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im not planning on mining bit coin or any of the big ones im hoping to mine some easy worthless coins and maybe in a few months to a year it will be worth something if not no big deal.

Something like a R9 270X and up are all good mining cards. All yeild pretty good KH/$/Power. I haven't been following what the best mining card is recently, but @AK0490 might know. 

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I made a post aking about mining and said my card was a hd 6850 and bassically I found out it would be essentially useless what would a good card for mining be? my max price is 250$ i dont mind getting last gen or what ever or even used. would a dual gpu amd ccard be good? if i could find a 6990? just looking for something I coud mine with on the cheap cheaper is better. and some one said something about dark coin is there a guiminer for dark coin?

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Save it, Mining is too hard to do now unless you have huge rigs

? Even then it's ridiculously hard. I had a 2.3 MH/s rig and it still only made like $100 per month 

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im not planning on mining bit coin or any of the big ones im hoping to mine some easy worthless coins and maybe in a few months to a year it will be worth something if not no big deal.

Project black out: cpu: athlon x4 750k @4.7ghz, Mobo: asrock fm2+ a55 vg3+, ram: 1x 8gb hyperx 1866mhz, video card: 1x saphire radeon r9 270x, Storage: 1tb hdd ssd in the future,  cooling: 2 noctua 120mm fans 1 on rad one front intake.

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im not planning on mining bit coin or any of the big ones im hoping to mine some easy worthless coins and maybe in a few months to a year it will be worth something if not no big deal.

Something like a R9 270X and up are all good mining cards. All yeild pretty good KH/$/Power. I haven't been following what the best mining card is recently, but @AK0490 might know. 

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One of the best is probably the 280X.

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thanks guys

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EBAY EBAY EBAY!!!  7970/280x is my personal favorite. For $250 you can get one no problem, I'm getting awfully tempted to pick up a few more myself.

 

If you want help with setting up Darkcoin just let me know. There is no GUIminer, but it's really not that complicated.

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EBAY EBAY EBAY!!!  7970/280x is my personal favorite. For $250 you can get one no problem, I'm getting awfully tempted to pick up a few more myself.

 

If you want help with setting up Darkcoin just let me know. There is no GUIminer, but it's really not that complicated.

thanks man when i get around to it ill be sure to ask!

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? Even then it's ridiculously hard. I had a 2.3 MH/s rig and it still only made like $100 per month 

See that's something I don't get, 100 dollars to me is alot.. all you doing is running a program while you sleep, eat, and such... 

The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time. 

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See that's something I don't get, 100 dollars to me is alot.. all you doing is running a program while you sleep, eat, and such... 

Yes, but that's every month. From mining I used to be around the $1500/month region. But because of the HUGE difficulty increase (and the fact that I've been slowly exiting the game) my profitability has been going down the drain. 

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Yes, but that's every month. From mining I used to be around the $1500/month region. But because of the HUGE difficulty increase (and the fact that I've been slowly exiting the game) my profitability has been going down the drain. 

It was, 1,500 a month... 1,500 a month.... wow.. is there a chance this could come back?

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It was, 1,500 a month... 1,500 a month.... wow.. is there a chance this could come back?

I doubt it. We would need a new type of algorithm and a new popular coin for that kind of probability to happen. You want to get in early, and mine a lot of the coins. Then when it becomes semi-big, you dump all of your coins. 

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I doubt it. We would need a new type of algorithm and a new popular coin for that kind of probability to happen. You want to get in early, and mine a lot of the coins. Then when it becomes semi-big, you dump all of your coins. 

What did you do with all those coins? You have a MONSTER pc now?

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What did you do with all those coins? You have a MONSTER pc now?

Nope. Still paying off my investment. I still have 3 mining cards and a few motherboards and a few SSD's and a few PSU's lying around doing nothing. 

My PC still just has an i7 with a 780

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Nope. Still paying off my investment. I still have 3 mining cards and a few motherboards and a few SSD's and a few PSU's lying around doing nothing. 

My PC still just has an i7 with a 780

Well, if you ever want to sell or 'give' *cough bday tomorrow cough* hit me up matey.

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Well, if you ever want to sell or 'give' *cough bday tomorrow cough* hit me up matey.

Haha I will think about it :P 

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Haha I will think about it :P

Ok.. thanks either way

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I was checking out ebay and there were a couple 7950's for $50 or $100, probably used for mining heavily, but still, thats only $50

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