Timeline for Could i build a mining rig with these parts?
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| May 23, 2013 at 2:50 | comment | added | Joe Pineda | Unless you have access, somehow, to free electricity (like, say, using a currently-unused solar panel - please don't think of illegal ways to get it for free) you wouldn't be recovering your costs. You could still buy a GPU and set it to mine Litecoins instead, though - mining them is much CPU and old-machines' friendly | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 19:15 | comment | added | Meni Rosenfeld | @arielschon12: avalon-asics.com seem to be the winning horse in this race, but I'm not sure they're accepting new orders currently. At this point in time I can't recommend any of the vendors - but I can recommend not buying a GPU for mining as it will almost certainly cause you to lose money. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 17:09 | comment | added | rel-s | Ok then, so would you recommend any butterfly labs products? Or do you know perhaps another ASIC-based mining devices? | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 17:06 | comment | added | o0'. | @arielschon12 you might desire being able to fly, but it won't happen anyway. GPU mining is going to be obsolete soon, so you'd likely be mining at a loss. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 17:05 | comment | added | rel-s | As i have said, my budget is very limited and i would prefer to use mostly computer parts that i already have instead of buying new expensive hardware. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 17:01 | history | answered | Meni Rosenfeld | CC BY-SA 3.0 |