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Topic: Which Card Has The Fastest ROI? (Read 7082 times)

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beast at work
October 23, 2012, 05:34:27 PM
#87
easiest way to get an adrenalin rush every time your boss step inside your office, i guess
sr. member
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October 23, 2012, 04:42:07 PM
#86
Nothing like risking a full time paying job for a few £ in electricity. Smiley

haha +1

I never understood people that try to shove a GPU into a work PC because of 'free power'.  So, let's lose a job that makes more in an hour than we'd make in two weeks of mining.  At some point someone is going to hear the GPU running, notice the power spike or the web traffic going to a mining pool.  Try to explain to your boss and HR what 'this bitcoin thing is', and see what they look like when you start talking crypto currency.
sr. member
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beast at work
October 23, 2012, 04:13:28 PM
#85
Nothing like risking a full time paying job for a few £ in electricity. Smiley

haha +1
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October 17, 2012, 09:30:20 PM
#84
I got a 7950 to stick in my work PC for the next couple of months, cost me £220, should hopefully earn £80 - £100 before its no longer worth running even with free electricity... then I will sell my 6870 from my home PC and hopefully it should work out as a pretty GPU upgrade for my gaming machine, probably just £50 difference Smiley

Nothing like risking a full time paying job for a few £ in electricity. Smiley

Ekkk, not good.
420
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October 14, 2012, 05:16:14 PM
#83
what card has a better ratio for litecoin mining than bitcoin?
sr. member
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October 13, 2012, 09:25:47 AM
#82
I got a 7950 to stick in my work PC for the next couple of months, cost me £220, should hopefully earn £80 - £100 before its no longer worth running even with free electricity... then I will sell my 6870 from my home PC and hopefully it should work out as a pretty GPU upgrade for my gaming machine, probably just £50 difference Smiley

Nothing like risking a full time paying job for a few £ in electricity. Smiley
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October 12, 2012, 05:40:02 PM
#81
Ati 5830's you can get 'em cheap <$99 and they overclock good and still stay cool unlike 5770/6770s

270MHs (875/500/66c) for $99 thats 2.72Mh/$ ROI

I even see one on ebay $75 buy it now! Assuming you could collect (that's 3.6Mh/$ ROI)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-ATI-Radeon-5830-1GB-PCI-Express-/321000286598?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item4abd1ba986

Some people even manage to get them running over 300MHs potentially 4Mh/$ ROI @ $75
legendary
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October 12, 2012, 09:53:07 AM
#80
well, i've paid for my 3x7950 rig mining litecoin for a few months.  all profit from here on out.
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COINDER
October 12, 2012, 09:42:01 AM
#79
. ASIC's are slated to begin shipping very soon.
Huh Huh  first they have to CREATE an fabric out of some 2nd hand manchines.. Huh Huh

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content.php/120-BFL-Invests-in-Assembly-Equipment

but ontopic, 5870 if bought 2nd hand are quick ROI get 400mhash out them, also 5970 are good to use but for now i d say waite untill december...or perpared to take loses if investing now....ASIC  Huh

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Your *what* is itchy?
October 11, 2012, 10:57:43 PM
#78
with underclocking the ram, i was able to get my 6770 up to 960Mhz....getting about 210Mh/s out of it.
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Decent Programmer to boot!
October 06, 2012, 08:26:19 PM
#77
While risky, nothing will replace 5970's for ROI. If you look hard enough, you can find stable-ish ones for ~200 USD. I didn't do any math, because the actual ROI depends on your electricity rates.

With that said, the ROI is probably longer than the borrowed time most GPU's are running on. ASIC's are slated to begin shipping very soon.

shameless promotion....win 3x5970's for 1BTC:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1251772

Man, let me just withdraw a little bit from GLBSE. Oh wait.
420
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October 06, 2012, 08:15:44 PM
#76
While risky, nothing will replace 5970's for ROI. If you look hard enough, you can find stable-ish ones for ~200 USD. I didn't do any math, because the actual ROI depends on your electricity rates.

With that said, the ROI is probably longer than the borrowed time most GPU's are running on. ASIC's are slated to begin shipping very soon.

shameless promotion....win 3x5970's for 1BTC:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1251772
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Decent Programmer to boot!
October 06, 2012, 08:07:22 PM
#75
While risky, nothing will replace 5970's for ROI. If you look hard enough, you can find stable-ish ones for ~200 USD. I didn't do any math, because the actual ROI depends on your electricity rates.

With that said, the ROI is probably longer than the borrowed time most GPU's are running on. ASIC's are slated to begin shipping very soon.
420
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October 06, 2012, 05:13:42 PM
#74
BTCFPGA has FPGA's in stock, and they will offer a trade-in program to go from FPGA > ASIC. This might be your best bet to get in the game now, at low power usage, and trade-in the FPGA for full value on an ASIC. 6 months from now, mining will only make sense with ASICs.

unless a protocol change
sr. member
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October 06, 2012, 04:52:05 PM
#73
BTCFPGA has FPGA's in stock, and they will offer a trade-in program to go from FPGA > ASIC. This might be your best bet to get in the game now, at low power usage, and trade-in the FPGA for full value on an ASIC. 6 months from now, mining will only make sense with ASICs.
420
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October 06, 2012, 12:09:04 PM
#72
I just ran the numbers and it looks like the 5870 is indeed the best bang for your buck.  It could make around $50/mo approx and you can get a used one for just over $100 on ebay.  That's not bad!  The 5970 seems difficult to cool and even runs really hot stock and thus it's difficult to overclock so yeah it's fast but it's extremely expensive and you can't get it a whole lot higher necessarily.

5970, yeah look at my temps (video):

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sold-btcltc-mining-rig-21ghash22mhash-with-3x5970s-880-watts-115621
sr. member
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October 06, 2012, 11:17:13 AM
#71
I got a 7950 to stick in my work PC for the next couple of months, cost me £220, should hopefully earn £80 - £100 before its no longer worth running even with free electricity... then I will sell my 6870 from my home PC and hopefully it should work out as a pretty GPU upgrade for my gaming machine, probably just £50 difference Smiley
sr. member
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October 06, 2012, 10:46:05 AM
#70
I just ran the numbers and it looks like the 5870 is indeed the best bang for your buck.  It could make around $50/mo approx and you can get a used one for just over $100 on ebay.  That's not bad!  The 5970 seems difficult to cool and even runs really hot stock and thus it's difficult to overclock so yeah it's fast but it's extremely expensive and you can't get it a whole lot higher necessarily.
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October 06, 2012, 10:22:50 AM
#69
5870/5970 are in my opinion the best and they
Are cheap. (So Long there are no asics)
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October 06, 2012, 03:01:00 AM
#68
i am mining with a MSI 6670
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