Quote from: millz90 on May 10, 2017, 03:06:14 PM

Hey guys....new to mining and have done a ton of research but i have some questions.

I was thinking of buying a Antminer R4 to start with and a bitmain APW5 PSU, 1300W-2600W power supply....Is that good to start with?

Hi millz90. Yes, the R4 indeed is the most efficient homeminer. But they are quite faulty and lot of users complains about their reliability (you should count with some risk)
Also Bitmain is sold out at the moment so try to search in forum board: Marketplace > Goods > Computer hardware.

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With that, do i basically buy the miner and power supply then hook a monitor up to the R4 connect to a pool and start mining?

No monitor, the miner has ethernet connector. Check some youtube tutorials for installation.
And pay the el. bill.

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Also, with the R4, does that mean i can ONLY mine Bitcoin and not others like Facton, Feathercoin, etc?

Seems you haven't done a ton of search as you said.
With R4 you can mine any SHA256 coin (BTC,NMC,PPC...). Feathercoin is NEOSCRYPT and can be mined with GPU (check https://whattomine.com for other popular coins and their algorithms)

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Thanks for your help!

You're welcome and good luck