$1,000?
BFL: Will get you about 3 upgraded or 4 non-upgraded Jalapenos, or 20-211GH/s. You'll get them in 3-4 months? Maybe?
Avalon: You could order some K16 units. You could prolly get 4 of them, for ~18GH/s. Delivery in 2-3 months?
KNC: No miners for $1,000, but their $2,000 is 100GH/s. Actually with shipping it's closer to $2500. Delivery unknown?
BitFury: Starter kit is 25GH/s for $1300. Claimed October delivery, so 2-3 months. Advantage to this is you can buy add-on cards that add another 25GH/s for $500. You can add up to 20 of these boards, for a total of 400GH/s. This is the most expandable option out there. BitFury is also the most power efficient, so they're looking like a sweet deal.
Topic: what is the best mining hardware for 1000 us dollars - page 3. (Read 9103 times)
The topic says it all/ I am an old returning miner. Had 2 HD 6970 and 4 HD 6950 on three machines.
They have been there for since 2009.all in all good investment with its ups and downs.but wondering what's best hardware now
For 1000 $ or basic miners or basic mining shares ?
Considering the HD cards are available in local market and I guess can be sold for fifth the price when used
They have been there for since 2009.all in all good investment with its ups and downs.but wondering what's best hardware now
For 1000 $ or basic miners or basic mining shares ?
Considering the HD cards are available in local market and I guess can be sold for fifth the price when used
nothing right now
if you think the price is going to go up, then you should just buy bitcoins at market rate
people are paying about 5x value for ASIC stuff still
wow that is very aggressive!
he have not even mentioned any GPUs!
umm what about shares in ASIC companies ?
ummm (make any money/low power miners/1000$) I believe your opinion is very subjective (not going to say aggressive). for me, if I keep getting like 10% of capital as monthly revenue (maybe 5-8% as profit) for the next couple or three years then that is a very good investment!
I dunno why i felt like you are talking doom day! tera, peta, exa, zeta! no .. no .. YOTTA hashes are added in the market every day ... no .. no .. every femto second! we are surrounded with hashes from every where sier! (or princess or whatever) ... then the the star wars episode 1024 goes in (maybe again back to London)!
yes hardware race is already on, just like what we had in the PC/laptop market (i am not sure if you have lived that era - like ancient people as myself - since it is all the mobile/tablet era now) and ended up with hardware 4 times the whole world would need and all the hardware racing companies are loosing or at bankruptcy edge!
if home miners are out of business i believe BTC will be out of interest too because we will be back to square zero of a centralized (or semi-centralized) and manipulated value holder units (currency).
farther more, we all know bitcoin should be approached as a hobby (yes even when we are talking business) because its value depends mainly and only in how much we believe in it.
But the point is, in any case, it would be very wrong to look for aggressive -get-rich-fast scam or pattern and i was not asking for that!
he have not even mentioned any GPUs!
umm what about shares in ASIC companies ?
ummm (make any money/low power miners/1000$) I believe your opinion is very subjective (not going to say aggressive). for me, if I keep getting like 10% of capital as monthly revenue (maybe 5-8% as profit) for the next couple or three years then that is a very good investment!
I dunno why i felt like you are talking doom day! tera, peta, exa, zeta! no .. no .. YOTTA hashes are added in the market every day ... no .. no .. every femto second! we are surrounded with hashes from every where sier! (or princess or whatever) ... then the the star wars episode 1024 goes in (maybe again back to London)!
yes hardware race is already on, just like what we had in the PC/laptop market (i am not sure if you have lived that era - like ancient people as myself - since it is all the mobile/tablet era now) and ended up with hardware 4 times the whole world would need and all the hardware racing companies are loosing or at bankruptcy edge!
if home miners are out of business i believe BTC will be out of interest too because we will be back to square zero of a centralized (or semi-centralized) and manipulated value holder units (currency).
farther more, we all know bitcoin should be approached as a hobby (yes even when we are talking business) because its value depends mainly and only in how much we believe in it.
But the point is, in any case, it would be very wrong to look for aggressive -get-rich-fast scam or pattern and i was not asking for that!
You will likely receive a number of replies to this question - the bottom line is it depends on what you want to achieve... I'd highly suggest using the mining calculator on thegenesisblock site to help determine future difficulty and ROI if that's what your going for - if your interested in this as a hobby and you just want to run a few miners and don't care about your return then it doesn't matter so much...
Here's MY view of what's happening in the market - take it for what it's worth, I have no stake in any of these operations:
- BFL is the most expensive per GH but they are shipping (albeit very slowly) and you could pick up 4 5gh miners for $1000 - total hashing power of 20GH which in a few months won't be worth much and you'll likely be waiting about 6 months or more to get the hardware.
- KNC has a device for $2000 but they don't have any "solid" proof that they are going to meet their October shipping target date.
- megabigpower starts at $1300 and by all speculation appears to be a strong option
- asic sticks start at $60 for 300M and probably won't pay for themselves (however they have a sale going right now so you may see ebay flooded with sub $50 sticks which makes them a better deal).
- There are a lot of mining pool options out there but you have to be very cautious because many of them are scams. Lab rat mining appears to have very good feedback and is available on bitfunder.
Bottom line - the difficulty is going to be rising very quickly and the lower hash power devices ($1000 range) won't make 'money' but they can be fun to run as a hobby.
Here's MY view of what's happening in the market - take it for what it's worth, I have no stake in any of these operations:
- BFL is the most expensive per GH but they are shipping (albeit very slowly) and you could pick up 4 5gh miners for $1000 - total hashing power of 20GH which in a few months won't be worth much and you'll likely be waiting about 6 months or more to get the hardware.
- KNC has a device for $2000 but they don't have any "solid" proof that they are going to meet their October shipping target date.
- megabigpower starts at $1300 and by all speculation appears to be a strong option
- asic sticks start at $60 for 300M and probably won't pay for themselves (however they have a sale going right now so you may see ebay flooded with sub $50 sticks which makes them a better deal).
- There are a lot of mining pool options out there but you have to be very cautious because many of them are scams. Lab rat mining appears to have very good feedback and is available on bitfunder.
Bottom line - the difficulty is going to be rising very quickly and the lower hash power devices ($1000 range) won't make 'money' but they can be fun to run as a hobby.
The topic says it all/ I am an old returning miner. Had 2 HD 6970 and 4 HD 6950 on three machines.
They have been there for since 2009.all in all good investment with its ups and downs.but wondering what's best hardware now
For 1000 $ or basic miners or basic mining shares ?
Considering the HD cards are available in local market and I guess can be sold for fifth the price when used
They have been there for since 2009.all in all good investment with its ups and downs.but wondering what's best hardware now
For 1000 $ or basic miners or basic mining shares ?
Considering the HD cards are available in local market and I guess can be sold for fifth the price when used
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