Solar is honestly a different investment then mining. It can be used for mining but think of them as 2 investments. If using a decent quantity of miners it just would take a ton of solar gear, and is cheaper to follow cheap electricity.
Oh, totally agreed. I'm getting the solar for reasons outside of mining. But because of the solar, i'd be able to mine at $0.07 / kWh vs $0.12 / kWh, as my normal day to day at the house won't be utilizing any of my normal tier 1 electricity rate.
A week ago I would have said heck yea go get a S5. But with around 100 in a week higher price I would say do your ROI math. For some there is profit others there is not.
And honestly everyone that bought their gear a while back and still mining with it is the ones that are doing good at home mining.
Not sure what you mean by the 100 in a week higher price. Do you mean the price of bitcoin going up, or that the price of S5s have gone up?
Are S5s pretty much the best deal hardware wise right now? Is there anything else worth even evaluating?