The Ati 5830 is pretty cheap $75/£60, knocks out as many Mh/s as a 7850, the sacrifice is power efficiency.
It makes a pretty good gaming card too.. can play Battlefield 3 1080p on Ultra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCOwK3VJDc
Topic: Cheap rig for LTC? (Read 2147 times)
Raspberry PI.
0.3 kh/s is the current top end I've seen coming from the pi.
So if a pi costs $50, and a LTC is $0.07, that's 714 LTC/pi.
@ 0.3 kh/s and a difficulty of 40, you are looking at 0.22 LTC/month. It would take about 200 years to pay one off UNLESS LTC jumps in price dramatically, which is a likely scenario but.. yea.. raspi not lookin so good until we can squeeze a bit more out of it. [litecoinpool calculator] [kattare calculator]
so a raspi runs at about 2 watts.. well, I have cheaaaaap electricity in canada, and it would cost about a buck for every 20 cents it made. so the raspi is actually the most expensive rig for LTC if you want to earn money.
however I put a few solar panels (3x7w) in my big truck outside and I got everything ready to go to start wirelessly raspiing once my wifi dongle gets here. I was going to monitor the temp of the truck all day just for the sheer curiosity of it all, but if I can mine in the idle clocks on the raspi at the same time, maybe throw a couple more pi's in there, set them to payout to a separate wallet and just leave it for all eternity, man, in 20 years, 1 LTC could be a lot of money, who knows maybe buy a new truck paid for by solar pi's.
7950s. $260 for 600kh/s. If you can find them used 5970s which get ~700. The 69xx cards use too much power for my liking
7970's are getting pretty cheap too. I remember I bought mine like at 470 :/.
there are some cards for sale over in the LitecoinTalk forum. 5970s and 6950s are my preference. And they are cheap now.
Raspberry Pi for LTC mining? I think not. 58XX make decent LTC miners. I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s. It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out.
He said cheap, not the most efficient.
Raspberry Pi for LTC mining? I think not. 58XX make decent LTC miners. I primarily mine with 7970 cards, because most of my rigs are 7970s. It makes it convenient because I use a one command line for the cards and it works out.
Raspberry PI.
Where as 7xxx cards were pretty efficient for BTC, they can sometimes be pretty hairy for LTC. I'd say stick with 5xxx cards. You could probably put together a pretty cheap rig with used 58xx or 5970s used from there on the forums.
Anyone have good recommendations? Gpu > cpu btw
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