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Nope ltc difficulty went down in the last few days

This. The difficulty isn't going to keep going up unless the price does as well.

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Just going to put in my experience in here. I put together a mining rig just about two weeks ago that cost me about 1500$. I only bought a motherboard, power supply, and video cards. I had some RAM, a CPU and Hard Drive lying around. I've already made about 1000$ in those two weeks. I was able to jump into Dogecoin early enough that I made a nice profit. Point being, you can still build a mining rig today and make a profit pretty fast if you pay really good attention to the market and coins coming out. I personally never got into CatCoins as I didn't see them lasting or becoming a thing. Still mining DogeCoins, though value is going down, still pretty profitable for now.

And just a small tip. You can get 3 R9 280x's for about 1300$ and get about 2220Kh/s(Assuming you get 740khs on each card) or get 5 R9 270x's for around 1000$ and get 2200khs (I'm getting about 440khs on each card) and save a couple hundred bucks. Power consumption isn't that much worse either.

Taking the numbers from Tom's Hardware
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5 R9 270x's would take up 710 watts while 3 R9 280x's would take up 771 watts.

Taking Anadtech's numbers tell a different story though

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5 R9 270x's would take up 1420 watts while 3 R9 280x's would take up 1080 watts (Using the XFX R9 280X DD numbers).

Believe the numbers you want, at the end of the day I can only tell you what I know, and that is that I'm currently drawing just over 1200 watts from the wall with 5 R9 270x's, a triple core AMD Athlon CPU, an MSI 990FXA-GD80v2 (I was looking at the 990FXA-GD65v2 but it was out of stock at me local retailer),4GB of RAM and a laptop 2.5 inch 500gb hard drive

Also, I'm fortunate enough to live in an area in which I only pay 0.07$/kwh. I'll see about adding pics to this post later.

Have a good day and happy mining :D

 

Edit: Forgot to add that I do use the R9 290 in my personal rig to mine when I'm not using my PC. Get about 850khs from that. I will not be adding it to hardware cost for the mining rig since I got it for personal use and that's still it's main purpose.

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Nope ltc difficulty went down in the last few days

Well, when I was thinking about this 2 weeks back it went from 2000 to 3000 in a single week.

 

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so from what I'm understanding.. Ltc is more steady and reliable but might not get you as much money in the short term as other coins?

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so from what I'm understanding.. Ltc is more steady and reliable but might not get you as much money in the short term as other coins?

Yes, that is a very accurate summary of a very off topic thread.

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you could just mine @ https://www.multipool.us/ changes what you mine on how profitable it is atm seems to be the way doge is the way to go

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I got Guiminer and I keep getting this error

json_rpc_call failed, retry after 15 seconds

what is going wrong?

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Mining LTC right now with a single 7950 only nets like ~140$ a month, my 2 780's @ 1mhash/s only end up being 200$ of profit a month, thats why I think if you're going to mine, it's better off to have a larger scale operation.

 

I understand some coins are more profitable, but I'd imagine they're very "band-wagony" with people jumping on, then dumping straight away to make their buck before it crashes.  (I made 60$ in 2hours off catcoins on release, I may try doing this more often)

I may start up mining doge again, seeing as it's like 1.5x more profitable than LTC, but atm I'm unsure

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Unless your doing it on a big scale on a stand alone machine, I don't think there is a huge amount of profit. I tried it on my 7970 and the power consumption mixed with me wanting to play games wasn't worth it.  Maybe get a few 7970's cheap and build a secondary rig and try LTC.  Power consumption is something people overlook to, the machines draw a bit of power so if you don't live at your parents house then youll need to consider that.

But remember the formula!!!

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Unless your doing it on a big scale on a stand alone machine, I don't think there is a huge amount of profit. I tried it on my 7970 and the power consumption mixed with me wanting to play games wasn't worth it.  Maybe get a few 7970's cheap and build a secondary rig and try LTC.  Power consumption is something people overlook to, the machines draw a bit of power so if you don't live at your parents house then youll need to consider that.

But remember the formula!!!

10x Radeon 7970=Doge Coin 4 lyfe

Well the thing is going to run while im at school as well as overnight. I game like 3 hours a day so I dont Think thatll make a huge dent ;)

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Dogecoin!  :P

I second this!

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Gold.

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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Let me throw my hat in the ring. LTC is good to mine but only if your willing to get 2 or more 7970's or 280x or 290x. I've been running 2x 7970's and have done well myself mining LTC. Other than that if your incapable of doing that then FTC would be best. You could also do CPU mining if you have a K variant (preferred) cpu, then I would recommend Primecoin.

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In a way bitcoin mining reminds me of wincapita... (never invested in it tho)

 

Who is actually paying you for your computing number-crunchiness? Where does the money come from?

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Let me throw my hat in the ring. LTC is good to mine but only if your willing to get 2 or more 7970's or 280x or 290x. I've been running 2x 7970's and have done well myself mining LTC. Other than that if your incapable of doing that then FTC would be best. You could also do CPU mining if you have a K variant (preferred) cpu, then I would recommend Primecoin.

 

I just calculated it and ltc and ftc earn about the same amount of cash.... 

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Put that 3770K to work and check out Primecoin or Protoshares. They are built around CPU mining and I think they are going to take off soon.

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I just calculated it and ltc and ftc earn about the same amount of cash.... 

There's a fiscal difference for me, at the end of the day I prefer to maximize profit.

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I guess... I find mining to be very profitable. But maybe that's all of the money that I have invested talking.

which pool should i mine(I'm in India) and what approx rate will i get with ASUS R9 270x DC2 OC Edition....

 

Plz help....very newbie and just doing this for tp....i saw a video and went on slush's pool and 23 got accepted in half hour...

plz help

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None, mining is pointless, at the end of the road you'll probaly just end up with higher electricity bills.

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Totally gold.

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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Totally gold.

should i mine the top currency right now or go with the litecoins?

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should i mine the top currency right now or go with the litecoins?

Just go with Litecoins are something smaller than that.

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Just go with Litecoins are something smaller than that.

Ok thanks . Should i join a pool is better i think?

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