can you please advise me the reasonable price for the following rig and is it possible to get bitcoins/litecoins mined through it ? This is the actual advertisement

Mobo : Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
CPU : AMD FX 8-CORE 3.1 GHz
RAM : 16 Gigs
PSU : 1200 Watt Enermax Platimax
HD : 1 TB Western Digital
GPUs : 1x Powercolor 6990, 2x Radion 6950 (I have both flashed to 6970)
Cables : 2x Powered PCIE 16x to 1x, 1x Non-Powered PCIE 16x to 16x

Most of the components are only a few months old except the Cards which are about a year old now. The miner hashes at around 1.7 MH/s for scrypt based coins (Litecoins, Feathercoins, etc...) I forget what value it's for Bitcoins and SHA-256 based coins but it should be around 10x more.. (have a look at dustcoin . com / mining) if want an idea how much you would be making... The frame has room for two more cards for later expansion

Get 4 R9-280x instead?

[hulk]

Some one is selling it. Can you please advise me the reasonable price for the following rig and is it possible to get bitcoins/litecoins mined through it ? This is the actual advertisement

Mobo : Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
CPU : AMD FX 8-CORE 3.1 GHz
RAM : 16 Gigs
PSU : 1200 Watt Enermax Platimax
HD : 1 TB Western Digital
GPUs : 1x Powercolor 6990, 2x Radion 6950 (I have both flashed to 6970)
Cables : 2x Powered PCIE 16x to 1x, 1x Non-Powered PCIE 16x to 16x

Most of the components are only a few months old except the Cards which are about a year old now. The miner hashes at around 1.7 MH/s for scrypt based coins (Litecoins, Feathercoins, etc...) I forget what value it's for Bitcoins and SHA-256 based coins but it should be around 10x more.. (have a look at dustcoin . com / mining) if want an idea how much you would be making... The frame has room for two more cards for later expansion

everything is good just too much ram and if you happen to get 7950 or 7970, that would be better..

[sadguy]

So should I offer him any thing or just pass ?

[descarte]

logic tells me not to buy but if its for fun, who cares? there is fun in being able to setup everything and mine yourself...

[sadguy]

Thanks I will pass