Topic: Budget Mining Rig Request - page 2. (Read 4874 times)

You would need to upgrade your PSU first. That PC is horrible for mining. Honestly, you'd probably save money by building an all new rig. Any respectable amd gpu rig is going to need more than 300w.

No, but because you won't take the time to read, understand, and make some sort of effort on your own, means you should go back and play Black Ops. The best answer was already given. Sell your BFL preorder for like 2500-3000, invest in a rig for litecoin. the gpu bitcoin game is long gone. You're not going to mine jack squat with 300 bucks to invest.

Well I just want to put a nice GPU in my computer for gaming and whatever and then just mine when I am not gaming right?

So it servers as a dual purpose.




http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113197 is the computer I have

Do you know how many 5970s and 7970s are gonna flood the market when ASICs do hit? And I mean really hit, not like this Avalon slowly-squeak-out-over-two-months shit.

GPUs are always better choice, at least it has some re-sale value or you can reconfigure your miner to a game machine (given you only investment 3-4 card to start)

for the rest dedicated mining machines, the worst scenario of a Tulip mania happened, those mining machines worth no more than a pile of junk.

Which is sucky, cuz now is a horrible time to buy hardware.

GPUs aren't worth it.
FPGAs aren't worth it.
Avalon's are expensive, and in a limited supply.
BFL hasn't shipped yet, and has a massive backlog.

What's a newbie supposed to do?

Use hammer if possible

Its all 2011 again i see.

Price of btc invites all kind of ppl into.... quick rich scheme.

Just stick all the cards in, if it doesnt fit, cut the slot with dremel and make them fit. Do it a redneck way

If someone isn't even skilled enough to know if a PCIe gpu will work in their computer you shouldn't even ask that...

Dont take a picture just read me the model of the motherboard, and the model of power supply

If I take a pic of my current computers hardware could you tell me if a GPU would work in there?

first thing first, do a profit calculation, all such calculators assuming constant difficulty level , but with the increasing difficulty in both btc and ltc a $400 rig won't have big hash power to compete, plus the electricity cost, you may end up mining at a lost for a long time.

Still feel worth the trouble, time and money? pls continue

Do you have some old PC left over, maybe a old intel 775 or amd 780 platform or even older as long as they have PCIe slots on them. (if yes, go to #3 or #4)

To my best knowledge, the mining business is like this (correct me if I'm wrong)

#1. it has nothing to do with cpu anymore, so use the cheapest cpu you can get. (the best is free, your old left overs )
 
#2. mobo, find a mobo with as many pcie slots as possible, and PCIe slot doesn't matter, 1x, 8x, or 16x all work the same in terms of hash rate, (for 1x you need a 1x -> 16x riser cable to accommodate your video card)

#3. memory, mining BTC is not memory intensive, but LTC is (I can only start two 7950 with -g 2 parameter and 3G of system ram, 2G system ram for a 7850 to start, otherwise cgminer says GPU fail....blabla....)

#4. video cards, 5850s are around 100 on ebay,(never use a 5xxx but I guess each requires 2 6-pin power connector), you can also go for 7850 the game coupon comes with it has some resale value on ebay plus 7xxx is more "future proof"

#5. PSU, depends on how many video cards you want to run.

Ok trolls, because I never built a computer before I should just play black ops?


Makes complete sense...

Sorry, but do a little reading on the forum, this has been said over and over

 

If after this You can not manage, you should stick to Black Ops imo.

Still looking for people to post complete builds 

THANKS

Can you add me on skype please: EclipseHF

I would like to ask you about builds and please tell me if they would work

Very simple just plug them into the mobo, install windows, install drivers and voila, both are there. I think that since 12.6 drivers (not entirely sure on this), no more dummies are needed. Since you are new to this, you have to install Afterburner or Trixx (i prefer AB) to be able to overclock the card. Then take the latest guiminer, and voila thats all. Read up about these things on the forum, it has been explained numerous times.

How would I make both cards work at the same time someone said you need to have a dummy adapter or something.

Sorry if noob.