Hey there,

I recently discovered and started mining FTC with the beautiful tool that is nsgminer and my rather old GPU and was looking for some advice to get me going.
Anyway, I’m glad to be a part of your beautiful community.

Sal

Well that’s exactly my question ^^.
I intend on building a rig which only purpose would be to mine, I’m not so much of a gamer anyway. What’s the best move to fit my budget, buy one R9 380X or a couple of slower ones ? Only the hash rate prevails !
I do know that the more money you put in your rig the faster you’ll go but I want to begin slowly.

Good to know, thanks bluebox !

Well thanks for that, I shall try P2pool and see which one of the two I prefer

All kind of advice you could give me to get me going.
Is it better to use P2Pool rather than the pool I’m currently using on coinotron.com ?
By looking at the pool stats, I saw that the best miners’ hashrate was reaching 15 MH/s or so, what kind of config do you need to get such a speed?
What do you use in term of GPUs, miner softs ?

Thanks for your messages anyway !

Thanks for the explanation Ripped Dragon. I’ve bought one of those to try. Major update, I’ve finally put my whole config together, well I mean I bought all the parts. Here is what I bought for 685€:

GPU:

• Sapphire Radeon 7770 HD GHz Edition 1Go GDDR5
• XFX 6870 1Go
• Sapphire Radeon 7970 HD OC with Boost 3 Go
• Sapphire Radeon 7870 HD 2 Go GDDR5
• Gygabyte GV-R928XOC-3GD (rev. 1.0)
  SSD - Sandisk Plus 120 Go
  CPU - Intel Celeron G1820
  Motherboard - ASRock H81 Pro BTC
  RAM - HyperX Fury HX318C10F/4
  PSU - Lepa B1000-MB MaxBron
  Accessories - USB PCI-E Riser 5

The 1000W PSU was the most expensive part but you gotta power on the beast right? Now I have a question about power supply, how would you measure the amount of power you need for all your components, I’m pretty sure with the 5 gpus I already bought a 1000W power supply is probably not enough? Should I look for the power consumption in all my components specs and add them up?

I also followed bluebox advice and bought Arctic thermal paste. I can’t wait to put everything together!

Thanks again for your help guys!

Ok this question may have been asked like a dozen times but I need to ask it once more !
I want to invest in a very low cost rig to get me going in mining alt coins that can only be mined by GPUs (for the time being) including FTC of course. For the moment, I only run nsgminer with my AMD Radeon 6870 (~140 KH/s) and minerd with my AMD Phenom II x6 (~20 KH/s) and I was hoping to build a small rig on the side.

What kind of budget config could you recommend me to start ?

Thanks for your help :)

What happened to FTC in Shapeshift?
It is said that the app supports FTC but I can’t see the coin in the exchange panel ?
Did they remove Feathercoins from it ?

Thanks for the explanation Ripped Dragon. I’ve bought one of those to try. Major update, I’ve finally put my whole config together, well I mean I bought all the parts. Here is what I bought for 685€:

GPU:

• Sapphire Radeon 7770 HD GHz Edition 1Go GDDR5
• XFX 6870 1Go
• Sapphire Radeon 7970 HD OC with Boost 3 Go
• Sapphire Radeon 7870 HD 2 Go GDDR5
• Gygabyte GV-R928XOC-3GD (rev. 1.0)
  SSD - Sandisk Plus 120 Go
  CPU - Intel Celeron G1820
  Motherboard - ASRock H81 Pro BTC
  RAM - HyperX Fury HX318C10F/4
  PSU - Lepa B1000-MB MaxBron
  Accessories - USB PCI-E Riser 5

The 1000W PSU was the most expensive part but you gotta power on the beast right? Now I have a question about power supply, how would you measure the amount of power you need for all your components, I’m pretty sure with the 5 gpus I already bought a 1000W power supply is probably not enough? Should I look for the power consumption in all my components specs and add them up?

I also followed bluebox advice and bought Arctic thermal paste. I can’t wait to put everything together!

Thanks again for your help guys!

Good to know. I think I’ll spend extra bucks on the PSU, one of the most essential part of the rig. I’m still trying to figure out how these risers work anyway:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014ZTVZB4/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687742&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00HZ0M9F2&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=09BJM5K837AHBA8VV4PV

I won my first bid today on ebay, a Sapphire 7770, not so great of a GPU you’ll say but it only cost me 30 bucks so why bother.
I will opt for a cheap AMD Sempron GPU.
I will post my progress here, thanks for your help guys :)

Everything I needed to know is in your message already, thanks for your help bluebox.
I am bidding fast and furiously on ebay to get some AMD GPUs for an interesting price (6870, 7770, 7870, 7970, r9 270, r9 280, r9 290) let’s hope some of my bids make the cut. It’s fun to see that they design motherboards for coin mining ^^.
May I ask what you would recommend for cooling, a good ol’ fashioned open window or some water cooling system ?

Good to know, thanks bluebox !

Well thanks for that, I shall try P2pool and see which one of the two I prefer

Well that’s exactly my question ^^.
I intend on building a rig which only purpose would be to mine, I’m not so much of a gamer anyway. What’s the best move to fit my budget, buy one R9 380X or a couple of slower ones ? Only the hash rate prevails !
I do know that the more money you put in your rig the faster you’ll go but I want to begin slowly.

All kind of advice you could give me to get me going.
Is it better to use P2Pool rather than the pool I’m currently using on coinotron.com ?
By looking at the pool stats, I saw that the best miners’ hashrate was reaching 15 MH/s or so, what kind of config do you need to get such a speed?
What do you use in term of GPUs, miner softs ?

Thanks for your messages anyway !

What happened to FTC in Shapeshift?
It is said that the app supports FTC but I can’t see the coin in the exchange panel ?
Did they remove Feathercoins from it ?

As it is, I have to let go of my current computer so I was thinking of building a rig from scratch.
A rough estimation of my budget would be between 500 and 700 euros. I know I probably won’t have much hashrate with that but it’s just to get me going. But anyway, building a rig you don’t need CPU power nor lot of RAM right, I was thinking of a very basic conf with not so bad graph cards, what do you think ?

Ok this question may have been asked like a dozen times but I need to ask it once more !
I want to invest in a very low cost rig to get me going in mining alt coins that can only be mined by GPUs (for the time being) including FTC of course. For the moment, I only run nsgminer with my AMD Radeon 6870 (~140 KH/s) and minerd with my AMD Phenom II x6 (~20 KH/s) and I was hoping to build a small rig on the side.

What kind of budget config could you recommend me to start ?

Thanks for your help :)