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Topic: List of GPU Cards at New Egg & Maplin (Read 820 times)
Stop posting in a 7 month old thread.
Thinking of mining some of the Newer coins, I know it's cheaper to purchase the coins but trying to buy coins with
a credit card is such a hassle, I thought I'd have a go at mining.
Putting money in the electricity meter becomes my way of buying coins, credit card fees etc.
So anyway, I'm a low end hobbyist, looking to buy a reasonable graphics card and am stuck because there's so many.
As an experiment, I thought I'd try set up as many different mining operations on my Rig as I could, might get lucky with
a few of the coins.
Currently in my Rig I have a 1.3Mh Gaw scrypt miner, mining at multipool.
I'm running Boinc, so earning Gridcoin.
Thinking of adding a few 1Tb HDDs to earn some Storj
CPU mining at Minergate, which I'd like to improve on with a GPU totake the pressure off the CPU.
CPU is running around 75% capacity so it's not flat out.
So, I want to spend not very much on a versatile graphics card, something that might allow me or a pool
to switch algos should an interesting coin come along, I can't afford top of the range so anything reasonable.
I'd like to be able to mine some of the newer CPU coins / Cryptonight Algos if possible.
I think my PSU is 750 W in the machine so should have 150W - to spare, there's nothing in the machine cards wise.
EDIT, In addition, I plan on staking some POS wallets, etherium, Novacoin, Peercoin, whatever else, I presume once the
blocks are downloaded, staking is not too taxing Processor wise.
Basiically, just want to see how much mining (and staking) I can get out off a single machine without Maxing out the CPU.
Oh yes, it's also running as my Wifi Access Point.
Sounds a lot for one machine but it's holding up pretty well so far, I figure if I use a GPU to do some hashing,
that will take some of the pressure off the CPU.
It's a spare machine, I plan on setting it up and leaving it running, purring to itself, see if I can get lucky with a few coins.
The Pools will automatically switch coins for me so shouldn't require too much tinkering from me.
I'd like to spend, maybe $50 on a GPU, I know it's not much but, If I go for reconditioned.
Does anyone have any advice ( I mean apart from give it up, or seek psychiatric help)
Here's some cards.
[url
http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=Radeon%20Graphics&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30][/url]
[url
http://www.maplin.co.uk/c/computing-and-office/pc-components/graphics-cards?sort=%3DMaplinProduct.price%7C0#][/url]
a credit card is such a hassle, I thought I'd have a go at mining.
Putting money in the electricity meter becomes my way of buying coins, credit card fees etc.
So anyway, I'm a low end hobbyist, looking to buy a reasonable graphics card and am stuck because there's so many.
As an experiment, I thought I'd try set up as many different mining operations on my Rig as I could, might get lucky with
a few of the coins.
Currently in my Rig I have a 1.3Mh Gaw scrypt miner, mining at multipool.
I'm running Boinc, so earning Gridcoin.
Thinking of adding a few 1Tb HDDs to earn some Storj
CPU mining at Minergate, which I'd like to improve on with a GPU totake the pressure off the CPU.
CPU is running around 75% capacity so it's not flat out.
So, I want to spend not very much on a versatile graphics card, something that might allow me or a pool
to switch algos should an interesting coin come along, I can't afford top of the range so anything reasonable.
I'd like to be able to mine some of the newer CPU coins / Cryptonight Algos if possible.
I think my PSU is 750 W in the machine so should have 150W - to spare, there's nothing in the machine cards wise.
EDIT, In addition, I plan on staking some POS wallets, etherium, Novacoin, Peercoin, whatever else, I presume once the
blocks are downloaded, staking is not too taxing Processor wise.
Basiically, just want to see how much mining (and staking) I can get out off a single machine without Maxing out the CPU.
Oh yes, it's also running as my Wifi Access Point.
Sounds a lot for one machine but it's holding up pretty well so far, I figure if I use a GPU to do some hashing,
that will take some of the pressure off the CPU.
It's a spare machine, I plan on setting it up and leaving it running, purring to itself, see if I can get lucky with a few coins.
The Pools will automatically switch coins for me so shouldn't require too much tinkering from me.
I'd like to spend, maybe $50 on a GPU, I know it's not much but, If I go for reconditioned.
Does anyone have any advice ( I mean apart from give it up, or seek psychiatric help)
Here's some cards.
[url
http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=Radeon%20Graphics&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30][/url]
[url
http://www.maplin.co.uk/c/computing-and-office/pc-components/graphics-cards?sort=%3DMaplinProduct.price%7C0#][/url]
$50 gets you nothing. Try picking up a used AMD 7950 for $80 or so on eBay. That's your best bet at this point. Anything beneath the 7950 in performance/memory isn't worth mining on.
just came across your post after searching for mining cards and i did read all your questions.
there is no way to do something serious this way... you need to decide what you are up to... and for sure with $50 graphics card for sure not results that worth the work...
and if we calculate the electricity you go from your pocket.
Get a dissent graphics card to mine and use minergate along with storj with the 1tb...
this is the best for your case in my opinion.
there is no way to do something serious this way... you need to decide what you are up to... and for sure with $50 graphics card for sure not results that worth the work...
and if we calculate the electricity you go from your pocket.
Get a dissent graphics card to mine and use minergate along with storj with the 1tb...
this is the best for your case in my opinion.
Thinking of mining some of the Newer coins, I know it's cheaper to purchase the coins but trying to buy coins with
a credit card is such a hassle, I thought I'd have a go at mining.
Putting money in the electricity meter becomes my way of buying coins, credit card fees etc.
So anyway, I'm a low end hobbyist, looking to buy a reasonable graphics card and am stuck because there's so many.
As an experiment, I thought I'd try set up as many different mining operations on my Rig as I could, might get lucky with
a few of the coins.
Currently in my Rig I have a 1.3Mh Gaw scrypt miner, mining at multipool.
I'm running Boinc, so earning Gridcoin.
Thinking of adding a few 1Tb HDDs to earn some Storj
CPU mining at Minergate, which I'd like to improve on with a GPU totake the pressure off the CPU.
CPU is running around 75% capacity so it's not flat out.
So, I want to spend not very much on a versatile graphics card, something that might allow me or a pool
to switch algos should an interesting coin come along, I can't afford top of the range so anything reasonable.
I'd like to be able to mine some of the newer CPU coins / Cryptonight Algos if possible.
I think my PSU is 750 W in the machine so should have 150W - to spare, there's nothing in the machine cards wise.
EDIT, In addition, I plan on staking some POS wallets, etherium, Novacoin, Peercoin, whatever else, I presume once the
blocks are downloaded, staking is not too taxing Processor wise.
Basiically, just want to see how much mining (and staking) I can get out off a single machine without Maxing out the CPU.
Oh yes, it's also running as my Wifi Access Point.
Sounds a lot for one machine but it's holding up pretty well so far, I figure if I use a GPU to do some hashing,
that will take some of the pressure off the CPU.
It's a spare machine, I plan on setting it up and leaving it running, purring to itself, see if I can get lucky with a few coins.
The Pools will automatically switch coins for me so shouldn't require too much tinkering from me.
I'd like to spend, maybe $50 on a GPU, I know it's not much but, If I go for reconditioned.
Does anyone have any advice ( I mean apart from give it up, or seek psychiatric help)
Here's some cards.
[url
http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=Radeon%20Graphics&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30][/url]
[url
http://www.maplin.co.uk/c/computing-and-office/pc-components/graphics-cards?sort=%3DMaplinProduct.price%7C0#][/url]
a credit card is such a hassle, I thought I'd have a go at mining.
Putting money in the electricity meter becomes my way of buying coins, credit card fees etc.
So anyway, I'm a low end hobbyist, looking to buy a reasonable graphics card and am stuck because there's so many.
As an experiment, I thought I'd try set up as many different mining operations on my Rig as I could, might get lucky with
a few of the coins.
Currently in my Rig I have a 1.3Mh Gaw scrypt miner, mining at multipool.
I'm running Boinc, so earning Gridcoin.
Thinking of adding a few 1Tb HDDs to earn some Storj
CPU mining at Minergate, which I'd like to improve on with a GPU totake the pressure off the CPU.
CPU is running around 75% capacity so it's not flat out.
So, I want to spend not very much on a versatile graphics card, something that might allow me or a pool
to switch algos should an interesting coin come along, I can't afford top of the range so anything reasonable.
I'd like to be able to mine some of the newer CPU coins / Cryptonight Algos if possible.
I think my PSU is 750 W in the machine so should have 150W - to spare, there's nothing in the machine cards wise.
EDIT, In addition, I plan on staking some POS wallets, etherium, Novacoin, Peercoin, whatever else, I presume once the
blocks are downloaded, staking is not too taxing Processor wise.
Basiically, just want to see how much mining (and staking) I can get out off a single machine without Maxing out the CPU.
Oh yes, it's also running as my Wifi Access Point.
Sounds a lot for one machine but it's holding up pretty well so far, I figure if I use a GPU to do some hashing,
that will take some of the pressure off the CPU.
It's a spare machine, I plan on setting it up and leaving it running, purring to itself, see if I can get lucky with a few coins.
The Pools will automatically switch coins for me so shouldn't require too much tinkering from me.
I'd like to spend, maybe $50 on a GPU, I know it's not much but, If I go for reconditioned.
Does anyone have any advice ( I mean apart from give it up, or seek psychiatric help)
Here's some cards.
[url
http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=Radeon%20Graphics&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=30][/url]
[url
http://www.maplin.co.uk/c/computing-and-office/pc-components/graphics-cards?sort=%3DMaplinProduct.price%7C0#][/url]
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