Help a newbie get into mining?

[Keudn]

My gaming rig (i5-2500k and GTX 770) currently sits doing nothing at night and while I'm at school, so I figure I might as well put it to good use. I know mining isn't profitable unless you put an insane amount of money into it, I just want a few extra bucks from my rig while I'm not using it. Could anyone suggest a good coin to mine that will give me the best profits and maybe link a guide or two on how to set it up and start mining?

[Shd0w2]

no. no nvidia cant do crap, you'll loose money through power your not going to make money

[Keudn]

no. no nvidia cant do crap, you'll loose money through power your not going to make money

I know AMD > Nvidia when it comes to mining, and if I ignore loosing money though electrical bills what is the most profitable option

[Moredeath]

gtx 750 ti

[Pelop17]

My gaming rig (i5-2500k and GTX 770) currently sits doing nothing at night and while I'm at school, so I figure I might as well put it to good use. I know mining isn't profitable unless you put an insane amount of money into it, I just want a few extra bucks from my rig while I'm not using it. Could anyone suggest a good coin to mine that will give me the best profits and maybe link a guide or two on how to set it up and start mining?

you can get a 750ti if you want nvidia

but you can also get an amd cheap card. But since you have not much money stay with whatever you have.

But you want be making anything.

[Moredeath]

Yeah I'd say 750 Ti is best option with its low TDP and decent litecoin mining rate (280 k/hash) 

 

Save $150, add it to your system. You could also use it as a PhysX card if you really wanted to 

[Keudn]

If i did go and get a 750ti, what coin should I mine and how do I set it up?

[DyGr00339]

If i did go and get a 750ti, what coin should I mine and how do I set it up?

 

This has setup info, but don't listen to the people above me they obviously don't mine as the 770 gets 370 kh/s 

 

you can look here for the settings in cuda miner https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison/raw_data

 

And my recommendation for a coin is all, join a multi coin pool like middlecoin and it mines the best coin and pays in bicoin

[Caspur]

I would say that the best thing you can do, just getting into mining, would be get some USB/ASIC miners , preferably AntMiner U2 that do 2.0GH/s, I think they go for like $25 bucks on eBay. This way your not spending a ton of cash on GPU and your electric bill won't be as high. You'll also need a usb  hub and a couple USB fans, but it's still way cheaper than buying some 750's.

[AK0490]

I would say that the best thing you can do, just getting into mining, would be get some USB/ASIC miners , preferably AntMiner U2 that do 2.0GH/s, I think they go for like $25 bucks on eBay. This way your not spending a ton of cash on GPU and your electric bill won't be as high. You'll also need a usb  hub and a couple USB fans, but it's still way cheaper than buying some 750's.

So despite the fact that a real Asic will cost you as little as $2.175/GH you would recommend paying $12.5/GH?   lol  All usb miners are worthless to buy at this point.

 

It can still be profitable to mine with ALMOST ANY Nvidia card. They was a coin a few days back that didn't have any Amd card support yet, but had cudaminer support. It was extremely profitable to mine with Nvidia cards. Don't remember what it is atm, don't touch that green stuff myself

[hawaiims]

If i did go and get a 750ti, what coin should I mine and how do I set it up?

don't. Mining scrypt coins with NVIDIA cards or AMD cards is basically worthless at this point. You'll make 2$ a day even with 4 7950s (one of the best mining cards)... that's not counting the 1500$ you'll spend for the build. Oh and the fact that many of the cards are going to die early for mining. 

 

Seriously, it's way too late to get in the game. 

[Caspur]

So despite the fact that a real Asic will cost you as little as $2.175/GH you would recommend paying $12.5/GH?   lol  All usb miners are worthless to buy at this point.

 

It can still be profitable to mine with ALMOST ANY Nvidia card. They was a coin a few days back that didn't have any Amd card support yet, but had cudaminer support. It was extremely profitable to mine with Nvidia cards. Don't remember what it is atm, don't touch that green stuff myself

 

I do not disagree with what you said. However, I think that someone who has never mined for crypto before is better starting off slow. Instead of spending $1000 plus he can start off with something simple and something that is 975% cheaper and learn how to use it and decide if it's something he wants to do. If he doesn't like it he's not out all that cash.

[AK0490]

I do not disagree with what you said. However, I think that someone who has never mined for crypto before is better starting off slow. Instead of spending $1000 plus he can start off with something simple and something that is 975% cheaper and learn how to use it and decide if it's something he wants to do. If he doesn't like it he's not out all that cash.

The graphics card is to learn about mining. If someone then wanted to spend money on asics there are relatively  inexpensive asics out there that are a much better value. For scrpyt a Gridseed can be purchased for $180 from Zoomhash. For Sha-256 you could pick up a Antminer S1 for .89 Btc, or less then $500.

[Lays]

no. no nvidia cant do crap, you'll loose money through power your not going to make money

 

Completely dependent on what card you're mining with.

 

If you spend time tuning and getting the right settings, you can get good hashrates on the nvidia side as well.

 

Although scrypt mining now is being even more and more useless with GPU's especially with ASICS being released

 

[Caspur]

The graphics card is to learn about mining. If someone then wanted to spend money on asics there are relatively  inexpensive asics out there that are a much better value. For scrpyt a Gridseed can be purchased for $180 from Zoomhash. For Sha-256 you could pick up a Antminer S1 for .89 Btc, or less then $500.

Well if he wants to spend $200 to $500 on something he might not want to do he can do that^. If he wants to spend $20 to $25 on something he might not want to do he can go my route.

[Norwegiantweaker]

I know AMD > Nvidia when it comes to mining, and if I ignore loosing money though electrical bills what is the most profitable option

start folding if you wanna put it to good use.