if you will build a mining farm, which hardware will you use?

[HiSoC8Y]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

[Bicknellski]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

I wouldn't.

Buy BTC and hold.

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Anyone else still keen on trying to compete with a small home mining op should buy:

SP3x's or Antminer 3s as cheap as you can and as soon as you can.

Whichever is cheapest and delivers sooner is always the best model for any chance of getting a return. At this stage home mining not really the right move.

Unfortunately you would need a warehouse and something in the Petahash range I suspect to make it work as an investment. Others again just buy BTC.

[SquallLeonhart]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

I wouldn't.

Buy BTC and hold.

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Anyone else still keen on trying to compete with a small home mining op should buy:

SP3x's or Antminer 3s as cheap as you can and as soon as you can.

Whichever is cheapest and delivers sooner is always the best model for any chance of getting a return. At this stage home mining not really the right move.

Unfortunately you would need a warehouse and something in the Petahash range I suspect to make it work as an investment. Others again just buy BTC.

Nice advice, but BTC is dropping right now. Wouldn't know if it is still a good choice to buy..

[HiSoC8Y]

buying BTC is not fun! I can go and buy stocks in the stock market and it could be better than BTC

Mining is fun, you will be in the game

[bbxx]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

it depends at:

1. power cost
2. mining space cost
3. cooling cost/income

1 low 2 low
buy tubes, gardens, used old miners

1 low 2 low 3 income
buy tubes

1 low 2 high
buy tube boards and sunk them into liquid

1 high 2 low
buy s3

1 high 2. high
buy sp30

also consider
if you have 1 high 2 high
better wait for btc dump
or buy some crap coins and hope for run

[wh00per]

buying BTC is not fun! I can go and buy stocks in the stock market and it could be better than BTC

Mining is fun, you will be in the game

Trading is also fun .. less than 48h ago on btc-e a bot was using EUR thinking that it uses CNY to buy stuff .. made more there trading than 6 months of mining with ~10TH/s.
You won't see these situations in Forex or stock market. mining is good now as any other hobby, way less expensive than race horses or modded muscle cars.

[volosator]

The best is buying proven chip and developing a board for it. You can have anything (literally) you want. Any setup, any cooling design.

There is Habanero project - huge success, based on HF chip. Mr. Teal done awesome job putting it all together.

There is bitfury chip, very stable and very easy to build miner for. There are open source projects like NF1.

Marto74 has open sourced his design for avalon3 chip.

Just google it. It is all there.

[iglasses]

What difference does it make?  By the time you finish building it you need to start changing the hardware anyway.

[volosator]

What difference does it make?  By the time you finish building it you need to start changing the hardware anyway.

Be quick or be dead (c)Iron Maiden

[Syke]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

Nothing beats the Bitmain S3+. Batch 9 is available and ships in 3 days.

[Bicknellski]

Ok, so If you will build a farm, let's say in a room in your house (assuming all resources available, power, cooling...etc.), which hardware will you pick?

I wouldn't.

Buy BTC and hold.

____

Anyone else still keen on trying to compete with a small home mining op should buy:

SP3x's or Antminer 3s as cheap as you can and as soon as you can.

Whichever is cheapest and delivers sooner is always the best model for any chance of getting a return. At this stage home mining not really the right move.

Unfortunately you would need a warehouse and something in the Petahash range I suspect to make it work as an investment. Others again just buy BTC.

Nice advice, but BTC is dropping right now. Wouldn't know if it is still a good choice to buy..

+1 yes... you  have to watch and get in when low is low... no one could tell you when that is. Seems to be bumping back up again today but who knows? 300? 400? 500? Your guess good as mine.

[Bicknellski]

The best is buying proven chip and developing a board for it. You can have anything (literally) you want. Any setup, any cooling design.

There is Habanero project - huge success, based on HF chip. Mr. Teal done awesome job putting it all together.

There is bitfury chip, very stable and very easy to build miner for. There are open source projects like NF1.

Marto74 has open sourced his design for avalon3 chip.

Just google it. It is all there.

Wrong on many levels unless you are the one MAKING the stuff and selling it. As for buying from Marto vs Bitmain. That is insanity or stupidity either way you don't buy shit from people like that who have ripped off others in the past and you'd be on a SUPER LONG wait list before you saw anything he promised today vs Bitmaintech. Wrong just wrong. Mr. Teal yes that guys has it together and ships on time most of the time. Too bad he is using BFL shite no one should support BFL after the millions that they have stolen so on ethics steer clear of Avalon based chips or BFL both have destroyed so many people that you need to stop supporting those companies indirectly.

[whitemage]

S3 is not good enough for ROI right now...