Topic: suitable for mining? (Read 952 times)
I will gladly buy you that Ati card or trade it for something.
That PC is rather not suitable for mining - 6870 can't do more than 350 MH/s, 470 just about 100 MH/s, which will produce approximately 0.25 coins/day. How much do you pay for electricity? I wouldn't buy it unless you are on flat rate (that's the only way you can reach some profit).
CPU mining is dead. The AMD video card is good, but you don't want to run it in a power hogging server like that, put it in a low power system. GPUs will soon be dead in the same way that CPUs are, when ASICs come along, however the cheapest ASIC is slated to be ~$150, which isn't outrageous.
So Ive seen this PC for sale in a local free ad paper and just wanted to know is it any good for mining.
It has a Xeon 5680 processor ( the net tells me that this is a high end processor (if not a little old! ), 12GB Ram , ATI 6870 GPU + Nvidia GTX 470 GPU , 120GB SSD and 1000W PSU
Is it any good for CPU mining ( or is that long dead now )
Is the GPU up to it for mining? after reading around here Im guessing I will need another ATI GPU and will have to ditch the Nvidia ( is this completely true? )
would it be possible to mine using the CPU AND the 1 ATI GPU?
or should I just forget it and get a QUAD FPGA
I think from reading here that FPGAs are nearly dead now thanks to ASIC units, but the ASIC units are going to cost me an arm and a leg ( and I need both my arms and legs
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It has a Xeon 5680 processor ( the net tells me that this is a high end processor (if not a little old! ), 12GB Ram , ATI 6870 GPU + Nvidia GTX 470 GPU , 120GB SSD and 1000W PSU
Is it any good for CPU mining ( or is that long dead now )
Is the GPU up to it for mining? after reading around here Im guessing I will need another ATI GPU and will have to ditch the Nvidia ( is this completely true? )
would it be possible to mine using the CPU AND the 1 ATI GPU?
or should I just forget it and get a QUAD FPGA
I think from reading here that FPGAs are nearly dead now thanks to ASIC units, but the ASIC units are going to cost me an arm and a leg ( and I need both my arms and legs
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