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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Is my computer powerful enough?
by
Lethos
on 29/05/2013, 15:32:44 UTC
Ok, so I understand the relative obsoletion of CPU/GPU mining now. So, what if I just bought one of these beastly 50GH/s ASIC miners? If you were me, would you buy one, and convert the BTC to dollars and make your ROI in xx days?

Buying them isn't the issue, getting them to your doorstep is. The only company that has shipped a 50+ GH/s miner is Avalon, who only takes orders in batches.

Well let's say I bought a handful of the 25GH/s ones from Butterfly instead. I'm trying to look at the big picture here and determine if I'm missing anything, or if this could really be profitable, if  made the capex investment.

*sigh* Butterfly has orders still pending 10-11 months, that have not shipped. Do not consider buying from them.

Avalon or ASICMiner are your best choices. They at least have a decent track record of shipping products in a decent time frame and within the specifications they said it would perform at. The same can not be said for BFL.