Я дико сомневаюсь, что при распределении бесплатных токенов будут учитываться балансы эфир\биткоин кошей. Видимо это просто для идентификации пользователя как владельца крипты... 

Yeah... I agree with you. Mining wouldn't be a way to make substantial money. I'm not necessarily looking for a substantial pay out, just a way to participate and support my computer habit a little.


However, my wife would argue on the coupon point. She does the whole extreme couponing thing and hardly spends any money. Her saving are usually 90% or greater. I've sen her spend $8 on a trip that totaled over $200 and I've also seen her make money on trips. Craziness.

Yeah, with the hardware I have now it will be awhile before I'd make any sort of progress. My 2 4890's only push ~200mhash/s.

As I said, if it allowed me to eventually get a pair of new video cards, then I'd more than likely be happy. In all reality, I work and I'd never expect to make the kind of money that I do in my real job. It would be nice to have a tiny extra bit of income though. I'd never expect much though, unless I build and invested in a mining operation of my own.

I've got an Antec 900 2. I always have the fans on high and in its stock form it actually moves quite a bit of air.... when the filters are clean. lol

I've read through a bit of threads on here and I'm not totally convinced that there's any really money in this. How did you guys start off and begin to make any real money?

Honestly I'm afraid to invest in a computer to specifically mine, even though I the idea sounds cool to me. I'm running 2 overclocked 4890's and they don't seem to work that great in comparison to what other people are running. I'd be happy if this funded a couple of new video cards eventually. That would make this totally worth it in my mind. However, if I were to build a system I'm afraid it would just forever break even and I'd spend all my bc's on upgrading to pull in more hashes when things got harder. Couple that with fluctuating exchange rates and there's a lot of what if's. I've heard of people building systems to do this with their bc's and not paying a dime out of pocket and then pulling in even more, but is it possible still?

I blew out my case and cleaned everything thoroughly. My temps are well within the acceptable range when bit mining now. I plan on trying to snag a fan for the side of my case, which should help even more as it would blow air right between my cards.

Thanks for the suggestions. There's a little bit of room between the cards, but they're still a little close for comfort. I did run out of funds on my computer build about 85% of the way through. I got all the major hardware and everything to get it going. At the time I built it, it was quite the power house. A lot of the little details were left out though and frankly other projects came up and things got forgotten. I didn't put a fan on the side of the case, which is right over the cards. However there is a hole there that the fans on the cards themselves can pull air through. I sat down last night before I went to bed and I couldn't remember the last time I cleaned the system out. That in itself is bad as we all know heat kills everything and dust only helps heat. I don't have my air compressor up and running, so I'm going to see if I have a can of air floating around to clean the whole system. I am sort of leery about leaving the side off my case because my son will be all over my computer and more than likely so will the dog. I've got a few other tricks up my sleeve. I'll try a few things out and report back. Hopefully my problems will be solved and my computer will start earning its keep.

I'm pretty new to this whole deal. My friend got my started on it today. Essentially my issue is that I'm running 2 4890's and they over heat after running GUIMiner for about 20 minutes. I've ramped up the fan speed to no avail. They still over heat and the system crashes. I'm assuming this isn't normal seeing as how some people run systems 24/7 and successfully make a little money. I've never had any issues with these cards over heating what so ever in any other circumstances. I am running them in CrossFire, but it seems to be the only way to get it to use both cards. If it isn't running in CrossFire, then it will only work at the speed of having just one card running.  Even with just running on one card, it still over heats the card. Any suggestions? I'd really like this deal to pay for a new set of video cards. lol