My story
I started on December 17, for now with hashrate approx. 500 Kh/s I got 5LTC, my investment were 170$, just to buy GPU
So question is, could you mine with normal PC - yes you can
start, but if you want to earn money then you will need to build a rig, and hope that this mad will continue
See my special offer
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=14128.0