Just a suggestion and feel free to ignore but a good way to experiment is to pick up an old dual core machine like a lenovo think centre, or similar, and use a single NVIDIA 1050 or 1060. It'll let you do most things.. it takes about a week / two to reach the payout required for more pools but it's a cheap way to get a tiny rig going and the 1050 / 1060 shouldn't require any additional power depending on the second hand machine you get. You could go AMD as well but I'm not sure how much power the low end AMD cards draw.
I started this way and got a $20 machine from my local newspaper and a new 1060 on sale from Ebay.. I later sold that original machine for $50 ($30 profit) when I upgraded and built more.
I was thinking of doing something like this earlier, Plant Power - and then I read your post and it summed up my thoughts perfectly. There must be dozens of threads on building cheap rigs, I should dig around some more...I started this way and got a $20 machine from my local newspaper and a new 1060 on sale from Ebay.. I later sold that original machine for $50 ($30 profit) when I upgraded and built more.
Thanks for all your comments, everyone who has contributed on here. I am becoming more and more hyped about mining every day,
just interested in the tech, though, as I doubt that it will be profitable even the long run cause of the high electricity costs.
I think you and I are in a similar place, crypto-words. Ultimately I think I'll want to have a small rig or two, maybe a MLD2 USB hub & a GPU miner -- because I enjoy the tech, I like mining, and if I'm able to mine an altcoin in the early days whose project I back fully I'd get a lot of satisfaction out of it. just interested in the tech, though, as I doubt that it will be profitable even the long run cause of the high electricity costs.
