Topic: How many people have bought rigs for free through bitcoins they've earned? - page 2. (Read 2915 times)
September 09, 2011, 01:19:12 AM
I've lost most of my savings through BTC from buying hardware and I don't think I'll ever get that money back.
September 09, 2011, 12:12:47 AM
That's gonna take you a while.
September 06, 2011, 01:49:49 PM
I have a pair of 5770s, so I'm slowly mining, but my coins are being used for putting together a new gaming machine. I'm getting together things like case/power-supply and things like that right now that don't lose value as quickly and can last a few years as-is, and then will try to earn roughly $1000 worth of coins overtime to get a kick-ass (or pair of kick-ass) video cards, and then maybe a new proc/mobo/ram around that time, too.
My wife doesn't like my gaming hobby, so this is legit since to her I'm not spending "real" money (minus electricity costs)
My wife doesn't like my gaming hobby, so this is legit since to her I'm not spending "real" money (minus electricity costs)
September 04, 2011, 06:18:45 PM
Pushing that to the side I've always been curious what card do you tend to use the most or is it a mix? I know you have a huge megahash or should I say gigahash but I have never heard what you use. Also did you take your original roi out so at the very least it didn't cost you anything?
He started out (more or less) by selling hashing power contracts, which significantly helps ROI (if you rent 1GHash for 3 months at a price that buys 1GHash of hardware, that's basically a 3 month ROI guarantee).
September 04, 2011, 05:55:54 PM
Too busy gossiping on forums, so I have not calculated my roi yet 
I mostly use 5970, 5870, 6990's
I mostly use 5970, 5870, 6990's
September 04, 2011, 05:48:06 PM
Pushing that to the side I've always been curious what card do you tend to use the most or is it a mix? I know you have a huge megahash or should I say gigahash but I have never heard what you use. Also did you take your original roi out so at the very least it didn't cost you anything?
September 04, 2011, 09:59:59 AM
It is only free if you ignore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
September 04, 2011, 09:56:56 AM
I'm just curious how many people are at the point where their miners have mined enough to get a free rig. For those miners did you go for reliability (buying from newegg) or go for cheap (buying used). The reason I ask is because I'm almost to the point where I can created a free rig and I'm curious what other people's strategies have been. In all honesty I'm thinking of just going for newegg so I have a warranty and buying 6950's that are reference card and the shaders can be unlocked. I realize this goes against conventional wisdom of 6950's are inefficient but I'd prefer it to used 5870's.
So what have you guys done?
So what have you guys done?
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