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Building a BITCOIN Mining Rig!

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divx wrote: ^was mining btc last year, this year is ltc
How much is an LTC worth?

EDIT: Or rather, what are your specs/mhash and how much can you mine in a day?
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LTC is worth $3.1/coin at the moment and going up, in the past 2 month it hit high of $5 and low of $1.2. LTC is expected to hit above $5 in the short term.
my pool is going about 1 mhash, trying to bring it up to 1.5 mhash by end of the week. 7970 gets about 700 khash a piece with mild overclocking. 380khash/day == 1 LTC. mining is only a part of the game though, market flipping is the other which can double the coins in a week, depending on market conditions and some luck factor.
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divx wrote: LTC is worth $3.1/coin at the moment and going up, in the past 2 month it hit high of $5 and low of $1.2. LTC is expected to hit above $5 in the short term.
my pool is going about 1 mhash, trying to bring it up to 1.5 mhash by end of the week. 7970 gets about 700 khash a piece with mild overclocking. 380khash/day == 1 LTC. mining is only a part of the game though, market flipping is the other which can double the coins in a week, depending on market conditions and some luck factor.
Cool thx for the info. I'm so starting LTC now. With my 7850 UC'ed I'll probably get 380khash, so that's not bad. Thanks Divx.
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you won't be able to hit 380 khash sustained with your 7850. btw if you intend to do at least 1mhash with interest to possiblely join the group i might be willing to personally guide you through all the details. The group contains serious members only and if you are one you can pm me for entry. Collectively we have about 100+ pc, lots gpu, BFL $30k asic miner on order, etc.
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divx wrote: op is too focused on BTC when LTC is the future.
What makes LTC better than BTC?
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Gunfunk wrote: What makes LTC better than BTC?
Not much. Divx gave info, easier to mine, mining for a day gets you about $3 in LTC, while BTC right now gets you about $0.14, at least for my card.
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whats the best LTC pool
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don't know the best, some have high fee while other have low fee, but some have high lag while other low lag (for your location), also some supports stratum natively while others don't, personally i use give-me-ltc but others been recommending cointron, so take your pick. BTW I'm taking BTC/LTC donations for extra support.
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zijin_cheng wrote: Not much. Divx gave info, easier to mine, mining for a day gets you about $3 in LTC, while BTC right now gets you about $0.14, at least for my card.
THat isnt true. My setup will give me ***** all BTC but worth 12 bucks, or 4 LTC which is also 12 bucks or 3.5 novacoin, which is pretty much 12 bucks also.

You do this so you can get into the market without cash and play the game of inches.
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[QUOTE]7970 gets about 700 khash a piece with mild overclocking[/QUOTE] Hi what settings are you using? I switched over to LTC last week and I am lucky to get 500 khs out of each my 7970's
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jimsmith wrote: Hi what settings are you using? I switched over to LTC last week and I am lucky to get 500 khs out of each my 7970's
my 7950's get me 630 with overclocks.
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[QUOTE]my 7950's get me 630 with overclocks. [/QUOTE] well that helps thank you
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^you need to undervolt it and overclock it

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