Planning on buying a computer just for mining
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@evilfire If you are serious and you plan to gpu plot get a gtx 1080.
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@newsense2004 and around how much will that cost....because I will be asking the computer guy to fix up one for me....and now I'm living in China....and the Chinese will chop me hard if I don't know the price... haha
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@evilfire between $600-700 US
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@evilfire you don't need a top of the line card but plotting would be faster.
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@newsense2004 so meaning I only need a lot of drive space .... but a ok ok graphic card will be fine is that right.....? Anyways thks bro for your advice!
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@evilfire Correct. And you don't have to plot using gpu, can always use cpu.
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@newsense2004 thanks a lot bro....
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@evilfire If you are constantly plotting and adding to your system you could benefit from a GPU but if you just want to fill a bunch of drives and save money just use the CPU and time is the only difference. Once you are fully plotted the GPU could help speed up the mining but most systems can go through their plots in a decent amount of time that it is not really necessary. Time vs Money.
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@CryptoNick Ya bro ...nice advice and thanks a lot....maybe I go for the gpu...I will ask the computer guy to fix up a good system once and for all....rather then save money now and regret the system and spend time and money on later upgrades.... thks bro
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I bought a refurnished off lease desktop with i5 and 6 3.0 usb ports. I run about 40 TB it works pretty well. Wouldnt say cpu plotting is the best tho it takes me like 2 days to plot 5 tb
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One other thing that is a plus with Gpu plotting even if you use like gtx 750 like me it is just a little faster than doing it with my cpu which is a i7 4790k, but with the gpu you can do direct plotting that does not need to be optimized after so you can fill your drive and not have to leave space to optimize the plot
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@evilfire If you are looking for a gpu to be used for plotting, amd is te way: an amd card will perform a lot better than an nvidia one (just like bitcoin, same algo) and it's cheaper. 280x and 480x seem to be fast plotting cards...
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@evilfire said in Planning on buying a computer just for mining:
Hi any computer experts out there who can advice me on which are the most important components for building a computer just for mining....I'm currently mining on a laptop with 4tb but is planning to buy or build a CPU to mine...
I have a few things on my Amazon list that could be useful
https://amzn.com/w/2PVXA7WCKZBDQ
I'm currently building an old Dell for my mining rig


