Re: Looking for advice on buying an Antminer

Quote from: ChuckBuck on January 02, 2015, 01:53:26 PM

If you have "free electricity" costs then I'd suggest to get a either of the following:

https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201412231604153619o9X1obn0693

or probably the best deal on the market at the moment:

http://www.spondoolies-tech.com/products/roadstresss-sp20-special-holiday-gb

Either of those options should fulfill your mining needs. As for PSU's, multiples of these would do the ticket:

Seasonic SS-650KM and Corsair CX750M

Before you dive right into mining, make sure you know the exact terms of electrical use for your lease/rental contract/mom or pop. Whoever pays the bill will be sure to come knocking at your door at some point. Running these things 24/7 will sure make the electrical bill pop!

Thank you for your reply.

The electricity is not free, but it's included in the rental price of my appartment. I do know it's forbidden to run servers but that's because of fair use of the network (internet is also included in rentalprice).

There is only 1 meter for X amount of apartments so what I, or any other tennant, use more than the average is always considered to be coming from a pool of X unidentified apartments. Two S5's running 24/7, or two sp20's ftm, will not be noticed. Also: I (pre)paid to use a certain amount of electricity and as long as I stay under max usage, noone cares.