Quote from: SeymourSkinner on January 02, 2015, 02:43:33 PM

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.

If you choose AntMiner S5 or SP20 make sure that you understand these things:

1. How difficulty will impact your operations. You can find number of Mining calculators which can help you. For example: http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator
2. Since you believe your eletricity charge is included of rental price - do you know what is a maximum usage? Do you know how much will these boxes consume per 24hours?
3. Both boxes are great of perfomance, but they are noisy and producing lot of heat. You need to run it on place where you have connection to Internet (using ethernet cable)

I like your approach, just be prepared and understand your business. Good luck