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So, I have 500 dollars to spare and I am looking into cryptomining. I am currently looking for used hardware that is realiable and efficient. (Mostly Old Xeons and stuff) So I wanted to ask you. What parts would you recommend me to use on this rig? I will probably geat a cheap GPU (GTX 660).

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I think this kind of thing really depends on what you are mining

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1 minute ago, Chandres said:

So, I have 500 dollars to spare and I am looking into cryptomining. I am currently looking for used hardware that is realiable and efficient. (Mostly Old Xeons and stuff) So I wanted to ask you. What parts would you recommend me to use on this rig? I will probably geat a cheap GPU (GTX 660).

amd is better at mining the last time i checked

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Just now, themctipers said:

amd is better at mining the last time i checked

My only problem is that AMD support on Ubuntu is not that good :S    

Also can't find good used AMD cards

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Is mining still getting you profit?

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1 minute ago, Simon771 said:

Is mining still getting you profit?

Again, it depends what you mine :P 

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Again, it depends what you mine :P 

I think the most profit would be to mine minerals.

PC mining ... not sure, but there are some new devices meant for bitcoin mining, so mining bitcoin with PC (GPU or CPU), will most likely not bring any money.

No idea what else you can mine, but I guess that same device can be used for that aslo.

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Ethereum is easily the most profitable cryptocurrency to mine with regular graphics cards. My single 280X draws in about $1.70 a day. Not much but requires little to no effort. You can go buy 5-6 of them on Ebay for 150 USD each and then you're talking :)

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And once Ethereum switches to POS in a few months time (making mining redundant) you can just go and sell off the cards on Ebay for essentially the same price you bought them for.

I don't like 2D games...I just couldn't get into them.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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you're nit going ti be making any money, you'll need a few giga hashes to make any on bitcoins.

 

if you're after something to do you'll be better off folding amd helping out cure a number of conditions.

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