Quote from: Zenchuck on December 11, 2013, 03:56:23 PM

Quote from: CryptoTramp on December 11, 2013, 01:14:31 PM

Does anyone have and opinion of which coins or Cryptocurrencies would be easiest to mine on a low hash laptop or small hash rate gpu? I'm just trying to get my foot in the door and wandering what currency requires the least hash and puts the least strain on your cpu/gpu? Obviously these would be scrypt currencies.... any ideas open to anything rightnow... I guess anything with the easiest diff. rate. Any new scrypt coins out there within the last weeks? Huh

---THX in Advance ----CryptoTramp

I started DigitalCoin with 28/kH/s. Just started mining last week.

IMHO - we missed the boat.

Some days I feel that way, other days I don't. I only run about 1MH currently, and I have a small proforma I built in Excel to help me stay objective. My advantage is that I've been a unix admin and software developer for over 20 years, and can build very low cost efficient GPU mining rigs.

The exchanges are critical, I try and 'color up' to BTC from all my alt-coin stashes about twice a week, but the most frustrating thing has been the severe delays some exchanges have for deposits, and that really hurts the ability to 'day trade' at all. I can only assume there will be major improvements over the next few months as popularity has sky rocketed.

My daily revenue on 1mh is about $25 gross, of course I would prefer a bigger daily nut, but it all depends on the current value of BTC and the alt-coin's volume and ratio to it. I try and focus on low diff, and hope for a value rise.

I run 2x rigs, one has a 7970 and the other is a 6870. I do 300khs on the 6870 all day steady, the 7970 is around 700khs all day steady. Both are open rigs, running centos 6.4 from a USB stick. So the cost is motherboard (cheapest), cpu (cheapest), PSU (the 7970 is more expensive), 4G ram (cheap) and a 8g USB stick and video card. I am hoping to build 8 more systems over the next 3-4 months unless Avalon is real and actually does come out. I also have a dual GPU but I am starting to really think dual card is not cost effective, no linear benefit to adding cards really and the added PSU cost and MB is close to a single minimum rig requirement.

IMHO - running under 1000khs is a waste of time and energy, and targeting 4000khs is a good goal to really see benefits.

I've been reading on this forum for about a month, but today I decided to start an account and get more involved.