Quote from: AntiCap on August 15, 2012, 06:09:50 AM

Quote from: gnpeer on August 14, 2012, 09:46:47 PM

Solo mining? From 1 second to infinity I guess. Shocked

I was thinking about average time. There was such a counter for bitcoin a while ago I seem to recall.

4251.5232 hours at the current difficulty with 2.5 kH/s.
Source: http://allchains.info/calc.html

My laptop knocks off 13 kH a second, I have access to quite a few other computers, and I don't even bother pool mining LTC. I found out pretty easily it wasn't worth it to lag all my processes and waste electricity. Would I have mined under those circumstances back when Reaper didn't exist? Yes, and I did earn a fair amount. The difficulty is reaching new highs, though, and it seems to be GPU or bust.

If you have a dedicated rig with good GPU's, go for it, but otherwise, I think buying them is the best option.