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shotsoffxx
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Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 20, 2014, 06:08:59 PM
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I'm building a high performance PC to mine while I'm away at work. I don't need anything crazy, If I could bring in even just $20 - 30 dollars a week I'd be satisfied. So like 4 or 5 bucks a day. My question is, with the difficulties what they are is this still a possible thing? I mean, if I mined using a really nice GPU would that be enough to make that amount of money? And of course I would have a decent cpu as well, but that's not as important. I'm not worried about electricity either.
Am I wasting my money building this? Is an ASIC rig basically my only solution?
Any suggestions for someone starting out? I've got a starting budget of about $200 - 300 dollars. I can increase that budget by making money once things get going.
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 20, 2014, 06:20:41 PM
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Use the BitcoinWisdom calculator for both Litecoin and Bitcoin to determine if it's worth it:
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator
Also these are good calculators:
mining.thegenesisblock.com
http://dustcoin.com/mining
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 24, 2014, 02:44:45 PM
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High performance PC? I've got a starting budget of about $200 - 300 dollars.?
The answer to all of your questions is no.
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 24, 2014, 02:46:55 PM
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Quote from: dg2010 on February 24, 2014, 02:44:45 PM
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High performance PC? I've got a starting budget of about $200 - 300 dollars.?
The answer to all of your questions is no.
Yeah try mining for other altcoins instead. May I suggest Premine? Its a rare coin (500k)
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 24, 2014, 04:27:04 PM
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High performance PC? I've got a starting budget of about $200 - 300 dollars.?
The answer to all of your questions is no.
yes, this is the real answer..
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 25, 2014, 06:41:16 AM
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Buy BTC, sell when it cost two times more, pure win, thank me later
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 25, 2014, 08:47:37 AM
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You're in cloud kookoo land if you thing $300 is a high performance PC. Add a zero to the end of that and you're getting there.
Though, all that said, if you could spend $500 you could get a decent enough machine - $200 for a low-end PC that has two PCI-E slots. Add a pair of nVidia 750Ti cards which give you about 500kH with less than 120W power use. Mine altcoins, with that and you'll get about 0.005BTC a day from somewhere like Wafflepool or Scryptguild.
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 25, 2014, 01:43:36 PM
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Quote from: beegatewood on February 24, 2014, 04:27:04 PM
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High performance PC? I've got a starting budget of about $200 - 300 dollars.?
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 25, 2014, 02:36:32 PM
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yeah buy btc instead..
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Re: Building this rig - Is it worth it ?
February 25, 2014, 03:05:38 PM
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With $200 or $300 that's over half a Bitcoin at today's rates. More than any PC or rig priced at that range would ever mine.
Just buy half a BTC instead and hold.
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