re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Don't worry, this is normal

I've gone from an 8320 with an MSI mobo to an 8350 to an ASUS mobo b/c there was a bundle at MC that knocks $40 off the mobo, which makes it only $30-$40 more than the 8320/msi when bought seperately

Went from a 1TB HD to 2 b/c F it, that's why

Stuck with 120 SSD and cheap DVD RW

And other parts I thought I'd go cheap on I ended up not b/c after reading reviews, the "Best PC for the $" PDF, and working with my buddy at the office who builds pcs all day, I found that the PSU and CPU cooler weren't exactly what I wanted to skimp on to protect the two most important pieces in my PC

Not right now. I am about to have nearly $2K tied up in video cards I will be wanting to dump before I spend too much more money on PC parts.

Thanks though

ETA: I won

$880 for a Gigabyte Reference and an Asus non reference 290x

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<3

MC = mini condoms?

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Don't want my load getting all over my duel monitors

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You sit that close to them?

I am going to crossfire all four 290xs in once set up I have coming in. How long before it melts my PC?

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stout

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If you have the available PSU capacity, mine with all four of them for a month, then sell them for profit.

But I say only if you have the available PSU capacity, because the GPU demand has trickled down to a shortage/price-gouging on higher capacity power supplies.



I paid half that price in June.

EDIT: I see NCIX has it in stock at the moment for $280, though. Still $80 more than it should be.

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What sort of return could I get in a month you think?

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Who fricking knows right now.

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ETA: which coin would be best to mine these days?

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It's constantly changing. There's currently not one coin that you can just put the rigs on and set it and forget it.

With 4 290x's, it would put you close to the same hash rate I'm mining with now. Returns are low at the moment due to the down BTC price, and the difficulty on some of the more popular alt-coins being really high.

As for which coin, there are no consistently good coins right now. Bruce and I were doing really well on some new alternative Scrypt algorithm coins before they became popular and got run into the ground by more miners/dumpers, and now we're just using a pool that switches coins based on profitability (it's essentially our bread-and-butter pool, when there's no specific coin that stays consistently profitable). With your approximate hash rate, at the current slump in scrypt profitability and bitcoin price, it'd be like $500 or so in a month (technically, you look at it as earning 1 bitcoin's worth of traded altcoins within 25-30 days). But the demand for those GPUs has not slowed down, so the biggest risk to the mining bubble in the next month is what happens to bitcoin prices.