Quote from: sub-80 on June 25, 2014, 07:58:15 PM

Hey Guys;

I have 2 rigs one 6 280x with only five operating and the other 6 7950 only five operating (the sixth is defective)
I am currently mining vtc and according to calculator it will take me more than 4 years to break even which is ridiculous.
I wanted to make some pocket money on the side but this looks like a failure.

Any ideas to which coin to switch to or is mining died?

What is ridiculous is how much was "made" in the past by early miners. Unfortunately I don't have a time machine. Most business in real life would be happy if they have a profit from their total expenditure after just 4 years. Mining should be no different.

But consider this, those who mined 100BTC with a single 5870 back in 2011... if they sold the card they could have bought well over 500BTC with the proceeds and they could have skipped all the headache of mining (and yes in the early days it was a headache).

Unfortunately you are late to the mining game. If you enjoy mining keep the rigs running - most people can't even run at a profit like you. Otherwise sell all but 1 card and enjoy gaming.