Quote from: Littleshop on May 15, 2012, 01:48:06 AM

Since it is a club, go for donations. If you don't, you will probably only break even. Try to get anything you can donated that you do not have, PS, MB, CPU, RAM and especially GPU. Even if you get a crummy video card donated, as long as it is 5830 or better it should be worth it.

If you have to pay for all of the parts other then what you have listed, you may not make any money at all, or not within half a year or more.

half a year? that's not a problem - I'm gonna be at this school for another three years and by then I'll have found another geek to manage it Tongue

Quote from: Garr255 on May 15, 2012, 02:02:35 AM

What kind of club? If I could get my robotics team to do that that'd be sweet Cheesy

well, 2 - my robotics team and the Eco Club.

Quote from: rjk on May 15, 2012, 12:49:18 AM

Quote from: Da3dalus on May 14, 2012, 11:58:50 PM

Hey.
So I run a club at my school. We were thinking about making a dedicated mining rig here to mine for some Bitcoins to raise money. What parts would you guys recommend for a low-power rig? We'd like to have a decent hashrate to raise money for the club.
We have some extra cases and hard drives, but I need recommendations on mobo and gpu (or fpga I guess Shocked

). and cpu. and power supply.
Money isn't much of an issue since the club has money behind it.

If all you are worried about is efficiency, get a pocket-sized TP-link router and use it to mine with FPGA devices. Your best bet at this point is probably the Enterpoint quad boards, if you can get in on a pre-order. Otherwise, you could place a custom bulk order for X6500s. If you have a lot of cash to blow, go with the Ztex quads.

Which of these is the most profitable?